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THE HISTORY OF MY OWN GEN I ERATION. BY A QUINQUAGENARIAN. CHAPTER I. A man of fifty may write the history of his own generation! Impressive fact! ! We may retain the cognizance of our youth, unconscious to ourselves that we have faded into a retired group, now almost extinct: slow to admit that we are not still capable of all we have done in the vigor of early life; lingering sometimes in the circles'and participating in the amusements, which we are taught are uosuited to our age only by the neglect we exp irience from the gay *hrong around ns. Yet so it is. At fifty, I ??and almost alone. Once courted, I seem now 1 to be looked upon with distant suspicion whenever I enter the halls of youthful ' amusement or mirth. I look around ;? my companions are not there. I con, template their history; it is written on r the tombstone, or is associated with pa* i.~i J am deeolv moved ; irmruimi nc viw . ?... ? J am awake to the truth that I am not young. Its proofs now thicken upon me: ?they stare me in the face ;?I am convinced. I still see some of my contemporaries in age affecting to be young?apparently seeking the delusion, and living in it. With me, the dream has vanished. The deliberate conviction has followed that a gentleman or a lady of fifty years old is not young. Some of the evidences I will state?and then proceed to write the history of my own generation. In early life I exercised freely a native talent, which I believe is common, and perhaps universal, to draw a splendid pictureof my future life, its youth, its middle nge, and its decline. I proposed to make i my fortune, prove the innocent pleasures of life, gather some of its laurels to deck my brow, taste its honor, and retire to spend the decline of life in quietness and ease. How then could I be old until the intervening periods were filled up? 1 well remember that after this arrangement was made in my own mind, I fixed the time of my retirement from the world at the then present age of my respected Cofhor nnH hv calculation 1 now find he was then precisely fifty ! But before this argument came home to me, I felt another still small voice of admonition." My children grew up around me, began to measure their height by my side; soon they stretched their Tittle heads archly up to my shoulders, and then they looked me directly in the eye on a horizontal line. My daughters began to receive attentions from the sons of ray former playmates, and my sons, in return, talked of settling in life: they marry?I am a grandfather ! I look upon the few companions of my boyhood, who survive. One of them, who entered the ministry is called father Righton, and is the oldest minister in his ptesbytery. Another is a Bishop; and a third in the Methodist church is recorded,. I see, as a superannuated preacher, and receives an annuity. , It seems but a day-dream since I was in college, and all my young companions a..noar in mv mind's eve as I narted with a!'r"' .? - , them on commencement day. I lately met one of them. In a public assembly, I saw in a pew before me a head, the craniology of which seemed familiar. Its motions were natural. A side view con. vinced me that it belonged to a friend. The posterior surface was bald, and the side locks gray. What old man is that ? As we came out of the church, I saw his face, and there was an expression familiar to me. A smile playefJ there, which I was sure I had seen before. It resembled my old college friend Anderson. It iuust be h is father?no, it was himself, I saw him married the same day he was graduated to one of the mast beauti ful young ladies in the country. There she now stood before me in all the freshness and flush of youth, precisely as we saw her when we all pronounced Anderson the happiest of men. How is this ? said I,?your wife with her youthful beauty embalmed??"No,?she is dead?this is her daughter." I looked into the mirror, that faithful reflector of truth. Gray hairs are too numerous to be concealed. An angular lock is extending itself on the centre of the forehead, or rather the bald surfaces at the sides are receding. Several years ago I wrote my will?I must now read it with spectacles -my eyes fail me. My grinders are already gone?they are buried;?it is time to look at my account with heaven. I lately made a visit to my native parish. The old family names survive ;?all else is changed. Thirty years, the period of one generation, have passed over* the land, and a new tide of population had buried mv contemporaries. The