The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-09-25

been lost in the ,6flling grandeur Of
the public presence of Washington.
Having retaned his seat for a~fow
moments whilethe members resumed
their soats, THO President rose, and
taking from his breast roll of manu-
script, procekaed to read his address.
His voice was full sonorous, deep and
rich in its tones, free from that trum-
pet ring which it could ASSUME amid
the tumult'-of battle, (and which is
said to havo been distinctly heard
above all its rour,) but sufficiently
loud and CLEAR to fill the chamber and
be heard ), with perfect Tease, in its
most relsoto recesscs. The address
was Of considerable length; its topics
of couYe, l forget, for I was too
youngfo understand them; I only re-
member, in its latter nart, some refer
ence % the Wabash River (thcn q
new name to my Garland to claims
or disputes on the part of the Indian
tribds. lie read, as he did every
thing else, with a. Singular serenity
ana comp9spre, with manly ease and
dignity, but without the smallest at
tempt at, display.
Having concluded, he laid the
lDwlscript upon the table before him
fand resumed his Seat; when, after a
slight pause he rose and withdrew,
the members rising and remaining on
,aieif, feet until heileft the chamber.
The papci--was then taken up by
Mr. Bcckley, the clerk of the House,
and againread frmo beginning to end
Beckley's enunciation, by the by, al.
nirably clear, giving every syllable
of every word, and I may say, he
was almost the only officer whose Off.
cial duty it is to read, who l ever
heard read we'll.
This form having been gone
through, the members Of the Senate
retired, and | took advantage of the
bustle.t TO decend from my ppayonted
and presumptuous elevation, aud min
gle with the dissolving crowd.
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FEMALE DUELIsT-Thc most cele-
bratcd female duelist was the actress
Maupin, one of the performers at the
Opera. Seranc, the famous fencing
master, was one Of her lovers, and
from him she received many valuable
lessons. Being insultcd one day by
an actor by the name Dumcny, she
called him ont; but as he refused to
give her satisfaction, she carried away
his watch and his snuf:box as trophies
of her victory. Another performer
having presumed to offend her, on his
declining n meeting. was obliged to
kneel down before her and implore
forgiveness. One evening at a ball,
having behaved in a very rude man.
ncr to a lady, she was requested to
leave the room, which she did on the
condition that those gentlemen who
had warmly esponscd the offended
lady's cause, should accompany her.
10 this proposal they agreed; when,
after hard combat, she killed them
all, and quietly returned to the ball
room. Louis XIV granted her a
pardon and she withdrew to brussels,
where she became the mistress of the
Elcctor Of Bavaria. However, she
soon after returned to the Partisan
Opera, and died in 1907, at the age
Of !hirty.sevcn. Under the regency,
a pistol meeting took place between
the Marquisc de Nc!sc and the Coun-
tess polignac for the possession Of the
Due de Richclicu; and in modern
times, so late, indeed, as 1928, a
Madame Bat St Rambcrt, received
a challenge TO fight with pistols; and
about the same period, lady of Chat
cauroux, whose husband had received
a slap in the face without rcscnt;ng
the insult, called out the offender,
and fighting him with swords, severe.
y wounded him. m.--AhMigcn's Msto.
| ~ Of Duelny.
Mrs. Darlington says that Just
before the last war with England,
circumstances were seen around the
moon nightly, shooting stars pcram-
bulatcd the earth, the desk of sun
was covered with black spots, like
blots OF ink, and comics swept the