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. i - ' .0,L:UM E III. SUMTERVILLE, S. C MAY 9, 1S49. t , I , 1 , - - . N he Sumter Banner: UBL81HED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, BY WILLIAM J. FRANCIS. TERMS: 'wo Dollars in advance, Two Dollars and 7'ifty-cents at the expiration of six months, or Thiree-Dollars at the end of the year. No Paper discontinued until all arrearages ire paid, unless at the option of the Proprietor 8SAdvertisements inserted at 76 cts. per equare,- (14 lines or less,) for the first and half stbat sum for each subsequent insertion l7The number of insertions to be marked ,on all Advertisements or they will be publish ed dntil ordered to be discontinued, and charged'accordingly. .3One Dollar per square for a single in aertiop.. Quarterly and Monthly Advertise snental will be charged the same as a single useion, and semi-monthly the same as new ohes. All Obituary Notices exceeding six linep, and Communications recommendi ng Cand dates for public offices or trust-or puffing Exhibitions, will be charged as Advertise ments. : S-All letters by mail must be paid to in sure punctual attendance. ______ itlzc~ln. HINTS FoR CORTESPNDENTS.-A coitemporary lays down the following pitiy code of newspaper by-laws. They are the best we have ever seen drawn up. . 1. Be brief. This is the age of Tel egraphs and Stenography. 2. Do pointed. Don't write all round a subject without hitting it. 3. State facts, but don't stop to mor alise. It's drowsy business. Let the reader do his own dreaming 4. Eschew prefaces. Plunge at once into your subject, like a swimmer in cold water. ,5. If you have written a senience that you think particularly fine, draw your pen through it. A pet child is always the worst in the family. .6. Condense. Make sure that you really have an idea, and then recordlit in the shortest possible terms. We want thoughts in their quintessence. 7. When your article is complete, strike out nine-tenths of the adjectives. The English is a strong language, but won't bear two much "reducing." 8. Avoid all high flown language. The plainest Anglo-Saxon words are the best. Never use stilts when legs will do as well. 9. Make your sentences short. Ev ery period is a mile stone, at which the reader may halt and rest himself. 10. Write legibly. Don't let your manuscript look like the tracks of a spider half drowned in ink. We shan't mistake any one for a genius, though Nrite as crabbedly as Napoleon. AN ANCIENT CITY.-The fanous city of Petra, in Arabia, has been a theme of admiration and astonishment to all the tourists of recent times; but another town, apparently far more an cient and of greater extent still, exists in the north of Affghanistan, and is known throughout the east by the name of Bamecan. The city consists of a greater nmmber of apartments cut out ,of the solid rock. It is said that in many of themi the walls were adorned 'with paintings 'which look still fresh, after centuries of desertion and solitude; some of them are adorned with the rich est carved work. There arapsupposed to be more than twelve thousand of such habitations in Bamecan, but the natives who are Mohommedans, enter tain a superstitious produdice against inhabiting such homes. They have old traditions which declare them to have been the first habitation of mankind, and that strange city is casually men tioned by some of the classic authors; yet by whom its rocky abodes were excavated, who wvere its inhabitants, or what their history-all have passed from the recollection of the world, and -exist only in fabulous or uncertain tales. FORCE OF CHARAcTER.-Man im putes to himself the ability to be con stant by his own proper force, arnd pla ces his honor in that ability. A man of his word, and a man of honor, arc eynonymous terms. He who can em brace a purpose and persist in it, wvho can act from a resolve, unsupported by present inclination--nay, even in opp~o sition to present inclination, e.motioni or passion--of him we say, "H~e has a -character?" "He is a man," We <despise the man who is always only what things, accidents, circumstances ake him; the fickle, the inconstant, the wavring. We honor him who can re sitobjects and the impression which they make upon; who knows how to mamtain himself in the face of them; who lets himself be instructed but not harged by he.