Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-03-26
LEGAL ELoQUENCE.

who alters sustained high depreciation in
society, a man all on you suspect and es-
TEEN for his many good qualities; yes,
gentlemen, man what never drinks less
than a quart of .likker a day, can you, I
say, for an instant, suppose that this ere
man would be guilty Of hooking box OF
percushum caps! Rattlesnakes and koon-
skins forbid! Picier to yourselves, a fed
Ter fast asleep in his Log Cabin with his
innocen, wife and orphan children by his
side, all nature hushed 10 deep repose, and
nought to he heard bu, the mutteriug Of
the silent thunder, and the hollering of
bull frogs, then imagine to yourselves a
fellow sneaking up 10 the door like des-
picable hyena. softly entering the dwelling
Of the peaceful aud happy family, and in
the most mendacious and dastardly man.
ner, hooking a whole box of percushum
caps! Gentlemen, will not, 1 cannot
dwell upon the montrosiiy of such a
scene NY feelings turn from sich pic
ter Of moral turpenrine, like a big wood.
chuck would turn from my dog Rose y
cannot for an instan, harbor The idea that
any man in these diggi1s, much less this
ere man could be guilty Of committing an
act Of such ran,ankerous and unexampled
discretion. -y r:ef 2
And now gentlemen, after this ere brief
view Of the case, let me entfeat you;,'o
make up your minds candidly and impar-
TALLY, and give us such verdict as we
might reasonably suspect from such an
enlightened and intolerable body of our.
fellow citizens, remembering that in the
language of Nimrod. who fell in the bal!le
of Bunker Hill, il is better than ten men
escape, rather than one guilty one should
suffer. Judge, give us a chaw Of tobacco.
tteJig aohen Boy.-Liebig was dislin.
guished at school as BOBBY the only
talent then cultivated in German schools
being verbal memory. On one occasion.
being sneeringly asked by the MASTER.
what he proposed TO become, since he was
so bad a scholar, and answering that he
would be chemist, the whole school burst
into laugh Of derision. Not long ago.
Liebig saw his old school master, who
feelinsly lamen,ed his own former blind
ness. The only boy in the same school
who ever disputed with Liebig the station
of BOBBY was one who never could learn
his lesson by heart, but was continually
composing music, and writing it down by
stealth. in school. The same individual
Lie5ig lately found at Vienna, distinguish
ed as composer aud conductor Of The i'm
.perial Opera house. think his name is
Reuling. II is 10 be hoped that more
rational system of school instruction is
gaining ground. Can any thing be more
absurd or deiestaole than system which
made Walter Scott, and Justus Liebig
boobies at school, and so effectually
concealed their natural talents, that for ex-
ample. Liebig was often lectured before
the whole school on his being sure TO cause
misery and broken hearts to his parents,
while he was all The time conscious, as
The above anecdote proves Of the posses
sion of talents similar in kind to those he
has since displayed.-Prenological Jour.
!Successof Yankee Boy-Mr. Cole
man the inventor of the piano attachment,
which has attracted the admiration of the
musical world, is among Us, having re.
turned in The Hibernia. We understand
that he has disposed of his entire right in
The invention in Europe for six hundred.
thousand dollars, cash down Before leav-
ing this country he had sold the right for
Massachusetts for ten thousand dollars,
and for New York, one hundred thousand.
He thus receives seven hundred and ten:
thousand dollars. A pretty fair sum fora
Yankee moi yet thirty years old. MIR. C..
has handsome estate al Saratoga, whero
he resides. Somete years ago he adver-
tised an exhibition in this Town Of min.
iature steam engine and rail road car
tickets of admission twelve and half
cents. There were not a dozea present.
He afterwards manufactured accordions
with such tools as his means enabled him
to procure or to borrow, and subsequently,
gave lessons on that instrument. His
successful career since then is knowp.,
Mr.. C.'s eoian was not the only attach
ment he took out with him 10 Europe
He had formed previous one fora Soune
lady 10 his native town, whose father
worth his two hundred lbousand-for-
bade the bans, on account Of The suitor's
poverty.
II will have her yet" was the response
Of the young musician" Never" indis-
nanlly shouted the father. until you are
worth more money than am" 81 shall
claim your daughter, sir, one day." was
the bitter response Of the eolianis,. His
wealth more than trebles tha, Of The young
lady's father, and as she has ever had an
!" attachment for him, it is no, improba-
BILE thar The obdurale heart may soften and
melt beface the omuipolence Of wealth.
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