The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-03-03

J. Il. Brinckle.
INFATUATlON OF GAMING.
4 Mr. Potter in the reign of Queen Anne
possessed one Of the best estates in the coun-
ty of Northumberland; the fee Of which, in
less than twelve months, he lost at hazard
The last night Of his career, when he had
Just perfected the wicked work, and was
stepping down stairs 10 throw himself into
his carriage, which waited at the door Of
q accN kno,cn house, he suddenly went back
into the room where his friends were assem-
bled, and insisted that the person he had
been playing with, should give him chance
Of recovery or fight with him; his rational
proposition was this: that his carriage, the
trinlets and loose money in his pockets,
his town house, plate and furniture, should
be valued in lump, at certain sum, and
be thrown for at single cast; no persua-
sion could prevail en- him to depart from his
purpose; he threw and lost. He conducted
the winner to the }icor, told his coachman
thn! was his master and heroicaIly marched
forth; without house, home or any credita Bile
recourse for support.
tIe retired to an obscure lodging in a
cheap part of the town, subsisting partly on
charity, sometimes acting rs substitute Of
a marker at a billiard table, and occasional
ly as hel per at livery stable
In this miserable condition, with naked
ness and famine staring him in the face,
exposed to the taunts and insults of those he
had once supported, he was recognised by
an old friend, who gave him ten guineas
to purchase neceSSaries.
He expended five in procuring decent
apparel; with the remaining FIVE, he re-
paired to a common gaming house, and in
creased them to fifty he then adjourned to
Whites, sat down with his former associates,
and won twenty thousand pounds. Re-
turning next MI ght, he lost it all, and after
subsisting many years in abject and sordid
penury, died a ragged beggar, at penny
lodging-house in ST. Giles.
Be SoMETH1NG.-Therei is great grandeur
in the thought,-"I have made myself"-
The world may wag their heads and you
may be denounced, but if you are concious
that integrity of purpose has always charac-
terized you. and that you now stand on an
eminence, placed thAre by your own recti-
tude of heart, you have nothing 10 fear
You had not the influence of wealth, nor the
God speed love of powerful friends but
you had more-a heart fixed and deter
mined: and this has made you what you are.
Go on-add virtue to virtue-look steadily
at the goal before you, and at last your most
treacheous and artlul companions will ac-
knowledge your superiority, and feel proud
of being among the number of your friends.
The man who is resolved to be something
in the world should have nothing to fear,
and when he little dreams of it, honors
gather about his head and an influence goes
out from him, which is exerted, silently but
surely, for the good of thousands.
ROME AND CONSTANTINopLE.--Yo ou NAV
have learnt singular fact from the las,
Journal de Ccnstantinople, viz that She
kib Efendi is to take Rome in his way to
Vienna, in order, in the name of the Sultan,
the head of the Mahomedan religion, to con.
gratulate the new Pope, the head of Catho-
licism, on his accession to the Papal throne.
This is the first time any compliment, off,
ciaI or other, has ever passed between these
great representatives of creeds so hostile to
each other. The event may be regarded
as very significant sign Of the times 1t
seems 10 betoken subsiding of theoIoeic
hate on the part Of Islamism towards Chris
tianity, arising from indifference or lack of
The mission of the Sultan to
the new Pope, especially under theec cir
most remarkable. Whate-
yer Interpretation may be put on it, it is
proof that the softening and assimlIating hu-
manity of thought and feeling, which form
the great bond of sympathy among nations,
are now fast pervading the minds of Otto
man Mahomedans, despite the careful Sc
clusion of Turkish life, which is intended
to exclude all such influence.
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