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The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-01-20

Power OF MUsIc.-Memories of beauti-
fu creations inpainting, poetry, and sculp.
turc come before mo blended with the
char of the flower, cloud, and ocean realm
Of nature, y The executant at one time ap-
to trace capticious arabesques; then Shell
ley's exquisite versifcation seemed to be
attained !; new harmonic formation fol-
lowed, and tbers lay mirroTed in the glass
flood Of the melody the svelte foru Of that
;halfangel, .talfwoman Grafton, Augelini's
Eve, sittibg in graceful, questioning reverio
over the frat sin. With flying,
rapid ruus anb trills, introduced by the
inslrumentalist, the musi passed over curl
ous modulations, suspensions that were like,
pleading justifcations ofsome coming event,
and sad, solemn, anticipated tones; followed
by descent of notes, all sounding
'As if the soul of,melody were pent
Within come unseen instrnmeut
Hung in.a:viewless tower Of air,
And with ,snchantsd pipes beguilsd its own
despair ,.-.t.....
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-01-20
AN HOUR AT THE OLD PLAYGROUND.

BY HENRY MoRFoRD.
I sat an hour, to-day, John.
Beside the old brook stream,
Where we were school boys in old time,
When manhood wae dream;
The brook is choked with fallen leaves,
The pond is dried away
scarce believe that you would know
The dear old place to day.
The school house is no more, John,
Beneath our locust trees;
The wild rose hy the window side
No more waves in the breeze;
The scattered stones look desolate,
The sod they rested on
Has been plowed up by stranger bands
Since you and were gone.
The chcsnut tree is dend, John,
And what is sadler now
The broken grape vine Of our swing
Hangs on The withcred bough;
/ reah our names upon the bnck,
And found the pebbles rare.
Laid up beneath the hollow side,
AS We had piled them there.
Beneath the grass grown bank, John,
l looked for our old spring,
Thnt dubbed down the elder path,
There PAGES from the swing:
The ru-hcs grow upon the brink,
The pool is black and bare,
And not foot, this many q day,
1t seems, has trodlcn there.
took tho old blind road, John,
That wandered up the hill;
IT'S darker than it used to be,
And seems so lone and still!
The birds sings yet among the horgh.
Where once the sweet grapes hung,
But not q voice Of human kind l.
Where all our voices rung
sit me on the fercc, John,
That lies as in old time,
That same halfpanel in the path
We used so oft to climb
And thought how o'er the bars of life
Our p!aymates had passed on,
And left me counting on this spot
The faces that are gone.
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-01-20

Z A BLAcK REPuDLIcAN VALUE OF THE
Usros.-Henry Dutfon. (Republican,) Of
New Haven, formerly Governor of Con
necticat, writes form Midds,own 10 the
editors Of the New Haven Journal aud
Courier, closing bis letter as foIlows: -.
III knew tn at on ensy, voting for Seward,
or Chaae, or Banks, or any olher man wbom
regarded as most worthy to GU the Presi-
DENTAL chair the whole South wodtd. secsde
and dissolve the Union, sBoah not hesitate
a amomentto vote fof bin. y
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The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-01-20
ABBEvILLE, FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY TO- 1861
being in London in May, he was Of course

being in London in May, he was Of course
iuvied TO tho annual dinner OF the Literary
Fund Society but he was followed by
the memory Of the Dickens dinner, and
declined. One Of the most amusing pa
pers in the elary Of Thomas Moore is the
record of his conversation with Irving on
the sucject, and the final success of his en-
deavors to persuade him to 60.
That Dickens dinner says Moore, which
he always pronounced with strong empha-
sis, hammeripg away all the time with his
right arm, aOore out-that Dickens dinner
still haunted his imagination, and | almost
gave up all hope of persuading him. But
lie succeeded. lie closed his record with
the philosophical reflection that it is very
odd, that while some of the shallowe est fel-
lows 60 on SO glib and ready with the
tongue, men whose minds are abounding
with matter should find such difficulty in
bringing it out. found that Lockhart
had also declined attending the dinner,
under similar apprehension, and only
consented on condition that his health
should not be given
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-01-20

