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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.
VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, MARCH 16, 1852. NUMBER 22.
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From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
A SISTER'S VOICE.
EXTRACT FROM AN UNPCBLlSItED POEM.
Oh! at the sound of that dear name, the past,
Unlocked by mem'ry's key, is once more mine !
K Give me the magic wand, whose every touch
1 ?lifo
^ Re-animates the deaa?reiumo w ...w
Our loved ones, that have vanished from the eart!
Unrolls the scroll of pleasant memories
Brings forth to light pictures of other days,
And scenes of home, all bright and beautiful,
Voice of my sainted Sister !
Thou art gone
To swell the throng on the empyreal plains
Of Heaven?but the music of thy voice,
Tender and soft, falleth upon the ear
As it was wont to fall in by-gone days.
Methinks I hear thee now calling ins home!
I come not now, my sister, but thy vjice
Shall teach me the vi'.e temp'er's snare to shun?
Shall win my love for virtue's flowery path?
And when my heart would fain consent to sin,
Be thou my guardian angel and my shield,
Till I go up to meet thee in the skies,
And, voices re-united, join in one
Eternal hymn of praise.
? ~ omrrr T^Q
JLAJVUMlr
The sun may warm the grass to life,
The dew the drooping flower,
And eyes grow bright that watch the light
Of Autumn's opening hour?
But words that breathe of tenderness,
And smiles we know are true,
Are warmer than the summer time,
And brighter than the dew.
It is dM much the world can give,
With all its subtle art,
And gold and gems are not the things
To satisfy the he#rt;
But oh! if those who cluster round
The altar ahd the hearth,
llave gentle words and loving smiles,
How beautiful is earth!
[From the London Keepsake for 1852.] .
k The Queen's Opera.
BY THOMAS CABLYLE.
Of the Haymarket Opera, my account, in fine,
is this: Lustres, candelabras, painting, gilding al
discret on; a hall as of the Caliph Alraschid, or
him that commanded the slaves of the Lamp; as
if fitted up by the genies, regardless of expense.
Upholstery and the outlay of human capital, could
?!? nn more. Artists,too, as they are called, have
been got together from the ends of the world, re.
gardless likewise of expense, to do dancing and
singing, some of them even geniuses in their craft.
One singer in particular, called Coletti or some
such name, seemed t3 me, by the cast of his face,
by th<i tones of his voice, by his general bearing,
so tar as I could read it, to be a man of deep and
Srdent sensibilities, of delicate intuitions, just sympathies;
originally an almost poetic soul, or man
of genius as we term it; stamped by Nature as
capable for other work than squalling here, like a
blind Samson, to make the Philistines sport!
Nay, all of them had aptitudes, perhaps of a
distinguished kind ; and must, by their own and
other people's labor,have got a training equal or
superior in tcilsomeness, earnest assiduity, and
patient travail, to what breeds men to the most
arduous trades. I speak not of kings' grandees,
or the like 6how-figu res; but few soldiers, judges,
men of letters, can have had such nains taken witj
them. The very ballet girls, with their muslin
saucers round them, were perhaps little short of
miraculous; whirling and spinning there in strange
*nad vortexes, and then suddenly fixing the.i.selves
motionless,each upon her left or right greatton,
with the other leg stretched out at an angle
of ninety degrees; as if you had suddenly pricked
into the floor, by one of their points, a pair, or
rather a multitudinous cohort, of mad, restlessly
p jumping and clipping scissors, and so bidden
them rest, with open blades, and stand still, in the
Devil's name! A truly notable motion ; marvel#
lous, almost miraculous, were not the people there
60 used to it Motion peculiar to the Opera ; perhaps
the ugliest, and surely one of the most difficult,
ever taught a female creature in this world.
