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WESTWARD THE STAR OFjEMPIEE TAKES ITS WAY." vol. i. SALISBURY, NORTH GA MOLINA, ERIDAY . MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1853. NO. 52. I i- 99. W. JAMES. - MILLER; & JApIES; EDITORS A PROPRIETORS. l'W- :, ''! v-- : TERMS "J 1WO DOLLARS if paid within to months; Two x Dollars and Fifty Cents 8" payment be delayed r -, -twx month?, and Three Dollars i? not paid within :he year. ' - - f ; - -Advertisements wm b inscrud at the usual 'rates. Court Orders eharged 2a-per cent, higher. A liberal deduction made to those who advertise by the year. All advertisements must hare the ! , 'number of timefe they are to be pubriched mark ed on them, or they will be inserted till! forbid, I- 'and charged accordingly.- -. j j ALL Letters must be post-paid, toeceive attention. Deductions Bade inr favor of standing advertise, . 3 MOWHS. I 8 MO.ftffS. I A" J V E AIL. " ! "One square, . f 3 50 . ,:. ,$5 o j. $3 00, " Two squares, 7 00- ' 10 14 00 -JThre 10 M tli S9iJ.: ,r HafTcolum 4 - t) (f ' ; 2a jOO 35 '0 ' " ' ! ' ; r- j - For the. Whig and Advocate, i j ! Messrs. Miller $ James : I end you enclosed I the proceedings of the Rowan Agricultural Socie i ty adits' recent Annual Fair f held n Scotch j Ireland, at Mineral Spring, on' the 13th inst. I j wish'the particular attentioulcff the fanners of Rowan County directed to tdi society, and for i their special benefit, I prooq to give a short account of the originr naturi and design of the ! iv i " ii i. ' . society. About a rear ago, 4 few . enterprising gentlemen, referring to ind here 1 niutlbe pardoned for A. J. Flemmisg: Esq.j! as most prominent and active, seeingj'and feeing the necessity Qf a revolution in the, agricul.tiiral af fairs of the times-set aboutfthe Work of krettin ip a society, which they denominated " The Scotch Ireland Agricultural ocicty." Saijd socie-. ty was m full operation when it was proposed by the Legislature of our sfatej to ;give $50 to every County Agricultural Society whiclj woujd raise another $50 -and appropriate the whole !J)iOO to the purchase and awjirding of premiums; for the encouragement of Agriculture in tlic State. In order to meet the prop jsa! lof the State, it became necessary simply t cange the hame of the society, and raise the? lijaney. . ijis was done and the State has paid Her $-30, and the sfslOO has been expended in; th purehasejof suitable- premiums, which hav! ben given but. The members of the society nfndfany one ban be - come a member by payingfi: l,j iind signjn: constitution, arc divided into 8' working ; the com- mittees, each committee' has one or :mojre agri--cultural subjects assigned! it upon which it is expected to report, throngjiits Chairmai, when- ever it is called upon. :"5hc society jme'ets four times a year, on,the secon4 Thursday of October, which is the annual meetiji and on the; 'second Thursday in January, Apl ilJand July, at such places as it may select. ; ITwS, reports, one read at each 'quarterly mcertngj which consu'me Uhd Reports of the 8 committees a the year Gen- Teports, or make addresses at any meeting ; and the Corresponding Committeej through the Cor responding Secretary ma- report and distribute their' collection of seeds at the same time Such is a brief outline "off the origin "ant nature of our society ; but lirtll need -be. sait about its design. What is ajfparent to all, -it js to renovate Rowan Couuty-f-!' to make two blades . of grass grow, where bu lone 'grewj befbre" to induce our farmers tocieaf up, drain ind cul tivate the rich soil of thir low lands-1- litherto untouched and which have boon sending forth their mephitic vapours,! spreading disease -and death around, to reclaim their hastily' slaugh tered up lands winch b4ve been lfutchered, and bled to death by the plough ana" thejrahisof heaven: to pav more hftetion io their stock,: and to cease paying tribute f tor otlier Mates for 4 - . - i t -:' j j - t - i the same: in a word to eicrate the noble art and science of Agricu.iure.jtoi thtm front rank in theimprofvements of tie- dfty and' to stay feiui-. ration, and render our homes, free; happy and plenteous, and our people rich and independent, ". intelligent and honored- daft this be effected It has been done elsewhere, and it can he done tort. Let every f arnier in jHowan 9 sn nexi meeting, inf oaasoury, ou ine seconu Thursday in January nextj; and lit Ihe'fitizenx of Saluburtf be in the ineeting, uul wei will soon see that something can aud trill be doiie for the good A)f the people by a society which, should be call ed, the Society of Societies. I J' G, 11. . : For the Whig and Advocate. V - j TSOCEEDIHGS OF THE KOWAIT AGEICUL- TUBAL FAIR, j j j . V MixkuaI Spki.no. Oct- 13, 1853. j Thr Rowan Agricultural Society :met according to adjournment, t hold fts annual meeting and u..;- 'tk. iJL,c;.t0 fw.;i, wnt' -wU -t ham, Esq., one of, the vie Presidents, took the Chair.and the recording Secretary ialso being absent, J. G. B as sat, was appointed Secretary, i i O. G. Foard, Treasurer, then read his annual G. A.. MILLER. report which was adopted, i y i j 1 - 1 " 1 x 1 V f . - -f i . ! ! . 1 -1 " dead engineer lying beside me. Just then The Chairman! of 1 orking Committees, No.o,.