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Our Free Schools.
-)/<yor Perry : I rejoice to see sotno of
the first mon of the Statu devote their attention
to the improvement of our Free
School system. The humble and obscure,
too, should communicate their views on this
all-important subject, for* in some respects
their experience may be found serviceable
when theory can not enlighten.
That the annual appropriations of the
Legislature are sullicient for the education
of our poor children seem-* to be generally
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buiivoivu. iiv. uii-ii, u is asked, have
%ve so many uneducated persons iminnspl
us? What is tin; cause, ami what must be
the remedy ? I re ply :
It should be home in mind that until
very recently the appropriations for Free
Schools were hut one-half' of what they now
are, ?.'57,000 annually, a sum wholly inadequate
to the object iu view, even under the
best management,* much less under the
abuses of partiality and favoritism that
characterized the proceedings of Conimisniissioners
some years ago. when tliev could
dispense or return (he public funds as best
suited their partiality or their interest; and
though the dawn of a brighter day has
commenced, until it is further advanced we
need not expect to reap all the advantages
which a strict accountability on the part of
Commissioners, and a fair compensation to
competent teachers, is so well calculated to
effect. That such a day is dawninir upon
us I could furnish many cheering evidences,
but will satisfy myself with one: it * the
. substance of a statement made to me a few
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uays ;igu ny a gent Ismail of Orange, who
came up to draw tin: quarterly amount ductile
teachers of his parish.
"A new cm," said lie, ''is now visible in
our Free Schools; we strictly examine
every teacher that presents himself, both as
to morals and capacity, and none are employed
lint those who maintain an honorable
standing in both. The consequence is1
that drunkards and ignoramuses are swept
away as with a besom, while the sober, the
competent and tho industrious, are I.-It; to
these we give a fair compensation for tlmir
services, and pay them t*p every i|uarter,
and the result is truly gratifying; our children
improve apaee, and some of our young
men are qualifying themselves with tlie.-e
teachers to become feat hers in turn."
Such is the prospect that now gladdens
our hearts, not onlv i?i Oi-niim.
. WMl
in many other portions of tin; State.
I know very well the statement above
made will be received with a great deal <?f |
hesitancy by those who are wont to regard
our Common School teachers as a parcel <>f
oafs and dullards; but their conclusions are I
hasty, ami must give place to a more fa-1
vorable opinion, upon mature reflection. It
is not denied but that amongst the numerous
teachcrs of our Common Schools there
may be found the ignorant and the self-sufficient,
and what profession or calling is
without them ? The bar is dishonored by
the pettifogger; the medical profession is
disgraced by the quack; and the Christian
ministry itself is intruded upon by the hypocrite
and dissembler; but docs it follow
from these lamentable occurrences that the
learned professions in South Carolina are
below mediocrity, and ahuo>t sunk into
contempt? From an intimate m-quaint
ance of several years with schools and
schoolmasters, the writer of this article1
looks back with pride on tiiany an "old field
schoolmaster" who could instruct those of
higher pretensions, and whom a liiVcerning j
public has trnnsf?<rr../l ' ?1
vim aciun'iii^t I
onr cli&ti i<*t offices and our hanking houses;
and lie will venture tlie assertion that some,
of the lw:st writers, (mechanically speaking.) !
the best arithmeticians and the best book- I
keepers in the State an; to he &juii?1 amongst |
our school teachers. They may not have ;
all the starch and polish of the Northern ,
article, but they have what is better, the j
good staple and firm texture that will wear
well.
To make available the services of this
valuable but underrated body of men. and
to remedy the evils of <fiir Free School system,
I would most humbly make the following
suggestions:
First. That the Free School Fund be
apportioned xot according to the population
and wealth of a district, but according :
to its population and poverty.
Second. That the Free School Commi6,
sioners throughout the State examine the
candidates for Free School teachers, and employ
only those that are found worthy.
Third. That the said Commissioners pay
to these teachers the same compensation j
that is paid them by private citizens, and that,
they settle with them at the end of each
qnarter.
u Finally. That the Commissioners of
Free Schools be hereafter exempt from road
duty and patrol dutv,as an offset for their!
ui:>
puuiiu eervu es as Commissioners; and fur-!
thermore, that they be liahfe* to -impeach-!
ment for malpractice in office, as all other!
public officers are. |
Let these few and simple rules bo adopt-1
" ed and carried out, and in a few yenra South
Carolina will be ranked amongst the most
intelligent States in the Union, as she is
now amongst the most patriotic.