Nature abhors it; but Art docs at least admit it to
border on the impossible. One little Cerito, or
Taglioni the Second, that night when I was there,
weot bounding from the floor as if she had been
made of indian-rubber, or filled with hydrogen
gaa and inclined by positive levity to bolt through
the ceiling; perhaps neither Semiramis nor CathfiomnH
haH hred herself so carefully.
anno uio
Such talent, and such martyrdom of training,
gathered from the four winds, was now here, to
do its feat and be paid for if. Regardless of expense
indeed ! The purse of Fortunatus seemed
to have opened itself, and the divine art of
Musical Sound and Rhythmic Motion was welcomed
with an explosion of all magnificences
which the other arts, fine and course, could
achieve. For you are to think of some Rossini or
Bellini in the rear of it, too; to say nothing of the
*
StanfieldF, and hosts of scene-painters, machinists, !
engineers, enterprisers; tit to have taken Gibral-1
tar, written the History of England, or reduced '
Ireland into Industrial Regime its, had they so I
set their minds to it!
Alas, and of all the notable or noticeable human
talents, and excellent perseverances and en- !
ergies, backed by mountains of wealth, and led i
by the divine art of Music and Rhythm vouchsafed
by Heaven to them and us, uhaLwas to be !
the issue here this evening 1 An hotrr's arnuse- I
ment, not amusing either, but wearisome and
dreary, to a high dizened select Populace of male
1 r ' coompi) tn me not worth ,
ana lemair peicuuo, ?uv
much amusing ! Could any one have peeled into :
, their hearts once,one true thought, and glimpse
of Self-vision; "High dizeried, most expensive j
persons, Aristocracy so called, or Best of the
IVorld, beware, beware what proofs you give of (
betterness and bestness!" And then the salutary !
1 pang of conscience in reply: "A select Populace, :
with money in its purse, and drilled a little by the ,
posture-maker: good Heavens! if that were
' what, here and everywhere in God's Creation, I
am! And a world all dying because I am, and
show myself to be, and to have long been, even
that? John, the carriage, the carriage: swift!
Let me go home in silence, to reflection, perhaps
to sackcloth and ashes!" This, and not amusement,
would have profitted those high-dizened !
persons.
Amusement, at any rate, thev did not get rrom :
Euterpe and Melpomene. These two Muses,sent
or, regardless of expense, I conld see, were but'
he vehicle of a kind service which I judged to be ;
'aphian rather. Young beauties of both sexes j
jsed their opera-glasses, you could notice, not en- j
tirely for looking at the stage. And it must be ;
wned the light in this explosionof all the uphol- j
-teries, and the human fine arts and coarse was
nagical; and made your fair one an Armida? I
f you liked her better so, Nay, certain old Im- '
propet Females (of quality,) in their rouge and j
jewels, even these looked some reminiscence of I
i?. 1. I ?,r ?l,ic nn<f The other lean I
'UCIjaillliirill , auu ? tTx. .. _
iomestic Dandy, with icy smile on his old worn
face; ihisand the other Marquis Singedelomme, 1
Prince Mahogany, or the tike foreign Dignitary-, j
tripping into the boxes of said females, grinning I
here awhile; with dyed moustachios and macasar-oil
graciosity. and then tripping out again,
and, in fact, I perceived that Coletti and Cerito .
and the Rhythmic Arts were a mere accompani? !
nerit here.
Wonderful to see; and sad, if you had eyes! ;
D j but think of it. Cleopatra threw pearls into:
ierdrink, in mere waste; vvhiuh was reckoned !
foolish of her. But here had the li*.Jem-Ari&to- j
:racy of men brought the divinest of its Arts, hea- !
venly Music itself; anil, piling all the upholsteries '
aid ingenuiti, s that other human art could do, t
md lighted them into a bonfire to illuminate an
tour's flirtation of Singedelomme, Mahogany, 1
a id these improper per-ois! Never in Nature!
uad I seen such waste before. O t 'oletti, you
vhosr inborn melody, once ofkindred as I judged
'o"the Melodies eternal," might have valiantly
weeded out this and other false things from the
ways of men, and made it a bit of God's creation
mare melodious?they have purchased you away
from that; chained you to the wheel of Prince
Mahogany's chariot, and here you make sport for
a macassar Singedelomme, and his improper fe?
males past the prime of lifei Wretched spiritual
Nigger, if you had some genius, and were not
a born jigger with mere appetite for pumpkin,
-hould you have endured such a lot? I lament
fory?u beyond all other expenses. Other expenses
are light; you are the Cleonntra's pearl that
.-.hould have been tlung into Mahogany's claretrup.
