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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-26

How A Sun sraoKE AtYEcrs Man
The general impression is that death by
sun-stroke is very painful, but the contra-
~ seems % be The fact, judging from an
account of,the effect Of such q Sisitation.
given by Gen. Sir G. j. Napier. lie ex.
peArienced an attack while in scfnda.
where the thermometer, according 20
Gen, n. himself. was OF as much use 20
him I'm as It woyld have been to a boiling
lobster. and wrote as follows to one Of his
daughters
The sun.stroke has stagger I; vet
my hope is TO die by one, for never can
death come in an easier shape. was
Just deadly sleepy it was deadly had /
been left alone /; but the only feeling Of
the transition would have been tiredness.
like that experienced at being suddenly
walked up before time. This was 70 de-
gree almost 70 be called painful; then
came pleasant droWsiness with anper
that the doctors would not let me sleen.
Were itnot for others, would that nv
horn had then sounded /: so easy. 50 de.
lightfnl was the approach ofdeath.p This
resembles accounts given by men who
have been saved from freezing to death
alter having got far down into the valley.
so that the excess of heat and excess ii
cold produce precisely the same effects
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-26

aw Be civil to your neighbour.
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-06-26

FuRrHKR FROM KANsAs-THE MESSAGE
OF GOV. Ros1ssoN, Gov. Robinson's
messageto the Free State Legislature re.
commends an immadiate apd thorough
reorganization Of government, mOdif-
cationlol the laws and the memorializa>
ton Of Congress. He examines the in;
augural Of Gov. Walker. contends lhatthe
Topeka constitution was the only clear
expression of the popular will of Kansas.
and believe that incompetent neighboring
StAtesin longer exercise sovereignty IN
Kansas. He also declared it impossible
for the rec State men to vote at bogus
elections |; and. IN conclusion. viii main
tain the position of resistance against
usurped authority at all hazards and at
al times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-02
VALUABLE STATISTICS.

We gather from the "Report on the Com
mercial Relations of the United States with
all Foreign Nations" prepared in the De-
partment of State by Mr.. Flagg and his as
sistant, some statistics which are not only
curious, but instructive to the reader who
has a taste for investigation. There are
many facts developed which are altogether
new, and which will surprise persons unfa-
miliar with the habits aud condition of the
people to which they relate:
ENGLAND.-It is assumed by British sta
tisticians that the yearly consumption of to-
bacco in Great Britain and Ireland amounts
to $4,000 tons, about one half of which, it
is supposed, is smuggled, owing to the ek-
cessive duties upwards of 1000 per cent
levied on the article under the tariff system
of that kingdom. The quantity of cigars
and snuff imported does not exceed two or
three hundred weight per annum.
FRANcE.-The article of cotton has for
number of years, constituted in value, upon
an average, three quarters Of all our domes-
tic exports to France. Our other chief ex-
port to that country is tobacco, the trade in
which is monopolized by the Government,
the exclusive right to purchase imported. and
indigenous tobacco being invested in the re-
giie, or commissioned association under the
supervision of the Minister of Finance.
One-half the area of France is cultivable,
and of this nine parts are meadow; four
and-a-half parts vineyard fifteen parts woods
and forests; fifteen downs, pastures, and
heaths; the remainder consisting of roads,
cities, canals, vegetable gardens, &c. 1t
presents every variety Of geological forma-
tion, exhibited in almost every variety of
known relations. All the departments (eigh-
ty-fve in number) contain mineral substan-
ces. There are thirty-six coal fields in thir
ty departments, and the annual produce of
coal exceeds 100000 tons. France is sur
passed by England only in the production
of iron, twelve mines of which are in ope-
ration. Three hundred thousand persons
Dire engaged in mining, and their operations
show an annual value of S80,000,000.
Schools are provided for only about one
sixteenth of the children, and the aggregate
annual revenue from all sources is about
100000, while the national debt is
over 10O,0OO,000. s.--- .
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-02
AN OLD FORT.

