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The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-04-06
THE BuRlAEor TuoM.s MooRE THE

Marciat Nesss u Isl ssSS ];
withiiHsl mile Of ~ IS iiich
he hrcathed his lasf. sIe was placed,
in obedience to his own wish, in the
same grave with one of. his daughters.
The village church was crowded with
the poor Of the neighborhood,' and the
Rector of the adjacent village came to
pay the last tribute Of regard to an old
friend. But beyond this gentleman
and MIR. Longman, the publisher, there
were none who had known the poet in
life to offer him personal respect in
death.
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-04-06

EMIGKATIoN FROM EUnopE.-It is
anticipated by the New York Herald,
that the progress and pcrmanence of
despotism in Europe will drive all re-.
publicans from the old world to. the
new, during the next ten or tycnty
years, to the extent probably Of. from
one to two millions q wear.
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-04-06

DESIRABLE RAIL RoAp.-A writer
in the National Intclligcnccr proposes
that rail road be constructed from
Washington to the Point OF Rocks,
there to connect with the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail Road. 1t is matter
for wonder that such line has not
been built already. 1t is almost ai
cquilated tri;inglc from the Point of
Rocks to Washington, via the Relay
House. You 60 within eight miles
of Baltimore, and then. return, as it
were, nearly by the same route to
reach the capital of the U. States. The
presnnt road is adapted to tho North
ern custom, hut it is very inconvenient
for the Southern and Western travel.
To the people of this Valley it is par
ticularly SO, because, rs we'll acquaint-
ed as we nre with the real distance OF
Washington, it may well appear tcdi.
GUS way to reach it by the present rail
road arrangements. In Massachusetts
q new road is built whenever few
miles cut off. From the Point OF
Isecks to Washington direct it is abou,
forty miles. BY the Relay House ii
cannot be less than eighty or ninety
'dou6ie the distance, or over. With the
aid Of figures like these, the road would
be a profitable one from the very day
Of its complction.- Winchester Rep"6
Lcdn.
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The old Brewery, on the Five Points,
New York, has been purchased by the
Mcthodists for $4,000, and is to be
converted into chapel for sailors.
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IN Maine, we understand the dcputa-
t'on OF that State is going on very
rapidly. Every energetic business
I''aii.is trying to get out of it and 60
to 'Cn.ft0rnia, or anywhere.
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The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-04-06

sW We have received the West
minster Reuiew for. january, it con-
tains several interesting articles.
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DEATH or AN OLD ssansrkR.-SainucA
Preston, editor of ag@ Huron (Qhao)
Reflector, in descending his Office stsiss,
on the evening of the 3D. inst, fell and
fractured his skull, so that he died next
morning. He was in his I74thf year,
and worked at the business to the fine
of the accident. He learned the trade
in the Boston Palladium office, sptb-
lished the Farmers Cabinet, Si,sat
keene, N. H., which he left in 1901,
came to Ohio in 1919, and in 1880
became senior editor Of the Reflector.
He was much respected, filled respecta-
bly, number of responsible Offices,
and left not personal enemy s4,as z
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goodness, and happiness aud wisdom;
there is only one years diil;,rpnce ke,
tween him aud the poor rich man;
with all of his cmbarrassnlcnts, !: and
worrymcnts and unhappincss. IA
wonderful difference that, between
living year in advance Of OIL imcdInc,
and one year behind it! And yet, in
the course of n lifetime there is only
one years difference. The man wau
lives ono year in advance ofhis income,
spends his whole life in debt, and
cl,dures all the notifications Of il,,
dcbtcdncSs. The man who lives ono
year behind his income, his ALWAYS
plenty of money, can crafty his
wishes, live happily, and enjoy just as
much of the luxurics oflifc as. he does
VIII" lives i'll advance of his income,
and always embarrassed.
The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-04-06

FParent, WHO would be glad
80 il.s'c others, under similar cirepm-
stances, make an effor: with the phos-
phate, combined with cod liver. ail,'
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17
Jerusalem, Palestine, and Syria.
BY DIR. ]. V. c. SMITH.