- Your*, truly, >- T. F.
Columbia, Sept. 18, 18&5.
''y *The average prices for tuition in the Common
Schools of South Carolina fs about $12
60 annually; so .thai the former appropriations
of 97,500 would educate hnt three thousand
cnnaren?a number far below 'bat uf the poor
ad needy, who demanded an education, but
. Were unable to obtain it.
; Hobiweso Know Nothings. The
H4mp<ten, Massachusetts, Smtesmiiff says
tbel&iow Nothing Council in Thorndike,
nt bought a Congregational
church at aifeiion nhd sold it to tho Catho?
lil?t tbaking $400 by the operation ; another
obtained,^ <?$ ce of deputy sheriff;
nd one, w nfoii fatu nate of all, married
a pretty Irish Cathow^gul.
A D?AWH?o-?ooja Tfittg,?You can gen*
4 ersllv tell how popular vfat are with n inety
by too length of time Mjal&psyou waiting
whilst dressing to
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j A c.vmi?-mki:tin(! nminii'iurs :it Smyrna
| r:?m>-frr??uii?l, near I.owiulosvillo, this (Fiii?lav)
evvitiii<'.
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j Tiik .\^<ociate Reformed Presbyterian
j Synod of the South meets at Cedar Spring
church, in this District, on Monday next,
8th instant.
Tiie City Council of Columbia have
published a defence of their course in regard
I to the late expulsion of Dr. (iinnr.s. We
shall do them the justice to publish it in our
next issue.
On Friday, the 12th instant, the corner
stone of a new Masonic Lodge, at Anderson,
is to be laid with appropriate Masonic ceremonies.
We understand the contemplated
edifice is to be an elegant and capacious
one?in everyway worthy of the justly celebrated
village in which it is to be reared.
Tub steamer Cataract, in which our
friend Kkuk had shipped his entire stock
of groceries, was lost in her passage from
New York to Charleston, a few days ago.
, We are ulad to sav, however, that he was
I .
I fully insured. lie desires us to say that
i the storl- will n.l.l.~...i -
? ?."w '. ' iivwM) auu clllivu 111 ?l
very short time.
We lmvc nothing wry definite as yet
from tlx; Georgia elections, which ?vere held
j mi Monday. The latest acc ounts indicate
j that Johnson, Democrat, is re-elected (?ov|
?rnor.and M>\s*r<. SrKi'HKXS ami Conn, auti!
Ivuow Nothing, to Congress. Full returns
will be received before our next i.-sue.
We have not attended upon the sittings
of the ConTt which is in session here this
week, Judge Gj.ovicit upon the bench, ami
cannot thcrefose report very accurately the
progress of affairs. Considerable business,
despatced and despatching, will probably
employ the entire week. In our next we
may present a bird's eye view of its doings,
if we can gather them up.
A few evening* previous to our last issue,
as tlm evening train was leaving the depot
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i n iiiis place, i,Kitor U. \Vii.sox, a fireman,
! in attempting to change his position in
; sumo way, had his foot caught in some part
j of tin* locomotive, liv which it was dreadful'
iy crushed. He i?, however, wo are glad
i to say, likely to recover without the loss of
[ it, which was at first doubled. We acei1
dently omitted to note the occurrence in our
last.
| A friend wrote us, last week, roncern;ng
a melancholy occurrence fli Cass county,
Ga.. ri-ccntl}*. John and Laukin Ri:vn01.0s,
brotlivt's, the one eighteen anil the
other sixteen yours old, were out liuiitinpr,
when,by an accidental disclwflfe ot John's
gun his brother was instantly killco'. These
two unfortunate voting inen were sons of
Mr. Vincent Reynolds, deo\l, who removed
fiom this District a few years since.
Da. W. C. NouwooY*, of Cokesbury, reports
the largest yield of corn to the Ticre;
that we have ever heard reported in this
Stale. He had not, whert we heard him
speak of it, measured a whole acre, but j
had measured enough to satisfy him
that there were one hundred bushels upon ;
it! We have only to remark that tliat science
which makes "two blades of grass
grow where only one grew," and one hundred
ears of corn where before were twentyfive,
is surely one of the noblest. Every
body ought to be educated in it.
Mornings and evenings in this latitude
are becoming quite cool, and the chilly
breathings of old Boreas admonish us that
that well known individual, Mr. Frost, (familiarly
known as Jack.) is on his way hither,
j The latter part of the summer, just past,
j has been most rcmaikahle for dry weather
and good henllh in our village and District.'
