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The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-11

AIRS IN South AxERIcA.-But there is
one variety of ant which must be excluded
from all communication. There is small
species called the Saba, and they are a
terrible annoyance to the proprietors Of TO
sinhas, inasmuch as they strip the fruit-trees
Of their leaves. An army Of these will
march to the tree, part ascending, and the
others remaining below. Those above
commence their devastation, clipping off the
leaves by large pieces; and those below
shoulder them as they fall, and march away
to their rendezvous. 1t is surprising what Q
load one of these little things will carry, as
disproportionste TO its size as ifa man should
stalk off beneath an oak. Before morning,
not leaf is left upon the tree, and the un.
fortunate proprietor has the consolation oil
knowing that, unless he can discover the re.
treat Of the saiibas, and unhole them, one
by one every tree on his premises will be
stipped-Ed,cardss Voyage up the Aya
zOn
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The Laws DELAY.--In the one case,
there is straight road Of mile long, and
without turnpike in it: in the other case,
you may go to, or at least towards, the
same place by road of hundred miles in
length-fuIl, accordingly, Of turnings and
windings-full. moreover, Of quicksands
and pitfalls, and equally full of turnpikes.
In conducting the traveller, nothing obliges
the conductors to avoid the straight road,
and drag him along the crooked one nor
would they ever have given themselves any
such trouble, had it not been for the turn
pixies, the tolls of which are 50 regularly
settled, and the tilIs in such good keeping
learned feet, could they be prevailed on,
are no less capable of tresding the road
than unlesrned onss.-Bsnthamiana.
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A FEMALE ARMY may be pemi,aJ
to make few remarks on the army Of vo
men-Qhe King Of Dahomey's) II :
certainly a surprising sight in an uncivilizsd
country. | had, it is true, often heard of
the Kings female soldiers; but now baT.
seen them, all well armed, and generslIv
fine, strong, healthy women, and doubles,
capable Of enduring great fatigue. Tbey
seem to use The long Danish musket viii
as much ease as one Of our grenadiers doe,
his fre-lock, but not, Of course, with n.
same quickness, as they are not trained %
any particular exercise, but, on receiving
the word, make an attack like a pack d
hounds, with great swiftness. OF course
they would be useless against disciplined
troops, if at all approaching to the same
numbers. Sdll, their appearance is more
martial than the generality Of the men
and, if undertaking a campaign. | should
prefer the females to the male soldiers Of
this country.-Dunean's TrGrsIs in A.
Tica.
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hearth, and suggests many tender and
solemn thought about death ard immortal
ty. His manner has more than its usual
kindness; his voice sounds gravely, yet there
is almost oheeriulness in its tone when he
says that ''The best part Of what you loved
sill remains, an indestuctible posses
sIon-that although the visible form be la
ken away, yet that was only lent for a sea
son, whereas the love itselfis immortal, and
the consciousness of it will ever abide 10
strengthen your faith, and soothe you amid
the stir and fever OF lile." Or It may be
that he speaks of "The Deaths Of Little
Children" ard then he almost makes you
feel az if his true friends hand were press.
ing your own, as he goes-on to tell you
that "Those who have lost an infant are
never, as it were, without all infant child
that the other children grow up to manhood
and womanhood, and suffer all the changes
Of mortality; but this one alone is rendered
an immortal child; for Death has arrested
it with his kindly harshnes,, and blessed il
into an eternal image of youth and limo
cenee." In the rough winter time again,
''when wind and rain beat dark December, "
he will tell you of ga Day by the Fire"
which he had not long since--with all its
home comforts and accornpaniments-the
pleasant hour before the candles are light
ed-the gazing meditatively into the fire
the kettle whispering its faint under-song,"
and the cheerful tea-table with its joyous IA
ces, and the pleasant hours between tea.
time and bedtime spent in the free utter
ance Of thought as it comes, with little
music perhaps, or the reading OF some IA
vorite passages to stimulate the converse
tional powers of the circle; while every
now and then the rain ratified against the
windows, and the wind howled in such q
way as to make everybody think of the sea
and the poor sailors, and people who have
to be out Of doors m such weather and last
Of all, the quiet half hour after every one
had retired but himself-when all around
was silent, the cares Of the day gone to
sleep, and the fading embers reminding him
where he should be: all these. and thou
sand things else. indoors and out Of doors,
in books, in nature, and in men, he talks
about in way so natural, easy, and colo
quial-so marked by Pervading kindness
of feeling-entering so heartily into all our
taste and thoughts, and enlisting all the
while so thoroughly our sympathies, that we
cannot but class him in the foremost rank
Of our most genial essayists, and place his
writings among our choicest "parlor win
dow-seat books" to be taken up in the brief
intervals Of active and social life, sure to
find in them something which appeals to
our most cherished tastes, and meets with
our immediate appreciation.