In Florida the old fort familiar called St.
Marks, but since the purchase from Spain,
Fort Marion, is constructed of coquina stone.
The following is an interesting description Of
it.
This fort is just century old, having
been built in 1856 1t cost immense sums
of money and is strong enough to have with
stood, in its time, several formidable sieges.
1t is probably the most stupendous, and cer-
tainly the most interesting piece of masonry
in the United States. 1t contains dungeons
which are said to have witnessed scenes of
inquisitorial atrocity, and whose floors have
been stained by the bloody tyrannies of q
dark and cruel age. There is also Chapel
and numerous guard-rooms for the accommo-
dation of soldiers within its massive walls.
The whole is surrounded by mote, which
was formerly crossed by two ancient draw
bridges. Modelled after the old feudal forms
of defence, each bastion is crowned by tur-
ret for sentinels, and has an air Of antiquity,
bordering on the romantic, as well as being
exceedingly picturesque.
Over the main entrance is engraved in
solid rock, the arms of Spain, and an inscrip-
tion in the Spanish, which informs the stran-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-02
CAPITAL IUNIsHMENT.

The Philanthropists of the present day,
who are so eager for the abolition of capital
punishment, and expended all their sympa-
thy for the hardened criminal, without any
regard for the victim whom he has hurried
into eternity, or for the misery which he has
brought upon the surviving family and
friends, appear to confne their view entirely
to the effect of punishment upon the felon
himself. They lose sight entirely of the
necessity of protection to society. They for
get that every innocent and orderly person
in the community,-every man, woman, and
child, who is not in the habit of violating
the laws of God and man-has vital inter-
est in the question, whether they shall be
protected from the hand of rufian violence,
or designing malice. 1t is useless to deny
that there are many hardened and wicked
dispositions in every community, upon whom
the checks of conscience and the pleadings
of humanity have no influence whatever.
To restrain them from the commission of
cruelty and crime, some sanction is necessa-
ry beyond moral suasion, or an imprisonment
of uncertain duration. Shall the larger
class of the innocent be abandoned to the
tender mercies of those who have neither
mercy nor conscience? or shall the class of
the guilty-who, we hope, are comparative
ly the smaller-be kept in restraint by
punishment far milder than the fate which
they would inhict or have inflicted upon
their ,victimss .,.-.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-02
THE V1NE.-The number of acres unde,

THE V1NE.-The number of acres under
vine cultivation in France exceeds FIVE mil
lions, giving employment, in the cultivation
of the vine and the manufacture Of wine, to
about two millions Of persons, (mostly fe-
males,) and in it's transportation and sale to
250,000. The vine disease, now more or
less prevailing in all wine-producing coun-
tries, has increased the average price of wine
from 100 to It's per cent. The French
Government derives a considerable portion
of its internal revenue from the manufacture
Of this beverage, about 90,00O,000 gallons
of which are annually distilled into brandy,
the expectation of which is under special
Government restrictions. Next to wheat,
the vine is the most important of the veget-
able productions of France, and extends
over the Southern half of the empire. In
lS49 there were produced in France $685.
100000 gallons of wine.
REAL EsTATE.-Landed property is more
minutely divided in France than anywhere
else in Europe, or even than in the United
States. In few departments may be found
estates of two hundred acres, but they are
rare, and daily becoming more so, as the law
divides the realty equally among the chill
dren. The greater portion of the farms are
now less than twenty acres. Improvements
in the methods of cultivation progress Ian.
guidly, and the methods of manuring and
rotation of crops, and of employing ma
chinery, continne to be very defective.
CoTToN.-The manufacture of cotton was
first introduced into France in ITO, and has
increased at an enormous rate. The total
number Of persons now employed in it is
near 100000. The total value of all the
manufactures of France annually is 1.600,-
100000 francs, and they are rapidly increas-
Iatelliqencer. ....
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From the Home Journal.
MARRIAGE.

