The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, September 28, 1855, Image 2
A Fuller Report.
T!>^ following is .1 list of life members of |
the AgilouUural Society, contributed |
by Ab'ti'.'viiic district, 'i'liis is tho result ot*j
st partial c.'.uvnos of the District that is not j
yet completed; other names are still to he j
added. Siio was called tho "Banner District''
under an assessment of $1,500.?
"What do Fairfield and Richland say now J
wiil they "face the music in The lirs>t un.
dor a pledge from tho very able and energetic
President of the Charlotte Railroad,
war to equal the highest District contribution,
aud the last stands pledged to double it.
Uokesbckv.? V A Connor, W W Higging*,
Dr F F Gary, A 11 McGeo, jr, J K
Vance, W C Ivlugh, Charles Smith, Dr J C
Paslay, J no W Mooro, Dr W C Norwood,
C W Watson, Thos J Robert!*, Jno Vance,
Dr N Simras, J W Stibcr, L R Dautzler,
B Z Herndon, SM G Gary,
Due West.?Rev 11 C Greer, JaB B
Richey, W R Hemphill S R Browuleo, J N
Young, A P Lindsay, J I Bonner, D \V
Hnwiborn, A C Hawthorn, C M Sharp,
Thos Crawford, J F Lee, Samuel Donald,
J M-'Adams, Jas Cowan, Wni Norton,
E C Sharp, B M Winstock, Dr R A Archor,
J.:b MeGill, Jno Cowan, H L Holland,
Dr J L Miller, D O Hawthorn,
Lc.-.vndervillk.?Jno Speer, E F Power,
Rev G W Huckabce, Banister Allen, J M
Lirum?r. Rev Z W Barnes, W J as Loinax,
\V S Baskin, Jno Brownlee, Rob't Hutchison,
J D Allen, Dr R W Lunday, JaH Harper,
Dr II Lat.timer, Win A Lesley, ffra M
Bell, Sam'l S Baker, Jas M Young, Dr L
Yarborougb. Chas P Allen, Rob't M Davis,
Jas Clark, Dr J T Baskin, Benj'n D Kay,
H H Harper, Jos P Young, J H Cunningham,
Josiah Burton, Win A Giles, Jesse W
Norris, Jos M White, T P Paschal.
Calhocn's Mill8.?D M Rogers, B
MoKitrick, J P Graves, W S McBride, Jas
Tngg.irt, Win D Partlow, Louis Covin, Dr
J 3 Iteid, M O McCaslan, Dr N Harris,
Stephen Lee, JasS Robertson, O T Poroher,
Jas A Norwood, M O Talman, JasL Covin,
Edward Calhoun, A Burt. Win McCaslan.
Win T Drennan, Dr J J Lee, Chas T Haskell,
BEGibort, J E Foster, Wm M Rogers.
Warns Hall.?Jno Cothran, Wm W
Waller, Dr S S Marshall, Wm C Hunter,
C W Sproull, W W Ferryman, Dr J P
Barratt, Jno L Griffin, Robert Talbert, Jas
L Hearst, Dr S Marshall, Jas M Patter* *ui,
Mrs Mary Hunter, F B Lngan, Jno Me.Clellan,
Larkin Reynold*, Jno G Boozer, M \V
Coleman, A H Morton, Jno H Marshall,
Wm Harris.
Greenwood.:?TB Byrd, J W Cochran,
Jas C'reswell, Thos C Crews, Jas Gillam,
Sam'l Perryman, Jno R Tarrant, R S Cobb,
Dr S V Cain, Jno J Tharp, Wro Smith, J
H Riley, Dr Jno Log in, Dr W D Calhoun,
Allen Vance, Henry Riley, Albeit Waller,
Henry Ruff, Dr L II Smith, J S Chipley,
Tlios Cheatham, GM Harrison, J Y L Partlow,
M A Crews, R M White, J W Appleton,
Dr J M Pelot, J T Parka, R A Griffin,
G T Waller, Wm A Williams, Dr H W
Lelawl, Rev S Donnelly. Dr C K Mcwloj-,
E fc> VV iss, Thos Riley, B F Reynolds.