We have had no rain of consequence in
three months nn<1 t.? i
, km iias uteri com-I
paratively unknown amongst us throughout
the year. A most bountiful harvest has
been gathered {and upon the whole, we have
everything to" rejoice and little to depress
us. Let us be grateful towards the proper
source of all good 1
m ? ?
We have received a number of an exceedingly
neat, and we think veryqble, niedic4l
journal, published in Yew York, edited
by-Dr. Robt. Hunter, and entitled ffi
lUedical Specialist. It appear* to be tne,
main object of this journal to elaborate a
system of cure for pulmonary diseases, by5
administering medicines by the inhaling
process. Tho editor contenda, with great
plausibility we tb$f>1t, that remedies cannot
be applied Mifficigrifl/.'directly to the aeat
of Such diseases through any of tho ordjnaiy
ptoeertM. By ioh&Jation, however, remI'
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a* W '-.v.k.%<,y-;
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edial agents can bo directly applied to the
lungs, which is tlie seat of that class of
fearful diseases alluded to. lie assorts that
ev?-n advanced stages ?if consumption have
; Ik'cu, nnd can he, arrested and cured, by
"uiedieated inhalation," and cites cures in
lii* own practice to prove the assertion,
i There *m no estimating the gratitude thai
awaits l<ii? if lie succeeds in noiTuotinnr n
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' ciiii' for that terrible disease.
We recommend the work to our medical
friends. Price one dollar per annum.
Published in monthly issues of sixteen large,
j double column pages.
What do you Want?
Curat cash goods ? Ciiamiieus Sr. Mau|
siiam., at this place; Koukhts ?fc Adams,
at Ilodges; ami Stiiacsh, at Cokeshury. are
all prepared to meet your wants in that line;
and for the lifts of us we couldn't decide
! which to reeeommctid first to you. Perhaps
! the one nearest your respective habitations,
i See their several advertisements.
A stood hotel when you visit Charleston ?
Then remember the Mills Ilouse?eoufe?sjedly
the finest in the State, and k?pt by a
! host whose reputation is second to no other
: in the country.
1 .1.:?i?
, . ..n? finiij^its in any (|iiiiliti!v f
, Fosiikf. it Sample, at Ninety-Six, can sup'
ply your wants in that way at short notice,
land to your entire sati>faction.
Land in the vicinity <>t* Lowmlesville ?
j V"ii are offered a tract 1 >y ' Lowxdesvu.le."
land may get further particulars hy applying
as he directs in Ins advertisement to he
seen in another column.
To pay the interest on Erskine College
| scholarship bonds? Mr. IIempiiili. gives
| notice that either himself or Prof. Vovnc
j will be at Abbeville on sale-day next for the
! purpose of receiving such dues, and will
! be happy to receive your attention.
Or perhaps you have been patronizing
j IIesteu it Scott, at Ml. (. armel, and now
! wish to settle with them. If so. they inform
! v.,II11.!ii ;i "
, .... .....v .v .*fii uu uiiuium ill llirrn.
it any time. No fear of being too soon, an
tlioy liave closed their partnership, and de!
sire also to close their accounts.
i Mr. Mastekman, of Charleston, holds
; himself in readiness to supply wants in the
| way of watches, clock*, jewelry, and so on.
We sn<r?rest nil application to him by all
who may feel such wants. See his card.
The sale of property advertised by the
i Messrs. Latimer, Executors, will a fiord an
excellent opportunity to supply wants which
; are of daily occurrence. Refer to the notice
| of "Executor's Sale."
In line if yon have any temporal wants,
go t-j the advertising columns of the Press.
land there find further directions.
"Union Proclivities."
i "Willi Col. Hrooks, whom we. have al;
ways held np as our ideal of the genuine
j South Carolina politician, we had the pleas-1
I lire of several very agreeable and to us i
profii:il>I<! interviews. We were glad to
find I>i111 where we left liim ? firm, consistent.
earnest, and yet coneilia'orv?standing!
as firmly as ever upon the old Cooperation j
platform?willing to hide thi; time for ae-j
j lion, nml (lien, wlien it comes, to act. Wej
j were glad to leant that, :illlion<*!i joining
j in llie pagans whieh were sounded in praise i
| of Col. Orr. he did not sympathise with!
j Col. Orr's Union proelivities ; and that, nl- j
! though decided in his opposition to Know j
| Xothingisiri, he <1 id not. respond to therm- i
! sjsde which, while it ennnot hasten the ex-,
| tinction of Know Nothing principles, must
! nevertheless involve the State in all the
! baneful influences of political discord and
| party dissensions. Vv? were glad to find,
j in fine, that his future course is in the diI
reel ion of his past career?the career of
1 nKkliTMlinil. ennon un/l
... 4VII-IW Itliu *-V*I UOttU
i patriotism."