old church edifice had been pulled down and another of more modern architecture built in its place. New officers filled the seats formerly occupied by the gray-headed deacons under the pulpit. A new - - ? * n 1 v voice delivered from a new puipu uoa s messages of love to man. All was changed but the blessed Gospel. That w*? unadulterated. God, the same, yesterday, to-day and forever, was set forth in Jesus Christ, reconciling the world to Jfiroself, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. I visited the old grave-yard with indescribable emotions,?the cemetry of the generation 1 knew there thirty years before, l^y father, my mother, my broth^ers, many of my companions, a multitude of my acquaintances.?I read their names with melancholy emotion. There is their .record. It is short?often false?always inadequate. I spent an interesting week j (in inquiring out their respective histories, and these, were so salutary in the lessons ,tbey furnished to myself that I resolved ,to gather from them materials to write the jbwtaryfof my own generation This-1 shall do at my leisure, hoping that the detail may also afford to others, some of those warnings, reproofs and instructions, which have served to correct many errors and form many good resolutions in my own miBd. In me, these lessons have awakened a sense of approaching age, and a coming judgment. Let me assure you, my reader, if you are fifty years old, you are not young. It may be, however, that you are not ready to admit you are fifty. There may have been some mistake in the parish record. Or if not, yet some grow old faster than others. Or perhaps, like myself, you are not quite fifty--only forty-nine, or forty-eight, or forty-five. Let me tell you, if you are but forty you are not young, and will soon be old. Hide not the truth. Hear the witnesses, be convinced, and be wise. From the Congregational Observer. ON PROTECTION FROM LIGHTNING. BY PROF. OLMSTEAD,OF VALE COLLEGE. No sooner had Franklin established) the identity between electricity and lightning, than his practical geniusand benev- I olent disposition, led him to devise in the lightning rod, an effectual inean9 of pro- ! tection trom the dangers attending thunder-storms. But notwithstanding the acknowledged efficacy of this simple apparatus to afford security against an element accompanied by such terrific phenomena, and endowed with such f.ital encgy, * - * ' L i:<v u.. ?? tne aesrrucnon 01 nurimn mc >y i-u. every summer, is still very great?greater i in a given time, as has been found by actual comparison, than the loss of life by steam-boat explosions, the present season has proved, thus far, unusually productive of these calamities: and almost every news paper brings us accounts of individuals, even of whole families, in different parts of the United States, cut down in the midst of life, and doomed to a sudden and awful death. The fears of the timid are proportionally awakened ; and every violent thunder-storm renews, in no inconsiderable portion of the community, painful sufferings of anxiety and alarm. Believing, os I fully do. that science by its researches into the laws of electricity, has achieved a perfect control over this fearful element and is now able to furnish rules, simple in their nature and easy in practice, which are adequate to afford complete protection from the dangers of lightning I am induced to suppose that a few remarks on this subject, may be seasopable at the present time, and be acceptable to the public. In order to an intelligent understanding of the several methods of protection to be suggested, it is necessary for the reader to be acquainted with a few elementary principles of the science of electricity Such a knowledge might, indeed, be pre. sumed as already in possession of many of the readers of this paper; and they may perhaps save themselves the trouble of perusing the present number, and wait for the specific directions, to be proposed in subsequent numbers, for obtaining security against the dangers of thunder storms. It is supposed, however, that a still larger portion of the community, whose lives and safety are equally dear to them, need instruction in the simplest elements of the science; and it is hoped, thai they will be induced to repose more ?? ? nf r*mtnftIr>n COnimenuc m mc uiciuuua ui |/>v>w?>-... suggested, and be more inclined to put them in practice, when they come to see the reasons on which they are founded. 