-, - , . if, P.i -.u , na 5,. were cauea om lor w reoorx,, - ou, thej all began with one accord to make excuses, and, cere exemed, havingjpromised to report upon their several subjects at ithe next quarterly meet- ins. J Fi ruuiv.i Fsn I riiaii-man of Pommittep , ? . 01 corresponueuce, maae a snon report wnicu - was concurred n. - . -1 i - i ! ; - :" On mofion o A. jJ FiiMMis.!it was resolved. tnat .a commUtee f judsei consisting of four, be appointed 4 examine the! stock and articles, not on the prenm l.st. which may be exhibited, And recommend such j stock or articles as it & . '. . i 1 may think deserving - of honorable ; mention or premiums," whereupon C. F. FiShee, X. S. Car eox, James C.MPBELt,fand DrjR. j Jouxstox, was appointed committee. fj The By-Las relative to thef" .election of offi cers by ballptj were unanimously suspended and - the following gentlemen elected: ofiScers for the ensuing year,' vix : . j . j j Hon. pAViD F- Caldwkll, President. : -n D.'Acs'tis, 3 j . . . . ' ; ?,XKlvceFTesidenU.' i-g: J Peeler, J ; j obt. J. H.RBis, Recor. Seo'tary, . - -.' - A- - FLEiiitiHO Corresp. Sec'tary, ,. pi Foart, Treasurer, , .' . ' ' il.-T. Joes, ' V ! ' 1- -,' ' .- ; GmXnAu'ldor. Committee. ! Ja,s. Gibson, O. (5. Foakd, submitted a report upon the Work ing Committees, which was referred to -a. select committee to report upon during the afternoon session. ' Society then, took a recess. I The recess was agreeably spent by the mem bers of Society and spectators in viewing the various specimens of stock iand other articles exhibited on the occasion, and by partaking of the hospitable repast;-prepared by the citizens of the neighborhood ; j and by the Judges in ex-, amining the articles and stock under the especial jurisdiction of each committee, and preparing 'their reports. , '(.; .' ';. T'-. f AFTERNOON. !' 'j Society me. t at half past one, W. P Graham in the chair. -. The "report of, the Judges was then called for, and upon this recommendation uc jnyuuuHiB jj ere.awarueu as iouows, ; vis : To Dr. J. F. Foard, for the best Bull, s " ', ;0. G. Foakd, . f: M 1 ilch Cow, (no "V C: C.Kmier, j" " J. D. JOHXSTOX, f " '; Do . j" " James Cowas, ' ". J. S. Caksox, .,' - - , tI ; '. . J. D, JOH.VSTO.V Bull Calf, " Breeding Sow, " pair of Pigs, Horse Colt, " Mule Colt, (no j competition, ) ' lot of Corn, (4 t of Corn, (4 ) ) WheU'(2 L "fair." J acres bottom, ti'J bush per jicre.) acres 34 , Jtmsh. per. acre.) Clover mo competition .Mrs. Foard, j f ",J- D. Johnston " P. G UAH am, Butter, Cheese, (no com.) jar Pickles, hon orary premium. ) Two gentlemen Cbmpeted for the premium on Cot-. u ton, which will be awarded as soon as the cotton j can be picked, measured and weighed. jj The Committee 6n jhonorary premiums and articles to be honoHbly mentioned, made an im perfect report,, which -was recommitte'd to the Chairman, (C. F. Fishes,) for" revision, ad will be published in duertinie. 1 ' ' The Society was then entertained by a chaste, 'ijible and appropriate1 address by the orator of pthe day, G F. FishSerEigq., for which the thanks jfot the society were retiirned and a request made ! for its publication in the Farmers Journal aud ! the Salisbury papers. No essay being offered for the pjemium on the reclaiming of worn out land's, the society unanimously tendered the pre mium, -a- handsom4 S'Olume Cotton's European Agriculture to Mr.; Fisher, for his able address, which he handsomely received. i' Dr. J. F. Foard, wa$ appointed the represen tative of the Rowan Agricultural Society to the State Fair, in Raleigh. The report of the com mittee on O. G. Foair'i's report on the working committees, was thtn heard and adopted as fol-s lows : ii '! . ' " !'. ! . !.!' '";.' ..!.'. . I Committees. 1 I; Sulyect. No. 1. C. Fi Fisher, Gh'riu'n. Wheat & small cmain. II,, J. Jones, Fruit, y. E -D. Austin, t' ' 4. J, F. Davidson, -5.. Benj. Sumne'r,i- f4- 6. A:H.C!ddw"eU, j' 7. X: M. Dobbin, j' 8. J. J. Summerell,4 the Grasses, sheep & wool growing. Plousrhinsr Manures, Cattle, - I Corn and Cotton. a vote of thanks to the officers and especially to the V. P., Wm. P. Graham, and an order for the puhlication'of the proceedings in the r Farmer's Journal and Salisbury papers, the Society ad journed to meet in alisbury, ion the 2nd Thurs day of January, 1S04 I :i . ' : J" ' i WMP. GltAilAM, Chairman.' . J. G. Ramsat, Sec. jro tern. - A FAST ST0EY Ah Enslishman was brarinr "of- the speed on English fri lilroads, to a Yankee traveller seated at his side in one ot the:! cars of a "fast train' engine bell was rung, i in I England. The as the cars ncared a o station it suggested to the Yankee an on- portunity of "taking down nis companion a peg or two." J !'- - '; , . : ' ! "What's that! jnoise ?" innocently in ijuired the Yankee.: . . ' ' I . "Wc are approaching a town," said the Englishman; "thej have tb commence ring-! ing about ten miles before they get to a, station j or else the train would run by it before the bell could be heard ! Wouder- j ful t jt? 1 suppose they haven't in4 I vented bells in America yet r -:. , f - hy, yes, replied tne xansee, "we ve j g0t bells but cap't use thciu' on our railf i roadf . We ruh s6 tarnal fagL that the train ; always keeps ahead of the sound: no use, whatever; the sound never reaches the vil lage till after the train gets by." ''Indeed I" exclaimed the Englishman, -j 4F.act," said the Yankee, "had to give up bells. Then we tried steam whistles but they wouldn't answer, either. I-was on a locomotive when the whistle was tried. .We were going :at!a tremendous rate hur ricanes were nowhar, and liad to hold my 1 11' '' ' ' . A .