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".We will cling to the pillars of the temple of our liberties, -YE L D EEdior and if it must fall we will perish amidst the ruin.P LIS ED W EEEEY. VOLUME 3. =nP3===L. c. U. (. C.) I..haS 1,3a. . 9,. 8. The Edgefeld Advertistir. IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. TERMS.-Three Dollars per annum If pat in advance,-Three Dollars and Fifty Cents if paid before the oxpiration of Six Months from the date of Subscrrption,-and Four Dollars-if not paid within Six Months.' Subseribers out of the State are required to pa in advace. No subscription received for less than Die year, and no paper discontinued, until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the Editor. All subscriptions will be continued unlessother wise ordered, at the end of the year. Any person procuring five Subscribers and becoming responsible for the same, shall receive the sixth copy gratis. ADVarTsaXzwrs conspicuously inserted at ,2J cents per square, for the first Insertion, and 43 cents for ech continuance. Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be continued until ordered out, and charged accordingly. All Advertisements intended for publication in this paper, must be deposited in the Office by tuesday evensag. All communcations addressed to the Editor, (POST-PAID) will be promptly and strictly at tended to. ORDERS No.58. HEAD QUARTERS, Columbia, Jan. 27, 1838. T HE Commander-in-Chief tias received the melancholy intelligence of the death of Brigadier General G, J. Trotti of the 3rd Brigade; and in ordering the usual tokens of respcct, lie is paying but a feeble tribute to the memory of an Officer whose integrity and beneficence endeared him to his Brigade. In his zeal fi'r the organiza tion and improvement of the militia, and in his anxious solicitude to discharge faith fully the arduous duties which his commis sion imposed upon him, Gen. Trotti was coqspcuous as an offlcer,whilst his kindness of manner, emanating from a benevolent heart, secured for him the respect and es teem of those with whom lie was associated by his office. 1. The officers of the 3rd Brigade will wear upon the hilts of their side arms the usual badge of mourning for thirty days,and at the first regimental parade after the date of this order. 2. Brig. Gen. A. H. Brisbane will com mand the 2nd Division until a Major Gen eral shall have been elected and commis sioned. ;I. Col. J. Ht. Ilogg will command the 3rd Brigade until a Brigadier General shall have been elected and commissioned. Gen. Brisbane will forthwith order an election, accordFn to law. for a Brigadier General to Command the 3rd Brigade. By order of the Commander-in-Chief JAMES JONES, Adjutant and Inspector Gen. Jan. 29, 1838 c 52 Tne Columbia Telescope, Charleston Mercury and Courier will copy once a weuls for three weeks. NOTICE. A LL persons indebted to the late Jo seph Brunson deceased, are reques ted to aiko immediate payment, an all persons having demands against the estate of said deceased are requested to present them duly attested. THOS, BRUNSON, Admin CALEB TALLEY, istrators. Jan.4 1838 tf 48 NOTICE. A LL persons indebted to the late Jefler son Richardson, deceased, are request ed to make immediate payment, and all persons having demands against the estate of said deceased are requested to present them duly attested. IIENJ. RICHARDSON,) ,dmin THEO.PIHILUS HILL, : istrators. March 8. 1836 tf .Vo tf#ce. A LL. Persons indebted . the late Mrs. Be hethland Mims, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment, and all persons hav ing demands against the estate of said deceased are regnested to p resent them diuiy attested. BENJ. MIMS, Executor. SDec 9,1837 f 45 N7OTICE. ALL Persons indebted to the late Chrig .5.tian Breithaupt, deceased, are requat ed to make immediate payment. And all persons having demands against the estate of said deceased are requested to present them duly attested. JOHN BAUSKETT, E~ror. Feb,. 25. 3-tf Notice. ALL~ persons indebted to the Estate of John Blackwvell. deceased, are reqnested to make immediate paymnt, and thoso having demsands to present them pro >erly attested. G T 'NNANT, Admnitrator. March 28 1837 e NOT20 E. A LL Persons inidebted to the late Charles Thomas, deceased, are reqnested to mnake payment: and all persons having denmands against the estate of said decensed a regnested to lpre sent thmemt dhuly attested. JAS. F. AlDAMS8, Nov 27. 