The man whois fond Of puddings and
EpSes, places himself fsearfal!y in,hsIpower Of
hhgis, i. s, -. - M : I, ~, !, =
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-01-20

q e,omsy ip out of The wet % the shafk
said whas hss allowed he sailoi. s .:ss q {
The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-01-20

tongue, men whose minds are abounding
with matter should find such difficulty in
bringing it out. / found that Lockhart
had also declined attending the dinner,
under similar apprehension, and only
consented on condition that his health
should not be given
SHORT SERMON FOR YOUNG AMERICA"
A clergyman, writing about the fast
young mem of the present day, says 1t
is seldom that a young man goes to college
with the deliberate purpose of living vici.
ously but he is aoeIk. lie is taken into
thecompany Of a set of men senior 10 him
self, with whom it is a qualification to him
to associate; lie finds among them habit
Of thought and expression aud act, which
in his soul he is weak how can lie resist
the evil |? nay, how can he avoid taking
part in it, for he must not, he thinks, make
himself singular? and so the licentious
thought, or the coarse word, or the oath, is
welcomed with a smile, and from the smilo
the advance is rapid to partakiug in what
be first shrank from, partaking in it to glory
ing in it, and from thence becoming the
temp,er TO others, as he had been himself
tempted, and fallen. Or, again, it may be
not direct sin but idleness, into which a
man is tempted by weakness. lie may
fnd that others are idle, that there are the
counter claims OF amusements and society
which interfere with the claims Of study
he does not deliberately determine to be
idle, and to throw away that precious time
which no after exer.ions orregrels will re
cover; but circumstances lead him into
idlemess, and be has not the strength to
resist-he is weak. Here, then, is one
main ellen; ent OF that childishness which we
have to put away-the weakness which, in
spite Of the prompting Of our nature, leads
US into sin or idleness form the example of
others, or what we choose to call the force
of circumstances. And closely connected
with this weakness is cosoardice. We are
afraid Of our neighbors, Or, rather, of our
own imagination Of what our neighbors
think Of US. 1t may be that we despise in
our hearts the very men by whom we are
led, and detest their sentiments and tone of
mind but, neverthe less, We are led by:
them, we applaud their sentiments, we
adopt their tone.' Was the text for the
above excellent discourse taken from Job: !:
THE foolish man is accomplished before
his time, and his branch shall not be green
JOB. XIV. 32.1
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22

were to be murdered and the youngFyo-
men were to be taken as wives byThe
hell hounds.
A partrol of one hundred men is on
duty every night in Tyler, and this has
thus far saved that town.
A stable belonging to John I. Carlisle
in Athens, was burned by anincendiary
on the evening of the 9th. H. L.
A negro, belonging to Mr.. Barron'
at Science Hill, Henderson county, was
hung on the 3d-strychnine having been
found in his possession and he having
confessed to having a hand in the in
surrection.
A gentleman, writing from Rusk,
Cherokee county, 4th inst, gives am
account of plot to poison the whole
community on election day. Poison was was
found in the possession of several OF
the neg rnessand confessions-are elicit
ed ef. o. determination to poison and
murder the whole people. Similar plots
had been discovered in Anderson and
Henderson counties.
4 Fire In Houston-In the Houston
t ((Tex.) Telegraph, of the 18th inst:' we
( find the details of destructive contta-
grafton, in that town on the night OF the
18th inst. This fire is, however, admit
fed to be accidental.
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22

been the cause of outrage and blood
shed in various sections of our country;
we are compelled, however, to confess
that the confidence Of the public IS
considerably disturbed in reference to
the sincerity of some of their leaders,
in. the principles they now so strenu-
eas1y urge upon the community as
those of the Bell and Everett, or rather
rthe g Constitutionar' Union Party.
That portion of this community who
were deprived of their constitutional
rights during the reign of the X. n.
order in this city, have not yet buried
the recollection of those Champions OF
the order, who fostered and sustained
by every means within their grasp,
those outrages upon the rights of the
naturaiized citizens of all nations. II
such parties would content themselves
with back seat in the councils the
sconstitutionar' Union Party, thz
porters of Bell and Everett colJs /
a much greater chance Of 81
endeavor to induce the public
that they were really sincereg ~ tnell
belief; that the foreign born
possessed rights, after becoming
rallied, not inferior, to those Pc
born on the soil; excepting only I'm
instances specified in the constitD
itself.
We would suggest to the manae
of the Bell and Everett lmteresk
card the "asno" as much as possible
this section of the country, it they
hope for success.
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22

" 1t has been some time since we
of public City Pump in the cistern
or reservoir in rear of the market; and
we were somewhat gratifcd at the adop-
ton on the part of the Council of the
measure, believing fully in the conven-
fences and benefits its use would afford
to largo number Of the residents of
our city, during the continuance Of II
drouth, or under any circumstance
which might render it necessary for
them to obtain water from the Missis-
sippi
The Pump was obtained and placed
in its proper location-it worked we'll
was approved of and said to be equal
to all the expectations of the friends
of the measure. BY some accident or
unfair usage the Pump was rendered
useless, and so remained for some
weeks, when it was put in working order
once more for the convenience of the
many who were nccossiatcd to obtain
. water from some source, for various
purposes other than for drinking.
We are compelled to notice that ou
city PumP is again in useless condi-
ton, Sc far as the obtaining of water
through it its use is conccrncd-thati
has been so for some weeks; and tina
hogsheads of water have been draw
by hand i'll buckets from the reservoir
since it has 50 remained. Who is il
fault! To whom shall u patient anC
suffering community rondor complaint
T6the Mayor, No! To the Commissary
MOI! TO the Council, MOL! Thcl
to whom shall thoir grievances be Sc
forth Who will give the answer!
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22
What About Politics?

