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The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-11-29

AN OLD RIfLEMAN.-Some thirty wears
ago gentleman, belonging to the Rich.
land Volunteer Company, moved from
Columbia to RosSv lie, Chester District. A
friend in this city received letter on yes
tcrday from him, in which he says:
&" send these line, ia memory of 1889
Was then a minute man in Capt. f.. Max
cy Company my gun was No ~ have
hut one request to make: please see the
Captain OF that Ride Company, and tell
him am ready to shoulder the same gun
IN defence Of South Carolina. Can | get
my request granted? Please inform me by
the next mail
We have large company of minute
men at Rossvilc, under command OFF ames
Beatty. We will die before We will submit
to Black Republican rule"
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-11-29

When the Abolition cloud was not bio.
ger than mans hand, Iprcdictcd It's prog
ress, its expansion and its desoating burst.
with as much accuracy as if | had been
inspired and suggested mode by which
1t might be dissipatcd, and its rayagcs pre.
vented. Old men in Georgia know this 10
be true-indeed, it is of record among the
literary rubbish of that State mention
1T not in boas.ing, but in the hope that it
will add some little weight to all that is
prophetic in what follows.
Upon the action of the cotton-erowiug
States between now and the fourth OF March
hangs their destiny for veal or for woe for
ever. If they will quit the Union now in
body, while the times are the most pro.
pltious to the movement they ever had.
or ever will have, they will be great, rich
and happy people. If they let this oppor-
tunity slip--if they suffer themselves to be
lulled into curity by the fair promises of
Lincoln, by the thrcad-bare rhetoric upon
"the glorious Union" or by any thing else
they are ruined people, and the worst
ruined people who have ever trod this earth
since the sacking Of Jeruselum Come near
me, plain, honest farmers, mechanics, la
borers and young men, and let us talk over
this matter candidly, praycruly, and with u
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
A Warning to Gold Seekers.

A correspondent of the Chicago Press,
writing from the Pixies Peak region,
says:
That the country is rich, very rich, in
the precious minerals, there can be no
longer doubt; and yearly hereafter, for
a long period thousands and millions of
gold dug from these mountains will find
it's way to the States. No one can doubt
it after once visiting here and seeing
the countless leads, and testing the rich
ness Of the quartz strewn all over the
mountain sides-but q man oUith bare
hands here stands a uery poor chanae. 1t
requires capital to work successfully
these quartz mines; and have seen many
a sanguine adventurer come here with
high expectations and dreams of fortune
already made, look out upon these
mountains and quail before the hardship
presented, and penniless and disheart-
ened, turn to seek his way homeward
cursing the country and all in it, in the
bitterness of his disappointment.
Every claim from Gregory's to the
Snowy Range is taken; and to get one,
requires capital, and to work it requires
still more; and any man in the States,
without capital, who has an opportunity
Of making living there and leaves it in
the belief that he can better his fortunes
here, will, in nine cases out of ten sorely
repent the day he ever started. TO all
such, Messrs. Editors, [ believe it to be
your duty to give this wholesome advice:
"Stay at home-6y all means, stay at
home
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
SOMETHING NEW IN THE SCIEN-
TIFIC WORLD.

