Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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% f DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. To thine mmself be true ; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou const not then be false to any man.—Hamlkt. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON C. H„ S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 19. 1851. NO. 3. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, IS PCI1LISHED ElEBY WO.NESU.U NOBNISfi, AT DAHUNOTON, C. II BY JOHW F. DF *. c., LOKHE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: In advance, (j*er aimum.) • - - $2 00 At (he expiration of six months - 2 50 At the end of the year - - ... 3 00 advertising: Advertisements, inserted at 75 cents a square (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, would give anything to recover the train of thought which had then prssed through his mind. She directed him to look in his desk, where he found the whole train of though clearly written out. This paper proved efficacious in the subsequent conduct of the case.— We must all acmember, too, the fine romantic poem ofKuble Khan, com- 1 posed by Coleridge, in a dream. “The ‘ greatest singularity observable in j dreams,” says Hazlitt, “ is the faculty of holding a dialogue with ourselves, as and 37i cts. for each subsequent insertion. Business Ca inserted at $5, a year. if we were really and effectually two Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, i P orsona 1^" All business connected with the Flag, will be transacted with the Proprie tor at his Office, one door above the Dar lington Hotel, or with the Editor at his law Office “ We make a remark and then expect an answer, which we are to give to our selves, with the same gravity of atten tion, amf hear it w ith the same sur prise, as if it were really spoken by an other person. Wearejilayed upon by puppets of our moving. We are stag gered in an argument hy an unforeseen objection, or alarmed by a sudden piece of infonnation, of which we have no apprehension, till it seems to proceed from the mouth of some one with whom we fancied ourselves conversing. We anihal phrenology. The “American Phrenological Jour nal,” published by Fowlers At Wells, contains the following hints on the se lection of a horse. 1 he horse is the noblest and one of have, in fact no idea, of what theques- the most intelligent of the lower aid- tion will lie that we put to ourselves, till Dials. Like the dog, he seems, fitted the moment of its birth.” to be the companion as well as the sit- van! of man. As men are unlike in dis- THE MISERIES OF THE RICH, position, the same is equally true of Should anv poor iierson do me the horses. same is While one exhibits pride, another is dull, tame, and hum ble—one is kind, another savage—one is bright and intelligient, another stupid and comparatively unteachable—one is couragous, another is timid and shy. any poor jierson great honor to read this article, I appeal to his sympathies in behalf of a much abused and deeply-suffering portion of tliis community—the rich. No class has more need of sympathy, or is more deserving of pity, than that and therefore dangerous to drive. And which has inflicted upon it,'or has vol- these differences run through all the faculties common to the species. Nor is it true of the horse only, but is equal ly applicable to all animals: Phrenology points out many of these differences, and is an important aid to of our pity. This is uncharitable. We those who deal in, or train and use hor ses. If we can learn to detect at a glance by the shape of a head, the vicions, in- tractable horse, or the mild, courage ous, intelligent, teachable one, this sin gle feature of knowledge would com pensate for all the trouble and expense of learning the science. Width lietween, and prominece of the eye, indicate intelligence the facul ty to learn and understand our wants and the adaption to learn to work, and perform feats, tricks, and the like. All learned horses in the circus are of this description. Rouudr.sss and elevation between and above the eyes indicate mildness and amiability, and a desire to be car essed and to reciprocate kindness.— Width between the ears indicates cour age, nobleness, and strenth of charac ter, patience and energy. A timid, skittish horse, is narrow be tween the ears like the deer, sheep, and rabbit, showing small Destructiveness and Conibativeness. A dull, weak minded, and unteacha- . ble horse, is narrow between the eyes, . which are not prominent, and flat and contracted above and back of them. commiserate the condition of the sick when we know that they have ignorant- i ly or even wilfully caused ti«sr own diseases. We pity the ruined gamfiter, the lost drunkard, the broken-down debauchee. Why then should we with hold our sympathy from the rich, who i need it, and many of whom deserve it? Besides, there are many who do not bring the temptation, the snare, and all the misfortunes of wealii upon them selves. They are inflicted upon them hy others. Like many diseases, wealth is often hereditary, and descends from father to son. Childeru who are born of rich parents cannot be blamed for their condition, and are much to be piti ed, for that condition is often very de plorable. The child bom of rich pa rents is likely to inherit a weakened frame, and a scrofulous or otherwise diseased constitution. Luxury, indo lence, and excess—rich dinners, late hours, and all fashionable dissipations —take from men and women the pow er of having healthy offspring; and the child who is horn with a heritage of disease, has of necessity a Heritage of misery. Especially does the condition of the mother influence that of the cliild. | Temperament, ol course, is just as If a mother is indolent, lying in bed or influential in the horse as in naan, and lounging on the sofa during the jioriod can be understood with littlA trouble. 