The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-06-15

| THE Beginning OF THE WoRLD.-The follow
ing is an extract from sermon of Spurgeon.
the English preacher, and is specimen of the
eloquence which within year or two has made
his name familiar in both hemispheres: "Can
you tell me when the beginning was? Years
ago. we thought the beginning of this world
was when Adam came upon it; but we have
discovered that thousands of years before that
God formed chaotic matter to make it fit
abode for man, and putting race of creatures
upon it, that they might die and leave traces of
his handiyork and marvellous skill, before he
tried his hand on man. But this was not the
beginning for revelation points US to period
long ere this world was fashioned to the days
when the morning stars were begotten-Yhen,
like drop of dew from fingers of morning, stars
and consultations fell thickly from the hand of
| God; when, by his own lips, be launched forth
ponderous orbs; when with his own hand, he
sent comets, like thqnderbolts, wandering thrQ'
the sky TO find some day their proper sphere.
We 60 back to those days when worlds were
made and systems were fashioned and we have
not approached the beginning yet.
Until we 60 back to the time when all the
universe slept in the mind of God as yet un-
| born-until we enter the eternity where God,
the creator, dwells alone, everything sleeping
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guessed the beginning. We may 60 back back,
back-ages upon ages. WE go back, if we
may use a word, whole eternities, and yet never
arrive at the beginning. Our wing may be
tried, our migration die away. Could it out
strip the Ightning's flashes in majesty, power
and rapidity it would soon weary itself ere it
could get to the beginning, But God from the
beginning, choose his people, when unpayigated
either was yet Unframed by the wing of sin
gle angel, when space was shoreless or unborn,
when universal silence reigned, and not voice
or whisper shocked the solemnity of silence
when there was no being no notion naught
but God himself alone in his eternity; when
without the song of an angel without the at
tendance of even a cherubim, long ere the lily
ing creatures were born, or the wheels of the
chariot of Jehoya were fashioned; even then,
Sin the beginning was the word,'' and in the
beginning God people were-ip the beginning
He choose them all unto eternal life"
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! MURDER LYNCHING AND HANGING.-We learn
from a gentleman who came from Pontotoc day
before yesterday, that on Sunday week as L.
E. D. Roberts, a planter living near Ellistown,
in that county, was going to church, he was
waylaid by man named Holiday, who fred
at him with shotgun. Twenty nine buck
shot entered his body which produced instant
death. HolIaday Immediately fled. The whole
neighborhood was aroused to phrenzy of ex
citement so soon as the bloody deed became
known. Men mounted on the feetest horses
secured the country in every direction for Ho
Iaday, and party struck bis trail leading north.
They pursued him to BurnesYile, ,in Tishomingo
county, where he was captured and brought
back to ElliStown. Judge Lynch considered
the case capital offense, and on Saturday
evening Holiday was taken to the scafold and
, executed by the citizens.
Our informant describes the excitement at
tendant upon the execution as being very great.
This is the third man executed by mobs i'll
Pontotoc county within the past two years.
1t seems that Roberts and Holiday, prior
to the shooting, had threatened to kill each
other ON sight, and upon the body of L. Z. D.
, Roberts was found two pistols
[Oxford Mercury.
Be GENTLEMEN AT HoME.-There are few
IT families, we imagine, anywhere in which love
is not abused as furnishing the license for i'm
politeness A husband, father or brother will
speak harsh words to those who love him best,
simply, because the security Of love and family
pride keeps him from getting his head broken.
i
polite, at times, to his wife or sister than he
S would to any other female, except low and
, vicious one. It is thus that the honest affec-
n tions of a mans nature prove to be weaker
!, protection to a woman in the family circle than
the restraints of society, and chat woman
it usually is indebted for the kndest politeness Of
y life to those not belonging to her own house
: hold Things ought not so to be. The man
g who, because it will not be resented, inf1icts
1t his spleen and temper upon those of his hearth
y stone, is small coward and very mean man.
t. Kind words are circulating mediums between
true gentlemen of society, and nothiug can
d atone for harsh language and disrespectfuI
of treatment too often INDUCED in between those
q bound together by Gods own ties Of blood, and
e the still more sacred bonds of conjugal love.
. Life illustrated
= IMPORTANT DECISION court of the
- United States, at Mobile, hon. John A. Campbell
~ |presding-John 0 Reilly, libeant, VS.. the barA
:, Mary Coe. The decision which was rendered
in this case, on the 27th ut., settles question
e of considerable interest to merchants and shif
owners In February last, tive half-pipes o
;s brandy were shipped at New York, for Johr
70 O REILLY, On the bark Mary Coe. bill o
> lading was given acknowledging the receipt o
E the FIVE halfpipes OF brandy 10 good order ane
we'll conditioned, to be delivered in like gooc
order and condition to the libellant, at Mobile
a dangers of the sea excepted, etc, When th'
u ship arrived at Mobile, two of the casks were
,s as found to be nearly empty-l19 gallons having
leaked out during the voyage. 1t was PROVED
70 that the leakage was not occasloned by am
y peril of the seas, or of any defect Of the casks
- The bill of lading was partly printed and part
N ly written. Upon the face of the bill of ladint
:" there was an impression, made by stamp Q
an oval form, the words of which stamp wer
a partly legible and partly illegbIe- One of tn
questions raised in the case, was whether thi
was or was not part Of the bib of lading. j
or delivering the judgment Of the court, his homo
= said: There is stamp on the face of the bl
=, of lading, of certain words that are not entrel
" legble, which the libellee contends is a limita
~ ton of the liability assumed in the contract b
the owners of the vessel. But ! am of opiuio
- that the written contract cannot be contradicte
- by language that is not legible. The evils re
+, sultng from the allowance of parole eYidenc