-- F. IL. Jacobi's THE YEZIDIS. BY A. It. LAYARD. No. 1. The mystories of this sect have been traced to the workship introduced by Seimiramis into the very mountains they inhabit-a workship which, impure in its forms, led to every excess. The quiet, cleanliness and orders of their villages, do not warrant these charges. Their known respect of fear for the evil principal has given them the title of Workshippers of the Devil. Some years ago they were a powerful tribe. They recognize one Supreme Being, but do not offer any thing direct prayer or sacrifice to him, and appear to shun with superstitious awe any topic con nected with the existence of attributes of the Deity. The name of the evil spirit is never mentioned, and any allu sion to it by others so vexes and iriita tes them, that they have put persons to death whohave wantonly outraged their feelings by its use. So far is their dread of offending the evil one carried, that they carefully avoid every expression which may resemble in sound the name of Satan, or the Arabic word for ac cursed. Whenever they speak of the Devil they do so with reverence. They believe Satan to be the chief of the an gelic host, now suffering punishment for his rebellion against the digine will -but still all powerful, and to be res tored hereafter tohis high estate in the celestial hierarcy. Christ according to them, was also a great angel who had taken the form of man. He did not die on the cross, but ascended to heaven. They hold the Old Testament in great reverence, believe in the cosmogony of Genesis, the deluge, and other events recorded in the Bible. They do not reject the New Testament nor the Ko ran, but consider them less entitled to their consideration. Still they always select passages from the Koran for their tombs and holy places. Mahommed they lock upon as a Prophet, as they lo Abraham and the patriarchs. They 2xpect the second coming of Christ as! ivell as the re-appearance of Imaun HIehdi. The origvin of the name is traced to le celebrated Ommiade Caliph Yezid , i great persecutor of the family of Ali n their own religious history; but there s reason to believe it must be sought or elsewhere, as it was used long before he introduction of Mohammedanism, md is not without connection with the 'arly Persian appellation of the Su remce Being. It is dillicult to tiace .heir ceremonies to any particularsour c. They babtize in water, like the Uhristtians, if possible with seven days after birth. They circumcise at the same age and in the same manner as the Niolammedans, reverence the Sun and have many customs in common with the Sabeans. They have great rever ence for the Sun and have built a tem ple and dedicated it to that luminary. They are accustomed to kiss the object : on which its first beams fall. For fire, as symbolic, they have nearly the same reverence. They never spit in it, but frequently i pass their hands through the flame, kiss, them, and put them over their right eye-brow, or over the whole face. T1he colour-, blue, to them is an abomination and never to be0 worn in dress or to be used in their houses. T1he place to which they tui-n their eyes whilst per forming their holy ceremonies is always that part of tile Heavens in which the sun rises, and towvard it they turn the faces of thoir dead. Lettuce and Hii bicus esculentus, and some other veg etables, ai-e never eaten by them; pork is unlawful, but wine is drunk by all. T1hey have no religious observancesI on mar-riage, nor- are the number of wives limited. The men and womnen iferely preosent themselves to a Sheikh, wile ascertains that there is mutual con sent. A ring is then given to tire bride or sometimes money instead---a day is fixed for rejoicing-they dIrin~k slher bet, dance, but have no religious cere monies. Their year begins with that of the Eastern Christians, whomr they follow also in the order and name of their months. Some fast three days at the commencement of the year, but that is not conlsidered necessary. 