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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-01-22

towards the girls"
A SoS of Erin coming to Boston from
Lowell, took the stage in preference to
the cars, because, as he said, he should
ride four times as long for the same
money.
JOIN wants to know which is best, to
die and 60 you know not where, or to
fall in love and go to church with a
Bloomer!
WHAT TEA is that which is most val
ned! Liberty!
What kind of tea is most liked by can
didates for office? Majority.
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were better, how much BETTER TO err on the
side Of indulgence, for before God; one tear
shed increasingly has always TO be accounted
for.
Tell him that the thunderbolt has fallen
alike on all, on the aged and the feeble, the
youthful and healthy, and that justice has dealt
unsparingy with all
Tell him that an act of mercy is the best
safeguard against an evil destiny. 1t is easy
to brave the anger which has been subdued By
acts of kindness. If he is strong in his might
to-day, he would be stronger Tomorrow He
would prove his strength by being generous,
and to prove ones strength is to double it.
Tell him that excessive punishment leaves a
sowyenir behind it which rankles in the hearts
of future generations, which in fact can never
be effaced
Tell him that life is short, even to the young
est, and all men must appear before their Ma
ker, and what better token can he possess at
that awful moment than to be able to reply to
the dread God who sits in Judgment on his soul.
" Be merciful, o God, Tor have shewn mercy
SO far as it lay IN my power" Speak to him,
IN a word, as a compassionate heart would die
tate, seek the men OF religion, the priests and
bishops, ask them to lend their aid to plead
with you, in the name of Christ, who was the
Impersonification of mercy, that he will pro-
clam grand political jubilee, which shall
touch all hearts, re-unite ali men, and render
france IN Its rccreated strength better able to
glorify its name before Europe.
All flour humble words, our Door powers
Of persuasion, should be productive Of good
fruit we should thank heaven that our mis-
spent moments had been redeemed. We should
think we had accomplished our destiny If we
had aided TO dry up tear, to recall a single
exile, our happiness on earth would be per-
lectsd EUGENE PELLATIE.
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18
Domestic Itenlss

A letter in the Boston Traveller states
that twelve students, members of the Sopho-
more class of Yale College, have been expelled.
The unfortunates were all members of a secret
society, which published in its own name, a
few weeks since, paper containing abusive
caricatures on some of the subordinate officer.
This was a violation of college law. For seve-
raj years past the same society, as well as
others-its rivals-have been suffered to pub
hsh similar papers, often even more abusive,
with impunity.
The Minnesota Pioneer says that re-
mort has come from Lac-qui-Parl, that ovel
forty Indians men, women and children -
were found frozen to death, having eaten theI
dogs, moccasins, skin tents, and everything
that could afford the least sustenance. ii was
feared, last summer, that the loss OF crops by
the floods would result disastrously to them.
Mrs. Emily Norton, wife Of Hart 4
Norton, of Norwalk, CT, died IN New Haven
few days since, from the effects OF Chloro
form, which was administered by Dr. Park
preparatory to performing dental operation
She had last year taken Chloroform admins
tered by the same physician, IN the same man
ner, without any injurious effects.
Since the first of December they hal
forty snow-stonns at Albany, Of various dimen
sions, from three ir ches to foot. On MOnda
night they had about ten inches, which is doin
pretty well for so late in the season.
The Rev. Elijah Hedding, Senior Bish
op of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died q
Poughkoepsie, on tbs 9th inst, Of dropsy Th
deceased was II years Of age, native of Vel
mont. He entered the itenerent ministry {
the Methodist Episcopal Church IN 1901, an
was elected Bishop in 1924
On the 1st inst, Mr.. G. Lloyd, a stu
dent in Centenary College at Jackson, La
while amusing himself with a pistol, accide
ally shot away the lower part Of the palm
his right hand, Tearing some of tendons bar
but not breaking the bones of the hand.
A young man was knocked down an
robbed in the streets of Syracuse on Iuesd'
night, by three villains. He had but So WI
him, and they took that. One OF his eyes vi
completelv goueed out He was from Coul
f landt county with a drove of horses, which
f had Just stabbed near, when he was knock
down,
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TIE HARMONY SOCIETY.