Abbeville Court House.?J Foster
Marshall, II A Jones, Jno A Caihoun, Dr
J W W-Marshall, Sam'l McGowan, H S
Kerr, Edw'd Noble, Jno W Lesley. A M
Smith, L II Lomax, Dr Jno II Logan, Jas
M Perrin, R C Starr, Lemuel Reid, John II
Wilson, Jno A Wicr, Rob't A Fair, Dr
J J Ward law.
The whole amouut raised, so far, is $4, 100.?Banner.
Presbytery of South Carolina.
This ecclesiastical body, convened in our
town on Thursday evening last, and was
opened with a sermon from the lie v. David
Wills, the Moderator of the last session.
?Ir. Wills' discourso was founded upon the
4Sih, 49th and 50ih verses of 22d ihapter
of Deuteronomy. He drew a touching picture
of the life and (services of Moses; of
hia unbelief and lonely death. Tho Rev.
Donnelly was then elected Moderator and
;iev. i . Jj. aiolSrydo, (Jlerk. Upon calling
lhc roll, some sixty Ministers and Elders
answered to their names, and were enrolled
as members.' Ah we could not attend regular!
v, we aro not prepared to gi%'e a sketch
of i\ia business of the session* Thero
was ro.'hing done, we believe, beyonu the
transaction of the usual business of that body.
As it rejourned on Saturday evening, wc
judge that ilie session was very harmonious.
During Friday, Saturday and Sunday, our
rer.ple were favored with able and interestng
discourse* from Hio Rev. Messrs. Donr.riiv,
Vn st. R,dd, Adger, Baird, Montgr,n-,sti
1 Hoyt. The sacrament of the
Lord's r-.ippcr W;ik administered on Sabbath,
in the presence of a large and attentive audienrfi.
It wns a solemn and impressive
srone; and we do hope that rrrnoh good
may result fioni it. Four young men were
reveivr-d under care of Presbytery, as candidates
for the ministry. The harvest is
plenteous but thftlaborers are few, and it is
.i maner 01 rejoicing tliat young men are
found pressing into the field. That they
vnr.y l>e enabled to meet tho awful responsibility
of that holy office, and lead lives eroif
ncnt for piety and usefulness, i? our heart*
ftjlt wish.
The Presbytery adjourned to meet at
"VVillington Church, in Abbeville District, on
Friday before the fourth Sunday in April
next.?Anderton Gazette 10th imt.
[From tho Lexington Telegraph.]
Hon. Lemuel Boozer..
- Jfr. JSdilor:?A large-number of the
constituents of the above named gentleman
. would propose him ns a candidate to repre
I'M INDEPENDENT PRESS
ib vubll.suli# kverv saturday moun1no.
o. c. puokettT) ejitorb
M. PUCILETT,
fi'dividviiK, like nation*, fail in. nothing which
'hey boldly attempt, when stixtaineJ bp uirtuom
purpone. aitddtf'-r mined resolution.?I!e*ry Clay.
" Willing to prai*c, yit not afraid to blame."
Terras?One Dollar a Year, in Advanoe.
ABBEVILLE C.H.~
FRIDAY, - - - SEPTEMBER 28, 1855.
Several communications are unavoidably
deferred to next week.
The advertisement of II. S. Krtr, in
nnotber eohnnn, must attract attention.?
Kerr's motto is "ouward and upward," and
nobly does his enterprise illustrate his
motto.
Jeffers Cothrans, Charleston, i* a
now firm. But the individuals composing
it are not now; they have been long and
very favorably known to the plautere of the
State. Please read their card. 1
Advertising and contributing friends
have monopolized our coluraua. They aro,
however, moro than welcome to the room,
which they occupy better and with moro 1
profit than we could possibly do.
"Caliiocn," a correspondent of iho Car- '
olinmn, nominates Gen. J. W. IIarri60N, i
of Anderson, to succeed the present incumbent
in the Executive Chair of South Carolina!
And now wlio will nominate Mr. I
"Caliiocn" for the Lunatic Asylum ? i
A card from "Newberry and Edgefield"
will bo seen in another column,
from which it appears another effort is to
be made to oust Col. Brooks from his seat (
in Congress. Wo know nothing for nor
against Mr. Boozer, but if hn rnns^ntc in t
boar the standard in another contest, with
the results of last October in mind, wc shall
judgo him a brave man.