'Wed nesday is their holiday. Some fast on that day, yet they do not abstain from work on it as the Chirstian (do on the Sabbath. Their names, both male and female, are generally those used by Mo hammedans and Christians. The name of George is however objectionable, and is nevor given to a Zeridi. Tennessee is said to be the only State in the Union that had not a foot of rail road on the 1st of Januay 1849. THE ORDER OF JESUITS. BY MACAULAY. Bofore the order of Jesuits had ex isted an hundred years, it had filled the whole world with memorials of great things done and suffered for the fititli. No religous community could produce a list of men so variously distinguished none had extended its operation over so vast a space; yet in none bad there ever been such perfect unity of feeling and action. There was no region of the globe, no walk of speculative or of active life, in Jesuits were not to be found. They guided the councils of Kings. They deciphered Latin inscrip tions. They observed the motions of Jupiter's satellites. They published whole libraries, casuistry, history, treat ise on optics, Alcaicodes, editions of the fathers, madrigals, catechisms and lampoons. The liberal education of youth passed almost entirely into their hands, and was conducted by them with conspicuous ability. They appear to have discovered the precise point to which intellecual culture can be car ied without risk of intellecual emancipation. Enmity itself was compelled to own that in the art of managing and form ing the tender mind, they assiduously and successfully cultivated the elo quence of the pulpit. With still great er assiduity and still greater success they applied themselves to the ministry of the confessional. Throughout Cath. olic Europe the secrets of every gov ernment, and of almost every family were in their keeping. They glide'd from one Protestant country to another under innumerable disguises, as gay cavaliers, as simple rustics, as Puritan preachers. They wandered to coun tries which neither mercaitile avirlity nor liberal curiosity had ever impellcil any stranger to explore. Thy were to be found in the garb of Mandarins, superintending the observatory (if Pe kin. They were to be faun 1, spade in hand, teaching the rudiments of agri culture to the savages of l'araguay. Yet whatever might be their residence, whatever might he their employment., their spirit was the same: entire devo tion to the common cause, implicit obe. dience to the central authority. None of them had chosen his d wellin:.-pla-e or his avocation for himself. Whether the Jesuits should live under the artic circle or under the equator, whether he should pass his li''e in arranging gis and collating manuscripts at the Vati can, or in persuading naked barbarins in the southern hemisphere not to eat each other, were matters which lihe left. with profound submission to the decision of others. if he was wanted at Lima, he was on the Atlantic in the next fleet. If he was wanted at Ba.lad, lie was toiling through the desert with the next caravan. If his ministry was ieed ed in some country where his life was more insecure than that of a wolf; where it was a crime to harbor him, where the heads and quarters of his brethen, fix ed in public places, showed him what he had to expect--le went without re ionst rance or hesitation to his doom. Nor is this heroie spirit yet extilict. When in our own time a new and ter rible pestilence patss aroundl the globe: when in some great cities fear had dis solved all the ties which hold society to gethier; when the secular clergv hadm deserted their flocks; when miedieal ruei. cor was not to be purchiased by gol; when the su ongest natural affectins had yielde.l to the love of lf, even then the Jesuit was found by the pallhet which bishops and curate, physician andl nurse, father and mother hadi de serted, learniing over infected lil s toj catch the faintest accents of confessiin and hioldinig up to lust befoe ithle expi ring penitent the image of the expiring Rtedeemner. Ci-moros F:acT.'--Anm Inidiani, sayvs an obser-viing writer, hadt taimed a black snake, which lie ke pt about htimi dutring the sumumer mioiithis. In auituumn lie let the creature go whither it ch. se to crawl, but told it to conme to hiim aginm upon a certain day, whlich lie nedci in the sprinig. A white mian wasprs cnt, and saw what was done, and hieaird the lindiani ailirma that the serpent woul return to him the very day lie had up poiintedh, had no faith in the truth of his prediction. The next spring, retaining the day in his memory, curiosity led him to the lael, where lhe founid thme Indian in waiting, and after remaning with him about two hour-s, the serpent caime crawling back, and put himself under the care of its old master. The case has beemi accounted foru by spoigthat the indian had observed that black sakes usually return to thc'ir old haunts at the same vernal season and as he had tamed, fed, and kep this snake in a particular place, experi ence taught him that it would return or a certain day. This may be one way of accounting for it; another is, to suppose a real mag netic connection between the Indian anc the snake, of the fascination and charming between serpents and birds which, upon a certain, drew the snak< to his master. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than art dreamt of in our philosophy." W. Jt. T. DANIEL BooN'S CoURT81IP.-In the imediate neighborhood of his fathers' new settlement on the river Yadkin, another adventurer, named Bryan, so n made his appearance, and plarted him. self upon a beautiful spot, washed on one side by a lovely mountain stream, near whieb had been the favorite hunt ing ground of the young sportsman. On a certain evening, Boon engaged a friend to meet him at that spot for the I'irprose of engaging in a "fire hunt." In this wild sport, one of the parties usuiallv rides through the forest, with a line torch borne on high, which, shed ding light through the gloomy precincts, so dazzles the eyes of the deer, that the other party, wl-o is on foot, shoots the game between the eyes, while the be wildered aninial is staring at the blaze. B]oon's companion was to bear the torch, and accordingly appeared on the field, and commenced the usual round. They had not proceeded Car, when Boon gave the concerted signal to keep the light stationary. The horseman obeyed, and waited in momentary expectation of hearing the sharp and fatal report of his friend's rifle. Not hearing it, how ever, he turne.d his horse to ascertain the caise of the unwarrantable delay, wheni he saw his friend drop his rifle, and set off in puisuit of' some shadowy object ovcr brush and briar, fence and field. When Boon gave the signal to his friend, Ie indeed saw the flame of the torch reflected by a pair -.f brilliant eyes, and lhe iiuinediately cocked l's gun, and brought it to his eye; but instead of standing stupiIed at, the supposed fawn wheeled precipately and fled. During this usual raoveimenlt, Boon caught a glimij se of tie flowi ing folds of a petti coat, dropped his rifle, and made chase after his gamne. So intense had been his interest in the pursuit, that lie was little less sirprised than his new neigh bor ilr. Bryan, when lie found himself standing i tihe doorway, having driven the ojeC t of' his chase into the paternal airmis. ]hloon's emnbarrassment e" surprise tmay easily le r gined, when lie saw the consternation of the father, and the pam1itiig'. terror of his beautiiful daughter, who hal Scarcely turned her sixteenth sunmnocr, aild whose lustrous ringlcts were fling about her face, neck, and palpi tatingr bosom, in the richest con trast o' light and shade. Strane as it may appear of our vhar backwoosman, lie became agit. t inlhi-, turn, with all tihe stern and ruge !qalti--s olf h14s nature, lhe was tahenm cap;tivye by a iiaidenm's charms. Antd what was no less str-ange, the leshinig I lebe, who had run into hier lnthr' ams. dleclarinig that she was pursued' by a m anther, unwii pierceived 1that 1he was noi't sch a frightful animoal as her first ipresion in the (lark had Il'd her to suippose. Iceed, li it'n was at this time just in the first flush of youth; his person st rai.;h anad well proportionedl, and the iihole a; pea'rce of the man pre'sented such a her', to the ey of' the unsophis. ticated gil, as her imnaginaition was likeh-~ to cre'ate for itseltf in that remote and seeludedl scene-in shoirt, they lov'ed imtually', and M1iss Rebecca Bry ani in a very' short timo became Mrs. A TomtvEL IbIIr.--Theli editor of the C ivattr reminds his re'ader. thatm cater and hat whe thuiis is doine lie labor of ex-. irpition nt iblib' iriLlinrg. Ili' says; ''One eaHsy malof etruci'tlionjtI is to applyh sti'oiy soap '.ns to the' nest-if the. tree is larg< ai Swatied ijto thei enid ofthel pole ill *ue comlipIli thle purpos e'1 ll''eotuahy. Sc whib hav te been'i us~cel bv the wvash woimi oni the nest, alfier ithsbeni dlippied inlt< the suds, fhe worms areo quickly de-stroy Aim article in a Southern paper, an iiounlcinig at person's decease, says, "'hi; maniles wer'e ctiomttedl to that boum whence ni traLveller returns, attendcc I I0 /s5frinds. A STREAK OF SQUATTER LIFE BILL SAPPER'S LETTER TO IIIS COUSIN LIBERTI, Missury, May 6th, 1 forty 6 Cousin Jim, tha aint nuthin' occur red wuth ritin' about in our settlemen fur a long spell, but about the beginin of last week, thur war a rumor so afloat in town, which kept the wimei for two or three days in a continoon snigger, and it war half a day afore tb men could find out the rights of th< marter-sech anuther fease as all th< gals got inter, war delightful to con template. The boys kept a askin' on< anuther, what in the yearth wur th< marter, that the gals kept a whisperin and laffin round town so?