1i47 tV Adin ist rator Notice. LLT persns~~ hazving any demands against the S.Estaite of (i. Anderson, Sen., dleceasedl, are regnieted to present them, and thiose indeb~ted to muake paymnit within the tinme prescribed hv law. A. A NDERtSON, Ad:,'srir. Jan 10. 139 tf 49 N ankeent Cotton Seed, For Sale. g ROM four to Iive hundred butshels of .' genuino Nankern Clotton Seed can Ihe had4 ati one Dollar per hutshel by alpply ing to tho subiscriber a t Mr. James Bones' JOUN I1, iUGIIES. ran. 1 tQ3 e . From Hone's Every Day Book. TO THE SUMMER'S ZEPHYR. Zephyrs, stay thy vagrant flight, And tell me where you're going Is it to sip off the dew-drop bright That hangs on the breast of the lily white In yonder pasture growing; Or to revel 'mid roses and mignionette sweet; Or wing'st thou away some fair lady to meet? If so, then hie thee tway, bland boy, Thou canst not engage in a sweeter employ. "From kissing the blue of yon bright sum mer sky, To the vine-cover'd cottage, delighted, I fly, Where Lucy the gay is shining ; To sport in the beams of her lovely eye, While her temples with roses she's twining Then do not detain me; I sigh to be there, To fan her young bosom-to play 'mid her hair!" SUNSET. Soft o'er the mountain's purple brow, Meek twilight draws her shadowy gray ; From tufted woods, and valleys low, Light's magic colours steal away. Yet btill, amid the spreading gloom, Resplendent glow the western waves That roll o'er Neptune's coral eaves A zone of light on evening's dome. On this lone summit let me rest, And view the forms to fancy dear, Till on the ocean's darken'd breast, The stars of evening tremble clear; Or the moon's pale orb appear, Throwing her light of radiance wide Far o'er the lightly curlitig tide. No sounds o'er silence now prevail, Save of the nurm'ring brook below, Or sailor's song borne on the gale, Or oar at distance striking slow. So sweet, so tranquil may my evening ray Set to this world-and rise in future day. Miscellaneous. ROUND ROBIN. One of the best legal stories we know of is that RoundRobin, as it is familiarly call ed in the lower circuits of North Carolina, and owes its humor to the very fertile and cultivated mind of a lawyer, who is still alive, but in a distant Western State. All the lawyers attending court about the year 1810 boarded at the house of Mr. S.----, who at the beginning of his life, as a publi can was assiduous and provident, but riches multiplied, and Boniface became lazy, crusty and parsimonious. His accommo dations, as they are usually called, from being the very best, had by degrees degen. erated into the very worst in the whole country. This was borne with mutterings from time to time until in a fit of desperation the whole fraternity of lawyers, after mature deliberation in Congress assembled, Re solved to quit the house and go to another in the same village. The duty ofanniounc ing the separation was devolved upon the gentleman above specified, who wrote the following, and sent to the Landlord, signed with the names of all the decidenms in a round ring belowv. A DECLARATION. "When in the course of htman events. it becomes necessary for a half hungry, half fed, imposed on set of meni, to dissolve the bands of Landilord and boarder, a de cent respect for the opinions of mankind, requires that they shoul declare the causes which have impelled them to the separa tion. We hold these truths to 'oe self evident, that all men are created with mouths and hollies: and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among whlich, is that no man shall 1he com pelled to starve, out of mere complaisance to a Landlord; and that every man has a right to fill his belly and wet his whistle with the best that's going. The history of the present Landlord of the White Lion is a history of repeated in suIts, exactions and injuries, all having in direct object the establishment of absolute tyranny over their stomachs and throats. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. H~e has refused to keep any thing to drink ut hatlr-fci ...:o.:.1. He bas refused to set upon his table for dinner, any thing but turnip soup with a little bull. beef and sour-crout, which are not wholesome and necessary for'the public good, He has refused to let his only servant blink-eyed Joe put more than six grains of coffee to one gallon of water. He has turned loose a multitude of fleas and swarms of led bugs, to assail us in the peaceful hours of the night and eat our sub stance. He has kept up in our beds and bed-steads standing armies of these merciless savages with their scalping knives and tomahawks, whose rule of warfare is undistinguished destruction. He has excited domestic insurrection amongst us, by getting drunk before break fast and making his wife and servant so be fore dinner, whereby there is often the devi to pay. He has waged cruel war against nature herself by feeding our horses with broom straw; and carrying them off to drink where swine refused to wallow. He has protected one-eye Joe in his vil lainy, in the robbery of our jugs, by pretend ing to give him a mock trial. after sharing with him the spoil. He hascut off our trade with foreign ports and brought in his ball-faced whiskey, when we sent him to buy better liquor abroad and with a perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, he has been known to drink our foreign spirits and fill our bottles with the most dire portions. Ie has imposed taxes upon us, to an enormous amount, against our consent, and without any rule bui his own arbitrary will and pleasure. A Landlord whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant and a miser, is unfit to keep a boarding house for Cherokee Indians. Nor have we been wanting in our atten tion to Mrs. S- . or Miss Sally. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity we have conjured them to al ter a state of things which would inevitably interrupt our connection and correspon dence. They, too, have been deaf io the voice of justice. We are therefore, con strained to hold all three of these parties alike inimical to our well being and regard less of our comfort. We therefore,-make this solemn declara tion ofour final separation from our former landlord, and cast our definance at his teeth. From the Charleston Patriot. ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERA TURE BY GOVERNMENT. The legitimate mode of encouraging lit erature by Government is the advancement to civil stations of those individuals who have distinguished themselves in intellectu al pursuits. This should he the reward of literary or scientific merit in a republic. in the absence of a system of pensions, by thus uniting civil with literary honors, ge nius is flattered and patronized, while the republic is served and elevated. General Jackson gave his administration the crown ing grace that embelished a great name, when he placed Mr. Wheaton as Minister near the Court of Denmark, and Messrs. Irving and Legare in Diplomotic situations in London and Brussels, Mr. Van Buren seems no less anxious to pursue this liberal -this sagacious path, le has constantly promoted to office those whose literary ge niiis antd acquirenmeiits render their alvance meat an act flowing from the justice which should mark the Chief Magistrate of a re public, instead of thme mere grace and be nifice which characterise such promotions in a Monarchy. The late appointment of Mr. Bancroft to the collectorship of Boston is an acknowledgement of this principle which even political enemies applaud, while it is a theme for exultation to political friends Mr.'Iancroft by his history of the Utnited States has earned the chaplet of history. With Mr Wheaton's Ihistory of the North men, andl Mr. Prescott'a Ihistory of' the Reign of Perdinand and Issabella of Spain it will elevate the literary character of the U. States." This is the system of literary reward in France, but not in Great Britain. The for mer recompenises her men of genius by giv. ing them offices-the last by giving them piensions. The first not only confers civil distincuions on her citizens made illustrious by science, but decorates them with order. It is but a short step from the Institute to the Council-from the Lectureship to the Magistracy-from simple Citizenship to the Peerage. In this manner all the talent which is available by enlarged study and high intellectual cultivation is enticed into the service of the State. It is founded in narrow~ prejiudice that literary or scientific nursuits disqalify for civiltstation. All study 4d meditation whatever invigorates the in llect. All modes of investigation give e largement to the understanding. All reasoning on the reldftions of things sharpeds the capacity. Of this truth the Frencl; Government seem to be fully eqn scious. Did Cuvier make a less able Mag istrate from- having explored the depths of science Did his researches in Compara tive Anatomy interfere with his noble plans of educiataon? Did Casimer Perrier pre side with less dignity or genius in Council from baying earned distinction as a