The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-05-26

poacher is educated, and the pick-pocketis
most sediously educated. There is no
school in the world where more heed is gi-
ven to the progress of the pupils than that
in which Fagi acts as master. and an
Artful Dodger as head assistant! Obceni-
ty and Blasphemy have their professors,
whose lctures ere very effective in training
efficient pupils. Vice opens schools as
well as Virtue: Crime has rewards for
the jealous, and punishments for the refrac-
tory: quite as efficatous as those at the dis
posal Of Rectitudc. Let this great truth be
once thoroughly apprehended.
CHURCH ExTENs1oN.-The Watchnan
and Observer he says -: We learn that Sc
ven thousand dollars and a lot have been
subscribed for the new church about to be
established i'll Charleston, South Carolina,
for the Rev. Mr.. Porter; and that one thou
sand five hundred dollars have also been
subscribed towards the establishment of an
African Church, to be under the care of the
Rev. j. b. Adger,. These enterprises will
depend mainly upon the I'd PRESBYTERIAN
Church of that city. The same church
gave, week or two since, 1920 for the col
porteur effort. These are among the fruits
of the revival which they have recently en-
Joy"
SENTENCE OF LIEUT.. HuNrER.-It is
generally known, that, ,on the arrival of Com.
Perry before Aivarado, finding the place al
ready captured by Lieutenant G. H. Hunter,
whom he had ordered only to blockade, the
Commodore ordered that officer into arrest,
for trial by Court Martial. We learn, from
an authentic source, that the trial has been
had, that Lieut.. Hunter has been found gull
ty (of disobeying orders, as we prcsume,)
and sentenced to be repremanded and dis
missed from the squadron. The rcprimand
to be read on the quarter deck of every ship in
the squadron.-N. Y. Jour- Com.
Two immense sums of money have been
devised in England to persons in this coun-
try The first is the famous Townlcy es-
tate, in the division of which it is believed
that the f,mily of the Lawrcnces in New
York will ul imately obtain over $25 ,OOO,-
600. The other is windfilll, amounting
to $2O,000,0O0, which is said to be inheri-
ted by gentlemen in New Castle, Maine, of
the name of Jennings.
PRIDE AND HuMiLrry-I never yet found
pride in noble nature, nor humility in an
unworthy mind. OF all trees, I observe
that God hath chosen the vine-a low plant,
that creeps upon the helpful wall of all
beasts, the soft and patient lamb of all
fowls, the mild and guileless dove When
God appeared to Moses, it was not in the
lofty cedar, nor the sturdy oak, nor the
spreading plane, but bush-an humble,
slender, abjcct bush. AS if he would, bv
these elections, check the conceited AFRO
gance of man. Nothing procureth love
like humility nothing hate bu. pride.
Feltham's Resolres
BoIsTERoUS PREACIIING.-A celebrated
divine, who was remarkable in the first Pc
rlod OF his ministry for Il loud and boisterous
mode of preaching, suddenly changed his
whole manner in the pulpit, and adapted
mild and dlspassionate mode of delivery
One of his brethren, observing it, inquired
of him what had happened to him to make
the change ?-He answered-" When 7
was young l thought it was thunder that
killed the people, but when | grew wiser, I
discovered that it was the lightning-so l
determined to thunder less and Tighten more
in future"
BEAUTIFUL CoMPAR1soN-In an Imagin-
ary conversation between Petrarch and Boo
caccio, from the pen of Walter Savage
Landor, there is the following passage -
"Ihe damps Of autum sink into the leaves,
and prepare them for the necessity of the
fall and thus insensbly are we, as years
close round US, detached from our tenacy to
life by the gentle pressure of recorded sor
rows"
Lord Chesterfield when Minister to
George H. once recommended the appoint
ment to some office of an individual not ac-
ccptable to the moarch. IL would rather
the devil" said he GAS your
majesty pleases," replied the corteous min
ister, "but your majesty will remember
that you must address him as your right
trusty and we'll beloved cousin"
One OF the papers which took notes, states
that there were 202 suicides committed in