Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume], January 01, 1855, Image 1

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RlWOLt, MUBStLL &, k jiibi, PROPRIETORS
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BdraUre
Lf All letters addres
•Mure attention, must
O* Ait Postmasters aj
itua, invariably in
to the Editors, to
> let-paid, i
lbe f 8t*r o' “>« Ka^u-U Valley."
Urn Written «the Deatl Ifitneral »*nh,
ST STST xeuinn iLska.
1 Jllad he d.rd in Ua ~ j lfcj[yh4T0 paired
’«‘ t. weep ye, brave ao.JIdV * * ■ ■
r,, ,r^, _ ra, while fathered
Sto ud . • ,
The juve of one you held dear;
ou tray search through the nations—there
cannot be found/ ’• ‘ r ’ ■>'
One brnrer than he who lies here. T •
wy thB fcwmost,. Where e’n the
**>iehe«t, his good sword was there,
glnfceinan«lrewWfcinAu.j-ri-a)|^.|^
Tno trial for the indictment for
Such
V result might *11 have been fbre
•e«i by comparing the talent* of the
counsel engaged on either side—
The Texas lawyers were utterly over*
whelemed by th« arguments and el
•SifcHBff M‘ f°r
in number ae *11 as exc_„
what may seem ftrange, the
of public sentiment i-J
now ran i
wit
procui
served efficient! jThis powofig) adt
cates. Indeed, so triuiqjflsmt
been the success of the previous dt
that when the slander case was ca«
ed, Mary Elliston was left withoul
an attorney—they had withdrawn.
The pigmy pettifoggers dared nol
brave the sharp wit of Pike, and the
scathing thunder of Prentiss.
“’Have you no counsel?*1 inquired
Judge Mills, looking kindly at the
plaintiff.
“No, sir, they have all deserted
me, aud I am too poor to employ ary
more,” replied the beautiful: Mar#
bursting into'team. -.1 * *■ v ^ jj
n^4
willnst some cWv
ofthe *
But now, at hurt he rises—
the bar railing, not behind it—i
near to the wondering jury /!
might touch the foreman fil
long bony finger. With
half shut, and tending rigii
lax of iron, Ms thin lips
measureless scorn, slight
the voice comes forth* .
low and sweet, iffnu
Id as in
.art, sod
first it h
ing Itself
Hess tune
> the deepest
of a magic in
speaker pro
ire or the least
iment of Aim fey, whlml mmurf
this touch as frostbetbraa
n. Every one looked sur
His logio was at once so
nd so luminously clear, that
lest peasant could compre
without effort.
|f he came to tho dazzling wit
bet-Lawyer, Pike. Then the
nU lip grew sharper} his sap
e kindled up; and hit eyesbe
i nen, dim and dreary no lon
,/vivid as lightning, red os
•ermon equrllcd,
», the eplendop oil
TWah uo vuv-l
NManad to Clay,?
ftlfcbrw—to Dewy,
»¥—bhtj hcre oO»er
Tie wo|da even re-]
late the' eloquence
inaaeive aa a moan
thing aa a cataract
nard socl
aotely ap
if John Ti
IT iT'rfWzBJ
laugteUf, yet ch
of «*. on an
itu&r- -
tnl(t___^ _
8teanft«at. jfe dates his ledles i
steamboat Muettfoit,Oct. i:
“Which saidiyjhnS very much the j
i shape of a Michigan <voihn»y.(nade
sausages and is hniit with a hinge m.
the middle to go found the sharp
bends in the river, and U manned by,
two captains, nom inates, sixteen
darkies, two Stewards, a small boy,
a big dog an oppcs*am, two pair oi
grey squirrels, one clock, and* a
cream-colored chambermaid; fog sc
(U could’nt run a locomotive
a snow-plow, nighi
»s two men o*
mt
irimes jnimrYt and paup*H*inj 1
”FSf33l'
FiwgZmoC *ok* «*d <
SSr^fi®
ugh trnthfeu si
;e).hy villanous
sullied i
'**$*.,
'i'
l-S*
Hi
kvuto^.. .