We copy the following interesting
article from the New Orleans Picavunss
1t is from the pen of their New York
correspondent, "Walter Clyde"
A certain DR.: Benjamin Hardinge, a
man OF original mind, careful, truth
ful and never firing student of nature,
has spent the last fifteen years in his
laboratory in liquidating quartz rock,
and combining it again in new and va
ried forms. Diss6lving quartz or silex,
with an excess of alkaH is nothing new
chemistry, but to do it with the silex
very greatlyiin excess over the alkali,
and in large quantities, and at small ex-
pense, has been one of the greatest
studies of chemistry for the past quarter
Of century. This DR.. Hardinge surely
accomplished, for I have seen three
thousand gallons of liquid dissolved at
one time, and in the short space of two
hours, and at an expense merely nomi-
nal. The capacity Of the monster ma
chine is six thousand gallons, and it can
digest twelve tuns of quartz, or oize or
flint rock, in twenty-four hours, and
convert it into the waters Of crystalli-
zation. But, then, you have the basis
for the widest speculations. Your
readers are, perhaps, aware that very
large portion of our globe is of just this
material in the form Of sand, rock or
other silicious substances. By chemical
combinations, DR.. Hardinge makes an
article Of plastic marble, purer than the
purest Parian. It can be made of any
color, by mixtures with various metallic
oxides. Every article of marble work
may thus be cast as perfectly as castings
of metal now are, and copies of Corin-
THAN pillars, statues, mantles, can be
furnished at an expense of probably one
per cent. their present cost. By a
proper combination with ordinary sand
or marble, stone is made harder than
the hardest flint, and at price far less
than cheapest brick. Your parlors may
be frescoed in marble, and time will
never injure the colors. This is, un-
doubtedly, the same process used in the
catacombs of Egypt, the colors of which
are as fresh as when they were first put
on, three thousand years ago.
Your levees may now be built of stone,
made on the premises, and you will have
no trouble to make them equal in size
to the foundation stones of Solomon S
temple.
This liquid quartz is also made into
paint, incombustible and insoluble.-
Your ships and steamboats, can never
burn up, and the meanest hut will be as
safe from fire as the marble palace
This seems almost like story of the Ara
bian Nights, yet it can not be otherwise
than true.
For dissolving gold bearing quartz,
this invention value is without limit.
Every atom of gold may be precipitated
and saved, and then the liquid is of far
more value than the whole thing has
cost. Think Of one great iron monarch
twelve tuns Of flint in twenty
four hours.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
Woman's Qualities.

The characteristic qualities of woman
when true to the type of her being
her delicacy, modesty, reserve, and chas-
tity in thought and action-her sweet
ness, gentleness, patience, sympathy,
tenderness, dependence, devotion, her
sensibility to beauty and grace, order,
fitness, and propriety in speech, dress,
behavior, everything; her intellectual
faculties-more receptive than produc-
tive thought resting more ON feeling
than feeling on thought making her
more susceptible of culture and refine
ment than apt for grasping the abstruse
and rugged in science and practical life;
all these are charms for men, through
which man gets unspeakable good to his
own nature while mans harder texture
in body and mind-his strength, cour-
age, self-reliance, his grasp, force, and
productive power in the world of thought
and action, draw woman to him. Thus
each finds in the other what each one
needs. The womanly woman feels her
self strong and brave when she leans on
man, and mans manly courage grows
StOuter, ana at Lhe Same Illne Ine rugged
hardness of his nature, is softened by
tender reverence, as with one arm he
supports and with the other protects the
gentle one clinging to his side. In ev-
erything, in short, in which they are
made different, it is that each may find
their counterpart in the other. They
are made different in order that they
may become one Out Of this very diff
ference springs the closest and richest
union-the union of mutual love, whereof
marriage is the outward representation.
Only is this true married union, and in
the house of love that builds itself up out
of it, can the fullness and persecution of
the individual life, dignity, and worth of
each be found and realized.-Dr. Old
ham.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
A BRAMIN,s ACCOUNT OF HIS COUN-
TRY--NOTIONS OF INDIA--HABITS
OF SOCIETY. sc.