Nature never did betray the soul that low
ed her, and nature tells men and women to
marry. Just as the young man is entering
upon life-just as he comes to independence
and mans estate-just as the crisis of his
being is to be solved, and it is to be seen
whether he decides with the good, the great
and the true, or whether he will sink and be
lost forever-matrimony gives him ballast
and right impulse. War with nature and
she takes sure revenge. Tell young man
not to have an attachment that is virtuous,
and he will have one that is vicious. Vir-
tuous love, the honest love Of man for the
woman he is about to marry, gives him an
anchor for his heart; something pure and
beautiful for which to labor and live.
And the woman, what a purple light it
sheds upon her path; it makes life for her
no day dream, no idle hour, no painted stal
ow, no passing show; but something zeal,
earnest, worthy of her heart, and head
But most of us are towards, and dare not
think SO; We lack grace We are of little faith;
our inward eye is dim and dark. The mod
ern young lady must marry in style; the
modern young gentleman marries fortune
But in the meanwhile the girl grows into an
old maid, and the youth become5 man a.
bout town, a man whom it is dangerous to
ask into your house for his business is in
trigue. The world might have had happy
couple; instead, it gets woman fretful, ner-
vous, fanciful, plague to all around her
He becomes sceptic in all virtue cor
rupter of the youth of both sexes; curse in
whatever domestic circle he peuetrates.-
Even worse may result She may be de-
ceived and may die of broken heart.
He may rush from one folly to another;
associate only with the vicious and depraved;
bring disgrace and sorrow on himself and
all around him, and sink into an early grave.
Our great cities show what becomes of men
and women that do not marry. Worldly
fathers and mothers advise their sons not to
marry until they can afford to support wife,
and the boys wickedly expend double the
amount in low company. Hence it is, all
wise men Qike Franklin) advocate early mar
riages and that all our great men, with rare
exceptions, have married young. Words
worth had only one hundred pounds year
when he first married. Lord Eldon was so
poor that he had to go to Clare-market, Lon
don, to buy sprats for supper. Coleridge and
Southey we can't find had any income at all
at the time of their marriage We question
whether Luther at any time had more than
fifty pounds year. We blast humanity in
its very dawn. Fathers, you say you teach
your sons prudence-you do no such thing;
your world-wise and clever son is already
ruined for life. You will find him at the
faro-table, and at free-love circles. Your
wretched worldly wisdom taught him to a.
void the snare of marrying young, and soon
if he is not involved in embarrassments which
will last him life time-he is a blaze fel-
low-heartless, false, without single gener-
GUS sentiment or manly aim; he has
s.No God no heaven in the wide world"
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KEEP Your SABBATH.-Be jealous on
this point. Whether you live in town or
country, resolve not to profane your Sabbath,
and in the end you will give over caring for
your soul. The steps which lead to this are
regular. Begin with not honoring Gods
day, and you will not honor Gods house,
cease to honor Gods book, and by-and.by
you will give God no honor at all. Let any
one lay the foundation with no Sabbath, and
am never surprised if he finishes with the
topstone of no God. 1t was a remarkable
saying of Judge Hale, that of all persons
convicted of capital crimes while he was
upon the bench, he found few who did not
confess that they began their career of wick
edness by neglect of the Sabbath.
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SPAIN AND MEXICO.

Our latest advices from Europe, says the
NJ Y Sun, give greater appearance Of
earnestness to SPANS threat of war against
Mexico. 1t is possible that the Spanish
government, melted by external influences,
will become so blinded to the consequence of
war as actually to attempt the conquest Of
the Mexican Republic, Gen. Commonfort
has incurred the hostility Of the Church,
and its influence is already arrayed against
him. England and France bear him no
good will, believing that one prime aim in
his policy is to bring Mexico and the United
States into closer commercial and political
relations. An idea has also, of late, been
entertained in European diplomatic circles
that the expansion of the North American
Republic may be hindered and counterpoises
formed by bringing Mexico under mo-
nsrchical government, and uniting the Gen.
trail American and South American States in
a common league for mutual protection
against the flibustering enterprise of North
American adventures. While these resis-
ting forces at the South are consolidated,
England's possessions in the North are ex-
pected to grow into great rival power, in
alliance with the mother country.
The Programme of future policy in the
Western World has been sketched in outline
somewhat after this fashion The British
Provinces to be united under the rule of q
British Prince. Mexico, ultimately to in.
clude the Central American States, to be
placed under a Spanish Prince, protected by
France. We may smile at these fancies,
but they have been gravely discussed in d.
plomatic circles in London, Paris and Mad
rid. A fear is entertained that the United
States may if not soon checked, spread its
dominion over the whole Western Hemis-
phere, and thus become an overshadowing
and irresistible power in the world By the
vastness of its resources, its command of the
commerce of two oceans, and the restless,
enterprising and aggressive spirit of its peo-
pie, it would dictate law to all other nations,
and cause the downfall of every thorne in
Europe.
The appearance, within the past few years,
of the American Republic on the stage of
European politict, rescuing political fugi-
tive from the grasp of one the proudest ty-
rannies; claiming unhindered entrance into
the Baltic, and spreading throughout the
old world its novel doctrines of international
and maritime law, has produced no little
alarm among the believers in the divine right
of Kings. All plans and combinations,
however, to arrest our progress, must prove
futile, and nothing could be done more like
ly to hasten our 'manifest destiny" to abb
sorb Mexico than an attempt by Spain to
restore monarchy in that country.
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STEADINEss OF PURPOSE.-In whatever