eniplj'yed tty a wealthy firm of th<
'TWff fcfrgiMwi a mission as land agen
to the West* As a heavy aatkjV tv,u
offprrd Ttvlor bade farewell tit bit
’ii»4 jTwiffli; 'He wrote bad
WS&> ' '*•• received not a Jim
tit answer. Six months elapsed
then the husband received a lettei
Pom his employers that explained
\l Shortly after~his departure for
te West, t a#'wife and her father re
ioved to Mississippi. There sheim
liateiy obtained a divorce byhn
tSt <if tha Legislature, married again
irthwith; and, to complete the clK
tax ot cruelty and wrong, had the
Airne of Taylor’s son chaoged to
' ks—that of her second matrintf
partner. This perfidy nearly
— yior insane. His career
that periodjjecame eccentric
first* degree—sometimes he
[, 'sometimes he plead at the
bir—until at last a fever carried him
of at a comparatively early age.
A >. i 1.1840, the court house in Clarks
vi|e, Texas, was crowded to, over
flfwing. Sate in the war times past,
there had never been witq^ssed such
-ft-.gjuysiag in Red Ilhrer county,
while the strong feeling apparent
on evuy flushed face will sufficient
ly expain the matter.
> Abmt the dose of 1839, George
Hopkhs, onrf of the wealthiest plan
; tors aid most influential men of
^prthen Texas, offered a gross la
ment, tjs'
the ti* »|
least tjj
which at
emulate
u-Ucmlto
whohadj
his hands
criminami
! ing ap into a
be slowed to
! courtesy of the
is my license "
nal in America?
Judge Mills a t>:
The trial went on
In the examinai
ea the stranger ei
genuity; as was
He suffered each
story without ini
he contrived to n
it over two or
few cross questions
witnesses, only ee
takes, and he
in mighty memorie;
‘ embarrass. The e
nded, as counsel
a right to the
as the close ‘
ish sneer. “I may
ar once by the
and bar. Here
the highest trihu
and he handed
ad parchment.—
n of the witness
iced but little iu
lonly thought,
to tell his own
ption, thotgh
each one tell
times. He put
hich, with keei^
* > correct mis
notes, which,
always tend to
inatioo being
plaintiff, he
|ning speech, as
the astonieh
of every one, le declined the
and alowed the defence t.o
Then a shadow might have
' to; flit «rOes the fine
Pike, and !o darken even
eyes of frentiss. They
.hey had caught * Tartar;
im* bmv it liunnpno'l
J tO IjHCsns. \ ^
spoke first. He WJt
of that jplose; dry Jo -
[’afterwards rendered
V the Senate of the
\ert Pike, followed
F«*V wit, and a hail
which you may
be sure the plain!
ringed attorney
tenor spared.
The great Prentis|Vt
defendant, with-a gloA
words, brilliant as a shl
ingistars, and with a fi
oratory that brought the
bAnfpfiroj
all the previoui
d straight, and mo
L his pale, smootl
f np high like t
snow; but for dial
I •-•»naerer,* iW^i» v-^
such fcS no sophistry could -overleap
and no stretch of ingenuity avade
and having thus as one i
impounded his victim, aneTglrt_
about like a scorpeon in a circle ol
fire, he stripped himself to the work
of massacre.
Oh! then, both glorious and grand
and dreadful to behold the orator.-*
Hi* actions, before graceful as the
Iwave of the golden willow in the
| breeze, grew impetuous as the mo
tion of the oak In the hurricane.—
j His voice became a trumpet filled
with the wild whirlpools', deafening
the ear with the dashes of power,
and yet intermingled all1 the while
*ith a sweet undersong otyhe softest
ctdence. His face was at red as a
dnnkard’s—his forehead gbwed like
I abated furnace—his countenance
I d haggard, like that o? a mani
j ac; aid ever anon he flung his long
bony j rms on high, as ifgrasbing af
ter thunderbolts. He drew {{picture
of murder in such appalling, colors,
thatj in\omparrison. hell itseiTmight
be Oonivered beautiful.
ted the slanderer sbtblack
n Seemed dark*atboon
ilniugonsuch an a<turs
and then he fixed both
the shining brow of lop
nailed them there ~
Hep i
that the
day"
cd monst
portraits
kins, and
ever. The'
nearly amo
All
ation of the_
itid to madness.
k 1_.1_
ice
it ftAthe murdered dead
Mi [htUteit into heaven
womau.