- " - : 'lair on. l e saw; a iwpiiojbe w agou crob- t me the tracK, aoournve mues -aoeaa, ana " euSmeer iw wuv.-wu?. BcvvT j a trooper. It screamed awfully, j ll no use. The next thing I inpw. 1 was nickmo' nivselt out or a nond on ( j by theroadside, amid the iragments 01 the j r; htf uJ 6khs that 1 had heard the tuc nuisut; Liiiuu iuiavu j uu nuu neex use whbhi he first saw the horses. ! p fdR.w! Was dead before his voice tonim After that we tried lights, sup posing these woiild travel faster than sound. i it- .u.-..i ; 1 f c "Ufc ?tlll sskji uuwtuui luav tuc - LUIt.&- lck- ; cns WOke up a)i along the road when we i came by, supposing it to be morning; But the locomotive kept ahead of it still, and ! was in -the darkness, with the light close j on behind it. i The inhabitants petitioned against it; thycouldn-t sleep with so much i : ' i i'lLi T: 11. u j light m the night time. Jrmally we had to station elecfwc telegraphs along the road -. V , ; s . i. ia i ., . i. with signal med .to telegraph when the train was in sight ; and 1 hype heard that some of the fast trains beat the lightning fifteen minutes every Fortyvmiles. But cant say as that is true -the rest I know to be so." Mrs. Partington! says that nothing despi ses her so much as to see people who pro fess to expect salvation, to go to church without their purses, when a recollection is to be taken, . j "'"' : The citv of Bremen . sends a block of marbje for the .Washington 31 onument, bearing the iascription : " To Washington, ti e ki L iir I a 'T t the great, the good,l the last, from friendly Bremen ' From the Philadelphia Register ' .' i "; CHIJBCH AUD STATE. ji " : When we, congratulate ourselves on the . " ' - - 'i J- ,; disunion of Church and State, in the Unit- fed States, it is, doubtless, chiefly on account of the religious toleration which i)j therebj secured to all citizens, and -of a political r c 1 a. c X:l ' , We feel that we are safe from th spiritual despotism which we read of in other times and other lands, where .those who" differ from a dominant Church are punished and oppressed by the. State in combination with I the Church or some sovereign sect ; and further, we know that no man can be polit ically or civilly disfranchised for his I relig ious opinions. ' These are the ,advsntags ,whie&, people think most of: thesearo the only gains "that worldly and ' irreligious men boast of. But the advantage to the Church is far greater subject of congratula tion and reflection. In saying s6, we are not unmindful of the- perpetual and inesti mable benefits which would attend the union of Church and State, if all men were of the same household of faith if citizen, and Churchman were convertible terms -if ci ic rights, and Church rights werei held; con jointly.j But the multiplicity of sects and the divided state of the Church itself, ren der this impossible. The complete union of political and Ecclesiastical power,' and a complete civic equality, are consequently . irreconcilable. In the United States ' and in Great Britain and, indeed, in most of the kingdoms of Western Europe, the un ion of Church 'and State, is, in the present condition of things, a mere Utopian Vision, not to be realized. What in England was for centuries both fact and theory!, has been during the last three hundred years depart ing more and more from the theoretical union of Church and State. With lis, the separation has always been entire, and so in all human probability must it ever con- tinue to be. v j . This being so, we have 1 two great errors to guard against ! One of these lis the set- ting the Church and State in o 1' 1 1 1 r.T nr tagonism to each other an error either in thought or practice, far from uncommon . , . i ' .. . . ' i we are inciinea tOituinKj among people, and injurious in various which we may take occasion to religious ways,' recur. to The ottu?r error, tt which especially our at tention is now drawn, is the suffering the dination to the State. It behooves the Church, and every organized religious sect, to be jealous of encroachment of inappro priate control by civil authorities " Now and then, questions of Church property come into litigation, and in deciding b'n the conflicting claims, the courts of law be come of necessity arbitrators incidentally on questions' of doctrine? not pronouncing J judgment on the system of belief, but de- claring which of the contending claimants; are the true holders of it, in order to settle, the title to property. In this way there have been famous law-suits between " Old School" and " New School"- Presbyterians 4-betwccn " Orthodox", and " Ilicksite" ' Friends," and between, webelieve, North ern and Southern Methodists. Unfortu' n'ate as such cases may be, the appeal niust be to the courts of law, because tl a to