Tlie above paragraph, which is taken
from a lute issue of that excellent journal,
tlie Yorkville Enquirer, contains a very
high compliment to our Representative,
which is to be the more highly prized by
himself and friends because of its coining
from outside his District, and from so intelligent
a source as is the accomplished editor-in-cliief
of that paper. With the opinion
expressed of Col. Brooks' ability and
firmness it is scarcely necessary for us to
any we most heartily concur.
But our cotcmporary, we think, at the
same time, does another distinguished Representative
injustice, by creating an impression
that Col. Brooks dissents from his
course; and that part of his paragraph
suggests a remark or two which wc shall
respectful!? submit.
I '?/ "
If we are not most egregiously mistaken,
Messrs. Oaa and Brooks both have
j "Union proclivities"?Constitutional "UnI
ion proclivities." Tliey occupy the same
position. That position Is, as we have understood
it, that, under such an administration
of the Government m has been made
by the Democratic party%$h'. Pierck at
its head, they even prefer.thji present Union
to a separate Southern Confederacy.
They stand upon the Georgia plat/orm?
willing to nbido the past if the future will
do us justice. Docs not the Enquirer stand |
upon .the same platform f Do not ibe people
of South Carolina stand upon it t ' We
nnsirtr they do; and all attempts to get
them off by sneering at- ^Uniop prnMnritjea^Vill
he fruitful only in discomfit are
And disappointment < to these who nudm
v r J&i?. ..
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such attempts. Tho people, confiding in
their own quiet determination and con
scions ability to maintain their rights, at all
: times, present and future, against any and
! every possible form of assault, and believing,
j with Oku, that, "so fur as statutory legislation
is concerned, tlie South enjoys a repose
and security" long denied to her, are
willing to wait for tin* future to develop its
j own events; and tli?*y hope (is it a treasonable
hope?) with Oku that that.party which
has always stood up to tlie Constitution will
est ill survive the onslaughts of Abolition and
| Know Nothing fury, ami afford us sufli
cient aid to maintain our present position
tin tlie Union in honor and safety. If that
! hope proves delusive, and the wish-begot'
ten anticipations of enthusiast editors are
i realized, and the threatened indignities are
lu-aped upon us, then, in IIkookk* own burnling
words, "the man that prepares to de:
fend liis Inane in advance of Oitu (and his
political supporters, let us add.) will need
tin; light of tho morning* star when he
whets his sabre for.the battle."
There is a few in South Carolina who,
failing in their attempts to find anything in
: the action of the Federal Government for
| the lust live years (miico the admission of
' ('ahi<>rui;i) from which to a 1 voitalc disun;
i.?n. Mood, thunder, desolation and death,
have resorted to the probable efforts of
! Abolition and Know Nothing fanatics in
: the coming Congress as a foundation for
| stated elaborate admonitorv sermons. They
I confidently predict the repeal of ihr* X.i
hraska bill ; tito abolition of slavery in the
! Federal District; the prohibition of the
j inter-State slave tra<le, ami so on; ami
to rea<l some of their discourses, one
! would think these measures liml already
l>een perpetrated. Now we do not believe
that such men want the North to <lo us
justice. They prefer that these measures
! should l?e consummated, the quarrel perpetuI
ateil, ami disrupt io > finally cu<u". Men very
| often in emergencies couteinplaie alternative
resources until they come to believe
ill.-m even belter than those of their first
choice. It. is precisely the ease with per
.1 c disuniomsts of the South. They first
considered whether we could mnkc out to
;//re as a separate nationality or not, ami
I having concluded that we could, it was natural
in contemplating that alternative to
advancc a little, and conclude that wo could
mi- j/wiy wni ; :ui<i stilt further, and decide
tlmt, indeed, we could live even better ;
and so on, until they art* ready to swear that,
j wo can live in vo other va>/ ! We have
I not come to this last conclusion vet. The
Southern people have not come to it; and
it will take reasons more tangible than the
trumpeiiiigs of mere threatened outrages to
drive thrill to it.
