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The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1857-02-06
MISCELLANY.
Rcollections of Col. Aaron Burr-His
Trial at Richmond. ~. %. -, -, : :

.t"I The venerable Hon. lohn$ Barney, OF
Baltimore, hasin press, and soon to he pub.
lislIed,a book,entitIcd, Sketches Of men
I. and things of'the Past. The following ex-
tracts in relation to Col.zAaron Burr, and
his trial for treason, will be found interest
ing in this locality X. ..@=.s:...s 81;
AARON BURR--How HE PRESIDED IN THE
SENATE. ,ytsF -
: 1902 I witness on the dignity, impariiality
= and winning grace with which Aaron Burr
presided in the Senate Of the United States,
during the trial Of Judge Chase, impearh:H
ed for partialily and Injustice towards John
: Fries, indicted under tic Alien and ;Seli-a
ton Law. y .s. 70; T2;, e.
-. 3, z. ms rErAL. At. RIcffMoSp. tt. -.
attended to his trial at Richmond, Va.
when he himself was indicted for treason !
His prominent counsellor was. Luther Mar.
7 tin. Of Baltimore fathers lawyer, neigh
Dor and friend. - s. ..: ~
His daughter, Marini iafierwarls celcbraf
l4ted as Mr.. Richard Raynals tKeene, invited
!, my sister and self to dine with Col. Burr;
He was them living ina house standing
alone, around swhiel,aWass;a patrol Of guards.i
The dinner was superb; abound ing ins salls
the Injuries which ifgiuas generous sol.
J. yields;in lavish abundance: q Twenty ladies;
sand gentlemen, of rank. forlunes aud fisli5
ion, ,graced the festive board:
81 Heswas esteemed a persceuted martyr;
ssDstress,in every form, aud shape make
IAN irritable appeal 10 woman sE sympathy,
her tears often flow fort sufferingsl Of the
! criminal who expiates bis riincs on the,
gibbet. 8.
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"A Campaign Incident.

An old soldier, writing to the late Duke
OF Wilmington OIL the subject of corporal
punishment in the British army, mentioned
the following anecdote: hi s.. =.
"ln'1814, when Joined the 87tll Regi-
ment under the command of Sir Hugh
Cough, there was buglcr in the corps
who had been through the whole of tic
Peninsular campaign. Paddy Shannon was
favorite with all the men, and something
OF hero but all Paddy had left were his
recollections of these acis-his only solace
the notice taken Of him at the .cantcen-
his only triumph the whisky. Need 1 say
Paddy Shannon became. 'drnker'--or
that Paddy soon made his appearance at
the 'halberts q
"TheS Regiment was paraded, the pro.
ceedlngs read, and Paddy tied up The
signal was given for the drummer to begin,
when Paddy Shannon exclaimed :.a'S !,
"Listen now, Sir Hugh. DO you mean
to say you're going to fog me. Just recol-
lect who it was sounded the charge at Bar
rosa, when you took the only French
eagle ever taken. Wasn't it Paddy Shan.
non Little thought that day it would
come to this and the Regiment so proud
OF that same eagle of their colors = !. ~
Take him down. said Sir. Hugh, and
Paddy escaped unpublished. A very short
time, however, elapsed, before Paddy again
found himself in a similar circumstance. =
go on said the Colonel.
Don't be in a lnrry,' Iejaculatcd Paddy,
I've few words to say Sir Hugh 4,
The eagle won't .s;lveyou this time, SIR
is it the eagle, indeed then. wasn't 20
ing to say anything about the same, Thought
YOU are and ought 10. be proud of it. But
was just going to ask iii it wasn't Paddy
Shannon. who, when tie ,6reacl, was storm
ed at Tarifa by $4,000 French, and only
the s7tht TO defend-it, if it wasn't PADDY
Shannon who struck up sGarryowen, to glo-
ry boy and you, Sir Hugh, lave got the
same two towersand the breach between
them on your coat Of arms in testimony
thcerof' -
Take him down, said the Colonel, and
Paddy was again unscathed. Paddy had
a long list of services to 20 through, land
IA great deal Of whiskey, and ere another
two months hewas tied up, the sentence
read, and an assurance from Sir Hugh
Cough that nothing again should make
him relent. Paddy tried tile oagle-it was
Of no use. He appealed to Sir Hugh,s
pride, and the breach Of Tarifa without any
avail. ;-'-s Il 4, ~
And is it me- at last he broke out, "that
you are going to fog Eappeal to you,
Sir Hugh Cough, before the whole Regi-
luent, who know it WE'LL it wasn't Pad.
dy Shannon who picked up the French
Field Marshall's staff of. the battle of Wit.
toria, that the Duke. of,lWelmington sent
to the Prince Regent, and for which he
got tIalsletter which will long BIZ; .relnem.
bered, ,:a1d. .thatImade him Field Marshal
into the bargain The Prince Regent
said--You; sent me thcsta ofssa Field
Marshal of France, I return You that of. a
Field Marshal of England Wasn't Pad;
dy!Sban1on ;tllat took. it,a Paddy Shan:
non, who never got rap or S.rcconpence' OF
ribbon, or star, coat Of arms, or mark, ol
distinction, except the 'fogging you are. 60
ing TO give him.. p
Take, lin down cried Sir Hugh, and
again Paddy was forgiven. =
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Habits of Literary Men.