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Az ODD VIsTER.--"l had been sitting
in the yerandah reading, and went away foT
few minutes to speak to my wife. When
| came back my chair was occupied.
There, sitting az quietly and demurely as
possible, was an enormous ourang- outang,
or monkey OF some sort. When | first
caught sight Of him he had my book in hi:
hands, and was to all appearance reading.
L. happened, however, tc be rather stu
pid book, and he very soon threw it down;
he then placed his hands upon his knees
and sat perfectly still, Just as If he had been
nleditating on what he had been reading.
should say, as nearly as | could Judge,
that he must have been above five feet in
height, supposing him to stand erect. He
sat as upright as any man. After watching
him for a minute or two, and observing that
the calves of his legs were thicker and more
like those Of man than monkeys legs
usually are, | stepped quietly back and
called my wife. All this time | had not
seen his face; however, as she came, one Of
the parrots screamed, and the old gentleman
turned his head. His face was very dark,
with large whiskers and beard, and hair all
perfectly white; his body light-brown, and
his face and hands peculiarly large. As
soon as he saw me he half rose, laid both
hands on the elbow of the chair, and be-
gan to grin and show his teeth and spit
at me.
did not quite like it, as | was afraid he
might make spring in my direction; yet
| knew that my voice would at once fright.
en- him away, if raised the horrid unearth.
ly yell used by the natives to scare wild
beasts, and which even the tiger will hardly
resist unless much pressed by hunger. Still
| felt more inclined to watch him. Once |
thought Of going round the other way and
getting my gun, out really he looked so
much like a man that could not have shot
him. He continued to grin and spit until |
turned away, hoping he would resume his
former sedate position. As soon, however,
as be thought my eyes was off him he rose
leisurely from his chair, stepped slowly out
Of the verandah, caught hold Of a branch
Of the banian-tree, and swung himself up in
to it. As he did this, | saw that he had
long tail, so he could not, believe, have
been an ng-outang. Indeed | never
heard of them coming into this little island,
nor, think, into the district went into
my study and Immediately afterwards heard
him scuttling away over the house. have
not seen him since. but if he comes back
shall try to make friends with him by giving
him food, though | believe he belongs to
rather treacherous family. "-Aclands
Popular account of the Manners and Gus
toms Of India.
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LAUGHrER.-Of the uses and benefits Of
mans risible faculty in human life we should
speak largely, if we had the power to ex-
press them. The amount OF enjoyment
that it causes, is only to be described by
those that can paint the blessings Of sun
shine, or the value Of repose. In how
many situations does it not smooth the in
tercourse of life! When we are thrown
among strangers, when we encounter our
fellows without the means OF sympathizing
with them, a stroke Of merriment in the
"touch Of nature that makes the whole
world akin" Laughter is a source Of pro-
digious moral power; it is a weapon that
can inAict pain and torture, and largely in
fuence the actions Of men. Ii keeps vani-
ty, alfectation, and singularity in check;
and can sometimes exterminate dignities
and abolish their worship. When opinions
have been disproved to the satisfaction Of all
men that can Judge Of truth, their last hold
Of the human mind is generally dissolved in
floods Of ndicule. But, as the masters of
this weapon are not always qualified or
careful to discriminate the false from the
true, the best things have often to endure
the ordeal of being laughed at. 1t was at
one time said that ridicule is test Of truth;
which can only mean, that what cannot be
dethroned from the respect and worship of
men by derision, and alliance with degra-
ding ideas, is at least we'll established, and
has probably some truth on its side. But
the opinions that defy ridicule in one age Of
ten sink under it in another estmi,,ster
Rerie,v..
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LITERARY EXAMINER.


BYR. T. COSBY.