Shall we take the maniac ravings of
fanatics fur the actual perpetration of outrages
hy the Government? Shall we eross
| the hndge before we come to it? Shall we
avenge the repeal of the Nebraska Act before
it is repealed ? the interdiction of the
slave trade, before it is interdicted ? the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia,
l?fore it is abolished ? Shall we run
because they threaten us ? What signifies
their threatening* so long as they are
unable to execute them ' If they acquire
the strength and pass the measures thev
propose, shall we be hmnnl hv them 1
Will we not be as free and as strong to resist
them then as now? What, then, are
we to lo-e by waiting to see whether or
not they arc to acquire that strength ?
It has been, we know, a favorite maxim
with many that the longer we submit to
tinD aggressions of the North, the weaker
will become our disposition to resist. It is
a false maxim. In a country where igno-|
rano-e and darkness prevails, it may hold '
better; but in an enlightened country there|
is no truth in it. On the contrary, the i
longer we are oppressed, the more fierce
and unanimous will he our resistance when
we do resist, and (what is by no means unimportant)
the greater will bo the sympathy
for us among outside lookers-on. The
spirit of an ignorant slave may be
crushed, but of an enlightened freeman j
never! It is nonsense to say that freemen
who have the sense to appreciate liberty are.
to do nroKe oy usage to tuo Harness oi
tyranny.
We believe with Col. Orr that tho Nebraska
bill of the last Congress restored
our right*, and whiKt that measure is tnaintained,
and threatened outrages prevented,
we prefer to abide in the Union. At
present we havo no doubt of Kansas' admission
into the Union, whenever she applies,
as a slave State; and if (here is not
sufficient power in Congress to prevent tho
extension of slavery, where, in the namo of
common sense, is ihe power to <U-stroy it
where it is? We prefer wniting to see
whether there is such power, and not take
it for granted because Abolition loous and
etoiiut uaronna editor* and politicians sav so.
No roan can tell what a day may bring
forth yet |t appears feus, that if the Sooth
will but pursue a prudent course toward*
her enemte*. find a ju?t one toward* her
Yriendsof the North, there is still hope for
the Constitution and the Union. Wefcnow
3?.' - - .V H*.
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that the lower House of the next Congress
14 to be peopled with fanatics; but wo do
not believe that they truly represent the
wishes of the people North. Many of
them have gotten there by stenlth?the
wily combinations of unprincipled deina!
gogues. Know Nothingism has placed the
; most of them there, and it must keep them
there, if they are to be kept there at all.
i Who believes that it will have sufficient viI
ii 1 * - - !
I ......J <>V UI?; m:.\l VICCUOIIS lO HO SO f III
j the meantime, whilst Pieuck holds the vc|
to, ami tin; Senate is still sane, there can
j l?e no execution of threatened outrages.
Then, when this new enemy of Democracy
dies, as die it must, and the forty-four "noble
Northern Democrats," or their worthy
successors, aro reinstated in their former
positions, the hope that the Missouri restriction
is to be re-enacted, and other kindred
measures consummated, mny prove delusive,
and the hordes of fanaticism, driven from
j I lie very gates of the city, when (to their
I view) the prospect of victory was never so
| flattering, may be weakened to .1 greater
extent than ever before. One general and
decisive battle is worth whole campaigns of
noisy skirmishing. Such a battle may be
j the result ot' the present array of the comI
billed hosts.
j Hut we have been betrayed much beyond
our prescribed bounds. Our object was
j simply to assure our respected cotempo:
rary that Col. Oun does not stand alone in
! the position he occupies. The impression
: to be convoved bv hi* n!irnmo.*K ?!...? I
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I Col. ijkooks, wlui lias been likewise de-J
i nounced tor his "National (Union) procliv- I
j ites," is opposed to Can. Such an impres- {
] sion we regard as erroneous and calculated
i lo do injustice to Col. Oitit. by representing
I bin) as standing alone it) tbe Congressional
' delegation, and having nn overweening love
' for the Union, when, in fact, neither is true.
wr.iTins far. riiK indcpkmiest rr.n'ss.
A Yankso Queen.