-at last i cum out! and what do you think, Jim wur the marter?-You couldn't guest in a week. It aint no common occur rence and yet it's mighty natral. Lit. tle Jo Allen, the shoemaker, had at addition to his family, amountin' to jesi threc babbys-one boy and two gals! His wife is a leetle cretur,' but I reck. on she's 'some' in countin' the census, and sech anuther excitement as her lit tie brood of pretty babby's has kicked up among the wirnen is peri'ecly intic in' to bachelors. When the interestin marter wur first noised about, the wim en wouldn't believe it, but to know the rights of it tha put on thur bonnets and poured down to see Mr's. Allen, in a perfect stream of curiosity; and, sure enough, thar tha wur, three raal peert lookin' children, all jest alike. Bein an acquaintance of Jo's, lie tuck me ii to see his family, and it wur raaly an interestin' sight to see the little creturs. Thar tha wur, with thur tiny faces aside each other, hevin on the prettiest caps,-all made and fixed by the young witnin, as a present to the mother, and then thur infantile lips jest openin,' like so many rose buds poutin,' while thur bits of hands, transparent as spar macity, wur a curtin' about and push. inl', all doubled up, agin thur little nos es, and thur mother all the tine lookin' at'em so peert and pleased, jest as. ef she war feelin' in her own mind tha u ar hard to beat-added to which, thar stood thur daddy, contemplatin', with a glow of parental feclin', the whole unanimous pictur! It ain't in me Jim, to fully describe the universal merits of secl a scene. and I guess it couldn't re ceive raal jestis from any man's pen, ,ce pt he'd ben the father of twins at least. 'Gracious me!' sed Mrs. Sutton, a very literary womin, who allays talks history on extra occasions; 'of that lit tIe Mrs. Allen ain't ekill to the mother of the Grashi!' She looked at little Je, the daddy, fur a spell, and tuk to adinirin' him so that she could sarely keep her hands off on him-she hadn't no babbys, poor 'Ah! Mr. Allen,' ses she, 'y(u .e suthin' like a husband-you're ueterm ined to decend a name down to your ancesters!' I ranly believe she'd a kissed him of thur hadn't ben so many winen thar. The father of the babbys were mitely tickled at furst, 'cause all the wimnen wur a praiscit' him, but arter a siell lie gin to look skary, for go whar he would he found soomc wimen tryin' to git a look at hin-tha jest besieged his shop winder a!ll tile tipie, and kept peepin' in, and lookin' at him, and askin' h age, and whar he cumn from? At last suni of the gals got so curious tha askeud him whar lie did come from, any/ how, and as sooni as he sed IndliancEe Dick~ IMas'n becumn one of the popbularest young men in the settlement amionag th wimen, jest 'cause he war from. the sanie state. Tlhings went on this way for a spell, till at last that heerd of 'emt in the coun try, and~ the wimnen all about f'oun~d soime excuise to come to town to git store goodIs, jest a purpose to see the habby's and thur p)arents. The little daddy wai wusser plage now, ad te tr' at him so that he couldn't work--the fact wur, his mind wur gettin' troubled, and some of the wimen noticed the ska ry look lie had out of his eyes, and kep a wonderin' what it meant. Ont mnornin' it war noticedt by some of th< gals that his shop wa~rni't opeuedt, so thi got inquirin' about him, and arter sarch lie cum up missin'-well, I'm o thec opinion thar wur an excite ment in town then, fully ekill to th< pbresidlent's election. Every womb started her hushind out arter Jo, witi orders not to cum back without him and sech a scourin' as they gin th< country round would a caught aniythini - hiuman,-it did ketch Jo-on is roa< ato Texas! When they got him back 1 the town agin, a committee of nmarrie men held a secret talk with him, t iarn what the mnarter wur, that h . wanted to