- WINE on thetsuo]ect OF literary men and
their habits, itsiwill not be NAL appropos to
mention: that nearly all the present distin-
guishea writer's of France accomplish their
daily task in the morning. Thus Mr..
.Iliers is always up and ready for work at
six o'clock in the morning, in.all. seasons :,
Mr. sStribe,:l like Mr.. Lamartine,; works from
g to- 12T;Mr. Victor Cousin $only works
before breakfast Mr. Mignet works till Q;
in the afternoon Madame George Sand
isan exception -theSawrites, by Preference !
;nt5nigbt AlexandeT5D Dumas, pefe, works
by eIiaroxysms lie may remain four days
without;touchingS speh, and then; ;he:writes
:torty-eight hours out3stopping. If Du.-
mas was not built in out stone, like a cathe-i
dral, lie would have been dead long ago,
This%year, the son n:haying rented a. country
house al. Saint pice,: ,onS tho borders 3ofs
theSS SSeinc,F the senior; went from time ito
timeto pass a sfewdays tliere J; but, as usual, Z,
spent the most Of Ills. s.tilne, and especially
the nights; iIswri,ing. !: Whenever. Dumas
{ tflsG found s9that !. bis father was working:
too, hard on Copy lie had but one. way to
i2him from IT. The father piques himself.
on his knoWled Ice of sauces--it. .is,one. of,his.
yanities, q should like to taste one. .Sofsyonr5
sauces. says the son: Down. goes the pen,
and three BY three tile elder Dumas. de-:
sendsstIe kitchen stairs - tie long red robe,
which you e now ,=,strea aiming at an astofiish..
ing distance ins tie rear. ). BY the aid Of d:
vanity nnheard of iDgre eaients compounds
ones: more plNtes Of sauce, sticli sas never
figured on the card, Of tie best of restaurants!
lfsAl erpnder Dumas were not tie test,
Of nd lists aud dfamat slies wo1 n
4pestio onably be. tlis. greatest Of feooks 8 g
THES UkIyEnsIfy ,l:i5isi 5oT ISI he
Richmond W O. iispai ieE gives ilke stfSllows
ofIlearnins The 2 University ygiiiiia
was never In as fonris6ib Ing "A condi ton ass sat
present The nun bes of stud q .tliis
early period sassio On thap at
any ioas hist Of the
lUniYefsity. ayssf IA on ssix L hun died
;apd two fronfi tile Sfol loving
EstAtes ~ e,s 1seInsyl lsa6iiai
fgliio; Daiaw Isfid 81 liistfice soi
3gbIam gafoii ina g, South
Egarolina ga 81 a 4, lass
baI3a NJ fississif seafssiian8 SO Tsss
Miss ssa
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laStat GO shs ~ sbs%aS NJ , s.lklsais
Il M .ssl y I 81 ssssisp s.. q.
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01

