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VOL 3. GREENVILLE, S C.: THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1856. NO. 28.
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A REFLEX OP POPULAR EVENT8
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Suggested (by visiting the Rose Hill Cemetery
at Macon, Go.,)te Mrs. D. M. Lawtow, Principal
of the Charleston Female High School.
Thk Oriental CypreSs here
Doth rear its graceful head,
Where all is sad, and calm and fair,
Oh 1 stranger lightly tread.
For many loved and eatly lost,
Here lie beneath this sod,
( Their lives were chilTd by death's cold frost
And they now rest with God.
IIow lovely is their silent home
Near dell and murmuring stream, I
No thought of earth should with us come
While now of death we dream.
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Oh here 'tis sadly sweet to roam,
At day's departing hour,
Aiul think of that bright upper home
.(Mn iiAiur 1/ivAr.
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Now ses the beauteous evening shades
Kjfll slowly all around,
While gently through the verdant glades,
la heard the soft low sound.
| Ocniulgee, of thy rippling wave,
As thou dost flow along,
Near rock and hill and new made grave,
To ocean ever on.
80 with lite tide of human life,
Which bears tis swiftly on;
We too, must leave these scenes of strife^
And lie beneath the stooe.
When then shoald mortal care or pain
Or fortune** darkening frown,
Make os forget that heavenly plain
Where we may wear a crown.
A crown of everlasting peace,
Bought by our Savior's blood,
Away, alluring earth; oh cease
To draw us from our God.
And thou oh Father throned on high,
la mercy deign to bless
Us feeble worms, who to thee cry;
Clothe us in righteousness.
And tnay we wear a robe
Of spotless white, at thy right hand
In thino own blest abode
Where, ever chant the cberub band.
Ibt C a ft) el 1 be fteeOle's
St. Matthew, %'xx. 24.?St. Mark, x. 25.?
8L luka, xviii. 25. "It ia easier for a camel
to go through the eye of v needle, than for a
rich man to enter into tbo kingdom ofheavI
can scarcely remember the time in my
early youth, when this text did not excite my
cariosity no J wonder. In the days of the
1 ' Evangelist, as well as our own, needles were
r of various sites. There are the large needles,
such as St. Paul used in making tents,
and each else, ae we know, are now employed
ia making the broad sails of some great
admiral. There are the finest poiuts of steel,
used in ancient and modern times, in the
^. most delioate kinds of needle work, fit to
deck the person of a Queen at her ozonation.
The camel is a beast of burden, much
psed in Eastern countries. It is about the
I site of the largest o%, with one or two hunch
ps on its back, with Jong neck and legs, and
with feet adapted to the hot and candy deaest.
Sudb ic tha g?na*?i understanding of
the Ufo ipore preuilnept Un?s of the pasisago
of Ul? Wrjt, gow node? consider.
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Some have supposed that a slightly varied
reading in the original word, which is
VWhrf* aflghi \>f nfioptad,'Vf
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[ which, the phrase would U made to mean,
a "cable," such m is used in anchoring ships
in the1 roadstead. Then the text would
read, "it is easier for a cable to go through
the eye of a needle," Ac. But the former is
probably the most correct reading, for the
whole figure teems to hare been a maxim,
quite prevalent in the East. Among the
Habalonians, in whoee country elephants
were not uncommon, the phrase was, "an
elephant passing through a needle's eye."?
But the elephant waa a stranger in Judea,
while the camel was well known; and therefore
the latter was used by the Jews, instead
of the former, to give force to the maxim.?
Obviously the object of this form of speech
was to express a thing absolutely impossible.
But 1 have met with another explanation
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til iuw unking ugure, wiiicd io say ttie least,
adds to its beauty and force. All tbe important
cities of the East, in ancient times,
were surrounded by high and massive walls;
and so they nre, as the modern traveller informs
us, at the present day. At certain
points these wall* weie perforated by large
passage-ways, for the exit and entrance of
the inhabitants. These passage-ways, in
times of peace, were open by day, but at
night they were closed by tnaasive gates, capable
of resistiug any common assault.?
Now, by tbe side of these large entrances,
were very much smaller ones, used by foot
passengers, and by those who bad occasion
to go forth, or entor the city by night.?
They were called the "needle's eye." Lord
Nugent, an English traveller of modern
times, when at Ilcbroc, was directed to go
out by "the needle's eye," that is, by the
small tidegate of the city. The camel can
go through the needle's eye, hut with difficulty,
and hardly with a full load ; nor without
stooping.