For some days previous to last Sat
urday, thcrc had been considerable talk
amongst those few of our citizens who
hold in utter adherence the name of the
only party in our country to which all
men must ultimately look for the safety
edd -porretuity of that form of gov
cfiiment bequGathcd to us by our patri
otto forefathers; the permanently and
prosperity of which mainly depend
upon the avowed principles of that
party which constitutes the NATIONAL
DEMOCRACY Of our great and glorious
country. =
To that honest and respectable por-
ton of the old Wing party, who could
not so far forgot the doctrines laid down
in tho constitution of their country, as
| TO become the advocates of an ism in
direct contradiction to that sacred docu-
ment, the formation of the Bell and
Everett, or what isnow termed the unioa
parly, has furnished the opportunitypof
becoming ilsmbers Of asPAl'tysl she
name of which may, perhs3
objectionable to them xtlika
)emocratic, gN
Much as we maWadmire and respect
Ethe honesty of principle and tirmhess
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22

: In an Grafton recently delivered be-
fore the;Order of American Mechanics,
Philadelphia, by the Hon. E. Joy Nor
rAs, the speaker gave oil the claim of
fnventipg steam navigation to Robert
Fulton: The Philadelphia Inquirer
aonrcveris this position, and insists
that JoH1t Fitch, who, as well as Fulton,
was native of Pennsylvania, was en-
titIsd to fhe honor. 1t says:
sesny rival claims, which perhaps it
would. not be difficult to establish, have
been set up by foreigners. The first
notice of the power of steam recorded
was as long ago as A. d. $40, when.
Anthemius, an architect, arranged sew
eral cauldrons of water, each covered
with the wide bottom of a leather tube,
which rose to a narrow top, with pipes
to the rafters of an adjoining building
! A fire was kindlcd beneath the caul-
| drons, and the house was shaken by the
efforts of the steam ascending the tubes.
! In l542 Blasex de Garoy tried steam
| boat of two hundred tons, with tolcrable
success, at Barcelona, Spain. 1t con-
sisted of a cauldron of boiling water
and a movable wheel on each side
! of the ship; but it was laid aside as
iupracticable.
In 1916 Jonathan Hulls first set forth
thcidoa of steam navigation in England
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22
Texas gems.

More Iseeasfsafisn,--Through the
reports foiind iii the Texas pufsers says
the n. O, Picoyune of yesterday,i In
regard to the late extraordinary scenes
that have been witnessed, we give
condensed account of them to our read
ers, as a part of the history of the
times. We copy from the Houston
Telegraph, of the 18th 'iRst:
The Tyler Reporter, Of the 9TH, says
that q report has just reached there
that Belleview, in Rusk county, was
burned on the night of the 18th inst.
The same paper says that DangetielG'
in Titus county, is burned.
AT Athens, Henderson county, we.
was discovered to be poisoned on San
day hight. the 5th inst, and over lou
bottles of strychnine was found to pos
session of negroes. On examinations
the plot was Br6ugbt, TO light, which
was TO poison as many as possible at
hraakfasf, and then the knife and the
pistol, with which-they were well sup.
pliod, We're to do the balance of thework
All tho old women and young chttirel
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22

D A meeting of our City Council
is to take place at their Hall on Dublin
street, this evening at 5 o'clock-being
the regular meeting day of that body
1t is to be hoped the Members will be
punctual, as business of Importance
NAV require their united action.
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22
Georgia EtenIs.