COFFEE DRINKING.-The effects OF
coffee upon the human system, are
said by writer in BIackwood's Mag.
azine, to consist in making the brain
more active, soothing the body gen.
orally, making the change and waste
Of matter much slower than usual,
and the demand for food in conse-
.quence, much less. These results
are produced by the combined effects
of volatile oil, a species Of tannin,
and substance called theme, or caf-
feline, common to both tea and coffee.
1t is thought that the lessening Of
the, general bodily waste which fol-
lows the consumption of a daily al
lowance of coffee, causes saving Of
starch and gluten equal to the cost
of the coffee.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01

suspected the injury. he was prepar.
ing for him.
Then graspiug his wife by the hand,
he led her UP to a door at the fur
ther end Of the room, and throwing
lit wide open, revealed to her view
a skeleton, suspended within, holding
in one Of his bony hands one Of her
embroidered gloves.
Behold he said, pointing to the
ghastly spectacle, "the gallant and
beautiful Don Alya de Sofia, the OBJ
jsct of your guilty love- oontem-
plate him we'll, ifthe sight can rem
der your moments happier, for you
are about to die, too-the wine |
have given you was poisoned
When the last dreadful sentence
and it's more dreadful illustration
burst upon her affiighted senses, she
became paralyzed with excess Of
emotion, the scream that had arisen
to her throat, died there ina q stran-
Cling murmur, and sinking, fell back
as one dead upon the arm Of Vesale.
She was not dead, however; be
had not poisoned her: that crime he
he b ad hesitated to commit, yet he
was none the less her murderer.
.Convulsion followed convulsion, and
at last she died; and in the hour Of
death, her husband, who had never
quilted her, beheld those phenome-
na which sometimes attend the dying.
Awakening from a torpid slumbering,
consciousness and memory return ed
at once, and with them a calm and
courage she had never possessed IN
her life.
"Andre, said she, fixing her eyes
upon her hsubaud, Il am dying by
your hand; yet am innocent; never
wronged you by thought or deed;
Don Alva pursued me with his
love and threats, but repnlsed him.
| never loved but you. | feared and
honored. you as much as | loved.
Oh, Andre, believe my words, the
dying deal not in falsehoods! Should
| thus be calm we're / guilty."
Vesale, sinking upon his knees,
solemnly protested his faith in the
innocence Of his wife, and with chok-
ing sobs, adjured her to belief that
he only feigued to give her poison,
that he could not nerve his hand to
take away her life, but the terror of
death not death itself was pom her!
And while be yet spoke Isab ella muir
mured-
Thanks be to Heaven for this,
and drawing his hand towards bers,
laid it on her heart, and as she did
SO, it ceased to beat.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01
The Old Slave Trade.

From 1904 to 1907 there were.
imported into the little town of Bris-
tol, Rhode Island-a seaport that
did not contain a population Of 1000
more, than 1000 slaves annually.
The whole number imported within
the period was 1914, all. from the
coast Of Africa. During the same time
there were brought into Newport, a
town within twelve miles Of Bristol,
in the same State, and now the ia
nous and attractive watering place,
E3,4S8 slaves. Providence, in the
State, received $50. Hartford, Con-
necticut, $50, and Boston, 100, in
the same years. The slaves brought
into Rhode Island, were but a small
portion Of the number her citizens
were taking from the coast Of Afrl-
ca directly 10 the West Indies and
into the ports Of the Southern States
Fifty:nine slave ships belonged at
the time to the little State Of Rhode
Island. Some ofthe largest fortunes
which have decended to the citizens
we're created by. this traffic; and but
a few years ago there were men nv
| ing in that State, among the honor
ed and weslthiest OF the inhabitants,
who had been active participants, II
the trade, or owned the ships that car
ried the human cargoes. One ,of hel
Senators in Congress, as late as
1926 or 1928, commenced his life as
a SLAYER between the coast Of Aires
and the West India Islands; and hf
had ships engaged in it till the trade
was suppressed BY law-f not after
wards also. He died buta few year
ago. bequeathing fortune Of millions
t0 his children, who are at this da.
classed in the highest ranks Of socie
i ity.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01
The Early Wooed and Won.

A young and modest bride art thou
Ia all thy early bloom;
And now art gone from friends away
To grace another's home;
We know full well thy few brief days
Of triumphs now are done;
Yet happiness shall now repay
The early wO0e5 and wOn'
Thine is a young and guileless heart.
Confding, pure and warm;
Unsullied by breath of shame,
Or passions fiery storm:
In hope deferred thou hast not passed,
Until Hopes race has run;
But chains of purest love now bind
The early wooed and won.
Thy smiles of bliss have ceased to grace
The halls of joy and mirth;
For thou now fnd'st thy dwelling-place
By thy fond husbands hearth;
Thy hours of duty, JOY and love
: In brightness have begun;
And may all happiness be thine,
Thou early wooed and won.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01
Cbaits Yostrq.
Chiidhood's Song.