I think tbi$ expresses the just idea of the'
passage, "It is easier for a camel to go thro'
tbe needle's eye than for a rich man to enter
the gate of heaven." It is not impossible
for a rich man to enter heaven, for we
may believe there are mauy already in the
paradise of God, who consecrated their
wealth to the service of their Redeemer,and
trusted in him always for salvation. Ilut
just as the camel must be relieved of part of
his load, before be can i asa through the
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incuro o nu mo ncu man must divest
himself of large portions of his wealth, in
the walks of benevolence^ in order to enter
I the gates of g'-ory. Our Savior seems to
have reference to the same idea when he
! saya, "Straight is tA* OaU.n And as the
i eaiuol was compelled to stoop in order to
I enter the low and narrow gate of the ciiy,
ao must the rich man learn humility, if he
would "see tho Lord," ''in the fullness of
joy.? Christian Witness.
ifoto dJOolbe$ cqjole cq(>1UIre
31) iId if o Ir363.
Wherever several of the large wolves
associate together for mischief, there is always
a numerous train of smaller ones to
follow in the rear, and act as auxiliaries in
tho work of destruction. Two large wolves
! are sufficient to destroy the most powerful
horse, and seldom more than two ever begin
tho assault, although there may be a
score in the gang. It is no less curious than
amusing to witness this ingenious mode of
attack. If there is no snow, or but little on
the ground, two wolves approach in the
m/wt nlaufill Aa.Aiu.Ui. ? ? ? ? a - - 1
jrawjiui aliu UIICOBIII^ UJAIIIICr j l^lUg,
rolling and frisking about, until the too
credulous and unsuspecting victim is completely
put off his guard by curiosity and
familiarity. During this time, the gang,
squatting on their hind quarters, look on at
a distance.
After some time spent in this way, the
two. assailants separate, when one approaches
the horse's head, the other his tail, with
a shyness and cunning peculiar to them
selves. At this stage of the attack, their
frolicsome approaches become very interesting?it
is in right good earnest; the former
is a mere decoy, the latter is the real assailant^and
keeping his eyes steadily fixed on the
hamstrings or flanks of the horse. The critical
moment is then watched, and the attack
is simultaneous ; both wolves spring at their
victim at the same instant?one to th<>
\ throat, the other to the flank?and, if successful,
which they generally are, the hind
one never lets go his hold till the horse is
oowpletely disabled. Instead of springing
forward or kicking to disengage himself, the
horse turns round and round without attempting
a defence. The wolf beforo then
springs behind to assist the other. The
smews are out, and in half the rime I have
Uen describing it, the horse is on his side:
his struggles are fruitteaa?the viotory ia
won, At this signal the lookers-on close in
at % gallop ; but the smatl-Try of follower!
hpep at a respectful distance, until their superiors
are gorged, end then they take their
thri! hnmoleeted.
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GnugbJ in n iMp.
It was lately stated in a French period!
cal, that a atrange event occurred not long
ince in the village of Charapignollos. One
of the inabitants had dug a pit for the purpose
of catching a wolf; and after covering
it, put on the top, to attract the animal, a
living goose. Another inhabitant of the
village saw, from a distance, the goose, fluttering
and struggling to get loose. The obscurity
(it being twilight) not permitting
him to distinguish the trap, he approached
and fell to the bottom of the pit. The fnt
was eirrht or ten feet deeD. and thw aidos
wore perpendicular. Great was the astonishment
of the man, and greater vet was his
embarrassment, at finding himself in that
position ; and it was not until after having
for some time called in vain for help, that he
resolved to wait patiently for daylight, and
meanwhile mako himself as comfortable as
possible. But hardly had he taken this
resolution, when he felt a heavy weight fall
on his shoulders. This was a wolf, which
attracted by the bait, had also been caught
by the trap. You can easily imagine the
fright of the unfortunate man. Indeed, the
terror of the four-legged animal was not less;
for it retreated at once, and laid itself down
in one corner and did not move during the
night. At length day broke, and to the
poor companion of the wolf, it seemed time
for it to break; for the night had appeared
to him terribly long. The owner of the trap
came early to see what he had caught, and
found his neighbor in the pit. He drew out
the unfortunate man more dead than alive ;
but he was less generous towards the wolf,
which ho killed, notwithstanding his exemplary
conduct through the night.
Y qifh's y e?)f uke.
A few years since we witnessed a balloon
ascension. All things were ready, but the
sky was overcast with clouds, and all trembled
for the safety of the leronaut, and he
trembled himself as ha looked out from his
liUle car upon the clouds, hesitating whether
to cut the cord that bound him to the
earth. But when summoning all his resolution,
he several the cord and was borne up
through the daik vail, the scene as ho afterwards
described it, was changed indeed.?