We are pleased to observe, of late, several
communications in various papers of the
State, warmly seconding the nomination of
Dr. Liebrr for tho College Presidency.
A writer in the Carolinan, one in the Camden
Journal, and more recently one in the
Charleston Courier, have put forth his
name. In our humble judgment no man
in the Union has higher claims to that honorable
distinction.
l
F. D. Ricuardson, Esq., has been nominated
a candidate for Mayor of Charleston,
iio is said to be the Know Nothing nominee.
Prof. W. P. Miles is tho anti-Know
Nothing candidate, and Dr. II. V. Toomer
tho "Independent" candidate.
The <rreat T#>mr>prnnr*p nralnr Clnn R TT
Caret, is expected to visit Columbia du-j^
ring tho session of the Grand Division Sons
of Temperance, in December, aiul perhaps
other portions of tho State. Efforts arc
being made to indue? him to canvass the
entire State, and we hope they will succeed.
The President and Directors of the
Spartanburg and Union Railroad, at a meet- i
ing recently, resolved to endorse to the
amount of two hundred thousand dollars, for
the purpose of facilitating the progress of the
Rond to completion. Such zeal merits and '
we hope will meot success.
The Rabun Gap Road.
. The editor of the Southern Patriot
gives the following interesting particulars in
relation to the Rabun Gap Road and its
effects upon Pickens District, and so forth.
An article on the same subject may be seen
on ihe first page. These, together with a ,
rerripk of the Charleston Mercury, seem to
make i? almost a "fixed fact" that Judgo ,
Frost is soon tC take the Presidency of the
Company. The Patriot Bays:? ,
It is said that Judge Frost is about to
accept the Presidency of the Blue xv.'dcje
Railroad Company, and will see that the
work is prosecuted with all proper speed.
Judge Frost, Mr. Gourdin and Gen. Garvin
speak with ^reat confidence in the successful
termination of the work. The road is
more than three-fourths graded from Anderson
C. H. to Tunnel Hill. It i# ascertained,
with mathematical certamty, that
the Tunnel can be completed in three years.
'l'be whole road in Georgia is now ui?der
contract! ft will soon be let out in North
Carolina and Tennessee. The Company
and the contractors are getting on harmoniously,
and wilf no doubt disappoint all
who are disposed to throw cold water on this
great enterprise of the age.
The Pistrict of Pickens is feeling, most
sensibly, the effects of the Railroad ?1ready.
Money is plenty and labor high. There is
a market for provisions. We heard & farmer
ay that till the German settlement was
commented at Walhalla and' tlie. railroad
put under contract, ihey could still nothing
exception* credit, xxow tiie credit system
wft^ aboli^
[for THE INDEPENDENT rnF.su.]
Alabama Inklings. i
SomKWIIKitE, Sept., 1855. j
ATcssrs. Editors : I havo promised you j
twice, ami myself much oftener, that I
would give you some ''inklings" from this '
part of Christendom; but circumstances, \
for tho most part beyond my control, have!
prevented me so far from complying with j
my promises. There arc in our society, in |
comparison with yours or other, many pha- j
ses, differences and contrasts?some very
striking others less so?which, under the
guidance of an abler pen than mine claims
to l?e, could be made deeply interesting and
instructive to many of your readers. The!
c,i1\ia.>io T !