Oh sing to me that little song,
Of childhood's happy hours,
When love lay sleeping in our hearts,
As dew within the flowers;
Fonas hear its gentle tones,
And listen to its strain,
A thousand busy memories rise
Before my view again.
heard it first when but-a child,
Amid a merry throng--
Each gleesome voice, now long since hush'd
Joined in that little song;
Their voices, like the oceans shells,
Are murmuring in my ears,
And even now feel the spell
Throughout the lapse of years.
Though they, the friends Of early days,
Cannot return again,
Yet still they greet my longing eyes,
Walked by that simple strain;
And tears of joy spring to my eyes.
While the quick memories throng.
Of other days upon my heart,
From childhood's simple song.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01
Saving Fruit from Frost.

A correspondent writing FROM
Georgia to Southern paper says he
saves bis fruit, especially peaches,
from destruction by frost in the
Spring, by klndling a hundred or
more fires in bis orchard, during the
frost nights. He says:
My plan is to leave space in my
orchards, about thirty or forty yards
apart, in which | place fen logs.
The same is done about every fifty
or sixty yards round the north side
of the orchard. ] have my fires
built up atabout one o clock, A. NJ
and keep them burning until sunrise.
My hands 60 through the orchards
with hoes and keep the fires meas
urably smothered, SO as TO cause
considerable smoke, and keep the
wood from burning too rapidly. l
have never failed to save crop, and
feel perfectly independent of every
thing but sleet and hail storms.
] commence my fires after mid
night, for the reason that, during the
day, the trees through their leaves
absorb heat. At sunset the opera
ton of nature is reversed. The cur-
rent of air. Immediately above the
trees commences to cool and the
leaves begin then TO radiate heat
which ascends. This process contin-
ues until about one or two clock,
when the leaves become colder than
the current of air above; and, as the
moisture will not rise from a colder
to a warmer current fair, it remains
upon the blossoms and leaves, and
freezes and SO destroys the germ Of
the fruit. AT this point, if the fires
are made, and smoke kept up, the
smoke is drawn through the trees,
the ave nes making as iswere an ar
tificial current; and the process is
reversed Nature knows its own
wants, AND as the warm smoke passed
through the trees, the leaves COM
mence absorbing heat, and an artifi-
cial warmth is kept up, in the atmos-
phere Immediately around the trees.
which prevents the moisture from
settling on the tender blossoms and
freezing the germ of the fruit.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01
A Clergyman whose Honesty equals
his Industry.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
in May last sojourner at the Spen-
Ger House, Rev. j., called the land
lord aside and announced that be was
was dead broke He wanted the
landlord to trust him for his bill and
lend him $50. B ing an entire stran-
ger, the landlord was so pleased with
bis guests not to say impudence,
that he complied. The other day he
received the following rather amusing
letter dated at Columbus, Miss:
FRIEND PRATT: = Iuclosed please
find sixty-five dollars, the amount of
your claims against me; and, also,
many thinks for the favor you gran
ted. The Lord, since my return,
las blessed me with an abundance of
business, all Of which trust | have
disposed of to bis satisfaction.
On the 18th inst, | baptized two
hundred and twenty three converts,
all blacks but three; and the ceremo-
nv, although performed with due
deliberation, occupied only one hour
and five minutes. You will see that
this was nearly foura minute, and |
consider it a demonstration that the
three thousand converted on the day
of Psntecost could easily have been
baptized by the twelve Apostles,
each taking two hundred and fifty,
in am hour and thirteen minutes.
Please accept the money, and be-
lieve that / shall pray for your future
salvation.
Yours in God. J.--R-
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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01

TIE WAY FASHIONS CHANGR.-A
PHILADELPHIA exchange rakes up from
an old file of newspapers published
in that city in 1928, as many squibs
about the narrow skirts and enormous
bonnets which were then worn as our
editors fire off concerning the skirts
and infnitessimal bonnets at present
SO much in vogue. The press Of
1928. was to the full as violently ex-
ercised upon the size of ladies' eon'
nets as the press Of lS57is upon
the dimensions Of ladies' boOps. A
mopg the rest an anecdOte from an
English paper of that time is gwen
which we copy:
aAlady was walkingthe other day or
a cliff at Margate with a chlld' wnel d.
her bonnet flew into the sea- The
laay started to save it, fell dragglns
her infant with her into the ocean
fortunately, she aud her child fell ex
actlv into the middle of the bonnet
when the lady, using her parasol ..
way Of a scull. padded herself ashore
to the great admiration of the specta
tors"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01
Singular Origin Of a Church.