And Rossini too, and Mozart, and Bellini
Oh, Heavens, when I think that Music too is con lemtied
to be mad and to burn herself, to this
?nd, on such a funeral pile,?your c? Ipstial Opera- !
house grows dark and infernal tome! Behind
its glitter stalks the shadow of Eternal Death;
through it too I look not "up into the divine eye,"
as Richter has it, "but down into the bottomless !
eyesocket"?not up towards God, Heaven, and
the Throne of Truth, hut too truly down towards i
Falsity, Vacuity, and the dwelling-place of Everlasting
Despair.
i Tiie Pride of Dotnc no Work.?There are
mpi)?we blush to call them men?who turn up
thair noses at the mechanic and humble laborer
Being liberally educated, as it is calli d, they look
down with a sort of contempt on thone who, in j
many cases, have contributed to their support. [
" You need not despise a spinning wheel," said i
an old lady to hat pompous son, ohe day, " for
, many a night have I worked at it to get money to
, send you to school." There are women, too,
who wiM not touch a needle with their delicate,
. hands, who laugh at the poor and industrious
who learn trades, or work in facf- ' ra living.
"La! how unrefined they are says with a
scornful smile as she lounges < sofa, reading
the last pink ol a novel.
We once knew a lady?shall we call her a lady
??of this complexion. She was loudly belaboring
a poor-hard working gir', calling her
low and unrefined. "Why," said she, "her father
was nothing but a low mechanic!" "Yes"
remarked a woman present, " her father was a
mechanic. I knew him well, for he lived in the
same neighborhood with your mother when she
went out washing There, reader, if you had
' been present, you could have seen a strange confusion
of fines, and heard a vain attempt to utter
something too quickly to get out. It stuck in her
throat.
When we hear men and women speak lightly
of the industriou part of the community, we
fe'l just like tracing hack their genealogy. We
have done so in several instances, and you would
be surprised at what we learned. The most aristocratic
man of our acquaintance is the grandson
of a fiddler; the proudest woman is the
daughter of a washer-woman. It betrays a lack
I of eood sense to condemn, or look with contempt
on any virtuous persen, how poor he or she may
be. The wise and good respect and love goodness
wherever it is found.
Pizarro's Grave at Lima.
In the crypt under the high altar are deposited
the remains of the celebrated I'izarro, who was
assassinated in a place near by. A small piece of
silver, dropped into the hand of the sacristan, procured
me admission into the crypt. Descending I
a few steps, I entered a small place, some twenty
feet long, quite light and white-washed, and which i
smelt and looked so much like a comfortable i
wine cellar, that I caught myself more than once ,
looking around for the bins and bottles. The
first object I saw was a large squaro tomb, sur- ,
, i .i._ _r __ .l.i __ j _i I
mourned oy uio tittuiguic ui <m uuui, duu cioae
by, in opening in the wall, I noticed what appear- 1
ed to be a collection of dusty rags, but a closer in- 1
spcction proved that this was all the remains of i
the renowned conqueror of Peru. He has sti I re
on him the same clothes and shoes which he &
wore at the moment of his assassination. Of
course, his body is nothing but a skeleton, cov- jn
ered with dry flesh and skin, so that no features
are discernable. The body is covered with what Vt
was once white linen, swathed around him, but '
the dust of centuries has collected on him, and y
turned it to a light brown color, and it almost pul- a
verizes when touched. The body is placed on a q\
narrow piece of plank, in a sloping position, and \v
has been placed in that position merely to put it 6.
