The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-07-28

flc had one favor, he said, to request of him
which was, that he would collect his works
and commit them to the flames, especial,
| his Jerusalem Delivered Lcibni,z wa:
found dead i'll his chamber with book II
his hand. Clarcndon's pen dropped from
his fingers when he was seized with tho
palsy which terminated his life. Chaucel
died ballad making. His last production he
entitled " y Ballad made by Gcoffry Cha
uccron his death bed Ling in great an Suish. }
Wychcrlcy, when dying, had his Young wife
brought to his bedside, and having taken
her hand, i'll Il very solemn manner said he
had but one request TO make Of her, and
that WAS, that she would never marry an
Ola man again. Keats little before he
died, when his friend asked him how he
did, replied, in Il low voice, " Better, nv
trend feel the daisies growing over me-
BoNArARrE's BURIAL PLAcE.-Thc soil.
tudc OF Napoleon, in his exile and his tomb
has thrown another kind Of spell over bril-.
liant memory. Alexander did not die IN
sight of Greece; he disappeared amid the
pomp OF distant Babylon. Napolcan did
no, close his eyes i'll the presence of France;
ne passed away i'll the gorgeous horizon of
the torrld zone. The man, who has shown
himself i'll such powerful reality, vaniched
like a dream; his life, which belonged to
history, co-operated in the poetry of his death
lie now sleeps forever, like hermit apart,
beneath willow, in Il narrow valley, sur
sounded by steep rocks: at the extremity of
a lonely path. The depth Of the silence,
which presses upon him, can only be COM
pared to the vastness Of that ,umuIt which
had surrounded him. Nations are absent
their throng has retired. The bird of tile
tropics, harnessed to the car of the sun, as
Button magnihcently expressed it, speeding
his flight downwards from the planet Of
light, rests alone, for moment, over the
ashes, the weight of which has shaken the
equilibrium of the globe.
Bonaparte crossed .,heSocean, to repair
to his final exile, regardless of that beautiful
sky which sl, delighted s Columbus. Vasco de
Cana gnd samoens. Stretched upon the
ships stern, he perceived not that unknown
consultations were sparkling over his head.
His powerful glance, for the first time. en-
countegadssheHrays. What.to him were
stars which he had never seen from his BIZ
vonacks, and which had never shown over
his empire? Nevertheless not one Of them
has Jailed 5tos fulfil its destiny one half of
the firma spread its light over his cradle:
the other half was reserved to iItumine his
se;sah l=z... =~z...Chateaubriamd.
HoLLoW Wafss=.=sn--,
ic account Of the, Texas, shying artlfre7y=
used at the bat.leief San @Jacinto we find in
an exchange paper 1t beats Ringgold'sa1I
"Sam Houston's flying artillery used at
the battle of San Sacinto was one four poun,
der, lashed with piece Of raw hide to the
back of a Jaclas<. When the piece was
discharged it would throw him forward OH
his face with such force as to detain him in
that position until the piece was reloaded;
and as he rose and brought it within range
olthc Mexicans, the match was applied and
away went the animal on his face and
knees; and away went thunder and flame
and dea,h-dealing balls, and away wen,
the Mexicans, heltcr slielter."
This was the memorable hollow ware
furnished by the Texas sympathscrs Of
Cincinnati at the suggestion Of Gen. II. L.
Ly,tle. "Mr. Chairman" said the Gene
raj. 81 am conscious that It would be vio
lation of neutrality for us to send munitions
of war to Texas. But, sir, we can send
them hollow ware" The yell of delight
which followed the suggestion, still rings
IN my ears"
The hollow ware was sent as we'll as
young man to serve it. The piece offying
artillery won the battle Of San Jacinto.
The battle of San Jacinto achieved the in
dependence of ofTcxas; Texas independence
ledto Texas annexation and Texas annex
alton to war with Mexico; and the war
with Mexico may make Zahary Taylor
President of the United States.
That single phrase {. '.hollow ware" ac-
complishcd all this, besides other and more
distant aesults yet I'M the womb of the FIXTURE.
What magic dwcils in a single word at
times.-Cisrs Aduertiser. ~
STARTING IN THE WoRLD.-There is a
great deal depending on young men having
the right kind of start, when they first be-
gin in life for themselves. The majority