A very singular suit in chancery has Just
been decided, in Pittsburgh, Pa, by Judges
Grier and Irwin, Of the U. s. Circuit Court,
which arose out of the peculiar relations which
the members of that religious association, at
Harmony, called the " Economics - bear to the
Society. Joshua Nachtreib filed bill in equi-
ty, lin ls49 against the trustees of the society,
ORIGINALLY founded by Frederick Rapp. The
complainant Joined the society in 1919, and re-
NAMED till June, 1876, when he was excluded.
The only offence charged against him was
holding few minutes conversation with some
of his friends out of the society, who were
anxious for some information as to the result OF
certain claims which they had made on the
Harmony Society. During the Afe Of Rapp,
Hthe laws and regulations" consisted merely
in his orders-he was prophet, priest and king
to his people, with absOlate control, It would
SEEM here and hereafter-as he alleged that
disObedience to his orders would lead to rather
an uncomfortable residence in " purgatory" tor
some millions Of years. The agreements
estopped a member, voluntarily Withdrawing,
from claiming share of the property, but con-
tanned no enumeration of offences, by which a
member should forfeit his interest in the COM
mon property, and pointed out no tribunal which
had power of expulsion or forfeiture OF title TO
property. The question at issue was whether
Nachtriebs withdrawal voluntary. He
had signed a receipt for 5000, received from
Rapp, to that effect, but the Court thought that
was no evidence of voluntary withdrawal for
if there was no evidence of physical, thore
was an evident spiritual compusioD, (which
would leave as little choice to the party as the
rack or the inquisition," and it was proved that
he went from the Society by Rapp's orders.
The Court decided therefore that complain
ant was expelled for no offence against any rule
or law of the society, and that he was there
fore entitled to a decree in his favor. whether
he is entitled to his equal share of the whole
property, as it then stood, to a share OF the
PROFITS while he was member, or only to com
pensation for his labor during the time he re.
mained as a member, are questions reserved
for the present" Witnesses estimated the
property as high as several Imillions-complaid-
ant claims $50, ,OO0 and alleges the property tc
have been 81, 600, 600 at the time they expelled
him, in l846. The Court ordered that the case
be referred to commissioner and master, tt
take account of the value Of all the estate O
the Harmony Society, as 1t was held on The
10th day Of June, 1876, also, IN the year 1919
the number of persons in each of those year
entitled to community of property. and als'
what would be a fair compensation for the la
Dor Of the complainant for twenty years
deducting money paid, and other property takel
by him at the time of his expulsion.
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A HORRIBLE NARRATIVE.


The Fredericksburg, Va, Negs publishes the
particulars of the death of father and two
children. which cannot fail to cause ashudderin
the breast Of every one who reads the narrative.
The unfortunate man, whose name was Wat
son, some fifty years ago, emigrated from Alex
andsia, and settled in King George county, Va.
He was then a merchant He subsequently
married highly respectable young lady by
whom he had four children Misfortune came
upon him, and at nearly ths same time he found
himself bankrupt and a vidower This, how
ever, was but 1.-The beginning of his troubles.
The NelOs thus concludesthe sad story:
With his little chlldred two of whom were
daughters, be lived on sAalt farm which he
of the weather IN the TaVreT part OF Tec1TuU0r
last. his children were seized with whooplng
cough, and every one of them proatrsted.
Whilst thus confined, their father was taEen
with erysipelas, and in the same room laythe
father and children, perfectly helpless. Whilst
thus confined, some fends broke into his meat
and fowl houses, and stole every fowl andplece
of meat on the farm. In doing so they passed
through the garden, levelling the fence, and
thereby permitting the cattle and hogs to de-
stroy all the vegetables intended for winter use.
The only thing left for the support Of the fam
ilv was a small quantity of corn meal and some
unroasted coffee In that condition they lay a
large portion of the time, without water with
out fire and without food.
poor widow in the neiglborhood sent them
a small piece of meat, and the oldest boy, not
quite so i'll as the rest, did, as long as hrs
strength would enable him, crawl to the ire
place, stir up the dying embers, halfcoOk some
bread, fry piece of meat, and with coffee,
without milk or sugar, attempt to relieve the
hunger of his dying father and sisters On one
occasion, weak and feeble as he was, he stag
gered through the snow to a neighbors house
to procure fire. At one time the father and
children would be crying for water, and not a
drop in the house and no one to bring it. Thus
thev lay for several days, until God IN his mer-
cy, took two of the children. Two days did they
lay corpses by the side of their sick parent, and
no enc to prepare them for sepulchre and con
vey them to the tomb. A man accidentally
passing by, called in, found the family as we
have described them, the father blind and in
sensible, with his two dead children--one
frozen to death-lying by his side, and left them
in that condition Two days after this the
father died. The night proceeding his death
he had hemorhage land bled most copiousy
Bv his side were his son and daughter barely
able to raise their heads, but nerved to the
occasion they sat by him the whole night alone
using every means their infant minds coulc
suggest in staunching the blood. A poor wild
ow, the day of Watson's death, heard of it.
came to his house, had him and his two deac
children buried, took the sick ones home witt
her, nursed them, and has since restoredc then
| to health.
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