the courts of law, because; the tenure of property is under the law of the'Iand. But in relation to Chureli discipline, any interference of the civifauthority seems tp - us to be fraught with mischief-l-to be sus taincd by neitjrer authority norrcason ; and, there fore, io' be watched with earnest vigi- lanceyit is, perhaps, already anticipated that tnese reneciions nave ueeuyuiieu nmu iby a passage in the address of the Provis- ional Bishop of New York to the late Con vention of his Diocese. The passage al luded to we quote from the Register of last week.. The Bishop said j, j " I had expected to be under the painful necessity of announcing to you another act of discipline for cause affecting moral char acter! The trial of the Rev. Wm. F. Wal ker by a board of five . able and judicious Presbyters of his own selection a trial which was continued to .a most ".unusual length, and in which every opportunity was offered to the accused to prove his innocence- ended in his conviction upon -two of the gravest charges with which man can L be accused. The whole evidence taken in the case I have carefnlly examined, and re examined uDon a motion made5 in his be- ! half for a new trial. . To the argument for V this Tuotioti I me a Datient heanne, ana 1 c: ; . . w V1-"1 v"''"v" r j-; 1 the accused did not demand anew trial.' ! 1 was prepared, therefore, m sincere sorrow j for a delinquent brother, to pronounce the i sentence which had been recommended by ! the Court and had given the accused due notice of the time and mace when tne nam- ; "" f " "r ' .r - t?ful duty would be performed by me,. . But ! Wo loo nin-Lt T "rir.iPArf a notice trom a latft last morl.t 1 received a notice Irom a Judge of the Supreme Court, enjoining me to desist from pronouncing or 'suffering to be pronounced, such sentence or any other !s- L .. .. . i , til T ; sentence, until a hearing snai De naa Be fore him, which is to take place on the oth of October next.t Of course I bow in obe dience to the authority of the (jivil law, but doubt not when the opportunity is afforded, that I shall be able to Viakc it entirely clear to the learned Judge whjq has enjoin ed me, that the' accused has been tried with all fairness, and with, unusual oppor- I tunities to prove his innocence, and that ll.i - i .i a VJ the civil authority is not called upon by any principle of justice, thus with the execution of the law." to interfere ecclesiastical The subject was referred to a Committee, whose condensed report will be j found in another column.L ; We: feelrgreat confidence in Bishop -W"ainwrighVs discretion, and in his experience, and alio iir the character of .1 ... 1 . 1 L A it- - 1 1 tne committee, 001a as w, tue ciencai ana laj members of jit. llie business is un doubted! j in good hands and we should not desire now to speas ot it, but that the J Bishop a address seemi to us to make con- - ions., which are fitfid to excite serious cessions, wnicn are nu u 10 excite serious apprehensions in the siiflda of Churchmen generally. This is noncern of New York alone : for it may be Jcjted elsewhere as a precedent, and therefo affects the ' whole Church in the United jtafcV. What re the circumstances as"; Harare gi"wen tons ? A clergyman whose cpf;, we learn from an other part of the procJ. jr' has occupied two jearsi4iiiii3-lrie?l tanojjiealty ; with all the safeguard? rjwmcence which the canon secures -and is.-. convicted "of two of the gravest charges with which man can be accused; what they are; we know not, but they loom large through such a description :) the evidence is examined and re-examined by the Bishop upon: a motion for a new trial ; that motion is not sustain ed, and the Bishop is about to pronounce the sentence recommended by the court, having notified the accused of ,thei time and place, when on the night before his address to the Convention an. injunction from a Judge of the Supreme Court against his proceeding further, is served upon him. The Bishop yields to this judicial order.- His language s, " Of course I bow in obe dience to-authority of the civil law." We are wholly at aToss to conceive the force of that ". of course." It can have no sr- nificancy unless upon the principle that in cases oi unurcn aiscipiiney tlie jurisdiction of the Church is somehow or other subor dinate to. the jurisdiction of jthc civil courts. If this, be so, in any particular, then is the jurisdiction of the Church over her own subjects, imperfect and maimed. What are to be; the bouuds ofthis authbri ity of jinjuncticn intruding with all its Chancftry powers of penetration ?! If there be the power to interrupt and check the discipline'of the Church, why not the pow er to control it altogether ?: If J there be the power to compel the Church: to keep a villain- in her ministry a week, or a month, after it had decided to purge itself of such pollution, why may it not be compelled to keep him for years, or forever ? The Bish op doubts not that he will be able to satisfy the Judge who. issued tie injunction,, that the execution- of the ecclesiastical law should not be interfered with in this c?e by the civil authority. It may prove so ; , but the appearance of the Bishop: to defend his jurisdiction is a recognition bf a com manding authority. Should it prove oth erwise, : (and wuo can confidently predict an iv J ud l-halcpmesien. 