"0nce mOre-ah, Yet once more
Let me look forth upon the setting sun,
lis the last time-and now, while thus gaze
Upon his gorgeous disc too shall pass away
Even as the day-beam fadeth into night.
remember-oh, how well-the gentle eve
looked my lass upon my native land,
How, as | sat and saw the sun 60 down,
A mOnitOry sadness prophetic fear
Stole DER my heart-and nOw--the self
hour,
In this dread forest am doomed TO die
Oh, what vain, wild dream my life hath been
What mOcking phantom hath my steps allured
Only 20 find, in these lone wilds, grave.
Yet tits noble one, yon mighty stream
Nor prOuder doth lis builder find beneath
His stately pyr amid Here will I rest
Here, meath the waters Of this giant stream,
And my dirge shall be the solemn murmur
OF its cesseless wave
II was a strange, wild spot
Wherein the brave DE Soto dying lay.
From out the leafy canopy O'erhead
Springs sweetest birds were singing-and the
breeze
Whispered sad music through the long, green
cane,
That with a melancholy motion waved
The little camp around. And close at hand,
As If il fsin would overtop the trees,
Rose a huge mound, and from its base there
crept
A noiseless rill, whose dark and sullen wave
No spOrtiye zephyr ever woke TO smiles!
The woods seemed shrouded for the hero's
death,
The long, gray moss from every bOugh was
hung,
And slowly swung with every fitful gust,
a II
The huge tree-tOps were gilded as the rays
Cliq8bed lengtheniRg from the earth into the
And they went-with one long, gasPing
breath,
Spain bravest warrior died!
All, bitter tears
Were shed for him-and stern, strong hearts
were bowed
That dreary night among those shrouded trees,
As they looked back TO all the buoyant hopes
That he and they had felt-how sad their end.
And when the sun again into the waste
OF wilderness beyond the river sank
His requiem was chantedi One by one
The mail ed soldiers Joined the solemn strain
Until the notes Of lamentatiOn filled
The depths Of the dark forest. Not a sound
Beside was heard except the fearful boot
OF the scared owl among the cypress boughs,
And the deep rushing Of the turbid stream!
The moon was up, and huge, grim shadows
lay,
Like siumbering Titans Of the early world,
Across their Path-and myriad fire-fiies glow
ed,
Like faery lights, around their dropping heads
While thus they bore him on. Their muffied
oars
Gave forth no sound, and all was still as death
Save the wild chant that fOated far away
Thro' the dim woods and Ger the solemn
stream;
A last, sad prayer, and with sullen plunge
He sank 10 rest beneath that mighty wave
The first who slept where thousands since
have died
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-11

ISDEPEEDENcE.---When you have pared
away all the vanity, what solid and natu-
raj contentment does there remain, which
may not be had with five hundred pounds a
year, Not 50 many servants or horses I;
but few good ones, which will do all the
business as well not 30 many choice dish
es at every meal but at several meals all
of them, which makes them both the more
healthy and the more pleasant: not so rich
garments, nor so frequent changes but as
warm and as comedy, and so frequent
change too, as is every jot as good for the
master, though not for the tailor or valet
de chambre: not such stately palace, nor
gilt rooms, or the costliest sorts Of tapestry;
but convenient brick house, with decent
'wainscot and pretty forest-work hangings.
Lastly (for | omit all other particulars, and
will end with that which | love most in
both conditions, not whole woods cut in
walks, nor vast parks, nor fountain, or cas-
cade-gardens; but herb, and flower and
fruitgardens, which are more useful, and
the water every whit as clear and whole
some, as if it darted from the breasts Of
marble nymPh, or the urn Of river.god.
Cowley.
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PATERNAL DUrY.-The father who plum
ges into business 20 deeply that he has no
leisure for domestic duties and pleasures,
and whose only intercourse with his children
consists in brief and occasional word of
authority, or a surly lamentation over their
intolerable expensiveneSs, is equally to be
pitied and to be blamed. What right has
he 10 devote TO other pursuits the time which
God has allotted to his children? Nor is it
any excuse TO say that he cannot support his
family in their present style Of living with
out this effort. | ask, BY what right can
his family demand to live in manner which
requires him to neglect his mosi solemn and
important dutiesl Nor is it an excuse to
say that he wishes to leave them compe-
tence. Is he under obligation to leave them
that competence which he desires? Is il an
advantage to them to be relieved from the
necessity Of labor! Besides, is money the
only desirable bequest which father can
leave to his children! Surely well-cultiva-
ted intellects, hearts sensible to domestic
affection; the love Of parents, and brethren,
and sisters; taste for home pleasures; hab-
its Of order, regularity, and industry; a ha-
tired of vice and vicious men; and lively
sensibility to the excellence Of virtue-are
as valuable legacy as an inheritance Of
property-simple property, purchased by
the loss of every habit which could render
that property blessing Waylands Nor
al Science.