0 f gestation—or if, as often hapjiens, the family physician pets, and coddles, and pampers, and bleeds, and drugs her through all this period, the child is DREAMS. The incoherence, inconsistency, and thoughts in dreaming, brings that state if. into a resemblance to insanity, which L lias been remarked by more than one * medical writer. Dr. G. B. Davey, of the llanwell Lunatic Asylum, says: “ If we watch a lunatic patient, we shall jHn ceive very much of what I would re gard as a state of active dreaming; \ gard as i Hint is to essential absurdity of many of our 1 sure to be worn with no proper muscu 1 “ * ‘ ’ J L -'— lar devclopement, no integrity of nerve, and too often has some bodily defor mity. Every movement of the mother seems reflected upon the child. If she lives temperately, breathes pure air, and takes daily exercise, her child is almost sure to be strong and healthy. The child of the rich is pretty cer- say, a condition which would , tain to bo badly treated in itn infancy. '* —* ‘ 1 The weakly mother, w ith a meddling physician and a fussy nurse, is confin ed to her bed for weeks, and the babe falls into the hands of careless, mercen ary, and often intemperate hirelings. Either the weakly and enervated moth er has no milk, or she flunks it vulgar to nurse her ow n child, and a wet nurse is sought for. She is taken out of the filth of the Irish cabin. Her ow n child is left to die of sw'ill-milk, gin, tobacco, and paragorie. She goes to the home of the rich bain*, and there gorges her self with the unaccustomed dainties of a luxurious table, stifles herself and the babe in a bed of down, drenches her I nerves w'ith strong tea and eoffee, and keeps all the time intoxicated on beer qr porter. Can the milk of a distillery- fed cow he worse than the milk of this tures. An eminent Scottish lawyer pampered nurse! Can we wonder that such a child is realize action with unconcious thought. • • An insane person often re- * minds me of one asleep, and dreaming w ith his eyes open, and in the exercise ** of his motive powers. • • I will add, the dreamer, with one or two or- 'gans alone active, I should be disposed K> consider a sleeping monomaniac.” iis is very striking, and appears to be lie; and yet the mind often shows rondertui powers in sleep. A distin- lihed divine of the present day, who his college days was devoted to ithematical studies, was once baffied several days by a difficult prohU ni, Rich he finally solved in his sleep, mdorcet often over came similar dif- ' the last age had studied an unpor- it case for several itays. One night wife observed him rise and go to desk, where he wrote a long paper, Isr which he returned to hod. In the loniing he told her that he had a dream, In which he cr reived himself to have delivered an opinion on a case which had exceedingly perplexed him. and he sick and suffering, cross and tormented ? If qriito, it is kept so oif the porter drank by the nurse, or on paregoric or Godfrey's cordial. If sick, as such a child must be, the family |ihysician stands ready with his castor oil, his little dose of calomel, his opiate, his locches—an<l while the hardv child of untarily brought upon itself, the course of riches. When a man has wilfully, and with his eyes open, made himself rich, we may flunk that he is scarcely deserving the poor man is growing up in health and strength, with well rounded mus cles, and rosy cheeks, and sparkling eyes, the child bom to the course of riches is too often a pale, miserable de crepit thing, which, if not cut off in in fancy, struggles through a series of ter rible diseases to a nervous, hysterical, and suffering maturity. Often, by this system of wet nursing the child has a double chance of a disease. There are cases in which nurses with salt rheum, or going through b course of mercury, have nursed chil- dn e, when every drop of milk was poi son, and the child has been saturated with disease, struggled for a few months and then died. I have scarcely begun these miseries of wealth, which commence with exis tence and go on to its close. There is no period in the life of the rich in in which their wealth is not a positive physical and moral disadvantage. To the poor boy all the world is before him, and he can choose his own career.