A BRAMIN's ACCOUNT OF HIS COUN-
TRY--NOTIONs OF INDIA--HABITs
OF SOCIETY, sc.
The Rev. Mr.. Gangooly, converted
Bramin, now travelling in this country,
delivered in New Bedford, few nights
ago, lecture on the manners and Gus
toms of the people of India.
Mr.. Gangooly said that the manners
and customs Of Hindoo life had always
been the subject of much speculation,
and even missionaries had given to the
world inaccurate accounts of the people
of India He had been requested to
prepare work upon his country, and
he had already done his part of the work,
and it was in the hands Of the Rev. Mr..
Ellis of Charleston and would soon be
published. The caste system was ex-
planned at some length. The Hindoos
are divided into thirty-four castes, of
which the Bramin reaches the high
est, and the banker, goldsmith and shoe
maker are among the lowest. The black
smith is of high caste, because of his
usefulness. If Bramin eats animal
food, he looses his caste, which he can
never regain. The subject of birth was
next treated. The birth of male
child is always made the occasion of
great rejoicing, while the birth of fe-
male is scarcely noticed. The mother
of five or six girls is always the subject
Of scorn and derision, and never goes
into society.
There are but three castles in India
that cannot read or write The strictest
attention is given to the education OF
boys in India, while the girls never go
to school. The discipline of Bramin life
is in some instances grand. A Bramin
rises as early as five o'clock, walks out
and gathers flowers, and bathes before
the sun rises if the sun sees one of this
class in bed, the fourteenth generations
of his ancestors will be punished in eter-
nifty. Women must bathe every morn
ing before they 60 into the kitchen if
they do not, people will not eat their
cooking. Bramins must keep silent at
the table; if they speak while eating,
they are obliged to go without food the
entire day.
ne marriage system was next cOnSlu-
ered Hindoos do not know, strictly,
what marriages are. Neither the boys
nor the girls have anything to do with
the matter. Parents make all the
matches, and the parties have no idea to
whom they are to unite their destinies,
until they arrive at the altar. The mar
riageable age of girls is from seven to
ten, and that of boys from thirteen to
twenty five. A girl at thirteen years of
age, unmarried, is considered an old
maid past all redemption.
In regard to the burial cerimonies of
the dead in India, manyss,; things have
been said and written by travellers, that
are untrue. The burning of widows upon
the funeral piles of their husbands,
was explained and accounted for by the
fact that when a woman becomes a
widow, she must forever remain in that
situation, and she is never thought any
thing of nor treated respectfully, and
many Of them, in view of these facts pre-
ferred death This custom has, said the
speaker, been recently abolished by the
British government.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
Facts About Sicily.

Sicily, the largest Island in the
Mediterranean, is separated from the
Southern extremity of Italy by the
Straits of Messina, and surrounded by
several groups of small Islands. 1t is
about 189 miles in the largest part
that is, from East to West-varies from
81 to 100 miles in width, is 344 miles
round, and 16, ,375 square miles in super
fees, It is divided into seven provinces
Palermo, Messina, Catania, Syracuse,
Callanisetta, Gergenti, and Trapani.-
The first three-the most important in
a military point of view-are united by
road which runs along the Northern
coast to Girgenti, and which will one
day be extended round the whole coast
Of the Island; Palermo, the chief town,
is the residence of the Governor General
of Sicily, and is the seat of the Govern
ment, and contains about 175, ,OOOinhab
itants. The entire population Of the
Island is about 100000, all Catholics.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
Fanny Fern on. Sermons.

want human sermon. Idont care
what Melchisadeck, or Zerubabel, or
Kerenhappuch did ages ago. want to
know what l am to do; and [ want some
body besides theological bookworm to
tell somebody who is tempted and
tried and who is not too dignifed to
own it; and somebody like me who is al
ways SHINING and repenting; somebody
who is glad and sorry, cries and laughs,
and eats and drinks, and wants to fight
when he is trodden on-and DON'T
That's the minister for me- I don't
want a spiritual abstraction, with stony
eyes and petrifed fingers, and no blood
to battle with. What credit is it to him
to be proper? How can he understand
me? Were there only such ministers in
the pulpit, [ would not go to church
either, because my impatient feet would
only beat tattoo on the pew floor till
service was over, but thank God there
are! and while they preach shall go to
hear them, and come home better and
happier for having done it.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10