1. The first important principle, in respect to the subject before us, is that which relates to the conducting powers of different bodies, ft is a remarkable fact, that while the electric fluid passes without the least apparent obstruction through certain bodies, it can scarcely pass at all hrough certain other substances, or it makes its way through them only with the greatest difficulty. Hence all bodes, in their relation to electricity, are divided into conductors and non-conductors. Of all bodies, the metals are the best conductors. But we may name as the most important of good conductors, metals, animals, water and the earth itself; and as the most important of Sad conductors, we may mention, glass, air, resinous, substances, and such materials as compose our clothing, as silk, irool coflon r also hair, and feathers. AH non-conductors become conductors, more or less perfect, when wet. Thus air, when damp has its conducting power greatly increased, and the same may be said of wood, stone, brick and clothes. 2. Electricity pervades the surfaces and not the substances of bodies. \ hoilow tube of given surface will convey electricity as well as a solid cyliinV 3. The passage of electricity ?.trough i even a good conductor, is some v. hat mi i peded as the length of the conductor is increased. Oil this account, a heavy charge will sometimes pass from one point to another through an imperfect conduc. tor, in preference to taking a longer route through a better conductor. 4. When electricity passes freely through a good conductor, it exhibits none of its peculiar mechanical violence; but wheu its course is impeded by imperfect tKpri ifcpnerrrv is manifested. IUI.UUV..",, Thus, when the electric spark is transmitted through an iron wire it passes quietly without light or noise ; but when the wire is not continuous but broken, as in a chain composed of links loosely connected then sparks are seen at every point of interruption, or wherever two links are joined. And when a still worse conductor than air is made to interrupt the circuit, and the spark is powerful enough to break through it, then the effects are violent the non-conducting substance is rent asunder, or exploded into fragments, with a brilliant light and loud noise. It is by studying the powers and properties of natural agents that man learns 'to subject them to his control. Thus he learns to defend himself from their violence, or even to make tbera labour for ! him. He compels fhe winds to waft his | ships, the water fall to turn his machinery, and steam to execute his humblest as < well as his loftiest purposes. In a similar I way, by studying the laws of electricity, he has learned to subject the lightning to < his dominion. Hitherto, indeed, he has, i for the most part, been contented with J merely defending himself from its fury; still, he has already begun to make it minister to his convenience. ? i I now propose to show how we may avail ourselves of our knowledge of the | foregoing simple principles, or laws of j electricity, to secure our entire safety from i the dangers of the same element as ex- 1 hibited in thunder-storms, when although i we are to deal not with a battery of a few | feet or inches in dimension, but with one | covering thousands of acres, and ( with a spark not merely a few inches in length, but with streams of the fluid often more than a mile in extent; yet so uniform is nature in her laws, that the same means by which we govern electricity in our humblest apparatus, empowers us to guide < and govern the lightnings of heaven. It is my intention to consider several precautions for safety during thunder storms, but I shall confine myself in the present Essay to the subject of Lightning [ Rods. The form of lightning rod originally suggested by Dr. Franklin, has the advantage over most of those of more recei.t invention, in simplicity and cheap ness. The progress of electrical science since the first introduction of this rod and the-results of experience i i the actual use of it for so long a period, have conspired to improve and perfect it, until it is now, in my view, when constructed according to established science rules, entilled to the fullest confidence, notwithstanding all the efforts that have been made of late to disparage it. It is now made bv several skillful blacksmiths of New Haven, who havefeadily and faithfully availed themselves of the sugges(ions of men of science; and probably there is no city in the world, where the houses arc more generally protected hv J conductors than this. And here this rod j has not been known to fail, during the fifteen