Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-14
THE SOUTH CAROLINA METHOD OF CHOOSING
ELECTORS,


The General Assembly of this State will meet at
Columbia day, to cast the vote of South Caro-
Ina for the President and Vice President Of the
United States, and will present scene very differ
ent from that which will be enacted in other Sec
tons of the Union While, elsewhere, we have
reason to believe that there will be great excite.
ment; that political machinery will be brought to
be6r; that the worst Of passions will be appealed
to by the worst of men; that those who aspire to
be the opponents of an enlightened age will exhi-
bit their fitness for that Office by leading mobs; and
that all the people Of every other State at mat
ter what inconvenience aud expense, must quit
their homes and force their way to the polls
some hundred and seventy gentlemen will quietly
assemble at the State House, and, with an order
and decorum that will be rarely witnessed in any
other deliberstve assembly, will cast the vote Of
the State and forthwith return to their homes
again, with no more of popular disturbance than
might the meeting of the Corporators of Rail-
road Charleston Standard, NoV. a.
PERsEvERE IN TRAINIEG.-In home training two
rules must be adhered to, if parents would accom-
plish CREST and imperishabie results. The first is
prayer, and the second perseverance, Wesley
home education, under the tutelage of his parents,
was peculiar, and well calculated to initiate him
esrly in habits of order, and resoute effort in
complishipg any object he might undertake
"Why, my dear, said his father to bis mother or
she to him, q forget which, while patiently teach
ing one of their children a simple lesson, which it
was slow to learn; "why, my dear, do you tell that
boy the same thing twenty times overT "Be-
cause" replied the other, nineteen times won't
do. If tell him but nineteen times all my labor
is lost but the twentieth time secures my object "
All classical antiquity has not bequeathed us q
maxim of more practical wisdom. Christian faith
imbibes it from the Word of God If we would
teach knowledge to the young, and make them to
understand the doctrine frsught with life and holi-
ness and salvation, "precept must be upon pre-
cept line upon line, here little and there little.
In such a school, Wesley's mind was prepared to
achieve the greatest things by being taught the
smallest, and whatever he learned at all he learned
well.
BRIGHT HOURS AND GLooxY-Ah, this beauti-
ful wcrldl know not what to think of it. Some
times it is all sunshine and glsdness, and heaven
itself lies not far off, and then it suddenly changes
and is dark and sorrowful and the clouds shut
out the day. In the lives of the saddest of Us
there are bright days like this, when we feel as if
we could take the great world in our arms. Then
come gloomy hours, when the fire will not burn
on our hearts, and all without and within is dis
NAL cold and dark. Believe me, every heart ha
its secret sorrows which tbs world knows nc
and ofttimes we call man cold when he is only
sad-LonqfeloU.
x<y we learn that an excellent company OF
emigrants to Nicaragua will leave here about tie
18th of this month, under the command of well
known and highly esteemed gentleman of this
State whose gallant services in the Mexican war
and high-souled bearing on all occasions, together
with his eminently kind and smisble social quail
ties are sure guaranty of his success in this new
enterprise He will carry with him our most sin
cere wishes for his welfare and prosperity Lou.
Journal
A WRLL-DRsERvED CoMPLINENT.-It has been
suggested by some of our friends that ssplendd
Louisville to the Americans of Maryland for their
gallant and triumphant effort in behalf of Ameri-
can principles. This compliment is well deserved
BY the Americans of Maryland, and from none
can 1t come with more graceful propriety than from
the city Of Louisville. We do not know an Amer.
lean in the whole city who will not cheerfully and
gladly contribute for this purpose. Let il be done
and well done, IN style becoming our party in
this city.-LOu. Jour.
Hoe PAoKRG.-The season has arrived Tins
far few hundred head have been killed BY Messrs
Hall, Hunt & Co. No contracts have been mad.
since early in the summer, and prices then given
could not now be realized Holders in the coun.
try are now asking 81 to 81 %. gross. We learn
from the Lancaster, KY Standard that q large
drove is passing through that place On their way
to this city.-Lou. Journal llh.
OF Among the numerous casualties detailed
none affect US with more queer feelings than the
melancholy announcement The young man who
went off with an angel in book muslin, has returr-
ed with termsgsnt in hoops"