out o'f the way. The folks in Lima do not think
anything of ll7e remains of poor Pizarro; and I
dare say a little mone) judiciously invested, would
procure for any curiosity-hunter the whole rc- nr
mains. t<
Manuring in (he Hill and Drills n
As we suppose most ot the broad cast manuring,
intended for this season, is already done, we y
will devote a few thoughts, just as you are gettine
ready to plant, to manuring in the hill atnl j ^
dri.h It is to be legretted that our means at j J'
command do not allow ue to minister to the wants 'I
of our fields with a more liberal hand. But with c
.'o much surface to cover, as our Southern plans h
of planting seem to require, it is almost impracti- d
cable to do all which the wants of the soil may p
demand, or otir j idgmcnt might d'ctatr, a- right, j
He, therefore, may be set down as pevident, who .
has provided liberally for administering, even in 11
brjken do^s, to the wants of the coming crop. v
A i excellent manure f< r corn, and one more or t
1 s- at command r.n e\ery farm, is cotton seed. (
We think the best plan for their use on this crop, }i
is to drop them at the time of planting upon the i|
top ot the corn, and cover all at one operation. { r
The corn will come through them, and they are '
a fine protection against ffo3i? or excess of rain, ! ?
and can never be removed by working, as they j J
are apt to be when laid upon the surface-. A ve- ] i
ry small handful imparts great benefit to the crop, i
If stable or compost manures tor to be used, they t
ought to be well rotted, especially on sandy lands. . s
Tltis also ought to be dropped In (he same tuf- ! ^
row with the seed corn, but not on it, but very ! j
near it, and coveml up also* Some persons j {
choose lo drop this manure upon the top of the , ?
hill. Much of its benefits must be lost by expo- i
a re to the sun and rains before covering, and e
much again must be displaced in the first Work' | t
ing. ' j i
Those manures are both good for cotton, but I ?
we think should be depos'ted much deeper in : ^
the earth than lor corn. The roots of com run j
touch nearer the surface in seeking their ?n>p-.
plies: tl r tap-root of ootton fSTTjp main feeder of j
the plant, and strikes deep into the earth for its .
ftod. There it should be deposited, not alone be- i
ctuse it is there demanded, but because the ac- ' ^
tiou of the sue. upon the manure '.bus deep in the c
grotind, is much less injurio s in its effects upon
the fruit of the cotton plant. It often happens, in
the precarionsness of the season, that by an in- a
judici um use of hot or strongly stimulating ma- 1
nures, the weed is made to grow most luxuriant- v
ly, when a little reverse of the seasons will throw d
off most of the fruit. This may be avoided to a d
Very large extent>_by depositing such^manure so | j
deep as to be out of the reach of such influences. | ^
Thtse precau ions apply mainly to stable or 1
strong compost manures. Vet we advise all ma- *
nures intended for cotton to be deposited deeper > I
than those for corn, as better suiting th h ibits f
the plant, and protecting against the scorching j
sun of August, the month in which the fate of,
the cotton crop is generally settled. We do not I ^
ant- much nlmiit llio nnnntitv tn h?> lispd. as VOtl i
w ill l>e in no danger of doing too much. A hand- i '
Ail of stable manure, or of cotton seed either, !
dropped at distances of two feet in thp bottom of!
a deep furrow, to be corerpd up in forming the s
bed, will do much benefit Let the opening fur- f
row for planting he over the manure, and sow the q
second in the drill, and the young roots will soon (
find theee supplies, and before thinning time, the j,
plant will begin to show its keeping. We might
talk about other manures, but as these constitute
the stock mainly of the country, we deem it use.
less to say more.?Soil of the South. '
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The Bride Shipped to Order. e
BV LAUHItS TODD. C
I lived in Yiiyiuia during the winter of 1848. Jl
At an evening party at Richmond there were 1
twelve mothers, twelve daughters, and a tol^ra- f
ble sprinkling of fathers, sous, widows and h
widowers present, with Laurie Todd in their 11
midst; and you ma y be sure we had some fun.