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Although the roses wither
That round Loves bower grew,
My fancy wanders thither,
Their naked stems 10 view;
And memory seems TO render
Their forms still fresh and fair,
As moonlight gives splendor
To branches bleak and bare.
Although the wild harp sluinbers
That echoed from that bower,
I've treasured the sweet numbers
To cheer this lonely hour;
And while hopes strains of gladness
Seem destined 10 depart,
Fond memory's tones Of sadness
Still linger round the heart.
And though I'm doomed 10 wander
Far from that happy spot,
The vision strikes the fonder,
As ne'er to be forgot;
For hope may gill tomorrow
With beams not meant TO last,
But memory lores to borrow
The radiance Of the past.
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A MAN.-The man whom call deser-
wing the name, is one whose thoughts and
exeriions are for others rather than himself,
whose high purpose is adopted on Just princi.
Piles, and never abandoned while heaven
and earth afford means Of accomplishing it.
He is one who will neither seek an indirect
advantage by aspecious road, nor take an
evil path to secure a real good purpose
Sir Waller Scott.
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Coon AND BAD FoRruNE.-We are apt
to ascribe our good or bad fortune only to
our last action, and not to the many pre-
ceding; and we hear. when we inquire of
ourselves, as when We ask echo, only the
last words repeated.-Jean Paul Richter.
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NATURAL ESoUGH-We have heard thai
the enormous quantity Of indigo forced I'D
on the market for sale, has had a good dea
to do with making things look 50 very Blu.
in the city.-Punch.
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Our time in towns seems short to pass
and long TO reflect upon; in the country.
the reverse.
The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-12-11

An actor never gained a reputation by
acting a bad play, nor a musician by play,
ing on bad instrument. ..
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Nisers, as death approaches, are heaping
up chest Of reasons, to stand in more awe
Of him. rr,
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NAMEs.-"Initials he thought always
with one exception) OF no other consequence
than as they pleased the ear, and combined
gracefully in a cyPher, upon seal or rng'
But in names themselves great deal more
presents itself to a rejecting mind. Shen-
stone used to bless his good fortune that hls
name was not obnoxious to a pun. he
would not have liked to have been comPll-
mented in the same strain as a certain Mr..
Pegge was by an old epigTammatist.-
What wonder if my friendships force doth last
Firm to your goOdnsss1 You have Pegg'd II
fast
Little could he foresee, as DR.. Southey has
observed, that il was obnoxious TO a rhyme
in French English. In the gardens of En-
menonville NJ placed this inscription
to his honour.
This plain stone
To William Shenstone.
In his writings he disPlay'd
A mind natural
At Leasowes he laid
Arcadian green's rural.
Poor Shenstone hardly appears more ridicu-
lous in the frontisPiece to bis own works,
where, in the heroic attitude of poet who
has won the prize and is about TO receive
the crown, he stands before Apollo in shirt
and boa, as destitute Of another less dispen-
sible part Of dress as Adam in Eden, but
like Adam when innocent, not ashamed /:
while the shirtless God holding a Tyre in
one hand prepares with the other to place
wreath Of bay upon the brow of his de-
lighted votary. The father Of Sir Joshua
Reynolds fancied that il he gave his son an
uncommon Christian name, it might be the
means of lettering his fortune; and there
fore he had him christened Joshua. II does
not appear however that the name ever
proved as convenient to the great painter
as it did to Joshua Barnes. He to whose
Barnesian labors Homer and Queen Es-
ther, and King Edward I'LL. bear witness,
was a good man and good scholar, and a
rich widow who not imprudently inferred
that he would make a good husband, gave
him an opportunity by observing to him
one day that Joshua made the Sun and
Moon stand still, and significantly added
that nothing could resist Joshua. The hint
was not thrown away-and he never had
cause to repent that he had taken, nor she
that she had given, it, . know not
whether it was the happy-minded author Of
the 'Worthies' and the Church History OF
Britain who proposed as an ePitaPh for
himself the words 'Fuller's Earth, or
whether some one proposed it for him. But
it is in his own style of thought and feeling.