i unu in new 111 uii:s? promises
were such as for the most part belong to
tlio under-currents of society?such as in
their effects would impress the casual observer
and outsider, but could not bo well
understood or comprehended by 6uch. Every
nation of people on earth, and every
State in our Union, has different laws in
some respects, and are more or less different
in manners, customs and sentiment. There
is a wide difference, owing to well discussed
and understood causes between the two
great divisions of our Republic?and although
between the different States that
compose the two divisions there is not, in
comparison with each other, such distinctive
differences as mark the two, or nations
widely separated, there is etill enough, particularly
between the old and new States of
the South, to 6trike the observer and engage
the meditations of an inquiring mind. Every
cause produces an effect, and every effect
has a cause; and as with individuals the
smallest apparent or imperceptible cause
may change the whole current of a life, so
to the same extent, or in lik? manner, may
some particular circumstance, or the influence
of a particular individual, leave an ini
press embodied in law, manners, custom or
sentiment for ages or all tiinc to come. To
know all these causes could not of course
be expected of a mind less than omniscient,
nor to trace them properly be the productions
of a pen less than inspired. But there
itre those, both as to cause and effect, which
require no uncommon acuteness of mind to
discover, no great power of analysis to divide
and disst-ct, nor more than human inspiration
and ordinary ability to portray. It
will be to such as might bo expected of inc
that I will confine myself, should I find time
and the spirit moving mo so to do. J have
several reasons that will, I think, at .1 more
conveni?mt season, stimulate me to fulfil in
some sort my promises; and ns men may,
as a general rule, be depended on according
to the prompting motive and the value to
themselves of the, end to be gained, I will
state tho most prominent:?I am the
1 1 _r
11 LviiLL-ni-iuw oi your pnper?tlie personal
friend, school-mate and quandom neighbor
of many of your subscribers, am more or
less acquainted with three-fourths of the
latter; and nothing would be more gratifying
to my feelings than to bo able to contribute
any thing that would give importance
to your paper or interest your readers.
That would ho motive enough ; but as some
men cannot imagine or believe that a desire
to promote the pleasure of others can bo a
sufficient cause of action, if it involves labor
or expense, I will remark that with mo'pleasure
is reflective, and that I know souio men
who receivo as much happiness in contributing
to that of others as those who
receive the contribution. If I have any
purely sclfi-di motive it is the benefit which
a man receives wlo impresses his own observations
and reflections on himself; which to
some men, particularly myself, can only be
done satisfactorily by writing them out. It
could not bo vanity, for the performance
wouiu scarcely jusuiy it; and it "so be," the
Bulntanco would be wasted among those
very few of whom will I ever see this side
of eternity. It could not be for literary repute,
for too much time has been lost ever
to be regained, and my pursuits chalked
out for the future are neither literary nor
akin to it.
There may be much or little "balderdash"
in the remarks just preceding; but it may
be necessary for thein to be remembered by
those who would do justice to my motives,
should I attempt to perforin something to
plCAse your readers and fail, like the little
boya used to do sometimes when they loat
LJ l!-' ?! A- ??
lueir uoiu m mieiiipiing 10 "SKin ino cat'
for the edification of their little "sweethearts,"
in the blessed _good old day# before
innovation and vul^pfr .refinement sent the
boys to one houso^Md the girls to anothor.
I did think of trying my hand for you . on
things tbat didn't rise to the dignity
o^ubjeda, but would be better expressed
by the terras of scenes or incidents, which
are prolific here; but therein of humor that
tfme peopM used to think I poesewed, If
iligy Wero ?rrect, has eamoW lioder the
HpureOf Hfe% ftsponpibilties, its refclitiefl
Htatinrer duties. tiul What :of fh&f! Is
*&.$? rich jJ?ttduotiout\.of-tfie ludicrous
he not as keen nn eye for the ludicrous as
Sam Slick's wife had for diit, with the
trniiKwndant gift of painting them with the
tints of the rainbow, or the magnificent plumage
of a peacock's tail ? Suppose he does
just now stride the Philadelphia platform; is
he not a remnant of old Whig chivalry of
the Henry Clay kidney ? Docs ho ever
"bushwhack" a question or plav the Indian ?!