Philso opher? Has Consin, Arago, and a host of French Savans proved themselves incapa ble Statesmen, when transferred from the Lecture Room and Cloister to the Legisla tive Asiembly, and the tribunal of Magis tracy? Have the if umbolts given less vig or to the Prussian Councils from having shed lustre on science? In Great Britain the largess of the Mon arch doles out a miserable annual reward to personages made eminent in literature and science, in the shape of a pension. The literary or scientific man is a mere sinecurist with pauper Lords anad Ladies ! How degrading to the receiver? How dis honouring to intellectual pursuits? How mean in its principle? How little promo tive of justice or the ends of a noble liber ality? The association between intellect in its several spheres of exercise-the union of men of Letters with Statesmen whose pursuits are exclusively political, presents a combination that is reciprocally benefi cial to the State and in general intellectual culture. ;The man of abstract inquiry, who meditates on general principles, by his al liance with men of action and technical de tail, accomplishes that interfusion of theory with practice -vhich best realizes the idea of perfect statesmanship. The historian who sagaciously explores the springs of human at4ion can best assist to unravel the tangled wpb of political intrigue. T-e man of large general cultivation carries into the conduct o human alibirs that well balanc ed minds-that liberality of philanthropic spirit which are the best foundations of civil polity and political administration. It is therefore the rankest prejudice that abuses the incompetence of literary and sci entific men for a political life and career. Machiavel waq a profound historian us well as an accomplished Statesman. Cicero was as wise in Council as he was richly im bued with the truths of Philosophy and ladened with the treasures of general knowl edge. We feel proud then that the Republican Administration of the new world have be gun to act on the principle of giving otlice to literary an.] scientific men where it can be done with propriety. This opens the avenues of honorable ambition, in active life, to those against whom they have been closed in that country from which we have copied so many of our usages. But if in any land it is allowable to permit the laut els that decorate the brow of the Statesman to become entwined with the wreaths of liter ature &Science, surely it- is in this, where the Constitution in theory draws no line, between the citizens, except that of talent and virtue. ANECDOTE OF Da. Roomas.-The Rev. John Rodgers and several of his hearers were once summoned to appear before Sir Richard Craddock, a justice of the peace, for worshipping God according to the die tatesof theirconiscience. Whlile they were waiting in the great hall, expecting to be called upon, a little girl, 6 or 7 years old who was Sir Richard's grand daughter, hap pened to come mnto the hall, she looked at Mr. Rodgers and was mu~ch taken with his venerable ap~pearancee. Being naturally fond of children, he took her upon his knee caressed her,and gave her some sweetmeats. The chilM being a particular favorite of her grandfather, had acquired so great an as cendancy over him that lie could deny her nothing, and possessing too violent a spirit to hear contradiction, she was indulged in every thing she wanted. At one time,when she had been contradicted, she ran a pn knife into her arm, to the great danger of her life. This ungovernable spirit was in the present inistance, over-ruled for good. While she was sitting on Mr. Rodgers' knee, e'tting the sweetmeats, she looked earnest ly at him and asked, "what are you here for, Sir?" lie answered,'"I believe your grandlfather is going to setnd me and my friends to gaol." Upon this she ran up to the chamber where Sir Richard Was, and knock~ing with her head and heels till she got in, she said to him, "What are you go ing to do wvith my good old gentleman in the hall?1" "That's nothing to you" said he, "get about your business." "But I wont," says she; "he tells meat n. i. .. going to send him and his friends to gaol, and if you do send them, I'll drown myself in the pond as sorn as they are gone: I will indeed." When he saw the child thus per emptory, it shook his resolution, and in duced him to abandon his design. Taking the mittimus in his hand, lie went down into the hall and thus addressed these good men: "I had here yqy mittinus to send you all to gaol, as