Conversing with an ancient lady, she remarked "
that her grandfather left Scotland when young, 0
and settled in Virginia. He became a merchant d
and a planter and grow rich. His agent in u
Glasglow was Alexander McAlpin, to whom
lie consigned two or three cargoes of tobacco
every Venr, and received iti return cash, hard
o VI 1
ware, dry goons, otc. ne naa docks auu
herds, men servants and maid-servants, horses 0
and mules ; but, one thing he yet lacked?lie k
had no pretty wife to sing with him when he tl
came home at night, fatigued with counting
money, and satiated with worldly pelf, for he h
had more of that than heart could wish. So,
after a while, he concluded to tako a wife?
as 8)on as he could catch one.
Hut here was the rub. His time was so oc- ^
cupied by business that he could not find time
to look about him for a wife; and worse than w
all ho was a bashful man. ? When he mxv a
~r ? ?"? o/tiMim.mnr in hi? nfltll. he tl
MJrtlUUii VI i vr VIM j nufwuvMg ... , ,
would cross the street, fearful of being killed c
by a shot from her sparkling eyes. But a rem* n
edy was at hand, however. Ho had often heard
his parents speak much in praise of the bonny p
lasses o( Scotland. A bright idea struck him.
When he was leaving the ottice, his clerk was t!
copying a duplicate order for sundries to be
sentaspartof the return cargo. He thought tl
to himself that he would order a young las<ie
for a wife, as the last item on the list. The hi
article was ordered accordingly. w
At the same time he wrote a private letter hi
of instructions to his agent, Mr. McAlpin,
giving a minute description of the article he ^
wanted, as to age, health, wealth, &c. In it
short she was to be a bonny Scotch lassie: a
to be sent on the return of his own ship ; ner
name to bo on tho manifest, bill of lading, <kc. fc
He promised, on nrriving, to have her stored in
the house of a respectable widow, whom ho o'
named* and if agreeable to the parties concerned,
ho would mako her his wife in thirty days a
after her arrival. If not, and she wished to ' s<
turn, he would pay all expenses, loss of time, 1
c.
When Sandy McAplin lind finished read- <
g his letter of instructions, he slowly remo* I
id his spectacles, muttered to himself:
The lad,' (his correspondent, who was 30
ears old,) "is 'draft] he tells me to send him
wife, as if she were a barrel o' 8c?t herrings;
tide keus the fanh (trouble) I was at to get a
ife for mvsel'. I'll see what the good wife 1
vy?<' (a blight idea.)
Next day Mrss McAlpin sat in council with j
A. and B. Invitations were sent to ten
mtrons, whose daughters were in and out of
?ens: to assemble at Mrs. McAlplin's teaboard.
lach matron was requested to bring with her
daughter who was not' o*er yoting to marry
ef.' All being present an hour before tea.
Ir. McAplin read the letter and made an exlnntation.
They then sat down to tea. Af
sr tea eaeh lass gave in her ultimatum, when
: was found that only three were willing to acept
the offer. These three agreed to draw
>ts, to decide the preference* Mary Robinson
rew the longest straw, and was hailed as the
ionny bride*
In ten days thereafter they set Sail ftjr Abitrua.
They entered Chesapeake Bay after a
oyage of twelve weeks, and in two days more
hey were^in James River* When Mr* Crawford,
our hero, heard of the arrival of the ship*
10, with four servants, repaired to the whart.?
tary was standing on the quaiter dei k, adtniing
nature's wildest grandeur. She had re( o.'d
from her seasickness when four days out.?
Hie healthful breeze of the broad Atlantic had
mprinted on her pretty face a beautiful fresliiess.
There she stood, her cheek tinged with
- * ? I I 1A
he roses ol stirron, ana ner uouny urow wnue
is a lilly of the valley. Crawford sprang on
leek, and was introduced by the captain. He
ooked on Mary with love and admiration; her
ioft hand lay in his; he was shot!
They all descended from the ship, and repair<1
to the mansion of the widow aforesaid. On
he thirteenth day of probation, the lovers were
inited in the holy bonds of wedlock. In contusion,
the sprightly though venerable widow
eniarked, that a happier couple were never
[lilted tOijeth?r.
Raising the Dead.