*
Does he not gracefully throw down or raise j
the glove, and "run a tilt" with all tho gal-1
lantry of a "knight of the olden time?" I
But, Mr. Editor, to show you that I have
not been wanting in will to do something
for the Press and its readers, let inc state
what I have done. During the reign of
your'illustrious predecessor,' I took a bird's
eye peep, ten days long, at tho Alabama
law-makers ; "knew the ropes" before I went
there, and got behind the scrcens. In relation
thereto 1 dotted and blotted off ten pages
of ybofacnp about men and measures. As
moBt of it, to be pointed, required to be
printed before the close of the session, while
intending to revise and omit some of the
too-much "Lord's truth" that was there, an
accident occurred to preveut, and the whole
thing proved an abortion. I afterwards showed
it your ex, and he thought something
had been lost. Not a month ago quite I
thought of you and your readers, and commenced
again, on tho subjects of politics,
I-" ? J '
(IIUI tuu ICOHCO IllilUV illlU CHJIUI*- 1
mined on tlio fii-st Monday in August last >
hut eitlier from the comprehcnsivcvcss of
the subjects, or the. prolific, outlandish
strides of my pen, (perhaps a good deal of
all.) 1 had, before I knew it, more than you
rould print in months, and as the subjects
are so interwoven as to forbid curtailment
or division, or the time to do either, rather
than inflict the mess on you or your readers,
I will for the present enter the case on the
docket, beg the court for a continuance that
the statute may not bar, and retain to myself
the privilege of hereafter entering a
nol. pros., or making an issue on the whole
or in part as time and chance mav deter
mine.
But for fear I trespass beyond your limits,
I will add only a few "dots" and "blots" for
the present, without trespassing; materially
ion any subject that I may hereafter dilate
upon. We have just passed through one of
the most "sarching" political contests that
has been in this State for years; in fact, I
doubt whether any has ever occurred (since
our Slate has pretended to be civilized that
hns engendered such personal hostility, and
left such deep-seated ill-feeling and discontent.
Forebodings of civil war hung in angry
clouds over several communities, but
thanks to an over-ruling Providence, and
the individual exertions of good men, no
outbreak occurred. A multitude of "knockdowns
and drag-outs," a few cuts and
thrusts with knives and sticks, were all that
did any damage, but few if any lives being
lost. A few pistols and knives drawn in
some instances, and a general appearance of
being wcii-armcd where a necessity really
did or was supposed to exist, were the most
scenes that came to public view. There
were several appeals to "pistol and cr.Tee
Knfr !?-">> ? 1* 1..O
I via uuuu^ll lllU IIIHUCIIUU OI
friends, the highest principle of honor among
gentlemen of Ihe present century and
day (and recognized in "the code,") prevailed,
and peace and the honor of the parties preserved.
One case did get to the
but tlie mis-shot of one party and the missfire
(the cap bursting) of the other, ternii
nated the affair without damage to either.?
I am not sure, however, that this grew out
of polices. It is needless to 6ay what it was
that produced this up-heaving and political
commotion, for the hut half informed will
know that at this time it could be nothing
but the fire-brand of Know Nothingism.
To the outsider the issues appeared to bo
Americanism and anti(?)-Americanism,
State aid to railroads and anti-State aid ;
but to those who "knew the ropes" it was
in substance a fight between Democracy
and old "Whiggery, and the general result
tcfle fiKrtllf tKa comn no
MVWM? ?MV uutuv tjvi VtVIUIU. XII UILIC3
and largo towns Democrats formed a part
of the rank and file of the K. N's, but this
was balanced by the loss in the country to
the Americans or Whigs of a joint of the
party composed of those religiously or prcj?
udicially opposed to secret organizations,
and who are now so "dead set" that no
amount of coaxing, change .of features or
tactics, can get them back?they vow it.
f ew, u any, icadiog Democrats outside the
cities became Embrangled" in the mesbes
of Know Notbingism, and among them,
although a corporafs guard are of some
note or distinction in other pursuits, npne
were recognized leaders of the Democratic
party. TbeL nearest approach es Pteor
WAtMR, 91- Mobile, member elect to
Qongresa. .
Whether or not KnQvf NotWng^ao, sg
some say, was originated for the purpose of
Stealing march" on, or down
I
Know Nothing, and every prominent Whig
leader (with the exception of Ricuaro
Walker, of North Alabama, the Whig
nominee for Governor two years ago, who
opposes) is an insider and leader of the party.
Although the Know Nothings were defeated
in the lato election, they lamont
but don't give it up. They say "Sam" did
o m or?5nrrl*T l%*o *- *
iui mo ? it year oiu Daniling."
I think tliey will be mistaken in
their hopes as they are in the aye of "Sam."
I fancy I can trace him through the Philadelphia
platform, coon-skins, and other
symbols, to the time of "The Federalist,"
which would make him an old man of some
seventy years.