2xA tal abandonment ot tne Lcipline ot tuc Church at the bidding of a civilj court, or resistance to that court,' under the disad vantage of having, partially, at least, recog nized it author'-. As the case is now presentjed,! we protest against it as a prece dent. If once recognizeu, it' would reach other cases of discipline and :iii:nister, fulfilling their prescribed duty of warning " notorious evil livers" away froin the holy communion would find themselyes not on ly, as we' have known it to happen,' threat ened with suits for damngesbut set at de fiance by injunctions. We have no disposition to disparage the judiciary of our, Country ;. but it is a large bxty that of the Genend and State gov .ernmentappointed by lVesidents or Governors-or elected by. the people- with all varieties of religious belief, or with no be lief at all. ; If .there be no principle to pro tect the Church from inappropriate inter ference qf the civil courts, the Church cer tainly 'has ho power to make choice among the Judges. If an injunction jr judicial order bf any kind may come from one, it .may from another : it may be from a Judge i who cives' himself -wholly up tq the delu- : siun ot spirit-rappings ; or. it may be the bid I ding of a Judge w ith an unruly temper and j an unbridled tongue, with passion taking the: place of judicial compctsure.! e con fess that our apprehensions on this occasion have been somewhat heightened by the cir cumstance that just after-reading of the in junction served on Bishop Waimwright, we chanced to read the report of a !case in the Circuit Court ofthe United J States,, at rhiladeiohia. in which an Associate J udge of the Supreme Court i3 reported .as rail- i ing, in a strain of violent and vulgar vitu- perauon, at wuai ne styles j' tuppeuuy magistrates"" unprmcipled interlopers;" " fellows," etc. and threatening a great many sorts of things against a great many sorts of people, for the protection of those whom he "calls " my oScers' To say nothing of the offensive aristocratic con tempt thus exhibited by a Judge of the highest rank and largest compensation, towards the inferior and poorly paid magis trates of a State, we deprecate the intrusion j of Judges of the civil courts into the disJ cipline of the Church, not only on prinei pie, but because a case, which chances to be contemporaneous, shows what we grieve j curiC(l her pretty lip with ill-concealed vex to be obliged to admit that in the highest , atjon. "I; thought her dying, or near it j" judicatories of the country, tlicre may be 1 aQ(j Klise glided gracefully past in the found a rashness of temper and coarseness fan every eye! following her, aihd every of tongue,: which would be unworthy of an ,! tonnie ws elofpuent in her praise, Mabel's angry; aavoeateniucu moreoi 3 ouage. We dolnot believe that there can be found any more authority or reason for an inj unc tion ffbm a civil eourt to interrupt or ar- rest the discipline of the Church, than for : toe waitzt Every step they jtake is on an injunction to forbid a father punishing ffly Dcart Strings, i This j must not, shall his child. - The Church in one case, and i not be? .Courage, coward heart !" and, the private house in the other, should ad- ; mastering her feelings with a strong exer mit no such intrusion. j i943 80011 f011?0!1 'tue' T0?? her cheek, u . ;:.-' " ' ' ' her eve crrew wildly brilliant.1 and had ; There is a possibility that it was not a rattlesnake which bit the boy that died in! I Madison county, Iowa, after a free appli- j cation of whiskey, and we shall not, there-! fore, give up whiskey as a remedy for snake poison. Perhaps there may : have been i something in the boy's , name which pre- I vented whiskey from acting on his consti- ! tution ; it was Allcorn. Boston Post. H - I I . : i The man that was struck with an idca? is said to be convalcsent. ELISE DE VAUX. I f BY FANNY FERN. V ell. Doctor.1 what do tou ' thinV . of her ? She has' set her heart fupon going to , i that New Yar's Ball, nnrl itiwlll -nor.U ' to disappoint her, poor thing?" s The blunt old doctor bit his lips impa tient, .and striking his gold-headed: cane in no very gentle manner bn! the floor,, said ' i - - ' :: " i ! ' , - - -j j --, j ;. Think ! I think it would 3be perfect in-j sanity for her to attempt it. j I won't be answerable for the consequences." 1 v ' , "Pshawl my dear sir; she has had a do zen attacks before, quite as bad, a nd- " ' And that is the very reason;, she should be inor cautious now Madani' j Good mor nirig good . morning ! Ileavcn ' save me fjroiir thcserJ5ishioaWe moibx3r?,: Jbel: rax&r i.vereu as- e oangea ine aoor 10 pemna mm 'She'll kill the girl, and; then! her death will be. laid to my door ugh I it would be ia comfort if one could meet! a sensible woman occasionally !" ' j: j , . Elise was sitting in the bcd,'propped up byjpillows, when, her mothr i entered. If youth, grace and beauty could bribe the destroyer, or turn aside his unerring aim then had she been spared. Her cheek was marble pale, and rested wearily on one lit tle; hand ; the eyes were closed ias if - sleep ing, and from Ithe other hand a few choice flowers had escaped, and lay scattered up on the showy counterpane, i j 5 ; f'Ob! is that you mamma ? j I hope you you have made that stupid doctor give you something thai. .will;. set me lap.'