A few nights ago a medical friend of ours
vas quietly sitting down in his office alter the
lares and fatigues of the day, enveloped in a
:aj aci jus dressing-gown and puffing away at
i highly perfumed cigar, and meditating upon
he mutability of human affairs, tVhen he heard
oices in the street and soon n knocking at his
l(iO.-. Leisurely getting up and opening it, he
liseovered three men, two of them in very
hick coats with round glazed caps upon their
leads and clubs in their hands, and the third,
iho wasnupported between them, was in a>
>arently a dying condition, groaning oilt?
"Oh, I'm Killed! I'm killed!"
" Docthor," exclaimed one of the watchmen,
' this man says he's killed, and we want you
o examine him and sec if his sthory is correct
>r no."
" (lit I'm sure I'm killed." said the man.
" If you're sure of it what would you be
eeing the dot'thor an' axing Itim questions
or ?" said the watchman. " If you're dead, be
[iiiet while I tell the docthor! Ye see, dochor,
he's been in a little bit of a scrimmage up
icre and got a had cut on his pate and it 'ud
>e betlher for you to fix it."
The doctor assented, and the patient was
irought in and deposited in a chair by the
vatchmen, who went outside while he examin(I
the man. He found that he had an ugly
ut on the forehead which had bled profusely,
,nd after taking a slieh or two, washing off
he blood and putting on a piece of adhesive
ilaster. the doctor told him that he was more
tightened than hurt, and worth a thousand dead
nen at that moment.
"Well, doctor," said the relieved patient,
it was a mighly ugly blow, and knocked me
i?nr ?IC d'lt no n whmrrlp mwl I flinrfirhf I vtrnc n
oner. What is your fee, sir for fixing me
p?"
" Five dollars, sir!" said the doctor,
" That's your regular fee, is it ?"
" Yea, sir, for a Case of the hind."
" Well, doctor, here's a V, and I'm much
bliged to you to boot. Now, sir, will you be
iiid enough to tell me where that little door at
:ie side of your office leads to ?"
" Certainly," replied the doctor, pocketing
is fee; " that lends to an alley !
" And where does that alley lead to ?"
" It leads into the street."
" Ah I will you permit me to go out that
?ay r
" f\?rl;itiilv sir" replied the doctor: a!)V
J ' ? *m -I . V
ray you choose, sir."
" I'm very much obliged to you; sir," said
ic patient, ''and if I ever have need of mediid
servicea, I shall always call on you. Good
ight, doctor 1"
' Good night, sir," said the doctor, and the
a'ient walked out of the side door.
A moment after the doctor heard a voice at
ic alley gate, saying?
" Hullo, watchmen, what are you doing
icre ?'
" Waiting for a man that got kilt, sir, an' his
cad split open, the docthor's fixing him up and
e're waitin' to take him ofi' to tho watch*
ouse for fighting and disturbing the pace."
" Oh, ho !" said tho voice, " that's it, is it!
/ell, the doctor's not got near through yet?
'8 a pretty bad job. Won't you go and take
drink and come back again V
" Thank ye, no ; we'll not dare to leavo for
ar he'd go away from us."
" Ah, ha!" exclaimed the voice, and the ,
ivner of it walked ofT.
The doctor began to feel as if he had acted
little hastily and perhaps got himself into a
:rape, and in a few minutes a watchman po
ted liis head into the door, and commenced?
" Well, dncthor, he is?" but Seeing the
ioctor alone in the room, eiclahned-?"Where's
Llie man i'
" What, the man you brought in here ?
' Yis."
" Oh, he's gone?went-Some timb ago,,'
" Gone ! and where is he gone to
" He may have gone to the de'il for all I f i
know," replied the doct"r. coolly
" Oh, bad luck *o it. Which way did he
go r
" He went out of that door; there, which
eads into the alley "
" And where does the alley lead to i"
" Into the street."
"Oh, thunder and turf! and sure that was
the blackguard that axed us to gd drink with
him," said the watchman, turning to his companion,
" and Wp didn^ know hint. Docthor,
he is the last dead subject we'll ever bring for
you to work over. Cbine Jim; riiaybe we'll
overtake him." *
Saying which the door was closed, and the
pair of carrier pigeons retired in great discomfiture,?[iV.