Until the spirit movcth me, yours truly,
Dots.
WRITTEN FOR THE INDEPENDENT TRESS.
The Drunkard and the Temperate.
A poet has said, "I fear God, and have
no other fear"?to which a philosopher liaa
remarked : "I fear not only God, but he
who does not fear God." And I would
add: "Let us also fear the drunkard."
Intemperance is a curse of God on the
habitual drunkard. For such a one there
ought to be no sympathy; the sooner he
dies the better; therefore, let him drink,
ftat society may be rid of his had example
and of his carcass. Any "Muinc Liquor
Laic" or any other oppressive law, will not
arrest this great curse and evil of intemperflgce.
The short trials made in the Northern
States sufficiently prove its inefficiency.
The experience of the people of Italy,
France and Spain, and other countries, that
are inhabited by temperate people, arc
countries where they cultivate the grape,
make wine and drink it as a portion of
their daily food and snstenanco to enable
them to execute with perfcct case their daily
tasks. In such a country, drunkards are
scarcely ever seen ; while in the other portions
of Europe, where wine is not raised as
a staple, the people are invariably addicted
to strong alcoholic drinks. They habitually
drink to excess, and their character
becomes debased, brutalized and beastly.
And as Richard Porkon says, to celebrate
his tour in Germany, he devotes these few
doggerel lines, which depict the habits of the
lilnriiiict nnivnpcituK onrl r.rrtfnecftro r*P
itiivi j'luiwguio vri uci"
many :
"I went to Frankfort and pot. drunk,
With that most learned l'rofessor Brunei;:
I wont to Wortz and got more drunken,
"With that more learned Professor Buhnken."
And in my days in Europe, it was proverbial
to say : "to be drunk like a German
or an Englishman.'' Let the man that gets
drunk among us be punished by law as
much so as any one that breaks the sacred
laws of the land. Let the Legislature not
attempt to abridge our liberties by any
"Maine Liquor Law" ; but let punishment be
inflicted on the drunkard who is the breaker
of the laws. It is, in my estimation, the
most absurd legislation that which makes
laws by which the temperate, the orderly,
the law-abiding people, are made to suffer,
because some vagabonds choose to get
drunk. The legislators have not the courage
to strike the right blow, and have not
the boldness to drag the drunkard before
flit* liivv nnA fn nnnioli him oa
public execration may rest upon him.
As I have already intimated above, there
is but one sure and certain remedy to this
dreadful evil; and that is, the raising of
grapes, making of wine, and the drinking of
it with water, ns all sober nations do.
Therefore, let us encourage vineyards, and
let us plant them in the whole United
States, and then the people will be temperate.
Man was intended by the very creation
of his teeth and digestive organs to be
omnivorous, that is, that unlike all other
animals, he should eat and drink both vegetable
and animal food, and still there are
whole nations whoso religious tenets forbid
mem to eat meat ot any sort. Mahoubt
and tho Koran (the testament of the Mahometans)
forbid the drinking of wine because
Christians drink it, and this is intimately
connected with the most precious rite
of the Christian Church. The Mosaic law
forbids to tho Jews the eating of the flesh
of the hog. And our modern prophets and
lawgivers would have a law prohibiting every
kind of beverage that by its excessive
use or abuse may become intoxicating or
inebriating. This is a sweeping/ denunciation,
an intolerant exclusion, &tid an entire
prohibition of the good things that God
bestowed upon ub, for food and susteuonce.
The question is in a nut-shell ? H is in the
abuse of all these blessings that the evil's
exist, and not in tbeir moderate, occasional,
or even habitual use. There is no doubt
that excess or abuao of any kind is an evil.