The speakers, Mrs. Gill and Mrs.
D4ne-two Of he greatest scandal mon
gers OF Lenteith-held their tongues and
exchanged gllnces, as a young and
pleasant-faced lady tripped up the steps
Of the store where they were talking
She noticed them with a cool bow, for
Carrie Stanley knew their character well,
and despised them accordingly. But
they were not to be SO easily put off with
their errand Of mischief, and when she
emerged from the store, with her hands
full of mysterious little packages, she
found them waiting for her still
Mrs. Dane, whose vinegar-like aspect
and sharp, shrewish voice were ten de-
grees more unpleasant than ever, ad-
dressed her first.
"My dear Mrs. Stanley, have some
thing very important to say to you
Won't you stop moment?'
''Grant me patience thought Carrie,
but she was too polite to say so, and
turning toward the speaker, said,
briefly
"Well, [ am ready to hear it,
"Do you know where your husband
was last EVENING" asked Mrs. Dane, with
a face of mysterious import.
ayes, madam. He was at home at
tending to his oaon business" }" was the sar-
castle reply.
:'Wrong for once," chuckled the sa-
gacious Mrs Gill; "He was sitting in
Miss Hethertons parlor till after ten
o'clock, and presume there was more
going on than either you or I have any
idea of"
"That can hardly be possible, Mrs
Gill;" said Carrie, with a smile; "for my
husband and I have often wondered how
you and Mrs. Dane can find out every
thing that takes place here, even before
it is done. You must spend great deal
of time in the search-don't it ever tire
you?'
This speech was made with the most
exasperatingly innocent air imaginable
But the shot took effect, and Mrs. Gill
muttered something indistinctively, and
took refuge behind the slab-sided pro
portions Of Mrs. Dane.
"And so my husband is really getting
naughty" proceeded the blue-eyed Car
rie, turning to the other woman. 'Deal
me, what is to be done, Mrs. Dane?'
''Done?" snapped the weazen- facet
lady, with a savage shutting Of her teeth
Turn Miss Hetherton out of town-tha
is what ought to be >:one.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
NUMBER 27
| YOUTH WELL QUALIFIED For
THE LAW.

One of the very smartest young law
yers we ever yet heard of, was sprig Of
the law who resided in Gotham some
years: since, the. much-loved SON of
worthy descendant of old Knickerbocker.
His business was rather limited to be
sure, from two causes, first he did not
love to work, and secondly, whenever he
undertook a case, he proved such very
slow coach in making his returns, that
customers got tired of Ains, and he very
soon found his clients like angels visits
few and far between.
But his respected progenitor, old Hanse
Won Warken, thought him perfect
prodigy; and the worthy parent was ex-
ceedingly fond of his only and hopeful
heir.
A gentleman once asked the father
how his son succeeded in business, and
if he were smart2
"Smart2" echoed Hanse; vel I dink he
ish smart. I tell you vot he did vonce.
"Dat poy haves a pill to collect for a fren.
Te fren he come to me and ask me, "is ter
poy snart?' an say, yaw, he be-as you
shall find out, if you give him tie pizziness;
dat ish, he gives 'im little note to col
lect; vich te poy puts troo to cort, an
how long do you dink de poy was about
it2''
II don't know" said the gentleman
"Vel, ten-I tell you. He vos tree
year.
''Three years!'
"Yaw, tie note vos joost seventy-tres
dollars an dirty -dree sents. Now, I cay
te poy ash shmart. Vot you dink he
sharge for collectin' te note?''
"Couldn't say, really"
"Vell, L tell you. His pill for coll
lectin' dat note was joost seventy tree
dollars un' dirty-dree sentsl If you
duzznt call dat shmart boy, I'd joost
like to know where you find 'em," con.
cluded old Hanse, resuming his pipe
again, quietly.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
Navigable Balloon.

A navigable balloon called the ely
ing Fish," has been exhibited in Paris,
at the Exhibition Palace, and was lately
taken to the courtyard of the tuilleries
to be shown to the Emperor His
Majesty, leading the Prince Imperial by
the hand, inspected the apparatus, and
inspected it from one of the windows
The balloon, which is somewhat in the
form of whale, is provided with paddle
wheels, worked by small engine, and
made to act in any direction by means
of rudder placed at one Of the ex-
tremities. Tie whole was kept captive
at height of some yards, and executed
different maneuvers, among which were
a circle, and a stoppage before the win
dow Of the Empress. The Emperor
witnessed the experiments with much ia
terest, ana addressed numerous questions
to the inventor.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
%"Liberty or death" is a stron

Rg"Liberty or death" is a strong
expression, which comes in we'll at the
end of a poetical grafton; but liberty, as
a fnality, doesn't amount to much
People have liberty to work or starve
liberty to sleep in cellar or freeze in
the street. Millions of freemen have
liberty to toll six long days in every
week, for very miserable existence,
with the poor-house and the pauper' S
grave at the end of it!
This is not ''liberty or DEATH is
liberty and death!
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
Progressive.
"Say, mamma, give us ten cents.