or twenty years it has been in use. The conductor, when properly made, is as follows. It consists of a rod, or solid cylinder of iron, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, throughout, except the stem, or part above the building, which tapers a little, and terminates in three forks, or i branches, coated with gold leaf. The I several parts of the rod, (which are purchased at a cheap rate of the iron dealers in pieces about ten feet long,) are care- 1 fully united so as to preserve the continuity of surface, and to prevent water from corroding the joints. The union is effected by boring a hole in the lower end of each piece, and forming a corresponding tenon or gudgeon on the upper end. Then the upper piece, in each case, is made to close over the lower, and the two are pinned firmly together, making a neat and hardly perceptible joint. The s/m, or part which rises above the building, is half the length of the space it is required to protect in every direction ; that is, if it is thirty feet from the part of the house where the stem is fixed to the remotest portions of the building, then the stem rises above the ridge of the house fifteen feet. The rod is attached to the house by icooacn stays. It descends into the ground to the point of permanent moisture?? depth which will be greater or less accord, ing ro the nature of the soil, but in a dry sandy soil like ours, is not less than six . feet. On entering the ground, the rod turns away from the huilding and descends obliquely. The entire rod is painted black, (with the exception of the gilt points,) and the part below the surface ot the ground is covered with fine charcoal. If the building has but one chimney, it i9 generally best to attach the rod to that; but we must bear in mind that the kitchen chimney, being usually the only one in which a fire is maintained during the season of thunder storms, requires to be specially protected, since the vapour and smoke which rises from a chimney in which a fire is burning, are themselves partial conductors, and create a tendency in lightning to take that course. Where the kitchen is joined to the main body of the house, it may either have a separate lightning rod, or an arm may ascend from j the rod which protects the main building. I and thus furnish to the kitchen chimney j i i i_ ! a stem merely, while hut one conductor aecends <o the ground. Le* im now begin at the top and view the ni l in its several parts. Tr.e :.) ! is made to terminate above in , wits* {)? iitse electricity is known to flow j niiicii more easily, and with less violence ' into a pointed conductor, than into one / I terminated bv a ball or anv blunt figure. * J C5 The points must also remain bright, or at least tree Iroin rust, because rust impairs j the conducting power of metal. Some J electricians, therefore, recommend tips of silver, or of (datina, which is still belt t, since it is not liable either to rust or melt. Hut a substantial coating of gold ieaf will probably answer the purpose, and it is less expensive. It is not essential that there should he more than a sin - - J p i_ I gie pomi, tiriu tu uumjjjc iigiiiuiiig iuus are usually terminated in a single needle; butjvith us a top branching into three covc'red prongs is preferred, because it lo$ka*better. A needle of platina is the best of all terminations, but is somewhat expensive. Wooden stays are used to attach the rod to the building, because supports of tron would have some tendency to divert the charge into the building. This would not be likely to happen provided the'rod itself were well constructed, and in good orde.it for electricity takes the most direct course,, from which it wiil not be diverted unless by a .better conductor. Wooden, or iron boIj^Sttached to the walls of the house, would out afford an elite to the fluid as the same metal terminating in the ground. ; Still, the rod may be more or less imperfect and thus increas the liability to a lateral discharge, especially where the fluid, as is sometimes the case divides itself into different portions, it is advisable to connect the rod with the building by wooden and not metallic supports. The joints where different parts of the rod are united, must be formed so as to break the continuity of surface as little as possible, since electricity meets with a great resistance in passing through even a small space of air. A chain composed of large links is far less efficacious than a rod, and even a single link greatly impairs the qualities of a conductor. The rod