0,\\° ^anf -thou spirit of mercy
& d teaft? A work, a work
£"55 than man imag
^*flflsiIrcam»! Send
USE* « “fif *l'ys to warm UP the
selfish m I treacherous coldness of
man s ste rdy nature, to a sense of
* ercy» .««* equal rights.—
”est no Ipger m the fatal lethargy
arouna you,
Gentlp spirts 1 But ai
Ie£reforri|wajl with the. br
vale, till i*aj
ever freei an
on, “till v on
eHyand]) re,i
GenUp spirts I But awake, am
lLen£ 2$ Wiih % *«»■. *«><
Md thrill, ead
rrrui withite spirif Where
1 hath trod. Go on, §
V wall-cease; and lib;
.truth aad right through
■ are made Trnown
t haat* the balm to bed
of oppression and wren*
9 of Bfe.~J
noble fam
Hovr tnai
Uiea area
tion to an]
enta: help
fevMt i
while thei
ng with li
don, iron
j streugtfUning the
a»ng the penitent, ^
bled spirit, soothing
of hlifc. beyond the tomblCahsuch
a book be the offspring; of human
genius. Does not the vastness of
its effects prove thev excellency of its
power to be of God?
Extextopthe Uhtvebse.—It inai
g»ve some idea of the extent o& th<
Universe to know the length of time
ESSE? f?r fbich travel,
lllMOO miles a.vceoiid, to come from
different celestial objects to this earth
from the moon, it comes in one and
a quarter seconds; from the sun in
pight nnnutes; from Jupiter in fifty
tu o minutes; Uranus to two hours:
°f the first magnitude,
tw^1?e .yea,re; kom A star -of
me tilth magnitude, sixty-six years;
star ofthe twelfth magnitude,
our thousand years. Light which
eft a star of the twelfth magnitoA
vhen the Israelites left Egypt IS
‘Ot yet reached the earth. Our entiri
olar system itself, travels at the rati
f thirty-five thousand miles'an hom
rniong the fixed.atars.
following account of a vary
^markable effect produced by elec
’City, we copy from the Courier'd 1>
uroge; * ; %
ed from his chair and thrown with -
grfat force through an open window \
into an adjoining garden. Where he 7
recovered his senses, he had no rec
had happened anc
could only be convinced of it by find
hair an?f beard.
as white as at
pfscifence to
irni a* epoch, in the
are awa^e, that a proportionate ex
cess of feat is demanded. Overtask
with°t,t adequate
dea£;forn^ea7f,t|>S^
iKKffiassrrfssiS
WMduab to endeavor todo'with »
little sleep as those differently Con
stituted. is IiIta jJlt- _ rw .
atituted, is like expecting a cistern!
fed by periodical o*ly, to yieS
“ eopplito of ivato
as a hydrant supplied from a pub
aqueduct. It is like lookingfor <*o
when nothing is put on the land,
is exhausting vitality,^ X word, ai
allowing no timp/or tecuperation.
There are some persons, fo
nately constituted, who, With a
iy nervope organization, Jr *
comparatively JitUe sleep.
u a,.1f1Tln« *I“tai»ce. Napoli
was a_sull more rfifljarkaiiie eian,
was a still more remarkable etantr
j[e‘ ,^he P'eat Emperor rarely slept
!°Urt8i' 1,1 truth« H owed his
ronderfql suceesa4pa^“*J
>acity to endure fat
renins, fpr he could ^
d exertion, he ——
r a day.
sthry;
;om_.
ithoul
ial mIe*n*u"cvor, coma it!
trmed Napoleon’s quantitv
tony time, tfith so Ittie
abortog with tfce brain
““to* than with -
ive
ofi
ex;
n-#. :-flf
**
your iiirt, and cor»r
to foft arith molasses.
IMmnyoa,
matin’ hut Sui
r you know I ha
tuaol aeed do c
poefcHia front
"Go way, ni{
er round my m
ride of me?”
At a training down eaat, a
•WMgrnen toSfcturn nunnxj*:
8old»>rg broke from the fine, i
atfaHaplit
®*»di«g<oficisr, “where art
“Down to Sqtmitoggiai*;!
r*i*fod I borrcrWedof Mm7 w
m about