— To the rich there is no career hut the vapid one of doing nothing gracefully —no employment but flie care of his property, which is a continual vexation The poor boy may be a farmer, a me chanician, an artist, a teacher, or follow any one of the professions. He has got a living to get—a position to make —competence to acquire. The rich boy has none of these to look forward to. He has no spur, no motive, no ex citement, and his life is a burthen to himself, an annoyance to his friends, and utterly useless to the world. HOW TO mTkH FORTUNE. Take early hold of life, as capacitated for and destined to a high and noble purpose. Study closely the mind’s bent fora labor or profession. Adopt it ear ly, and pursue it steadily, never look ing back to the turned farrow, but for ward to the new ground that ever re mains to be broken. Means and ways iwe <»v«rv man’s success, if wiU and action are rightly adapted to them. Our rich men and our great men have carved their paths to fortune and fame by this eternal principle—a principle that can not fail to reward its votary, if it be resolutely pursued. To sigh or repine over lack of inheri tance is human*’-. Every man should strive to be a creator, instead of inhe ritor. He should bequeath instead of borrow- The human race, in this res pect, want dignity and discipline. It prefers to wield the sword of valorous forefathers, to forging its own weapons. This is a mean and ignoble spirit— Let every man be conscious of the God in him, and the providence over him, and fight his own battles with his own good lance. Let him feel that it is bet ter to earn a crust, than to inherit cof fers of gold. The spirit of self-nobility, once learned, and every man will dis cover within himself, under God, the elements and capacities of wealth. He will he rich, inestimably rich, in self resources, and can lift his face proudly to meet the noblest amongst them.—.V. Y Sun.. HAVE (OLRAGE. Have the courage to confess igno rance whenever, or in regard to what ever subject, you realty are uninform ed. Have the courage to treat difficulties as you would noxious weeds—attack them as soon as seen. Nothing grows so fast. Have the courage to meet a creditor. 1 ou must be a gainer by the interview, even if you learn the worst. We are our own deceivers. Have the courage to own fliat you are poor; and, if you can, laugh at your poverty. By so doing, you disarm enemies, and decieve nobody. You avoid many difficulties, bitterness; and besides; more are a people who will not believe you, es|teciaily those who make the same ackuowledement as a pretext for meauness. Have the courage to be silent when a fool prates. He wiU cease the soon er. Besides, what can he or you gain by prolonging the conversation! Have the courage to receive a poor relation openly and kindly. His shab by appearance—even his ignorance— will appear to your advantage; for the mind is prone to draw comparisons.— We have nothing to ashamed of but our own errors. Have the courage to carry a cheap umbrella; you will discover why when yon loan it. Have the courage to subscribe for a newspaper, and not de|>ond upon bor rowing your neighbor’s; but, above aU have the courage to pay for it In Europe, people take off their hats to great men; in America, great men take off their hats to the people. A GOOD ANECDOTE. The following is said to have occur red at New Orleans, during the inva sion of tha,quarter by the British. Af ter the battle of the 23d December, 1814, in which both armies received nearly the same injury, a subaltern Brit ish officer was sent to the American line with a flag of truce. Being detain ed a little, he began to converse with a corpora! in our service, respecting the probable issue of events there. He stated that “it was folly for the Ame ricans to resist any longer, as they must eventually l*e beaten—that the troops opposed to fliem were fl|e flow er of the British army, who had re|»eat- edly vanquished the best veterans on the continent of Europe, and were commanded hy Lord Packeuham, Lord Picton, Lord Cochran, Lord Kean, and many others of the ablest generals in Europe.” To this the corporal repli ed indignantly: “On our side we have the Lord God Almighty, the Lord Je sus Christ, and the Hero Andrew Jack- son, and I’ll be d d if we don’t whip you.” IN'QI ISITIVE PEOPLE. Of all the intolerable manias, that of asking needless questions, and talking for the sake of a talk, is, perhaps, the worst. Vox etprclerea nihil! A gen tleman affiieted with this complaint, once passed almost under the very shad- i ow of a large and wide-spreading guide- post, on which his way was painted in legible letters, and “inquired the road” of a keen-witted rustic, at work hard by. “Beg pardon, sir,” was the reply, “but I can’t tell you—the man wot’- tends the guide-post is just stepped out!” 1 CHIMPS CASE (IF SOMNAMBPLISM. We find in the Upham’s Outline of disordered Mental Action, a curious case of somnambulism, which was pub lished in the newsjiapers at the time the case occurred. A fanner in one of the counties of Massachusetts, iiad employed himself for some weeks in winter, thrashing his grain. One night as he w as closing his labors, he ascen ded a ladder to flie top of the great beams in flie bani, where the rye he was thrashing was deposited, to ascer tain what number of bundles remained uuthrashed, which he detennined to fin ish the next day. The ensuing night about two o,clock, he was heard, hv one of his family, to arise and go out. He repaired to his bam, being sound asleep and uneonscious of what ho was doing, set open