i9 directed to be painted black, because the carbonaceous materials of which black paint is composed render it a better canductor than most others kinds of paint. But the most important circumstance of all is, the connection of the rod to the ground. Soil, when dry and sandy, is a very bad conductor of electricity, and a lightning rod might almost as well terminate in a glass bottle as in dry sand. Moist earth, on the contrary, is a pretty good conductor, and there is little danger that lightning will take any other course, if the rod opens a way for it to such a me/tinm Ft u/miM increase the conducting powers of the rod to make it terminate in two or three branches, each as large as the body of the rod ,* but the charcoal powder, with which it is directed to be covered, being very retentive of moisture and naturally a very good conductor, answers a similar purpose, by increasing the amount of conductory surface at the lower termination. There is no part in the construction of lightning rods, which is so often imperfectly executed, as the connection with the ground. I have known the conductor of the steeple of a meeting house end below in a post, which served the double purpose of support for the lightning rod and of a place for hitching horses; and ol those rods which decend into the ground at all, many do not penetrate more than a foot, and terminate in a bed of sand. Now whatever may be the form and construction of the conductor above, is thus terminated below, it would be unsafe. Copper would be preferable to iron foi the part of the rod which decends into the ground, being less liable to rust, Tubes or hollow rods of copper are mucl used in England for the entire structure instead of solid cylinders of iron ; anc since electricity is confined to the surface of conductors, a tube of given dimensions is as efficacious as a solid, and saves mucl of the material. But copper lightning rods are still more expensive than those of iron, and therefore less likely to be gen erally adopted, while the rod of iron, sim ply, as before described, well gilded at the top, rising above the ridge of the building to the requisite height, continuous through out and descending to a depth at which the ground is permanently moist, is I be lieve, the kind of rod which, on account of its simplicity, cheapness, facility ol construction, and efficacy, is best adapted to general use. For a common dwelling house, its cost does not exceed ten dollars while others, in my view no safer, cost from forty to one hundred dollars. I arc aware, however, that objections have been urged against lightning rods of this simpl< construction, tending to impair conficienct in them, and thus inducing the public ei ther to resort to the more expensive kinds of rods, or to abandon the use of any In my next Essay I propose to considei the soundness of these objections, ant hope to be able to show, that the conduct or above described and recommended, is entitled to the fullest confidence. TEACHERS' WANTED?$3000 SALARIES. AN ASSOCIATION of gentlemeninChe raw, So. Ca. wish to procure Teacher for a Male and Female School; and offer tin following Salaries: For the Principal of Female School (to be i married gentleman) $1000 Per An. For a Female Assistant $500 " " For a Music Teacher, (Male or Female) $600 44 44 For a Teacher in the A/ale School ' $9j0 ' 44 The pr ncipal cf the Female and Teacher o tho Mule School must, each be fully competent t teach Latin. 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The friends of general1 Education?the advocates or the diffusion of Us-d'ul knowledge?have long d* sired to see the ^ cotnine ricement of a monthly magazine de"oted jl to the instruction and entertainment of Young persons of both sexes, conducted with a sole view to their improvement in Literature, science, and the conduct of life, written, not in the col* ~ loquial language which is addressed to vory young children, but with such attention to the j a yle as shall render it worthy the notice of these ^ who are acquiring the art of forming their ' Literary taste; and filled with such various, original, and valuable matter as shall render the ' volumes when bounu up, worthy a place in 'he ? Family or School Library. It is the purpose of The Young People's Book i to furnish such a Magazine. 