Jerusalem is tolerably clean-from its location
on a steep side hill, and not because the inhabi
tants are disposed to keep it in good condition.
Filth appertans to Arabs wherever they are.
Deep cisterns abound, cut into the solid rock, in
which rain water is carefully collected, which is
used for all domestic purposes Water carriers
bring some in skins on donkeys from the pool Of
Sloan, but only few are able or desirous of
supply without the walls. A fine stream is con-
Quoted to the city from Bethlehem, winding about
the mountains which is exclusively devoted to
the purposes of the celebrated mosque of Omar,
on the very plot once occupied by the temple Of
Solomon.
Wood for fuel is always dear-being sold by
weight, and is principally roots of olive trees,
brought from distance on camels. If trees
were planted as suggested in this communica-
ton fuel would be abundant and reasonable.
No house has fireplace Or chimney A little
charcoal in a copper dish placed in the centre Of
room is the extent of an attempt at a social fire.
AT Bishop Gobat's and one other house, stoves
were noticed. At DR.. Spaudngs missionary
room at Damascus, a regular Boston stove diff
fused comfort that could nowhere else be found
in the town.
Old as Palestine is, as the residence of civil
zed man, there is not one decent road, five rods
long, in the whole territory. Paths are struck
out where there are the fewest stones or the least
mud, over any ones field, and through an pre-
misses the rider chooses to 90. If Herod the
Great, whose passion for building magnificent
cities was equal to Abba Pasha's in Egypt for
creating palaces, had made five miles Of good
road from Jerusalem towards Jaffa, he would
have conferred blessing on his abused and de-
graded country. have roamed over the stu
pendous ruins which mark the ambition OF that
energetic but wicked wretch, with feelings that
were never called into activity in stepping from
one fallen column to another in any province.
With all his determined ambition TO leave endu-
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17

mers say, than those which are exposed to the
free ventilation of chilling damps, and the extra
neous gasses which sluggishly float near the
earth's surface at night owing to the absence
of the sun, which, during the day, carries them
up like the dew, above the stratum in which we
live and walk. No one ever supposed that the
pure atmosphere had anything to do with eau
sing the death of persons exposed at night with
in the tropics; nor does it produce the cough
Of the consumptivc and asthmatic, nor the Ian
guor and misery which the sick so freely expe-
rience.
These and other suferings experienced more
particularly at night, are caused by carbonic
acid, absence of sunlight, rapid reduction of
temperature the air being saturated with mois-
ture &C., and not by the air without which we
cannot live five minutes. 1t is absurd to sup
pose that fresh air supports our life and destroys
our health at one and the same time. The same
thing cahnot possess the utterly Incompatible
character Of good and evil, of supporting life and
DESTROYING it. 1t is all nonsense to talk about
pure air being hurtful to life and health, at any
season by night and day; but while carbonic
acid, absence of sunlight, rapid reduction of
temperature, the atmosphere saturated with
moisture, &C., at night are causes of sickness and
suffering it is no error to believe that the night
atmosphere is often injurious to health. A be-
lief in this need not prevent good ventilation, for
fcotton cloth screens be placedin windows during
night hours, a free ventilation is obtained, and
the air is somewhat rariied before it enters the
apartments this meets all the necessary cond
tions of freedom from exposure, and a plentiful
supply of as good air as can be obtained Those
who believe that constant exposure to night air
is net injurious have never had the good fortune
of trusting to that notable appendage, placed so
prominently on mans front for detector, viz ::
a good oltactory explorer.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17
NUMBER sc.

cannot for the lite Of lis understand why the peo-
pie of New York, Boston, Baltimore, or elsewhere,
should desire to tax themselves, in order to sup
port those classes who cannot in the face of fair
competition, and with heavy i'm port duty in
their favor, protect themselves. This policy seems
to lis suicidal, for the position of the American
Wing is in every point of view so dssimiar to
that of the British landlord, that not the slight
est trace Of analogy Can be traced between
them
Turn to the other party. The Democratic
section of the Union derives its strength mainly
from the Southern and Western States, which
flourish by what they raise from the soil. To
them, Free trade with England is as essential as
the air they breathe. As an outlet for their sur
plus produce, the conncxion is invaluable, and
as we admit their products duty free, it becomes
matter of the first consideration on their parts,
that our skilled labor should receive as nearyas
possible equal inpartiality. A reduction Of the
American tariff has been found by experience to
work well for both England and America. Hhas
has cheapcncd to the people of the Union the
products of the tist-named country, and by
largely Increasing the imports, has even increas-
ed the revenue. In fact, it has produced in
America, exactly the same results as in England,
the national exchequer in both cases has been
benefited, and correspondingly, the comforts of
the people of both countries have been increased.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17