STEAD1NEss OF PURposE.-In whatever
you engage pursue it with a steadness of
purpose as though you were determined to
succeed. A vacillating mind never accom-
plished anything worth naming. There is
nothing likes fixed steady aim. 1t dignifes
your nature and ensures your success. Who
have done the most for manhind? Who
have secured the rarest honors? Who have
raised themselves from poverty to riches?-
Those who were steady in their purpose.
They move noiselessly along, and yet what
wonders they accomplish! They rise, grad
ually, we grant, but surely. The heavens
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ger that the fortress was finished in 1857,
when Ferdinand VI ruled the dominions Of
the mother country. Don Alonzo Ferdinan-
dos de Herida, was Governor and Comman-
der-in-Chief, and the Engineer Of conven-
tion was Don Pedro de Brazasy Garoy.
1t is said that in 1919, when Florida was
purchased by the United States, many Of
the old Spanish records, chronicles and arch
ives, that could alone shed light upon the
obscurity which clouds many portions of the
early and eventful history of this region,
were conveyed in secrecy away to Cuba.
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One philanthropist wishes the public
mind indoctrinated with the true idea that
human life is sacred trust, of which the
Divine Being alone has fixed the beginning,
continuance and end. But was mot the
murdered victims life an equally sacred
trust? And is it not rather violation Of
that sacred trust to permit murderer to es-j
cape who may put an unnatural end to ten in.
nocent persons, than, by punishment cons
sonant with the prevailing sentiment of huy
man justice, in all ages of the world, to stop
at once and effectually, the murderous career I
of one who has himself profaned the sacred
trust. s.. ...... .t..-..i<..
Again: mans liberty, the unrestrained
use Of bis limbs and faculties, is sacred
trust. A mans personal immunity from the
lash is sacred trust The argument proves
too much, and would lead us to abolish every
species Of punishment or restraint, and al
low crime to riot. A general jubilee Of
thieves, robbers, and murderers, would be
the result Of these mild and philanthropic !.
doctrines. -
The possibility that jury may, in some
cases, convict an innocent man, is an argu..
ment to prove that human Judgment is fall.
BILE, but not to disproves the necessity Of suf.
6cient punishment. An unjust sentence Of
imprisonment, or even an unjust censure Of
an ecclesiastical tribunal, without secular
punishment Of any kind, has, in some cases,
shortened the life of the subject of censure,
and within less than the time fixed by our
laws for the execution of capital sentence;
but no one ever thought of citing these re.
suits as arguments against all Jurisdiction
whatever in instances of similar charge
What, after all, is the exercise of the death
penalty in State, but the embodiment in
laws made and executed without passion of Z
one of the first necessities and first rights Of
men in rude societies-that of self defence?s
In fact, we owe it to the very protection
which civilized government provides, by
taking the exercise of this right from the
rash hands Of the injured and using itjudi:
cially, that pseudo philanthropists can fnd
a place to premulgate, or.men to hear their
doctrines. The whole of this sentiments
against capital punishment for murder is q
perversion to unworthy objects of feeling
which, if properly directed, would be:paise-
worthy in its nature.-Boston. Courier b iEsss& q
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Gkoite 4ostrg,
THAT MAN DESERVES YOUR PRAISE.