Progressive.
"Say, mamma, give us ten cents.
Afectionate mother-"Wly my soD>
you had dime this morning; what are
you doing with all your money!
Young America-"Why, am back
ing Johnny Heenan with a LOT of Joining
Bull boys.
Affectionate mother-s'Oh, that is
wrong, my son.
Young America-"Wrong! why, Hee-
mans our second Washington-going te
fight the battles Of his country
Where's your patriotism? Come. new,
give us dime. -
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
Scratched out of His Grave.

A hap who has been up among the
Chinook Indians has been giving US a
few items in regard to their habits and
manners He says that when a sick In
dian is given over by the medicine man
they proceed to bury him at once. It's
40 use 10 make Il fuss about it--they are
bound to sod him, He says they took
an Old chap out and buried him in spite
o. hi struggles, and left him. The next
morning Mr. Indian appeared again
lie had scratched out, and at last ac-
counts was as good as new. How many
poor devils would scratch out if the y
could, is matter of grace conjecture
San Francisco Letter.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10

R@r"My son." said an afectionate
mother to her son (who resided at dis
tance, and expected shortly to be mar
ried), ''you are getting very thin. -
eyes, mother" he replied; II am; when
I come next, I think you will see my
rib
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
know anything about it. Remember

hHUW any tH1Hg aDUuC IL: IeHs1HUe1
that"
Carrie stuffed her handkerchief into her
pretty mouth, and hurried away, shaking
her plump sides over her projected plan;
and the two tale-bearers, after looking a
moment at each other, and calculating,
severally, "Boiled in DILL descended the
steps ofthe store, and went together to-
ward their homes, secretly rejoicing at
the public disgrace which was about to
fall upon the head of the audacious Helen
Hetherton.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
C0ALRIDGE MIL.

THE SUBSCRIBER DESIRES TO INFORM
i the Wheat-growers of Meigs and adjoining
counties, that he will give, in exchange for one
bushel of good, clean Wheat, AZ pounds of
Flour.
Persons wishing large lots of Flour made,
can have it manufactured at 40 cents per brl;
offal to go to the owner of the Wheat
Persons residing between Parkersburg and
Gallipolis, by sending five bushels of good
clean Wheat, l will give one barrel of Flour,
pay the freight on the same both ways, they
finding the barrel.
w. C. WILLIAMSON
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-10
r E P l. Y

| r e P l. Y.
Lewis Lee to N b. Watkins.
Ye have stolen all else from the African man,
But the color God gave him to wear;
The South is now stealing that as fast as it can,
Infusing light color and hair.
If your grandsire stole mine from the African
coast,
And stole him to make him his slave,
The right that gives you, sir, to me- is at most;
But the right of the robber and knave:
Or if my father was your grandfather's son;
And your father enslaved his half brother,
Am l your slave by the violence thus done,
To the chastity of my grandmother
Can one-fourth of my blood slave make Of me,
One your courts bind you not to respect?
Still three-fourths of my blood declares 1 am
free,
And your claims to my service reject.
For as oft as one pound of my flesh you can
claim,
My right to three pounds is far BETTER
just as good as your right to your body or name,
A God-gi'n right to the letter.
Now, Shylock, if you your one pound can get,
Without drop of my blood, or give pain,
Your slave code would allow you to take it, and
yet
My own right to myself maintain.
You have advertised me, let me advertise you,
That "Jehovah no attribute hath"
"Can side with oppressors." His justice is due,
And man-stealers inherit his wrath.
LEWIS LEE.
Underground R. R., Jan. %, 1850.
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Sc w. hOSSs
Paper Hanger, Glazier, Sc, Pomeroy, Ohio
Paper put on at from 123 to Is cts per bolt,
according to quality. Orders left at Telegraph
Printing Office promptly attended to. 17-2m
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g 4oetrg.
From the Sentinel.
800 r e w A r D.

Ran away from the subscriber at Fairfax
Court House, Virginia, Tuesday, December u,
1859, mulatto man, calling himself Lewis
Lee, % or 80 years of age, about feet high.
spare, but well built, active, quick in motion
and speech, and very polite in his manner.
Very light mulattoj straight sandy hair, and
light grey eyes. | will give the above reward
for his apprehension and return, or if lodged
in jail so that can get him again.
January 8; 1860. N. B. WATKINS.