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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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NOTICELPPLICATION
will 'be made at the next
Session of the Legislature to revive the
barter of Incorporation of the Cheraw
emical Society.
July 18th 1841. 37^4f
Hats and Shoes.
L LARGE and well selected stock for eal
by A. P. LA0O8TE.
October21, 1940. . . .<
DUNLAP & ^AHSltALL,
AVEjust received among other desirable
ncy goods, the following articles, vix
SHAWLS.
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