THAT MAN DESERVES fOUA FHAlSE'
Know you man whose early life
Had little promise but of care,
Whose prospects in this wide world of strife
Were anything but fair;
Who yet has, step by step, uprose
Above the dreams Of early days,
And smiles upon his youthful woes?
That man deserves your praise.
Know you man whose soul outpours
Wild music to melodious spheres
Who moves mankind's half hidden stores
Ofjoyfulness and tears;
Who sings of what is good and fair,
And wishes strife and warlike trays
Had ceased to cause mankind despair;
That man deserves yonr praise.
Know you man of wealth and fame
Who kindly lendeth to the poor,
Not seeking to blaze forth his name,
At every rich mans door,
Who daily doeth good by stealth
In many different kindly ways? cd.
That man has lofty moral health
That man deserves your praise.
Know you man who aids to teach
True moral worth to fellow men,
By life and action, time and speech,
By payment and by pen;
Who shows unto the rising race,
A thousand pleasing rainbow rays,
Throughout this vast created space?
That man deserves yourpraise.
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THE BLACK RAcE.-Chief Justice Ta.,
ney, in his decision on the celebrated Dred
Scott case, used the following language, in
reference to the history and destiny of the
colored race: -, : ,..'.ss.;.a.,
at is difficult at this day to realize the
state of public opinion respecting the unfor.
tunate class with the civilized and enlighted
portion of the world at the time Of the Dec
laration of Independence and the adoption.
of the constitution; but history shows they
have, for more than a century, been regard
ed as beings of an inferior order, and unfit
associates for the white race, either socially,
or politically; and had no right which white
men were bound to respect; and the black
man might be reduced to slavery, bought and
sold, and treated as an ordinary article Of
merchandise. The opinion, at that time,
was fixed and universal with the civilized
portion of the white race. It was regarded
as an axiom in morals, which no one thought
of disputing, and every one habitaally ac-
ted upon it, without doubling for moment
the correctness of the opinion. And in no
nation was this opinion more fixed and gem
orally acted upon than in England, the sub
ject of which government not only seized
them on the coast of Africa but took them,
as ordinary merchandise, to where they could
make profit on them. The opinion thus.
entertained was universally impressed on
the colonists this side Of the atlantic; &C. :
cordingly, negroes of the African race were
regarded by them as property, and held, and
bought, and sold, as such, in every one Of
the thirteen colonies which united in the
Declaration of Independence, and afterwards
formed this constitution" - 't-i "
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"FATHER IS DRUNK ALL THE TIME. y"
Such was the expression Of q little child who
came to our door few days ago, begging for,
bread and clothing. "Father is drunk an
the tims. Poor child What selamsst ii
misery and woe are expressed in those six
| words.
Home, where comfort should have an a.
biding place, and where happiness should
dwell as a ministering angel, is transformed
into hell upon earth by "Father being
drunk all the time" Starvation, rags, and
all the hideous forms Of poverty gather round
the house of that father who ssis drunk all
the time" Mother broken.hearted, child
rem growing up in ignorance and disgrace,
untitled to perform that part on the stage Of
life which the creator designed for them, are
the result of "Father being drunk all the
time" -a :tT: 50
"Father is drunk all the time" This lit.
tie one knew the fact, could appreciate the
effect, feltthe pinching of hunger had e1.
perienced the horrors of the past, and with
emotions of grief, which no pen can describe,
looks at the black gathering cloud which
hangs over the future, from which no CLEAN
of sunshine is visible, and from which he
has no reasonable anticipation of better days.
Poor child a beggar from door to door, o
dependent upon the cold charities of q heart.
less world, with words of truth and frankness
proclaiming the sad news ofhisown destitd-
ton, misery. and disgrace, in order to.get
bread to sustain life, and clothes to protect
him from the chilling winds of autumn and
winter-and returning to his home, ifindeed,
a home it may be oalled-his eyes meet the
form of him who should be protector, sup.
porter, and friend-but the vigor Of biss
manhood is gone-his intellect is impaired,
his form is haggard aud detected, and the;
whole appearance of the victim again re-
minds the suffering child that "Father Is
drunk all the time"-A1sanee Times.
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are not too high for them, neither are the
stars beyond their reach. How worthy of
imitation.