his barn door ascended the great beams of the bam where the rye was deposited, threw down a floor ing and commenced thrashing it. When he had completed it, he raked off flie straw, and shoved the rye to one side ol the floor,and again ascen ded the ladder w ith the straw, and dc- Imailed it on some rails fliat lay across the great Imams. He then threw down another flooring of rye which he thras hed and finished as before. Thus he continued his labors until he had thras hed five floorings; and on returning from throwing down flie sixth and last, in passing over part of the hay-mow, ho fell off where the hay had Imen cut down six feet, on the lower part of it, which awoke him. He at first im ogined himself in his neighbor’s bam, but after groping about in the dark a long time, ascertained that he was in his own, and at length found the ladder, on which he descended to the floor, closed his barn doors, whicli lie fouud open, and returned to his house. On comining to the light lie found him self in such a profuse imrspiration that his clothes were literally wet through. The next morning, on going to his bam, he lound he had thrashed during flie night, five bushels of rye, and had raked the straw off in good order, and deposited it on the great beams, etc., carefully shoved the grain to one side of the floor, without the least con- : sciousness of what he was doing until he fell from the hay.—Boston Mer cantile Journal. THE RAW AND THE ALARM WATCH. A New England paper tells the fol lowing story of a traveUing dandy who quartered at a tavern not long since on the Sabbath: He prepared himself to attend Chureh, hut not possessing flie very important chattel, a watch, and being particularly desirous to out & dash, he applied to the landlord for the loan of one. The lanlord, possessing a very powerful alarm watch, readily complied with the request, but previously wound np the alarm, and set it at the hour when he supposed would be about the middle of the first prayer. The dandy repaired to the church, he arose with all the grace of a finiohed exqnsrte at the commencement of the first prayer, and stood playing very gracefully with the borrowed seals, when suddenly he jumped as if lie had discovered a den of rattlesnakes; the whizzing of the alarm had commenced. The people started —the dandy made a furious grab at the offending watch with both hands outside of the pocket, and attempted to squeeze it into silence, hut in vain; it kept up its tur-r-r-r, and it seemed as if it never would stop! The sweat rolled off the poor fellow ; he seized his hat and making one effort for the door hur ried oil’, with his watch pocket in one hand and his hat in the other amid the suppressed laughter of the whole con gregation. EDIlATlwfANB CRIME. The philosophers of some European countries have seriously discussed the question whether intelligent is favorable to morality—in other words, whether the diffusion of knowledge was not attended, as a consequence, hy the in crease of crime. Were tliis so, the wisest man in the world would lie the greatest scoundrel, and all men in projiortion to their knowledge. Now, the rule is no toriously the reverse, whatever seeming exceptions there may Ik*; and in this rule is the safety of society; for if men’s disposition to commit crime incrcaseU with their capacity, there would lie no safety. The fact is men are fools in proportion as they are knaves. Rascals are gene rally bunglers. Suppose all our smart lawyers should turn their energies and acuteness to schemes of fraud; suppose our most capable merchants should turn systematic swindlers ; suppose our most skilful machanist should take up the trade of burglars, society could uot hold together a single year. The general rule is, that the more capable a man is of committing crime successfully, the less disposition lie lias to do it. A skilful chemist could poi son right and left, and make wholesale slaughter with little risk of detection, while the poisoner is almost sure to be detected and punished. A clever blacksmith could open half the stores in town, but a burglar is almost sure to be caught and sent to Sing. Oen of the heaviast dealers in counterfsit mon ey in this State, now in Auburn State prison, cannot read or write. Nearly all criminals are illiterate. The best security society can have ive to every member a good ed ucation. It is the best as well as the cheapest inheritance a man can leave his children. Messenger. THlTls LIFE. If we die to-day, flie sun will shine ns brightly, and the birds sing as sweetly to morrow. Business w ill not be sus pended for a moment, and the great mass w ill not liestow a thought upon your memories—“Is he dead ?” w ill lie the solemn inquiry of a few as they pass to their pleasure or their work. But no one w ill miss us, except our immediate connections; and in a short time they will forget us and laugh as merrily as when we sat beside them.