..Religious fanaticism ia an evil, because an
intolerant abuse of an excessive ordinal
religious feeling the aiim>le. and contrito
worship of God, The"Maine Liquor Lhw"
and it*ady<tetee afe, ifl tbeirfto bettor
til an the luqyisition abd tbo * inquisitors
Here is our creed : 1, Stimulants of every
kind are unquestionably food or equivalent
to food in their action on tlio human frame,
more or less dircctly. 2, We strongly
advocate their moderate use ; and we abhor
their abuse, because destructive of health,
and brutalizing the individual in their moral
effects; and this is the case, whether it
be the abuse of eating, drinking, or any
other animal indulgence. Bread is a vegetable
pubstance, as mnch so as wine, and
both contain alcohol, developed in them, in
the act of formation. Ilence, unleavened
and unfermented flour made into food is
not bread, because it docs not contain the
stimulating power of the fermented bread,
and is not as nutritive. The chamnions of
r
the "Maino Law," liereafter, when they
get the knowledge that fermented bread
contains alcohol, may next miiko a movement
to exclude bread also, as belonging to
the stimulating class of food, and dangerous
in its abuse. J. TOGNO,
[kou the independent rnESH. J
Prom Columbia.
Columbia, Sept 25, 1855.
Dear Puckctt: I never knew anything
gained by getting into a controversy with
an editor ; but as the editor of the Times
has taken exceptions to a clause in my correspondence
of last week, I feel it due tomyself
to say, that I had no reference at all
to the pecuniary standing of the proprietors
of that paper; nor should I ever have
dreamed that they needed pecuniary assistance,
from any quarter, to carry out any en- Vl "
terprise they might, see proper to engage in,
had they not made the appeal themselves
to the members of the Legislature for assistance.
I, therefore, appeal to the "cireular,r
itself, and ask any candid man, even should
he be a Know Nothing, to say who it is
that has made the insinuation that assistance
was needed to carry out the project of
reporting the proet^ictgs oF tlbe Legisla4
*1. il P ' > " * " ?
wic, me Humor 01 mat -CTretrifor" Of U'1V
Public opinion is decidedly opposed to
the coursc taken by our City Council toward
Dr. Gibbes. Every paper that takesany
notice of it at all, except the Times, so
far as my knowledge extends, speaks of it as
a very high-handed measure, and one which,
if tolerated and persevered in, will eventually
undermine the liberties of the press
entirely.
Business seems to be on the increase
here. I seo several wagons loaded with
cotton in the streets this morning.\^ew
stores are being opened in Exchange
I saw the flag of an auctioneer hanging at
the door of one of them yesterday, and a ^
large lot of sundries storing away in another.
I wish to correct a small mistake I madein
my last, in reference to tlio "Campbell
Minstrels." I saw their bills posted up alt
over the City, with a notice that they were
to perform on Monday, Tuesday, and
j Wednesday evenings, and not noticing the
j date, took it for granted that they were then
in the City, but afterwards found out that
j the bills were put up a week in advance, I
suppose, to enable the people to give themi
a more suitable reception. Suffice it to say,
they are here now, and no mistake, as I haveheard
several people say, and performed last
night in the presence of a very largeand
refined audience, who were highly delighted
with the performance.
Col. Gladden, who has been residing forsome
years in New;,. Orleans, is now on a
visit to."this Cjty./'IIe has been very sick,,
and is confined pretty much to his room,
but I understand hois re-gaining his health,
again.
I know of npthing else that will be of interest
to vntir rnn/lora T
v*W(VI M. IrUOICIUlO U1U50*
T.
P. S. I have just learned from a passenger,
that a portion of the freight cars attached
to the night express train from
Charleston, was thrown off the track thia
morning. No one waa hurt. I did net
learn the eauso nor the extent of damage
to the road or cars. The balance of tho
train arrived in good time. Therefore there
could not have been much deteution. T.
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[FOR THE IKDKPEXD KNT PBK8&] . \
Clear Spring Examination and Exhibition.
On Friday, the 7th inst., I attended the
Examination of the Female School at Cleat
Snrinff. ?hnnfc tKiriw <?r.V? _ ... <
? o' v ?v?vhm? iu uuewaanee,
Early in the morning patrons sod friends as- j
sambled to tho Academy, buoyed op with i
high hopes and expectations. - Miss M. EL
Putnam* Instructress, whose qualifications' I
dare say would compare .with any of her
sex, and far superior in point of discipline,
and I might safely sajr in ability and scholarship,
to a ^ast majority of the male teach
ere who crowd our villages and ootmtry.
The moj^pg exercises began by masic ou
tho^piario;^d a son^ by i^he whofe sdiaol j