clear out, and Jo to-d 'em . that the wimen kept a starin' t him, so . ho couldn't work, and ef he 'ar kept - from his bisness, and his family cdnti t nooed to increase three at a time, he'd ' git so cussed poor he'd starve, and t tharefore lie knew it 'ud be better to i clear out, for the wimen would be- sure I to take good care of his wife and, the babbys. Old Dr. Wilkins wur appointed' by the men to wait -on a mecetin' of the - wimen, and inform them of the" act, that tha wur annoyin'- the father of -tWo three babbys, and bad almdst driien him out'n the settlement. The doctoFe accordin' to appintment, informed 'the wimen, and arter he had retired tha went into committee of the whole upon the marter, and appinted'three of thur number to report at a meetin', on ,the next evenin', a set of resolutions tellin' what tha'd do in the premises, and gov ernin' female action in the partickler case of Jo Allen, his little wife,. and three beautiful healthy babbys. When the hour of meetin' had arriv. Mrs. Sutton's parlors wur crowded with the wimen of the settlenent, and arter appinten Widder Dent to. the cheer, tha reported the comittee on re solves reddy, and Mrs. Sutton bein' the head of the committee she sot to work and read the followin' drawn up paper: Whereas, It has been ged by the wise Solomon of old,. that the world must be peopled, tharfore, we hold-it to be the inviolate duty of every :mari to git married, and, moreover, rear up cit, izens and future mothers to our glorious republic; and, Whereas, It is gratifyin' to human natur', the world in genal, Missury at large, and Liberty in partickler, that this settlement has set an example to the ancesters of future time, which will not only make the iimen of this en lightened state a pattern for thur chil dren, but a envy to the royal wimen of Europe, not forgettin' the proud inoth er the Lions of Ingland, but will ele vate and place in and among the furst families, fur ever hercarter, the mother that has shed such lustre upon the sex in general; and, Whereas, It is the melancholy lot of some to be deprived of doin' thar duty in the great cause of human natur', be cause the young men is back'ard about speakin' out it is time that some meas ures be taken inimical-to our general prosperity, and encouragin' to the ris in' generation of young fellars round town; tharfore, Resolved, That, as married women, our sympathies, like the heaving of na. tur's bosom, yearns with admiration and respect fur that little womin, Mrs. Allen, and as we see' her three little babbys reclinin' upon thur mother's fe male maternal bosom, our beatin' hearts with one accord wish we could say ditto. Resolved, That in the case of Mrs. Allen we see an illustrious example of the intarnal and extarnal progress of that spreading race, the Angel Saxons; and time will come, when the mothers of the west will plant thar glorious shoots from one pinnacle of the Rocky Mountains to the tother, and until thar cry of liberti will be hollered from one pint to the next in continooal screetch! Resolved, That Mr. Joseph Allen, the father of these three dear little babbys, shall receive a monument at his deth, end while lhe is livin', tboe wimen shall ony visit his shop once a wveek to look at him, 'copt the married wimen, who shall be permitted to see him twice a week and no .offener, per vided and eceptin than want to git meas ured fur a pur of shoes. Resolved, Mister Joseph Allen shall ha~v the custom of' the whole settlement, for he is a glorious livini' example of a dlotin' husband. Arter these resolutions had beena unanimously passed, Mrs. Sutton ad dressed *.he mneetin' in a stream of ele gance, wh arin she proved, clar as a whistle, that a family war the fur-st consideration far a settler in a now country, and town lots the arter ques tion. -She ackinowledged tho corn,' , she sed, 'that it war soothin' to look effen at thur neighbor Allen, but his * f' peace of mind war the property of his - family, anid she hoped thre ladies wouln't disturb it, 'cause the loss' of sech a husbind would be a suffernhi' ea lamnity to the settlement.' The mecetin' adjoured, and Jow~tent Sback to work, singin': and whistlin', as happy as usual, and ove since, he's I had a perfect shower of work, for the i gals all round tho country keep goin' 1t to hin to git measured, tha say he. do a sarves to be incouraged. o Your fur-st Counn 'Rru Sumn .