— Thus shall we aU, now active in life, pass away. Our children crowd close lieliind us, and they shall soon be gone. In a few years not a single being can say,”I knew him.” In another age we lived, and did business with those who have long since slumlicrcd in the tomb. Thus is life—How rapid it passed ! O, blessed are they who are held in ever lasting retnemberance. [From the]San Francisco Public Balance.] DR. RARE IN TOWN. Our humorous and good humored friend, Dr. Kabe, Councellor at Law and Notary Public, L. L. D., and Doc tor Doctorum—is on luind once more with a new project for improving man kind, the State of California and the state of his own treasury. He has got a lot of printing material, which he must sell in three days after date, or in self defence he vows he will start a newspaper. We trust some body will take the invoice off the Doctor’s hands, and save him from committing the rash act PROSPECTUS. To all whom it may concern, Greet ing : Take notice, fliat the Printing Press and Type so long expected hy me have arrived, and that the same are now for sale, and unless disposed of to a good advantage within three or four days, allowing three days of grace be sides, I will, in self defence, start anoth er newspaper, which I hope will tend to elevate the morels of tliis communi ty- It is usual to publish a prospectus. Our aim shall be to advance flie welftre of mankind, more especially fl'** of inan and womankind of California, and particularly - that of the Editor. Thu politics of flu* paper w ill be, in flu* morning, when the editor rises, whig, (or some may say aristocratic,) during dinner hours, neutral, altera good din ner democratic, and at night they will strongly evince flie principle of “Punch.” Our aim shall be principal- ly to get the printing of the State, the publishing of flu* United States Laws, the fattest office in the gilt of the dear |>eople, to ran for Alderman as soon as the salary is fix at i&li.OOO, get subscri bers ami advertisements, and make the most money in the shortest possible time and to avoid all “empty honors.” 1' ,,r that end we shall use any quantitv ol “soft soder” and let human nature work the rest. The title of the pa(u*r shall he dulv considered, since we have imbibed w ith our mother’s milk strong superstitions prejudices and believe fliat there is “something even in a name.” WILLIAM KABE. PREAI HImTtTiThE POINT. Passing along one Wednesday night lor evening at the .South is our after noon—in Montgomery, Alabama 1 step. [Kid into the Presbyterian lecture room, where a slave was preaching: My Breden, says !u*,“ God bless your souls, ligion is like de Alabama river, in Spring conies fresh, an bring in all de ole logs, slabs an snicks, dat hab been lyin, on de bank, an carrying dem down in the current. Bymehy de water go down—den a log catch hero on dis island, den a slab kits cotched on de shore and de sticks on de bushes and dare dey lie, with’ rin and (Irvin till comes ’nother fresh Jus’ so dare come’ vival of ’ligion—dis ole sinner bro’t in, dat ole backslider bro’t back, an all de folk seem comiii, an mighty good times. But, bredren, God bless your souls, bymeby’ vival’s gone—den dis ole sinner is stuck on his ole sin den dat ole backslider is cotched when* Ik* was a (on*, on jus’ such a rock, den one Hither nother dat had got’ligion lies all along de shore, an, dure day lie till no- flier vival. Beloved predren, God bless your souls deep in de current!’’ I thought his illustrations beautiful enough lor a more elegant dress and too true alas, of other than his own race. Christian Herald. OCT Good sense, never the product of a single mind, is the fruit of inter course and collision. The cares and toils, and necesities flie refreshments and delights of common life, are the great teachers of common sense; can there be any effective school of sofier reason where these are excluded. Whoever either by elevation or rank, or peculiarity of "habits, lives far re moved from this kind of tuitten, rarely make much proficiency in that excel lent quality of the intellect A man who lias little or nothing to do with other men, on terms of open and free equality, needs the native sense of five to behave himself only w ith a fair ave rage of propriety. THE MODEL TOWM, The following we find in the Cayuga Telegraph : “ Our town is without a pauper—not a man, woman or child within the limits of Springport, who is reduced to the aecesc’tv of looking to the town for bread, clothing or slielter! >So we are informed by Peter B. Wood, overseer of the poor. And so effectually has he vetoed the liquor traffic, that none venture to bring it within his jurisdic tion. So, though he yet has the office, ‘his occupation’s gone.” Another thing: our town collector, Samuel M. Smith, made his returns to the country treasu rer and took his discharge a week be fore his warrant expired, without re- turning a solitary’ ease as non-coliecta- Me.” That’s nothing: you can find a doz en towns in South Carolina just like it. —A. Y. Day Book. In a lesson in parsing, the sentence, •Man courting in capacity of Miss,” &c. the word < ourting came to a young Miss to parse. She commenced hesitatingly, but got along well enough until she was to teU what it agreed with. Here she stopped short. But as the teacher said, ‘very well, what dives courting agree w-ifliP Ellen blushed, and held down her head. ‘ Ellen, don’t you know what court ing agrees with ?” ‘ Ye—ye—yss, ma’am.’ ‘Well, Ellen, why don’t you parse that word f What does it agree y ith <’ Blushing still more, and i Ellen at last said, •It Mreee with me,ma’am,’