OoMETHING NEW IN THE THEOLOGICAL,
WoRLD,-A clergyman of Cincinnati, Rev. Mr..
Stuart, has broached a somewhat novel hvpo-
thesis respecting the Scriptural account of the
Deluge. he insists that 1t is an allegory and
assumes that the ark IS intended to represent
the church established by Noah and his poster
dty' INTO which was Incorporated every princi-
PIE oil ooctne and duty necessary for the saliva
uon OF man at that day. To enter the ark wa,
10 be confirmed in the life of religion which it
represents. The food Of water he considers
tAe emblem OF the inundation of evil and i'm
plety, and refers to various passages in Daniel.
isaiah, Jeremiah, and the New Testament. for
the purpose OF showing that the encroachnents
the real import or 1166otTs mi -sl4s,Iss
Noah The perishing of the millions by the
deluge is to be understood, he says, ia a spirit
ual sense, as the perishing Of souls by the over
whelming influence of sin. In lecture upon
the subject, delivered by Mr.. Stuart, he ad-
vances many plausible arguments IN support OF
his theory. A literal food, like that described
by Moses, the reverend gentleman says could
not have taken place. Men OF science reJectas
an absurdity the idea Of universal deluge hav-
ing occurred since the creation Of man Geolo-
gy utterly confutes this supposition. The
learned Dr. Buckland, the orthodox DIR. Hitch
cock, and many others equally worthy, have
abandoned it, and none stand out for the literal
flood except a stubborn few, who make the
omnipotence of God the scape-goat OF physical
impossibilities These are Mr. Stuart's views
as we find them reported in Cincinnati paper,
and we give them as somewhat startling lnno-
vations upon the general belief
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

gives the following account of his labOrs =
81 take at this time fourteen newspapers and
periodicals, and read pretty much all the matter
contained IN them to do this, and read the
new books that come along, consult the Old
ones occasionally, study my Bible, hymn book,
and discipline. more or less every day, travel a
large circuit, and attend to various temporal
matters on my hands, keep memost of the time
busy but vet with all this, and more too,
have a little time for thinking, and as my pa.
pers and books contain variety of matter ano
the field in which labor presents variety o.
subjects for contemplation, my thoughts, o.
course, must be somewhat ofthe random order
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

DEATH OF A GIANT OR MONSTER. John
SchafFer, citizen Of Montgomery county, in
this State, recently shufled off this mortal coil,
and with great difficulty was put under the sod.
The Rev. Mr. Rinebach thus describes him;
"The deceased was the largest man that we
ever saw. The coffin was sufficiently large to
contain five men Of ordinary size; measuring
in width 3 feet inches in the clear, and 3 feet
in hight. Three men could have worked in it,
at the same time, with convenience. 1t ltrequred
six men to take him from the bed on which he
expired This was done by raising platform
removing the head-board fthe bedstead, and
taking him out endwise. They could not get
the coffin into the house, but by taking off the
door.faciug of an old vacated house that stood
in the yard, they got into that and carried the
corpse thither on three empty bags. Wagon
and four horses stood prepared, and ten meT
placed the coffin and its contepts upon 1t. Il
letting down the coffin into the grave, they hat
two lines doubed-one al each end and large
well rope in the middle; and seventeen men e
let down this great sprinkle Of mortality, into
it's last home on earth. His weight was no
known"
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