Those clouds whose darkness had made him
tremble when seen from below?now gazed
upon him from the sunlit, heavenward side
lay outstretched before bim like a sea of
glory, while everywhere above?emblem of
God-?was the clear, broad and deep immensity
of space. So with the first consecrating
act of a sinner's faith?it may have
clouds and doubts and fears as it cuts itself
away from all the dependencies of earth, and
trusts alone in Bim whose home is beyond
the sky ; but still, reader, let the cord be severed,
let the consecrated vow go up freighted
with all your interests for time and eternity,
and you shall soon find yourself above
the murky clouds?you shall dwell forever
in the serene light of heaven. Whatever
your doubts; whatever your fears ; whatever
your sins, cast yourself as you are on the
promised mercy of Jesus Christ. If it seems
a venture/then make a venture. "If I perish,
I perish."
Rowland IIill's manner, and the power
of bis voice, were almost overwhelming.?
Once, at Wotton, hd was completely carried
away by his feelings; and raising himself to
his full stature, be exclaimed "Because I am
in earueat men call me an enthusiast; but I
am not; mine are words of truth and sooor>
ness. When I first came into this part of
the couutry, I was walking on yonder hill;
I saw a gravel pit fall in and bury three human
beings alive. I lifted up-my voice for
' help so loud that I was heard in the town
below, at the distance of a mile ; help came
' and rescued two of the sufferers. No one
called me an enthusiast then ; and when I
* see eternal destruction ready to fall upon
poor sinners and entomb them irrecoverably
in eternal woe, and call aloud on them to
' escape, shall I be called an enthusiast ? No,
i sinner, I am not an enthusiast in so doing;
I call on thee aloud to fly for refuge to the
I hope set before the? hi the ffoenel. *
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Sltitbby Fellows.?The Frcmoni
ters aro all slippery fellows, as the sentence
following abundantly proves :?
The Fremont papers are getting out of
1 pal Ion oe with tljo New York Herald.
1 They say It takes half a dozen now to
watoh the Herald after it goes to pross,
lest is sholnd change its politics,, from
the force of habit, before the edition
sees daylight,
A Frenchman in Canada thus advertises
his better-half, who had left
his bed and board:?Nate*?My wife
that's Oatrine-nrsho lefmy hous?shunt
ax mo-?any man truss him on my
naino that* loss for you.
Tr Is said that powder on a lady's
face has tho same effect as in the pan
of a musket?assists hor to go off,
j [From the New Orlennn Delta.]
?xeh)piioi) of fteglroes firohr>
Sal t.
Tiik South has been so much occupied
with the extraneous agitation of
slavery, that her statesmen have almost
entirely neglected those measures
which were calculated to fortify, extend
and perpetuate it as one of her
vital institutions. Too much has been
doge in Uongress, and too little in the
State Legislatures, with reference to
slavery. It is time now that Southern
legislators should give wise consideration
to 6tabilitating r.n institution
which is indispensable both to her so
cial and political existence?in which
either she must live or have no life.
( Tho exemption of negroes from sale
I for debt under execution, with certain
qualifications and conditions, is a poli-1
I ey as wise in every point ot viow as it i
| iB humane and consistent with the natural
relation of master and servant.?
This measure, which proposes to create
a species of homestead in 6lavc
property, has been before suggc ted,
from time to time, in various States,
but in no instance Las there been any
specific legislation upon it. "We learn,
however, that the proposition will be
introduced at the next session of the
Mississippi Legislature, and will be
ably supported.
This exemption of negroes from sale
for debt would give a security and
permanency to slave property, which
would make it the most desirable of
all others as a family estate. If adopted
throughout tho South, it would
withdraw from tho banking basis of
the North nearly fifteen hundred millions
of dollars, keep the interest on
that amount at homo, anil counteract,
to that extcut, the concentration of
capital at New York and Liverpool,
which has been based so largely upon
the security afforded by Southern
slaves without compensation in return.
It would also make the ownorship of a
few slaves moro desirable than at present,
and thus check the tendency to
the accumulation of a very large number
of slaves in the hands of a very
small number of slave-owners, the effect
of which is to weaken the institution
of slavery by reducing the number
and political influence of those who
are directly interested in it as proprietors.
It would mako it to every
man's advantage to own a slavo, and
strengthen actually and politically the
institution, as every owner would vote,
and, if necessary, fight for his property.
Not only would such a measure dif
fuse and thus strengthen slavery numerically,
but would powerfully conduce
to its territorial diffusion and cxtentiou.
