Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-04-26

EuuUtAJ ctluUuiSs soibC VI tHc ShaubSS
aud Improvements Of the last seventy
years in. the form of prophecy. as il it
had been uttered before the American
war, a mo Donini 1910. The prophecy,
if,hen published. would have gained
little creJence. ltis now but Iecapilu-
alton Of Familiar historical events.
10 seven years from This time the Brit
ish empire shall be rent in twain (Amce-
lean war. in I776.) In fifteen years men
shall rise from The earth and 1y through
The air Invention of Balloons. I760.) In
twon,y years the Frepch monarchy, tho
oldest that ever was, and now so flourish
iog, shall come TO On end. A vir,rous
prince; tLouis XVI, 1881 not yet
kind, shall in twen,y-ihree years lay
down his lGe of the scafold; his wife and
sister shall share the same fate. In
those days ness shall travel with tho
wind. and wha; was douc at midday shall
be known at the farihest bound ofihe
sun tthe telegraph, 1891 In twenty
six years conqueror shall arise Bona
pane,) who shall water his horses. 10 tho
Nile. the Jordan, The Tagus, aud The
Borys,hcnes. This coqueror shall re.
store The chair Of ST. Peter, aud throw
down what be had restored fdethronemen
Of Plus Wiz Piually, he whom the world
could no, couiain. shall die captive, on
a rocky island (Si. Helena) neither in Eu-
rope. Asia, Africa no. America. but in tho
midst of the sast ocean, few feet OF
earth bis empire, a willow his monument.
In those days metals shall be found
mhich tioat on the sa,et, and burn under
il {Sodiem Potassium, discovered by Sir
Humphrey Dasy.) .Shirs shall STEM the
stormiest ocesu without sails or oars
ts'eom ships.) Corriages shall run with
ou, horses with the speed of,ho, wind TO
como,ive engines Tbs Ordinary speed
Of wind is 80 miles an, hour; thotsR tho
engine on the Great Western Railways
80. Man shall be conveyed from India to
the mighty Babylon in a month; 10 Amer
ica in ten days from one end of England
10 The other in sish. hours. Bridges shall
hang by chain oyer. the seas while roads
shal! be made uader Il (the Menai Bridge
and the. Thames TGnneL) To these
days of bIoodshcd shall succeed days Of
libeny.-The Greek shall be freed from
the Turk; The Catholic from The Grunge
man. The very beasts in these days shall
have laws to project. ihem.l Thess days
shall be days Of grea, light. Men shall
plough withou, horses tsieam plough;)
they shall spin without hands (power
loums y they shall ,calcpla,c,,by wheels
lBabbages machine :; the sun shall on.
grave. for them iDasuesfeo,ype;) they
shall write with the lightpiug (cleeiric
ielegraph4) One machine shall prins in
au hour many thousand. books, each of
which, it will.lake a. man many days to
read man may buy a book for q penny;
FOR peuny lie may send.it, to the ends
of The empire. They shall read Q rock
instead Of 4 book tgeolosy) ,apdrdecipher
the history OF beings which lives and died
ere man existed. 10 the heavens new
s,nrs shall de discovered; some. sisters Of
the enrth;; some brothers. Of The sun (tho
planets. Eve in number, discovered since
tho American war, and :lhe double stars
BY Sir William Herschel;)s and ofaiI ibe
colors Of the rainbow, In those days,
likewise, they shall read tho Pyramids
(Youna's and Chanpoliefs discovcries.)
They shall find ont the month of the Nj
ger and the magnetic pols;a the way to
every thing shalt have beepad discovered
bu, The way to be haPPy.a,i lie151isi. rl
--!s.6 IL. g.I
The degrading habit Of S,oearing.-It
is not easy TO perceive what hoanr or cre-
din is connected with, swearing. ). Does
auy man receive promolion because he is
a notable blnacferl Or does ary man st-
vance TO dignity because he IL cxasi,;at
profanc swearing? No. Lowlmust be the
characfeT which such imperIinencc will
not tdcgrale.--iaexcgsable therefore. mus;
DC the practice v hich has ucii!isr resson
nor passion 10 support il. The drunkard
has his cups; the lecher, his mistress; the
sa,arisr, bis revenge; the ambitious man.
bis prefesmenls; The miser, bis gold; but
the common swearer, has nothing; he is
a FOOL at large sells his soul Gor naughi:
and drulgcs continually in the scrr,ce Of
The Dera gratis. Swearing is void Of all
plea. II is no, Tie native offspring Of tho
soul, nor in,erwoyen with tho texture Of
the body, nor ANYHOW allied 10 our frame.
For. as a grca, man i'rillolson) expresses
II, /" though sorre mon pour oat oaths as
il il were natural, yet no man was ever
born Of swearing constilu,iou."sg Butir
| is custom, picked up by low aud palry
spirits. wbo'hnye no sense Of bonor. no
regard to dceeney; but are fp1eedoi 10 sub
s,iiute some rhapsody .of noasense, % sup
ply the vacancy Of good, sense, Hcuce
The Stiffness OF the Practice can only he
equailed by the Stiffness of ashoso that
| adopt it.-Dr. LegHoaf. osT .4M % 20,
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Gssg .fstr MisHtes to . that Ciild.-
Few parents realize, tsayss President
Lindsey how mach their ehildlenl may
be taught at honc, byidsyptiog fesf
minutes TO them, The experiment. with his
l -. -, ILL r.. .ia IN g>uI