-.. I feel such a deadly -sinking from want or- nour ishment, I fancy." .1)6 pray see what you can get for me. 1 1 hope Dr.j Wynnman didn't presume foi interfere about my go ing to the ball, because I infend to go,: dead or alive ; and niamnia,' while my lunch is getting ready, just' bring me my dress, and lei me see if Jeanbet has placed the trimmings here they should be, and have a rusbej placed around the ; wrist of my kid gloves ; aqd mamnia: don't iforget to send to Aiister's for that rfpearl spray I selected for my hair : and by the way; just hand nie that mirror : I'm' afraid I I'i4 look ing awfully pale.". j . I . ij- f K '-Not now," said the frightened mother, you are too Sveary. Wait till youj have had some refreshment; and the pale J beau ty sank back on her ! pillow, crushing a wealth of dark ringlets, and plosed her eyes wearily, in spite of her' determination to be well. .1 y ',:'!! "'1 - '); " A ring at the door !. (a bright flush came to her cheek.) "That's Vivian-mamma Tell him tell (and a sharps pain through her temples forced; her to patise;) tel him I'm better and he may call lor me at ten to-morrow night ; and : mamma: hand him this; and she drew iorth amtle pertum- "Draw aside the eiirtain Jeannet Oh ! we hall have ;a nice evening for the dance; now hand met 'my dressing4gown. ! 3Iam-t ma, that medicine is perfectly' miraculous I nxr:er ! felt better. Heaven knows where I should have been, fhad you not called in a better counsellor than Dr. Yynn. He would like me for a patient a year, I dare say ; but1! knew better than, to line his tiockets that way :" and she skipped A ' ' ' ' ?ailv across the floor to a large fauteuil and called Jeannet to arange her hair. "Softly softly, Jeanne? ! 1 My head isn't quite right yet. : There that will do," said Elise, as, the skilful Erench .woman bound tress after tress in complicated glos sv braids around her well formed head. " Now nlace; that pearl spray a little to the left, just over my ear; pretty, is it -it ' r not.inamma . : ; . ' I ; "Rest awhile now, Elisej said her moth er, as shel looked; apprehepsively jat the .bright crinison spot, upon her cheek, : that; grew deepi-r every moment,: and contrasted so strikingly -with the marble paleness of her brow, j "I'm afraid you11 are going be yond yourUrength.": j y!.;- ,' . I; "Mamma, what are you thinking about ? Look at me I and see how will .1 look. Besides I'd go to this ball jif it cost, me my life. Mabel has triunjphed over mje once ; she hall not do it a.jsecond time. j Besides, there is really no: danger; I feel wild with spirits to-night, and anticipate most brilliant evening;? and she 1 clasped ! the pearl pendants in her small ears ; and; the lidit. fleecv dress fell in I soft folds. j about her graceful person, 1 and upon her lair iorm ; piaeea; nis giit,;auu 1 m her hand the rich! boquet,' pvery flower of which whispered tope to hjer young heart, Ihe held up her cheek with-a bewitching smile and said- . : ''' ' V j "ibw kjss me,!; mamnia and say that you are proud of Elise." j , . ; i- And now Jeannet, with omcious care, draws the rich opera cloak: about her shoul? ders, and with a thousand- charges from mamma "to beware of the draughts, partake sparingly of ices; and not -weary herself with dancing, Ahe . carriage wheels - roll away from the door, freighted . with their lovely burden, j ' j f ; "V.Hwde Vaux here !" said a tall, oueen h -1 attired in black velvet ; and she: 1 eek paled with anger. "How radiant -she is ! how' idaziling ! Sickness has but enhanced , heir beauty, and bow ryroudlif Vivian shears her throhsh Vivian not; been magnetized past recall, bis eye would have been caught by j the dazzling vision, j j - j ; L j All eyes) were fixed upon the rival belles; and amid the voluptuous swell ;of music, the flashipg of lights, j the overpowering sweetness of .myriad flowers, an the rapid, whirling motion' of the dance,f every brain and heart: were dizzy with excitement; "Heavens ! that is not Elise de Vaux," ; said a nephew of Dr. (Wynn'i ! "What mad folly ! My uncle told me if she came ow surpassingly beautiful she is I" ,.v", f- Still kn on they whirled ! the dancers' I till the stars grew pale, and the sweet flow-. ers drooped in the heated atmosphere." ' ' "No sleep till morn, wherr youth and pleasure meet to chase the growling hours , V..', ,, . "What unearthly beauty !" said an old gentleman to a young - man, upon whose arm he jwas leaning, as Elise glided past. "Who is she?" ' f Il3,c dc aax said the young man, mechanically, his eyes rivited to her ' fig- ure. j " . : '"Do you know what you are saying ?' said i .hef -tapping him eeutlv on the arm. "Yes, Elise de Vaux. "Well, why do you look at her so wild-J 7? Has Cupid aimed a dart at you," Out of eeovly 'bluff esi -r"- &mmt . "Good God H said the young man, leap ing forward, as a peireing shriek came up on the air. , . .1 "Make room 1 help ! throw up the win dows!'