Williamsburg, Greenville, or any other up-coun-
try district, require more funds to support their
public schools than the parishes of st. Philips
and St. Michacls, let those districts have it
The object is to educate the future citizens of the
State, and if it costs fifty dollars year to cdu-
cate a child in the sparscly populated sections of
our State and only twenty dollars in Charleston,
the fund should be so applied that an equal num-
Der in both localities should be educated without
reference to the cost There is still another rca-
son for this basis of distribution. The children
of the country districts are more likely to become
and remain citizens of the State than those chill
drci who would receive the benefits in Charles
ton.
We trust that the people will impress upon
their representatives the great Importance of
giving life and efficacy TO our common school
system, so that the money expended may be of
some service to the State. 1t is their duty and
interest to provide for the virtue and intelligence
of those who must shortly assume the response
bilites of citizens, and it needs not repetition
from us, that in proportion to the Intelligence and
enlightenment of people, so far arc they quail
fed to preserve their liberties and defend their
rights
Dr. Johnson had very correct notion of the
delights Of editorial life, and has condensed so
much truth iuto such small space, that we can
not refrain from quoting his remark. We COM
mend them to the attention of all carpng critics,
who verify Byrons lines:
"a man must serve his time Mt every trade,
Save ccnsurccritics, are already made"
Dr. johnson says: 81 know no classes of the
community from whom SO much disntercsted
benevolencc and thankless labor are expected as
from editors of newspapers. They are expected
to feel for every one but themselves-to correct
public abuses, and private ones Also without
giving offence; to sustain the difficulties of 9TH
crs, without regard to their own--to condemn
improper measures of every one and no one at
the same time They are expected to note eve
rythng that is important Or extraordinary of
mems opinions, their notices must be calculated
to please every one, and at the same time offend
no one"
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17
From the Scientific american.
Night Air.

1t is prevalent idea that night air is not so
healthy as the atmosphere when under the in
fuence of light. This opinion must have origin
ated from some cause, or else it must be set
down among old wives fables. Noone ever had
an opinion that the composition Of air was chan
ged during the night hours, but certainly it is
well known, that air and the atmosphere are two
different things. The atmosphere-that ocean
in which we continually bathe, and on which we
continually feed, often becomes unfit for respira-
ton by extraneous matter floating in it, under
the different names of miasma, infection, &c. 1t
has been said, "the belief of night air being in
furious is an error which has hndered the intro
duction of ventilation more than all Others" This
we do not believe, for it is well known that the
eft1uvia of marshes is the most dangerous during
night hours and those who are exposed to the
night air in any country, except upon the ocean,
never enjoyed such good health as those who are
protected from its influence. The domestic ami
mails, such as cows and horses, which are housed
every night i'll summer, "do lctter,' us the far
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17
From, the Boston Traveller.
Education and Longevity.