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Super Black Hernani, 3-4 and 4-4, Handsome printed Mouselin De Laine from 8 to6-4, Supr. Scarlet Merino 4-4 and 5-4. Do. Mode (Plain) colored Thy bet, Belvedere & Cabyle do. 6-4 and 84 GLOVES. A good assortment Ladies and Gentlemep'f iper colored and black H. S. Beaver and uckefein. HOSE, Ladies super white and black Merino, Cash ere and Ingrain Cotton. - MOUSELIN DE LAINES. Rich Printed, Fancy black ground and Mode olors. ALSO, # Super Blue and wool dyed blaek clefts, ? ?* " i ** H Cwhmeres id Satinetta .' * Tea, and Loaf Sugar. JtUPERIOR articles, for family use, for sale 3 by A. P. LACOSTE. October 2,1840. 49 tf Clothing. fNi riTH and RIxdIiaI Ovprrnata. Cloaks. 4lS' LJ For sale very low, A. P. LACOSTE. October 21, 1840. 49 if * Saddles and Leather. A GOOD Stock for sale low, JL by A. P. LACOSTE. ^ ctobcr 21,1840. NEW AND CHEAP GOODS. [Have just leceiveu a well selected assort, ment of staple and fancy Dry Goods of tbe ateol style and fashion for the season. Please call and examine my stock before jrcbasing. M. BUCHANAN. May 31, 1841. 29 if jUST received J J ETHOD1ST Hymns 12mo. Tl do do 24mo. sheep, calf, and Moro< co. , fcthodist Discipline late edition, Watsons Dictionary, .ife of Wesley, life of Dr. Clark, amily Bible, sheep and calf, Al' of which will be sokl at tbe New York rices, JOHN WRIGHT. April 10, 1841. 22 . tf Dunlap 4* Marshall HEREBY give notice that (key will contmoe to sell their Dry Goods owl}, en the oacal rcdit to panctaal customers. f 'I hey will sell their Groceries at tbe lowest rices for cash only. The very short credit at which groceries cad ow be bought, amounting with the exehoogo most to Cash, with their limited capital compels lem to the adoption of this. Umbrellas FUST received a good assortment of Silk and Ginghams Umbrellas. DUNLAP A MARSHALL JPKKM AND TALLOW CANDLES POR sale by A. P. LACOSTE October 21, 1840. 49 tf LADIES SHOES: -* IUNLAP & MARSHALL have joet receivd direct from the Manufactory (Phrta.}450 0 air Ladies and Misses Kid and Seal Slippers nd shoes. State of South Carolina. DARLINGTON DISTRICT. In the Court or Common Plea*. of W. Hunter Sur'v. Dec. on sealed Hunter & DuBos* Note, in Foreign vs. Attachment. B. E. DuBose. rHE PlainUil in the above stated c&ee having filed his Declaration in my office this day ncl the Defendant having neither wife nor Attor ey within the limits of the said State upon who copy of this attachment could he served. On motion of 6. W. A J. A. Dargan Ptantiff's attorneys. It is ordered that B. E. DuBose de lead or demur to the same, within a year andat ay from the date hereof or final and abeoluo idgment shall be awarded and given him. It is also ordered that a copy ofrbis order be ublished in the Farmers* Gazette once every tbreo lonths for the spac< of a year and a day. S. WILDS DUBOSE. C.C.F. Clerks Office, Sept. 23, 1840. 46 1 ev 13 m SHERIFF SALES. ' DN Wnta of Fieri Facias will be aoid'be* fore the Court House door on the first Menay and day following in October next within he legal hours the following property vix: . Two Lots in Powe Town together with the mprovements thereon levied on as the property - j i A!? f Ha I ley fit I owe, anu Known in me pwu ; ui aid Town hydros. 18(eighteen)and 33 (thirty hrer) at the suit of John Fraser & Co. ? lailey &, Powe, these lots will be sold at the isk of the former purchaser unlesp he previous, y com| ly with the condition of sale. 550 Acres of land more or less whereon the efendant resides on the waters of Lynches Jreck bouuded west by Drury Ci an ton's laud, orth by Durret Scgars land, and soutn by lands nown by the name of the Towers land; also no sorrel horse one b&v mare and one edit, welve bead of cattle and thirty head of bogs, at lie suit of Burrel Segars vs. Deutly Outlaw* ie hor es, cattle and hogs will be oflTorecl for ale on Tuesday the second day of sale^atdeAs. jsidence. ' ** 4 400 Acres of land more or less whereon the efendant resides on Lynches Creek, bounded \ outh by J. C. Funderbtirks land, west by A. L. underburks land, on the north by the slate ? * ? . .1 ne and east by feter \r.ints lana ai uio sukoi . &H Fundcrburk vs Alexander A ran I. . 196 Acres of land more or less levied on as le properly of Henry Funderburk on the srfa. ?ra of Hills Creek adjoining the land of Win. Ilakeney and others at the suit ot John M&ssey )r estate J. Massey deceased vs. Jones Moody William Fail and Henry Funderburk. 150 Act b of land more or lees wherfcoh the eferdan resides adjoining the lands of John ordan, Benjamin Crawley at.te suit of H. i J. C Craig vs. N >tt. Strickland. Terms?C. sh?Purchasers to pay for Mces. ary papers r, , JOHN EVANS, Sheriff C. B. Chesterfield C. H Sheriffs ) Office. Sept 9. 1641. ] 44 If