A Poor Joke, or an At0fHtnS heottty'
A letter was picked up on Broad street
last Saturday, says the Rome Courier
purporting to have been written by On
Abolitionist in Boston to an emlssary
in this place, in repl y to communlca-
ton from the latter containing "cheer-
inc news.'' 1t gives some account OF
the measures which have been adopted
in Georgia to accomplish general IN
surrection, says encouraging lntorma-
ton has been received from agents III
Augusta, Savannah, Columbus, Macon J
and Atlanta, and proposes to tulnlsh
arms and money whenever needed. IS: s
While there are some marks OF genu ="
ineness, there are others which staml
this letter as Il hoax.
The Courier thinks this, taken i'll
connection with recent events in that
county, could be made to serve q good
purpose.
Crops, Feather, Sr.-After' an al
most unprecedented drouthin this State
many sections, we Observe have re.
Gently been blessed with most copious
and beneficial rains. Of the crops,
weather, &c, the Augusta Chronicle
says:
In this vicinity we have had frequent
and abundant showers for the past four
or five DAVIS, and the earth is thoroughly
saturated to its fullest capacity. Our
exchanges from every section report
FREQUENT showers at the close of last
week, and the heavy rise III the SaVan-
nah river at this point indicates copious
rains to the Northeast. The weather
yesterday was comparatively cool, and
still indicating. rain.
IneendiariSm IN Chatooga County,
A correspondent at Melville, Chatooga
county, Ga, says:
Our community has been much cX-
cited in the last four or five days at the
burninp of residence of MI. James
L. HUE, very worthy and cstimablo
man, who, with all his family, were alb
sent on a visit to his relatives near
Atlanta, Ga. His dwelling house, with
all the furniture, kitchen and its con-
tents, and his wheat house, containing
seventy or eighty bushels of wheat,
were DESTROYED by fire on Wednesday
insight, LIST Augustine work of an IN
cendiary.
| Nc1o CouOn-The first bale of this
seasons cotton was received at Augusta
Ton the 18th. 1t classed as Middling
| Fair and sold for 123c.
|. The River.-The Chronicle says: ::
4 The copious rains which we arc now
4 having daily, are bringing the SaEan-
nah uD in her s'teens.' The guage at
the bridge, at o'clock last evening
! Showed a height of IA feet, and rising.
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22

On Sunday evening last some min
utes before 8 o'clock, when the rogu-
lar down-way-tran which left this
city precisely at 7 O'clock for Now
Orleans reached the jackson street
station. and had there camo to n stop
to allow those of the passengers who
desired to quit the cars ut that point,
the necessary time to do so, the En-
press train from the Lake end, which
is reported to have passed this city
at % minutes after Z O'clock, ran upon
the train in front, while standing at
Jackson street station, with full force
and dreadful rapidity-causing most
frightful collision; with loss of life
and the manning and otherwise seri7
ously .iniuring many of the unfo1toj
mates upon the cars.
Somebody is to ttame-in this in
stanco--and We. sincerely hope that
all the soilty maS.,Aa. sw%dod that
'>Spishmqrit which susH Gag less and
}kless CONDUCT merit
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22
Late from Central Americas ],
Seizure Of the Schr. Clifton, Of N: Oss
by the British authorities.
Gen, WALKER AT TRUXILLO.

The schooner Araminta, Capt. Mason,
10 days from Utilla Island, arrived at
New Orleans ON Sunday, and brings
exciting and important news fromthe
Bay Islands and British Honduras.
The greatest excitement prevails
among the people of the Islands, in
consequence of the news brought by
the John A. Taylor to Utilla oIithe 9Th;
bringing information that Gen. Walker,
with 90 men landed on the morning OF
the 9th near Truxillo, and succeeded IN
taking the town and fort containing a
large number of arms, ammunition and
provisions. Capt. Lambert of the lay
lor reports the. town as quiet, and the
greatest enthusiasm among the people;
all the principal merchants opened their
stores and placed all necessary articles
ut the disposal Of General Walkers
men.
,Guardiola is at Comuyagua, and
sNpuld aA 'attompt to move against
Walker, Cabanas, 20 is watching his
every movement, v NJ ack the capital
~ Honduras and will probably sue
ceea.'
By the arrival of the next schooner
we may expect most important news.
Walker is now once more on the main
land, in strongly fortified place, the
fort commanding both the harbor and
the town, with plenty of arms, ammu-
milton and provisions and well provided
with artillery--iBionly remains to sec
whether his friends in the United
States will send him immediately .
supply of men.
We can state on. excellent authority
chat vessels will leave this neighbor.
fhood in few days: fol. Ceptrql. Anne
aca, let all those who wish to. give
helping hand to Walker prepare them
selves at once and we may hope
SOON to see the General re-establishe'
in Nicurngna after having placed il
the Presidential. chap of Honduras
Cabai1us, known throughout Contra
America as the friend of the lame
rican's."
The. Bay Islands have not as ye
been transferred to Honduras, and il
all probability viii not be for the mex
six months, as the English Govern
ment is preparing to have 300 arme'
men to keep possession of the Island
The scLoonA Clifton, bound from
Rratan via Bsiize was forcibly seize
Thy the British at the latter place; he
r lhatchos broken open and q portion o
her cargo consigned t5~>uatan take
forsfbly off. The goods were con
signed to Mr.. Conner. a well know
merchant of BuatanI Capt:.McCormic
immediately .hauf6d down his flag
protesting their right to enter-his vosse
f and take any goods thereSEom, an
I, abandoned his vessel to the Custom
! bsnss s9fieer
+ 1 90 Digs ago, party Irishme
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-22
CITY OF CARROLLTON:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST se, 1850.

Eey The Members of STAR Hook
AND LADDER COMPANY No. ONE of this
city, will see notice for a Special Meet
ing of the Company, on Saturday next,
in another column of this paper.