The emigrating class is not
the wealthy. The rich and well-to-do
seldom emigrate, to new countries at
least. Therefore, the more slavery is
diffused amongst men of comparatively
small caoital, who can afford to own
but a few slaves, tho greater will be
the number of slaveholding emigrants
into new territory.
With flif tfvnmntmn uloo nnnn
1 V,.,V,V. X.VWtW
us an inseparable part of tho institution
of negro servitude, no fanatical
madness or Congressional usurpation
could endanger the existence of the
South or prevent her from growth nud
appropriating her lawful inheritance
on earth. In nearly every household
negro servitude would become a permanent
fixturo, an essential idea of
continuing with it in all its changes,
following it in all its wanderings, and
planted and cherished wherovor it
made its homo as an indispcnsiblo institution,
to bo defended by tho pater
familia* with his life it'necessary, and
bequeathed as a perpetuity to his children.
The strongest and wisest policy on
the part of the South is that which enlarges
and diffuses the Interest of the
whites in negro slavery, and at the
same timo conduces to increase and
preserve tho affection of the negro for
nis master. Tho mutual bond of interest
and ftfFcCtfOn, of protection and
dependence, is truly one of perduable
toughness. This relation, wisely cherislred,
is better than ''compromises,"
"finalities," and that endless list of expedients
which have so long been administered
to the South by political
practitioners of that class, who think
"spermacetti an excellent thing for an
inward brniee."
Given the general establishnaont of
negro exemption, with such modifications
as might be deemed just and
I wholgsotnCj and the Southern States,
by the diffused unity of interest (if we
use the expression) thus secured, would
present an unbroken front to every assault,
inside or outside of legislation,
that might be made upon their rights
or domestic tranquility and security.
"YVe fear there is no such unity ol
interest at present, and though the
South may bravely face her foes, we
doubt that she can do so with a serried
front.
?qsf Suffers.
Extract from a letter writter by a
lady residing near Last Island, Lousiana.
"Peonle nro ropovpriiirr in n
measure from the effects of the storm.
There never was seen in the world a
more awful calamity. You would
hardly credit what I could tell you concerning
it. One of the rescued dined
with us the other day?a Mr. It., who
[ had been given up as lotf, irrecoveraI
bly. A reward was offered for his
j body, and friends mourning for him,
when by tho strangest chance he
was discovered. He had floated upon
a billiard table and landed upon the
marshes, which, on this coast, are as
uninhabitablo as the sea itself. There
for ten days he subsisted on snails and
one dead rat, which came swimming
along too. There, in the blazing AnO
1
gust sun?not a troo for miles and
miles, not a shrub?nothing hut tho
impassable and impenetrable cane
brake, he survived ctery horror, and
lived on lico.
In tho providence of his unsoarcha
hie Maker, ho was sought out by one
solitary fishing boat and rescued by
its humane master, who doubtless, from
the generosity within him, had been
cruising about in the hopo of doing
some chance g ?od. The scene which
occurred upon his unexpected arrival
home, was truly affecting. The news
reached home a few moments before
his own landing, when" every negro I
rncl i oil Ce/nv* i\ln??f ot !/%*? *-? 1
| a unntM iakj 111 uiu ^muuutvi1) pwiiir.juniji*
cd into tlio bayou and swam to meet
the boat. They shouted, nay, laughed,
danced, and seized their master by
the feet, legs, arms, and hands, kissed
him wherever they could touch him,
he kissing them in return. At last
the overjoyed creatures, elevating him
upou their shoulders, carried him off
in triumph to the honso. I thought
to myself, could Henry Ward Beecher,
his sister and all his relatives, do more?
[Journal of Commerce.
? <* o 1- H i e h a lr 0' 8 W q x i ft) s.
These maxims by Dr. Franklin,
though often printed, lose nothing of
their value by repetition.
1. Plough deep, while the sluggards
s'eep, and you shall have grain to sell
and to keep.
2. Pride is as loud a beggar as
Want, and a great deal more saucy.
8. Silks, satins, scarlets, velvets, put
out the kitchen firo.
4. Diligeuce is the mother of good
Luck.
5. Pride breakfasted with plenty, j
dined with poverty, and supped with j
Inlamv.
6. Extravagance and Lnprovidence
end at the prison doors.
7. It is easier to build two chimneys
than keep one in fuel.
8. It you would know the value of
money go and try to burrow some.
9. The eve of the master, will do
more work than both bis hands.
10. What maintains one vice would
bring up two children.
11. lie that goes a borrowing goes
a sorrowing.
12. Rather go to bed suppcrlessthan
rise in debt.
13. Bioth, like rust, consumes faster
than lalx>r wears.