Under this sobriquet, I rend in the Carolina
Times, (Sept. 25.) a short article eon;
taining an erroneous statement that might
be just as well corrected. Joachim Mckat
who married Carolina, sister of Napoi.eon,
and who was made, by the latter, sovereign
king of Naples, had two sons, A|
eim.i.e and Lccien. Tliev both came to
! America to join their uncle Joseph, Cotuit
j Sciiviu.iek, late king of Spain.
| These two Mcrats married in this conn
j rry uvo American ladies, Achillk a Virginia
lady, and the youngest brother, Lc:
cikx, a Miss Frasieu, of South Carolina,
i Aciiillk wrote an excellent work on the
i United St:ites?studied hiw, and died in <
Florida. Llcikn, who is now at Paris,
and the one spoken of now to he placed
on the throne of the two Sicilies, never was
anything hut. a hon vitutuf, fond of horses
' and good cheer, and never was a planter.
Achili.ii: may have been one, but Lvcien
, loved too much his own case. Physically,
j he is the ditto of his own father, who was
: the first chevalier of the French army. He
does not want talent, though like his father
lie is not remarkable for it.
J. TOCNO.
o'oti t,.e indkpi".xi?ent ntess.]
A Rclic of the Past.
To the lover i}f American historical ani
tiquities, the fragment of some Revolution;
ary furniture, we have found, may prove of
j some interest. It is a metalic plate, oti
i which is to be seen, in tolerable relief and
drawing, an eagle at a rapid step, willi half
opened wings, stretched neck, and holding. (
in her inouth a snake somewhat lifeless, j
though with its month opened, mined with 1
! sting ready to strike.
This is evidently of an American manu- j
facture, and an American allegory. Were- (
member, while in Liverpool, of having seen .
two signs, that strange to say, are recalled {
by this historical curiosity. The one was <
the "sign*' of the '"Star ai.d Onrter," which '
sounded high aristocracy; but a funny pub- j
lican set up ar. opposition at the sign of <
"Pig and Whistle,' and made a fortune at t
it. Why should you not try your luck at '
the sign of ''The Eagle and Snake ?" If it 1
has no other merit, it has that of novelty,
backed by an historical American allegory.
If England was ever a snake in the grass, I f
was in the day's of the American war of i ^
Independence. It is to be hoped that her |'
present alliance with France will improve j3
her political morality. The question is to 11
be settled whether this is trufy an allegory (
which refers to America, the Eagle repre- I
senting America and the vile 'Snake Eng- '
laud. In my n.Vind there is in this article 1
an interna', evidence that this is the true, .
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expluTuitiou. Here it is, give us your views |
of it. Youre, J. T. <
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| The article alluded to bv our resn^twl I
correspondent may bo seen at our offiire. '
As our friend certainly has a more lively '
uppreuiatioji.. of antiquities than we have,
and as we attach more importance to h&
views than to our own, especially in these !
j respects, we shall forbear remarks,^ ;-v / ,
Thjc Augusta ChronieU db Sentinel hn* \
in itA possession a sulk of oovn grown from |
one grain, whioh contains seven well durol: <
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Now Summary.
Under our telegraphic head will be found
details of European news of somewhat greater
importance than what has been coming (
to us for any indefinite time into the past.
We are informed that Sevastopol is taken,
or at least n portion of it, and though there
is a possibility that the news is without foundation,
the probabilities are very much iu
favor of its correctness. The assault, after
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uucv uii^? uomoaromcnts, was made in four
divisions, the English attack 1 wing devoted
against the Redan, while the Fieneli attempted
lo lake the Malakofl' The former \ver?
repulsed once and the latter six times. Tho
Frein-.h?as might have been anticipated?
bote the heaviest part of the assault, aud
apparently sufiered the most severo loss?
having, as is repotted, five Generals killed,
including Bosrpiel,to whom and General McMahon,
belong the chief- honors of the day.
The Allies report iheir total loss at 15,000
men, and set down the same loss to the Russians.
The Russian* resisted with their
natural stubbornness, and when it was found
impossible, to take what, they had losf, blew
up the defences and fired the town upon
the south side, fired the slii s in the haibor,
and destroyed the bridge connecting the
south with the north side. The latest despatch
says that they still hold the furts on
the north side, and that the Allied fleets will
not be aolo to enter the Bay until Fort Constantine
is reduced. It is also said that
the Allies are doing immense damage to
Russian merchandise upon the sea of AzofF
?also that a large Allied force was marching
along the coa-t to intercept the Russian
retreat from Sevastopol. The latest intelligence
mentions the departure from l'alaklava
of 2o,,J00 troops to make demonstration
against the north side of the city. These
are details?somewhat contradictory in
themselves, which were received throughFrench
and English channels, and which,
though the great fact will not probably be
changed, will doubtless l>e greatly modified
l>v sub-etjuent and more accurate reports,
W e have spoken more at. length upon the
great event in another nlacc ?i?l !'
be proper here to remark, tli.it when the
article was written, our latest despatch, which
come in at a late hour last night, was not
received, and it was therefore supposed the
whole city was in the (minis of the Allies,
instead of the Southern part of it.