Itismentioned asa singularfact, that
the Baptist Church at Pennepeck,
near Philadelphia, and from which
the first Church in that city erigina-
ted, commenced under the ministry
of MIR. Elias Keaeh, who first ap-
peared under kind of freak, in
1856, acting as an impostor. He
passed himself off as minister, dres-
sing in black and wearing IA gown and
bands. Many persons assembled to
hear the young London divine, and
for while he proceeded in his SER
mon very well; but suddenly he stop
ped short, and was suppo, ed by his
hearers to be taken i'll. On being
questioned, he frankly confessed, with
trembling and many tears, that ne
had been practising deception In holy
things. He afterwards became pious,
was baptized and ordained, and pur-
sued his ministry with much sue
cess.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01

BED BUas.-Ths Georgia Citizen
says, to destroy bed bugs, take Of
sweet phosphorus one ounce, 6rown
sugar one pound, dissolve in two quarts
of boiling water, stir until cold, then
place each bed foot in a small tinpan.
into which a small quantity of the
liquid must be poured. This will at
tract the bugs fiom all parts of the
bed and also prevent fresh supply
The bed clothes must not be allowed
to touch the liquid.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01

It's estimated that there are four
millions Of female snuff takers in the
United States, using on an average
Of two pounds each per annum, or
eight millions of pounds, at an eA-
peAse oftwo millions of dollars.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01

The eleventh hour fifty-nlnth min.
ute friends of the South and advo-
Gates of "new Southern party
were led on by leaders in this and
other Southern States, in 1856, who
boldly proclaimed that they preferred
Fremont to Buc hanan. Bolts, if we
mistake not, made some such declar-
alton; whilst the profane Humphrey
Marshall said that he would vote fol
"Fremont, or even the devil" before
he would vote for the Democratic can
didate for the Presidency.
Yetat the every time when the
leaders of this party were using this
unpatriotic language, friend of that
candidate, whom they preferred to
Buchanan" was insulting God with
the following prayer:
go, God! we pray that Thou wilt
curse the STAKEHOLDER in all his under
takings, confound all his plans, and
speak terror, horror and dismay
throughout the entire South. CURSE,
0, GoD, WE ASK THEE, WITH A BLIGH-
TING CURSE, ALL THE DEMOCRATS IN
THE UNION; MAY THEY IN AN ESPECIAL
MANNER FEEL THE WEIGHT OF Thy GREAT
DIspLEAsURB. We entreat Thee, 0,
Lord, to go to Washington and kill
Frank Pierce; show him no mercy,
but strike him down; also, in your
righteous wrath, rene mber and pun
ish with direful wrath, Cass, Douglass,
and Toombs; let not one of these
Williams escape. We ask Thee, o.
Lord, to afflict every pro-slavery
man in Kansas with the leprosy OF
small pox; and may they, after feeling
the pains of a thousand deaths. be
tumbled headlong into he'll without
a trial, there to feel ten thousand
strokes on their bare backs daily IN
fllcted by each and every one OF tne
slaves in the United States. Our
Heavenly Father, we ask Thee to
strengthen us in our resolves to make
Kansas free State at the peril of the
Union; we ask Theeto impose Thy
mighty hand in our behalf, and help
us to shiver the Union into atoms
rather than to concede to the South
ern demons, in the form of slaye-dri-
vers, one inch of the disputed terrlto-I
tory" II Fourth Of July prayer Of a.
Black Republican Clergyman, at
O5erlin, Ohio.
A party made blind from excess
of venom against the National Demo-
cracy in 1856. for repeating. the
Missouri Compromise, cannot be
trusted as an ultra Southern party
in 1851 Rich Eng.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01

1t is stated that apples put up in
Salt Barrels, will keep much longer
than if put up in any other kind of
barrel. The American Agriculturist
mentions an experiment of five bar-
rels ofapples put up from the same
piles. one of them being salt barrel,
in which the apples we're found sound
and fresh on the first of April, while
in the other four they were nearly
all damaged.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-10-01

The Indian tribes Of Texvs ara
passing into rapid decay. In 1858
the Indiana Of Texas were estimated
at 10000, In 1856, the number.
from official accounts, did not exceed
10000.