14. A life of leisure and a life of laziness
are two different things,
15. Three removes are as bad as a
fire.
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ji>. v;reciiw>r8 nave netrcr memories
than debtors.
17. Tho rolling stone gathers no
moss.
18. If yon would havo your business I
done; go if not send.
19. It is foolish to lay out money in
the purchase of ronontance.
2U. Buy what thou ncodest not and
thou shalt sell all thy necessaries,
A men officer of revenue one day
asked a wit what kind of a tiling opulence
was. "It's a thing," replied the
philosopher, "whioh can give a rascal
the advantage over an honest man."
. 1 - L M\R8nAL
Kky's Dkatii Scknh.?'The
vetigence of tlio all.oil powers conmnd*
ed souio victim^, and tlio intrepid ISey '
who had well nigh |>iit the crown a*'
gain on Loimparfa head at Waterloo, .
was to he one of thein. Condwiuired'?
to be shot, ho was led to the garden of
Luxemburg oil the morning of the 7tli
of December, and placed in front ot a
tile ot soldiers drawn up to kill him.?
One of the officers stepped up to handago
his eyes, but he repulsed him
saying:
"Arc you ignorant Hint for twenty':
fivo years I have been accustomed to
face both ball and bullet?" .
He then lifted his hat above his
head, and wiili the samo < am voice 1
that had steadied his columns so frequently
in the loar and tumult of bat-d
tie, 6aid: h oJt[
"I dcclaro before God and mhuihat
I never betrayed my country.* May
my death render her happy. Vive
la Franee 1"
He then turned to the solders, and. .
striking his hand on his, heart, gave the
order, "Soldiers, fire!" !>
A simultaneous discharge followed,
and the "bravest ol' the brave" suuk ^
to rise no more.
"lie who had fought live hundredbattles
for France, not one against her,
was shot as a traitory!"
Donns makks a "Pint."?Dobbs
walked into a Dry Goodory, on Court '
street, and began to look around. A
double jinttd clerk immediately appeared
to Dohhs.
"What can 1 do for you, sir?" says
he.
"A g'Xnl v\eal," says DuLlis, "but I
bet you wou\."
"i ii 001 i win," says the knight of
tho yaril-stick,'' it I can:*
"What'll yon l>ct of that ?" says tho
impcrturhahie Dobl>s.
"I'll hot n foiirponco I" says the dork
with a cute nod.
"I'll go it," says Dubbs. "Now,
trust mo for ucoujric vf <L4tr?v??' wuth ol*
yur stuffs!"
"ZosZ by Xcd !" says the yard-stick,
i "Well, there's the fourpcnce."
"Thank you ; call again when I
want to trade.'" says Dnbbs.
"Do, if you please; wouldn't like to
loso your custom," says the clerk, 110
bow."
Polite yonng man that?ns soon as
bis chin vegetates, provided his dickey
don't cut his throat, he'll be arter
tho gals, Dohbs thinks!
Jfumorit of I'alcornbridge.
A Printer in a Scuapk.-?The St.
Louis litjyablican tells a story of a
printer, well know to the craft, who
was recently found "locked up" in tho
apartments of a lady, at one of the
hotels in tjiat city. Tho lady had a
husband, who suspecting the devil"
was "subbing" at his "case," broke in
to the room, where lie was furnished
with a "nroof" of their guilt. The
printer, bowcrvor, had a "shooting
stick," one barrel of which he discharged
at the enraged husband and then
lied. The "leaded matter," fortunately,
did no injury to the "form" of the
husband, who alter giving "chase" for
a short distance, returne I to his room,
satisfied that his domestic happiness
was knocked into "pi." The cratV gen*
I erallv consider it "matter" that cannot
i be "justified," and that tbe guilty fellow
ought to "distribute" himself as
wide as possible.
Dnj you ever have your house t >p?v
turvv and cleaning or repairing going
on, without being flooded with vie.?
tors'
Did yon ever start off in great haste
i to reach a place in a given time, but
what you had to go back for something
yon forgot, or met somebody to
detain you i
Did you e ver feel oxtromely anxious
to see a certain number of a newspaper
or periodical, or book, without
some one carrying it t Y before yon did
so ?
Did you ever, in (net, go through a
whole day without finding; things play*
ing thus at crop8 purpose ?
SjttinoIIim Rioiit.*?"I stand/ paid
a Wester stump orator, "on fho broad
platform of tho principle? of 'PS, and
palsiod he mine arm if I desort'nm 1"
"You stand on nothing of tho hind!''
interuptcd u litilo shoemaker in ?ho
crowd; "you stand in my hoots, that
you never paid me tor, audi want thtj
;?ouey.
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