As a matter of eourse, the news of the
Allied success was received in London with
the most ext.hi vacant ilemotts! rat ions of joy.
The intelligence. was announced in tin* theatres
and the public places with all the ceremony
proper and necessary to the occasion.
Austria has ptoposed to Denmark to become
mediator between that power and the
United States,'by way of settling the difficulty
with regard to the Sound Dues. It is probable
that such a proposition might be inoro
agreeable to Denmark than to the United
States.
There lias boon another attempt made
upon the life of Louis Napoleon. This time,
the would be assassin?-whose name is Uellmore?is
reported insane, and it is said .lie
will not lie required to submit to a trial for the
Limn-, uiu ?iii oe coimmt'cd .0 the proper
asylum tor lunntirs.? Charleston Standard.
Judge Wardlaw.
We luul t!ie pleasure of swing his Honor
Judge Wardlaw, as he passed through
our town last week, 011 his way to hold an
extra Court at Spartanburg this week. His
regular Circuit commences next Monday at
Union. During the past summer Judge
Ward law held extra Courts at Abbeville
and Laurens?the hottest Courts, in the
estimation of his Honor, that ever were begun
arid holden. The Court at Laurens
occupied a portion of two weeks! A seat
on the bench is now anything but a sinecure
in South Carolina. From the first of
October, or the last of September, the Law
Judges are worked constantly and most laboriously,
till the first of June, in despatching
their ordinary business. They then.
h?ve extra Courts to hold during dog days T
What time are they allowed to bo with
their families ? Really, none at all I Wo
are surprised that any one with a fortune,,
or the means of living comfortably, should'
continue 011 the Ueiic.h. There onght to be
!i change in our Judiciary system. We
ought to have a separate Court of Appeals.
Tlw. !nti?r?efo nf il>.. C. -- *
. ,n?i uiiuv icijuiiu ii, ana,.
in charity to the Judges, it should be established.
Tliey would then have some
lime to call their own. Judge Wardlaw is
i man of untiring industry und great enertv
and patience in the discharge of his ofB ial
duties, lie takes n pride and a pleasire
in his vocation? but tliat is no reason ho
ihould be worked to death, pn the conrarv,
it is one of the strongest reasons that
:an be urged, for the State, like a good ma.
her, to lighten his labors. His IIoTvor^Jhs
ookitig well, however, amidst aU>tl?e fatigue*
?f his extra Courts and regular Courts.*,
Southern Patriot.
Anecdote of Gov. Wise.?Before Iiisslection,
the Know Nothing papo;^ ^erQ
ond of publishing anecdotes '0 B'j|OW |,ow
vViso was "put down '^pon the stump, by
nterruptions from -Sam," in the vast asemblnges
'^nic.h were wont to gather \
iround *,'ne hustings of the or?ir?r !
0 Mr.^VW 1
tv;?e. At ono of these meeting* in Western
Virginia two of Sinn's fastest young men 1
IihiI been more than usually noi*y atul in- 1
*ol>'iit toward tho speaker, an<) their interruptions
were plainly intended to annoy
tnd insult him. Wise paused in his speech
ind turning to these ''bloods,M pointed his i
ong, skinny finger, a ta Randolph, at the
>ffenders, and said: "Young men, I am to
be your next Governor ; you will probably {
hj ill^the Penitentiary, and vnti m?v
T-"V "?|
ipoJFir, yon will have to nerve out your 1
lime/ "-/ llw was not interrupted again in ,1
lhat quarter. --y 1
Mukder.?'The body of -Win. Arant was J
found in n publiu road near his home on j
Wednendf^jrlHRt, with bin throat tent from 1
?af to ear.-^Arant i?W been to a st ore, and a
X'tama intoxicated, And wa? on hU return 1
iniiio when ho \vji3 wnvlttfl flml murdbrefi,
yt whom we caftnot *ay. life was a native J
)f Chesterfield District. ^
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