General intelligence in a community operates
in many ways in behalf of the continuance.of hui
man life 1t docs so by favoring that morality
and virtue, the want of which, by leading to fa-
tai indulgences sends so many to the grave. It
does so by making men acquainted with the
laws of life, by which so many ofits foes may be
avoided. 1t does so by furnishing communities
with knowledge Of the various remedies which
experience and skill have brought to light for the
relief of human woe.
But let us see how statistics confirm this po-
stion. A celebrated Belgian philosopher has
gone into this subject with great ability, and has
brought to light some interesting facts. He
compares England and the Mexican state of Guam
axuato as two extremes of the scale of civilization
In England there are fifty eight inhabitants to one
death, in the latter nineteen; deaths being three
times as numerous in the one as the other, in
proportion. England is a highly civilized State;
while in Guannaxuato, the mass of physical, mo-
raj and political pollution is of an applying mag
nitude.
With advancing civilization the rate of propor-s
tionable mortality decreases In the 18th cen
tury the annual number of deaths in London
arose to 81 900. One hundred years later, though
there was great increase of population, the
number was but 100. In the middle of the
last century, the annual mortality was in 20;
now it is only in 40; having diminished one
half
We reach similar interesting results if we con-
template men in different social positions. Of
ten thousand persons in agricultural districts in
England, where education more widely prevails,
1858 reached the age of forty years; while of
an equal number in the manufacturing districts,
only 1919 survived to reach that age.
A comparison in france between 1000 per-
son in high rank with 1000 in section of Par
is containing ragmen sweeper day laborers, &c.
showed morality twice as great among the for
mer.
by looking over the tables of Life Insurance
companies, we ascertain very great martality
among the uneducated poor, compared with the
educated classes.
Casper, of Berlin, has made some curious ex-
ploration in the great field of human longevity,
especially in reference to the influence of the pro-
fessions on mortality. lie arrives at the conclu
sion that of all the varied pursuits of men, that
Of the clerical professions stands the best chance
of giving its incumbcnts a green old age. Ac-
cording to this author ofone hundred clergynen
there attained the age of seventy and upward,
forty two; of advocates twenty-nine of artists,
twenty-eight Of physicians, onl ly twenty-four.
The authors conclusion about clcrgymen may
do in Prussia, but the immense pressure of re-
sponsbity resting on this class, and the exces-
sive labor demanded of them in this country
would give, we believe far different result were
Il careful examination made
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17
MY LOVE IS LIKE THE LILY FAIR.

BY H. L. RANN.
My love is like the lily fair;
Her eyes are violets wet with dew,
Or stars, whose glories trembe through
The midnight of her hair;
And, as her glowing lips unclose,
A music that can charm despair
Steals forth-and float upon the air
The odors of the rose.
All, we'll do we remember, how
Pale as the pale moons tremulous light,
She whispered, one serenest night,
Loves first and hottest VOW;
Closer her cheeks she pressed to mine,
AS Gin her maiden bashfulness,
Scarce conscious of my calm caress0
She murmured-sI am thine"
What cared we for the waning hours;
The palng stars-the dawning day!
While bliss upon our bosom lay
Like dew upon the flowers;
While, softly, to loves music beat
Our hearts, and like summer dream,
The moments f1ed-or like the stream
That gurgled at our feet.
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well, near the Court house will be recollected by
all who have visited our town within the last
twelve months. A short time since the town
council and citizons, for the purpose of obtaining
sufficient supply of water to admit of its being
conducted, in pipes, from the well to the jail
and private residences in the vicinity, contracted
with Mr.. n. B. Reid to sink it below the esecond
rock. This contract has just been completed;
and the result is, we havenow a beautiful stream
of clear gurglns water rising upn the middle of
the town, and flowing off through the streets
The quantity of water supplied by the we'll IS es-
timated at from $50 to 400 gallons per minute.
Cahoba Gazette.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17
From the Baltimore Sun.
EVENING.

BY JOHN F. JEFFERSON.
When twilight meath the west is fading,
And sable night walks Ger the vale.
Ten thousand stars are promenading
On azure plains by moonbeams pale.
The dew-drops on the leaflets pending,
Appear like polished mirrors bright
Where starry images are lending
To nights dull path their mimic light
And now comes silence, softly creeping
Along the track where night doth tread;
Where nature, weary soon, is sleeping,
Fast in her quiet, curtsined bed
Sweet sleep, that calmeth all our sorrows,
That gently wipes away our tears,
And bids US hope for bright to-morrows,
Exempt from conflicts, doubts and fears.
Thou'rt welcome, pensive, tranquil hour,
When days perpexing labors close;
When sleeps enchanting, soothing power,
Brings weary limb and thought, repose,
Louisville, Ky., June, 1852.
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17

There is an infinite deal of truth in this short
paragraph:
Nothing great ever yet succeeded that was
not first hssed at by something very small"
Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-08-17

The number of Jewish officers who hold com
missions in the French army is said to exceed
one hundred.
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