Nor has it any unbeseeming levity. like this
which is among Brownies poems
Hara Hath in sooth
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MEANS on PREvESrIxs AcIDrrY IN BRKAD-
Bread made In warm weather is frequently sosF'
and Is thus not only disagrseable, but unwhois-
some. We are assured BY correspondent tnat
a little carbonate Of magnesia. in the proportion
Of three grains TO pound Of hsur, entirely cd
viates the risk Of this accident
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Ter, and for erecting a monument over
them-commemorate also Of those who
fell with him; and in=honor of the Palmet-
TO Regiment.
8 ResoLued, That5the -consummate gen.
eraIshp of,he COMMANDMENT Chief, sur
passing even the splendor Of his early
career, The ability of the officers, and the
courage Of tho whole army, have given
new, lustre TO The American name; and
we have entire confidence, that in what
ever position of danger or difficulty the
vicisstudes of war may place them,
nothing will be left uudone that skill and
Yalor can accomplish.
The Report was seconded by the Hon.
Jos. A, Black. and The meeting successive
ly addressed, in feeling and eloquent :erms
by Gen. Adams, Hon. F. II. Elmore, G..
Book,er, Esq, and Hon. W. Z. Pres
ton.
The Repor, was then unanimously
adopted. "
The Chair then named Gen. Adams,
John Caldwell, E. J. Arthur, A. s..
Johnston, j. n. Goodwin. C. R. Bryce,
aud B. D. Boyd, as the Committee under
The 7tb resolution.
And w. C.Preston. DR.. Sill, and W..
F. DeSaussure, as the Committee under
the Bib resolution.
Mr.. DeSaussure presented a letter from
r. S. Pinckney, Esq, commander of the
sloop of war Decatur, in regard TO the re-.
moval of the remains of Col. Butler. which
was referred 10 the Committee on the sub
ject.
On motion OF Col. Summer, ii ives order
ed,hat the Secretaries Of this meeting
transmit copies Of these proceedings 10 the
families TO whom they relate. and to the
officers, of the Palmetto Reg iment- and
that the papers oflhe Stale be requested
10 publish them.
The meeting then adjourned.
w. HAMPTON, Charm.
E. Sill, sec,o,,,;s.
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bic Of turning ou, q, 900 yards ofcIoth per
week. Employing a h0ndlsd. or more
operatives. The machinery riltbe driven
by an engine OF 20 horse ppwer; all of
which is under contract and sfin process Of
completion; aud it is expected that the
cn,erprising contractors for Ihe building,
Messrs. Sanders and H. D. Walker; with
their well known energy, will have the
work so advanced as to permil lbey recep-
ton of machinery by the middle of De-
cember. Success we saY.atd prosperity
TO the whole undertaking -Charteston
Courier. ik -.
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Election for Governor Of GeOrgia.-Colonel
Towhes, has been elected Governor Of the
State of Georgia, by over 1000 majority, over
General d. L. Clincl,, the Wing candidate.
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The Court Of Common Pieas.-One week of
the Court has terminated Much business Of
importance was transacted. The most import
anl case which was tried was tha, of the State
vs.. Arthur J. and Infred Padget, for murder.
This case excited considerable interest, and oc'
cnpied two days. a large number Of wl,nes
SOS were examined. Messrs. Wardlaw. Balis.
keti, Carroll. and Yancey. appeared for the
Plaintiff, and the Solicitor Col. J. D. Edwards,
and Mr.. N. L. Griffiu, FOR The State The
case was very deliberately argued, and resulted
in the acquiItu! Of Arthur ]. Padget, and in the
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GDe a0uertIser.
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER, l3, 1917.
EDGEFIELD C. H..

Election for Representative to the Legislature.
On Monday and Tuesday last, the election
TO fill the vacancy in our District Delegation
took place. ;ABnAM JONES. Esqr., was the only
candidate. Tile votes will be counted out to-
day.
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Dry Wedther.>-Sinca our last the dry weather
continues, and il has been warm for several
days. The season is quite favorable for gather
ing the crops. ~