LOLA MoNTEz IN A New CHARACTER.
"A Boston correspondent of one of our city
papers says One of the rarest pranks Of Lola
occurred on Saturday, while returning from
Portland, Me- to this city, when Lola request
ed permission to manage the engine attached
to the regular passenger train of cars, stating
that she was much interested in machinery, and
desired the privilege of driving an American
engine, as the movements were new to her, al
though she Understood the English engines
Permission was granted, and Lola mounted the
steam horse, and at once comprehended the
driving gear, stop cocks, and all, and actually
managed the machine for distance Of twenty
miles, making the necessary stops, blowing the
whistle, and letting off steam, &C., when re-
quired During this remarkable passage, the
engineer became somewhat excited, from the
speed that Lola succeeded in getting out Of his
" Iron Poney," and endeavored to stop her from
going straight to an unmentionable place with
the full tram. but she bid him keep quiet, say
ing that she knew what she was about-and
the result of the trip proved so, no accident
having occurred from the commencement to the
epdIof the run.
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

IRON STEAMERS USELESS ss.-Some inter-
esting experiments were made at the Navy
Yard, Washington, last Wednesday, in pres
ence of the President, Secretaries of the Navy
and War, distinguished naval officers and a
large concourse of ladies and gentlemen, as to
the effect of shells upon iron and coal. The
iron steamer Water Witch was moored out in
the stream, hes bunkers filled with coal, and
several nine inch shells fired into her. 1t re-
suited in the showing that iron vessels afford
no resistance to shot, it going through the sides
as if they were paper, eaving great ragged
openings and that the coal bunkers of large
vessels are protection from shot to the ma
chinery which is placed between them; and
that the explosion Of shells will not set fire to
the coal. The range was six hundred and fifty
wards Iron is wholly unsuited for war vessels
the fragments of the iron, where struck,
alone being more dangerous than even the shot
itself
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

LAW ANEcDoTE.- following is a
literal extract from deposition made re-
centy in the Irish Court Of Common Pleas
''And this deponent further saith, on arriving
at the house Of said defendant, situated in the
county of Galway aforesaid, for the purpose oi
personally serving him with the said writ, he
the said deponent, knocked three several times
at the outer, commonly called the hall door
but could not obtain abundance; whereupon
this deponent was proceeding to knock the
fourth tune, when a man, to this deponent un'
known, holding in his hand musket or blum
deIbuss, loaded with balls or slugs, as ahis de
ponent has since heard and verify believes, ap
peared at one of the upper windows of sale
house, and presenting a musket or blunderbuse
at this deponent, said "that if said deponen
did not instantly retire, he would send his, thl'
deponents soul to he'll, tohich the depont gerill
believes he aoo1ld hare done, had not this depo
nent precipitately escaped"
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

CONCERT ExTRAoRDINAY.-The Balti-
mere Clpper'has lately had the good furtune tc
be one of an audience at a grand freq concert
lately given in marsh in the vicinity of the
monumental city. He is quite enthusiastic in
his description of the entertainment, as will be
seen by the following extracts:
The grand overture representing the breaking
up Of winter. was exquisiteay performed-the
trumpet solo was particularly fine. and added
much to the musical reputation Of Signor Gam
blenouns. The representation of than was
admirable, frying-pan obligato. The solo
"Tit,eri, iitten Kung," by the prima donna
Signorina Stenawing, was sung in a clear, me
tedious strain. The bassoon solo of Signoi
Bloodynoun's emusic on the waters" witt
variations was performed with wonderful exc
cution. Then came the grand chorus from thC
uawritten opera of " A frog he would awoolne
go" 1t was aprospos and effective. The
effect was truly astounding; the stars bllnked
and the balmy zephyrS stopped TO catch the en-
chanting melody.
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18

AN INSULT Properly REsENTED.-
Colonel Heningsen related the following anec-
dote in recent lecture at Cinclnnstl on the
Revolutionary Campaigns of Hungary. The
lecturer stated that when he was at Naples he
was informed, and had since verified the truth
of the story, that on the anniversary Of Wash
ington's birthday, formal dinner was given al
Naples, at which the officers Of an American
man-of-wsr were present. Count d'Arrogon, a
relative of the King of Naples, and commander
of his guards, after giving many toasts, apollo
gized to his American guests for not drinking
TO the memory of Washington, which, 1t shoulc
be observed, is drank under similar clrcum
stances with cordiality and respect at the mess
table of every British man-of-war and Bntlst
regiment. Hereupon one of the American OH
GERS rose and remarked, that he had known
much honor done to the great founder OF th'
Republic of the United States, but never am
greater than on the present OCCASION by the retusa
10 drink to has memory a. lNeP'es ne name :
! NPlsan
Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-04-18
love is the union Of two hearts,
That beats in softest melody,
Time with its rsvages imparts
Mo Lsffo,. f,,.so,, T., 81 oo,4oosy y
. What do vou tbink Of that