! and Eljse was borne past, gasp ing sensless, to the. cool night; air. ; Aye, Vivian !;Kneel at her side, chafe the little jewelled hands,! put back, the soft hair from the azure-veined temples, press the pulseless wrist, listen for the beating heart in vain !" Elise is tlcad V And in the arms of him for whom she had thrdwn away her young life, sfie was borne to her home.. The diamond' spark led mockingly on fher clay colcfc fingeTS, the! pearls still lingering amid her soft ringlets, the round, symmetrical limbs still fair in their beautiful proportions.!. The heart she coveted was ijained the" dear bought victory was won. v - j : ' Few men have ever gone to Congress with more fun and popularity than the Hon: W. Coombs, of Kentucky. In the way of anecdote, he is unequalled, while his mode of telling stories imparts a tone to them that no one. can appreciate who has "not j made his acquaintance. ' . ; Among the "characters" that Mr. Coombs knows like a book, is old Major Luckeyi whose taste for bragging amounts', at times,' to? the sublime. Whenever the Major has a stranger in the neighborhood, he "opens I wide, and spreads himself," and with a suc cess that leaves us nothing to desire. The. following scene took place between the Ma jor and Col. Peters, "a late arrival HxdxA Illinois : . - "Major, I understand from Gen. Coombs, that shortly after the Revolution you visit ed England;: how did you like the jaunt ?" I "Capitally ! I had not been in ..London'' five hours before Rex sent for me to play whistand 'a devil of a time we had of it?' ; "Rex ! what Rex ?" ; . i " hy, Rex the Kine George the third. L j Burke and it resulted rather comically.' I ? "How SO?" x I ''As we were playing the last game, Rex; said in rather a familiar manner, 'Major, it would be at the price of her life I suppose you khow Charles Washingtonrj $ut hold on,',, said he, 'I hav'nt told do yoii not?' N6 sir,', says I, 'I do nqt; j y0 the best 'of it yet; about two weeks but I tell you who I do know, George i from that time,jone day me and Dick had Washington, the Father of his Country. j been working all day; and we made up our 'Father be d d,' says he, 'he was a curs-' itminds' -that" we' should find old dad bucked, .. ed rebel, and had I served him rieht, he would have been hung long ago.'1 This, of course, riled me, and to that degree, that I' just drew back, and .gave him a blow be tween the eyes that felled him like a bul lock, i The next moment Pitt and Burke, "mounted me, and in less than ten minutes my shirt and breeches were so torp and tattered that I looked likeLazarus. This gave me rather a distaste ior English soci ety; so the next morning I set sail for Amer ica. Six weeks afterwards I landed at Washington. The first person I met, afc' ter entering the citj-, was Q." ; : "Q! what Q ?" " i ! "Why, that old federalist, Quincy ; Ad-1 ams. lie wantea me to piay nincpin.s witn.j ecf for the mark, the old man wwerea, dui him, and I did so. Won ?200 at two shil-! alittle.too late, for the ;goa took him lings a game,' and then had a row!" ' - ' j 'plump.- We. heard something strike ini : "About what?" fthe mud, and it wasn't Billy, for he stood,, ii "He wanted to pay me off ill Continent- 1 lookinir down" over the .ridgeJ iMe ahdll al money, worth albout a shilling a peck;. I got angry, and knocked him into a spit toon. Whilst T still had him dwn, 'Jim1 came in and dragged me off to the 'White House.'" ! ; i - - " I "What Jim ?" r 'Why, Jim Madison. ' I went, played for two hourSj When 'Tom' came in,; and in sisted that I should go home with him-' ' ."What Tom?" I ''Why, Tom Jefferson. - Jim, however, would not listen to it, and the consequence was that they went into a fight. In" the midst of it theyiell over the banisters, and dropped about fifty feet. A When I left, they were giving each other jessy ia the ceal celler. Ko7 it terminated I never could learn, as just then 'Martha' ran in ; and said I must accompany her up to Mount Vernon, to see 'George.' " i - ."What Martha do you mean?" ; "3Iartha Washington, wife to George, the old boy that gave jessy to the Hessians. About here, Coombs said the stranger began to discover that he was "swallowing things." The next stage that came along, he took passage in it' for an adjacent town. The Major, we believe, is still living, and -still believes that the walloping he gave Louis The Eighteenth is best thing on re- Icord. Al Y. Dutchman. HT7JTG HIM SELF. This seems to be emphatically the age of romantic incidents, says the Loudon Dem ocrat. ; Sentimental young ladies "fall in' love" with some modern-Romeo, who after flirting for a season, deserts his confiding Juliet, when she to drown her sorrows, re pairs to some neighboring mill pond, and there" amid a doleful requiem sung by frogs, drowns herself. But the have all been eclipsed and cast far into the back ground bv a huffe Othello as we learn the pro perty of Mr. Washington Homer, living near Vi -11 -r T n.l.n niu nliuir. iirainesvme, rairuu. tyuuy, "u "'" v-"?' niht last week, sallied forth and quenched the vital snark by hanging himself to a persimmon tree ; and all because his sable mistress prelerred anotner nigger , to nim self. ' - , " ' - ' " .' . ; DAD'S. EZFESHCENT WTTJI BILLY. - Less than a hundred inilesr