0> Pittyane.
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Carrying Concealer Weapons.?Within
the last few years our criminal jurisprudence
has exhibited a marked increase in the number
of offences originating in the use of "concealed "
weapons;-' either in street broils, or as a report
in a sudden fray. The year last past has been
singularly prolific of offenders of ibis sort.?
And and at every term of court, assaults xvitH
intent to kill, in which deadly Weapons have
bfeen taken from the person for use, arid actual
homicides comprise much too large a pro
portion of the indictments for the credit of pur
city and the restrictive authority of law. TIio
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]y in view of the fact that the infliction of the
pytialiy due to the offence is notoriously precariouc
; and the administration of the Ia\V, from
circumstances which cannot lie defined; often
partial and unequal. An acquittal in one case,
a conviction of man-slaughter in another, and
of murder in a third, may occur, when there is
really, if any, a scarcely perceptible difference
betwefen the ca*es. Some technical distinction
or minor incident, may produce a marked disparity
in the results of the trials; and with a
full report of the facts in the case; the public
confidence is abused, while the lawless are encouraged
in their vicious propensity by the
probabilities of escape, .Is they are magnified
by every acquittal. The evil will inevitably
increase, unless some stringent measures are
applied to restrain it
Shall these measures be preventive of penal?
Penal they must lie to lie preventive. But shall '? *
we make the pen-il applicable to the detection
of the party carrying concealer! weapons, or
using therai ? We believe that a just cOnsideratie'n
of the matter, in all its relations to the
good of society; including the questiod of individual
rights, will secure universal assent to the
formt r. And if this opinion prevails with tho
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legislature, we hone to see it lake lormanu suastance;
at an early day, in it stringent enactment
prohibitory of the carrying concealed
weapons.
The practice, at present, is almost it not
quite universal with those who constitute the
worst part of our population; and it prevails
to a great extent among those who do' not contemplate
tlip familiar resort to them, and who
lay claim to respectability of character ; while
not a few carry, occasionally, and particularly
if accustomed by reason of business or plea- *
sure of late ht>urs, some weapon as a means of
defence in case of an unprovoked assault, or issue
offeree "ith rowdyism upon the way. Of
course, all this is wrong; utterly unbecoming
the vaunted civilization of the day, and repugnant
to the mcfst ordinary sense of social propriety.
It evinces a low state of morals?a
sort of brute condition of mind, which contemplates
in its own nature the perpetual, strife of
the species, and stalks abroad, armed for a
contest, in which the victory is to consist in a
human being wounded or slain.
We think there is a sufficiency ofmoral power
in this community, with the aid of the legislature,
to abate, if not finally to extirpate this
rooted evil. The citizens of Baltimore are tired
of it; our criminal court revous at mc ???.
which it imposes upon its jurisdiction ; and
none will question the sincerity of that sentiment
which every intelligent and reflecting
member of society levels against it. We do
not think it necessary to speak of the general
good which wonld flow from the suppression
of the practice. There is no immorality common
to any community, but its discontinuance,
from any cause, is conducive to the welfare of
all. And upon this principle, the evil of which
we complain should ho encountered with firmness
and decision, and the most favorable results
may be anticipated with confidence.?
Baltimore Sun.
France and the United States.?Tho
correspondent of tho N. Y. Journal of Commerce,
referring to the rumors of important decpatches
from Paris to our Gouernment, says
that the only question that can give rise to any
difficulty between the two countries, relates to
the Sandwich Island. Should France persist
in the demands made on those Islands, and enforce
them, as she has threatened to do, serious
collision will arise. For, in last July, our Government
notified the French* in a special despatch
that we would not permit, without inter?
ference any attempt on tho part of France to
take possession of those Islands, or to establish
her power over them. The President in
his last message showed that it is the necessary
nolicv of this Government to preserve the in
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dependence of those Islands.
Original Con.?Why is a snow bank like a
thrifty tree? Because it'4 leaves" in the
spring.
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