What do you think of that, Z" (nmbrel
la raised) & Donkey, eh Piggms, is it Ny
poetry, eh 1t has unnerved me, driven ms
mad. | can't take a walk but that the small
boys, mere infants, ring hideous chorus in my
ear. Some scoundrel has altered the name ON
my,slsn to suit your internal orthography. Don'i
apokoeize-1 won't listen to anything my house
Just painted, is scrswled over by horrid por.
Halts and emblems. and all owing to your &C.
cursed work. y re c0rnered, sir, don't nova
on your life. You're the destroyer Of my hop
piness-my life, and my Euphemia" With the
fond name, the lasting string Of moderation
snapped. He advanced a step, struck an atti-
tude, and then the editor, we almost said-but
no Just as the family umbrella was midway in
the blow, the door opened, and some visitor en-
tered. The injured man hesitated. Here
were Witnesses. Visions Of an action for as
sault and Battery, with big damages, and cost,
rose on his mind, and the umbrella dropped
harmless to the floor The lawyer triumphed
over the man. He turned on his heels, and
strobe out Of the room, mutteringas he went
Failed this time-one thing left-libel suit
catch"
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a BODY STRANGELY IDENTIFIED.-It
will be remembered, says the Neio Orleans Pic
dyu'le OF the 9th inst, that a day or two since
we noticed that an inquest had been held bv
Coroner Rice, on view of a dead body, found
floating IN the river, near the upper line of the
Fourth District. From a description of the
clothes worn by the deceased and steamboat
manifest found in one of his pockets, bereav-
ed father has been induced to make further in
curry and the result is the Identification of tho
remains OF a missing son. 1t appears that a
mr.. Scott. who lives on Soraparu street. be-
tween Fulton and Rosseau, parted with his son
on the afternoon of the 29th December last on
the Levee OF what was then the Second NUM-
clpaiity of New Orleans The son. who was
steamboat receiving clerk, said that he wished
TO visit one OF the theatres, and to that end the
father gave him 50 So Since then, Scott, the
elder, never saw his son alive, but having read
the account of the inquest, as above noted, In
the True Delta, he went to the Coroner's office
ana Identified ring, breastpin the steamboat
manifest, and some of the clothes found on the
body Of the deceased, as having actually be-
longed to his missing son. Yesterday at tha
request Of Mr. Scott, the body was exhumed
and more fully identified by scar which Young
Mr. Scott had on his nose. After this, il was
inferred with more OF ceremony than witnessed
the frst burial. The only thing which tho
father finds any difficulty in accounting for is.
that the body afrer being so long missing,
should be found above the spot where his son
WHICH are caIcuI1rou yrurrPsss
those who look upon it as a mine of wealth,
which they have only to reach to pick up for
tune. There are, no doubt, some who acqnire
considerable wealth, but it is generally those
who have some capital to start upon when they
reach there, and which they can invest in some
of the many enterprises which must necessari-
lp present themselves in a new country The
great mass of those who emigrate, however,
are poor young men, having nothing but their
labor to depend upon, so that every occupation
in which mere labor is required is overstocked.
We have the best reason to suppose that the
average yield of the mines will not give one
dollar day to the workers. Thousands would
gladly return if they could get the means, while
large numbers are hopelessly in debt. Many
of the poor miners are becoming desperate at
the hopeless prospect before them. Murders
are now committed for the most triding sums
because men 5wili do almost anything to avert
starvation With these. facts before them,
those who are making preparations to emf
grate-and their number appears to be unusu
ally large - should weigh well the prospect
before they start, and have a certain and def
mite object in view when they reach there.
Those who go, trusting to chance for favora-
bic turn in their fortunes, will be likely to meet
with sad disappointment.