from j SyrV euse, lives an Old fa rmerK whose given name is Zury a. hard working, honest old Eng- lishmanr owning a good farm of over a bun- - dred acres, and two faitnful boys, who have ! been brought up to wield if lie agricultural." ! implement,' from one ofdhese I have my story. . ! . . - . ; . ' . t . ;-' Old Zjiry, had an old gioat on the farm, who is not one of the most peacefully dis- posed creatures in the world, and on this account the boys take no little delight ' in putting his lordship on' liis taps, once in- a while, by way of arausertent j for i! long 1 time the old man had. noticed that when ; Billy came home at ni At he was com pie te- Iy covered with mud and water, and "old r ry could not imagine Tiow he Jshonld be COtnc so : so he iletermini1 if T4ossibl. tbatT ' i .One day he left the. boys -to pick-up the rakes; &c, after a hard day's work of. haying and walked around the j ridge, , where Billy generally kept himself it was about time for the goat to go to the house, but there he lay, quiet and dry ; so old Zu ry seated himself behind a stump, j'dctcr-i-mined to watch his-' movements, for that ' night, at any rate;. he had not been: there. , more than fifteen minutes, when1 who should he see coming along the ridge but the two ' . boys ; his first impulse was to tell them to keep back, but upon second thought, he . said nothing. - - - Take my load, Hank,' said Dick ; ' rta,. y turn to take the feller , to-night.' ' ; Hank took Dick s load from his back, and Dick going down the hill a little ways son showed himself within-a few yards of where the goat was lying. ' . r Bill had 'already caught a glimpes of the Of the boys, and was soon -on his feet. Hank laid, flat on the ground, and Dick, ' on the edge of the ridge, now presented a full front, which did not seem exactly to . please his goatship, for hepointed for him - -and down wet pick; to aggravate Billy to a still more desperate lunge ; again ihe sig nal rose, and Billy jumped, but just as he . got within a few feet, Dick lowerd himself, about two pegs and- Mr. Goatj lowered himself about fifteen feet into a ! ditch of. marsh mud and water, Hank had caught sight of a small corner 'of the' old! 'man?8 hat above the stump, and sloped for the j bars while Dick was nota little surprised at the sudden transformation of the old stump into a human being, and that too" the old man, atafifteen aces, who,! by the way, was not one of the most - forbearing " ' persons in the world ; and - as he j looked: around on the ground, "Dick thinking that -a club or stone might possibly be the pb ject of his search, started on a keen jump forthe barn. , The old man made : up his LiJl i. I thought I should not be able - to' hold ' myself together, as Hank related the sur prise of old Zury and his son, they stood face to -face. ' ' ' for he hadn't been in the field at all' in the afternoon, and1 he always kept a good barrel of ale in the cellar ; but when we had started, who ? should j we see but the old manedging around the ridge; 6 Dick and me went over that way ! There, was old dad, and there was the goat. -: - We laid flat on the ground, anxious to know what the old man was going to do, when, what was our. surprise to see him take the exact position Dick had taken a couple of weeks before. - ' " . . .. - We said nothing for we hadn't seen any of that kind of snort in a lone time : the bid man presented rather a formidable a p- pcarance, but Billy, nothing daunted, point- Dick pulled for the barn, and in aJfew min utes we saw old dad paddling for the house, covered with mire from head to foot, That night the old man was dressed up ip his best clothes. J ventured to ask him if he was going over to( see the Deacon... 'See the Deacon ' no I Can't a man put on good clothes, without going to' see the Deacon 1' - . I - 'Yes,' said Dick, leaping out the door ; 'can't a man go'and see the goat without tumblimr in the mud rt . Dick was gone, and the old dad looking at me. and then very significantly at a heavy wooden boot jack, 1 stepped - out of -r w Wanted. A fifer and drummer to beat for the " march of inllect;" a pair of. snuffers for the " light of other-days ;" a stone-cutter who can drill deep enough to blast the ' rock of.ages;" a ring to fit the finmr of scorn :' and a new cusmon ior the " seat of .government." - Cool. "A young man,, a member of an evangelical thurchV' advertises in a New York paper for board fin a pious family where his Christian example would be con sidered a :compensation." " " i A good wife is like-la printer's roller the latter being composed of molasses and due. ' She' is as sweet as the former arti-, clc, and sticks to her husband like the" lat ter. - --.' :. -, '.- H pig wanted to make a sty for himself,' how would" he proceed ? By tying a knot in his tail, and that would make apig'stie. . .'. u said I have j great ear a wonderful ear," a would-be musician. 1 I ' So' has a jackass," repKed a by-stand- er. - A semi-annual dividend of four"per cent, has been declared lupon the Fayelteville and Western Phnkutoad. '
The Salisbury Herald (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Oct. 28, 1853, edition 1
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