you deserve ; but at my grandchild's request, I drop the prosecution and set you all at liberty." They all bow ed and thanked his worship. But Mr. Rodgers going to the child, laid his hand upon her head, and lifted up his eyes to heaven said-"God bless you my dear child! May the blessing of that God whose cause you have now pleaded, though you know him not, be upon you in life, at death and to all eternity!' The prayer of the good old man was heard, and many years after was graciously answered in her conversion to God. An additional fact may increase the in terest of this anecdote. A son of Dr. R. who was, years after this. participating the politeness and hospitality of a pious lady, related at dinner the above incidents of him father, for the entertainment of the compa ny. When he was through, the lady says, 'are you the son ofthat Dr. Rodgers?' le an swered yes. She replied, "I am that little girl." The Dying Man.-It is a very terrible and amazing thing to see a man.die, and solemnly take his last leave of the world. The very circumstance of dying men is apt to strike us with horror. To hear such a man how sensibly he will speak of the other world, as if he were just come from it, rather than going to it; how severely he will condemn himself for the folly and wickedness of his life; with what passion he will wish that he had lived better, and had served God more sincerely ; and how seri ously he will resolve upon a better life, it God would be pleased to raise him up. and try him once more; with what zeal and earnestness he will commend to his best friends and nearest relations a virtuous and religious course of life. as the only thing that will minister comfort to them when they come to be in his condition. Such dis courses as these are very apt to move and affect men for the time, and to stir up in them very good resolutions. whilst the pre sent fit and impression lasts ; but because these sights are very frequent, they have so seldom any permanent effect upon men. They consider that it is a very common cause, and sinners take example and en couragement from one another; every one it affected for the present, few are so effectualy convinced as to be-take themselves to a bet course.-Tillotson. Prussic Acid in the Blood.-T he following startling fact is stated in Dr. Sigmond's lectures on Materia Medica. However ex traordinary it may seem it has been proved by actual experiment, that the proximatc principles of Prussic acid actually are pre sent in our bodies, and may under some cir cumstances, be developed. "This very poison, a small quantity of which pure and concentrated killed profes sor Scharinger, at Vienny when difisel on the naked arm may be said to exist within us and circulate in our frames. It can only be obtained from us with the greatest facilitj after death, but is formed in certain diseases of the fluids oi'the body. The blue stain which is imparted to linen from blood in a state of decomposition, owes its color to this deadly poison." A Steam Wind Inatrument.-We notice in the United States Gazette, that Mr. Norris of Philadelphia has applied a trom bone to steam locomotives, which is played with such a gusto by the steam, that it cat Ibe heard many squares, tooting away above the noise of the steam engine cars. Noi content with a single pipe, Mr, N. is aboul to add several of different keys, so thet there may be a concert o steama instrumaents.--N. Y. Star. The quiet quaker population about Cam den. N. J. opposite Philadelphia, are out rather ferociotusly against horse racing. A county meeting at Woodbury denounces the Camden course, and says racing is no better than gambling in disguise-and they pre fer inferiority of breed in horses to a de prayed race ofmen, "a nucleus for the dregs of society," &c. The peparatory Sabbath trainings on the course on Sunday seem to have excited much indignation. They skl for a renewal of the repealed law prohibit ing horse racing. Fancy without judgment is all sail and no halladt. Apprentices in the Navy.-Webelieveit is not generally known among parents and guardians, (says the. U. S. Gazette,) that by a law of Congress in 1837, apprentices are taken into our navy to serve until they are 21 years old. They are taught reading, writing, arathmetic, navigation, and the art of seamanship, and are well clothed. After serving out the time of their indenture, they will be promoted to the situation ofgunners, gunners' mates, quarter ganners, quater masters, and other situations of respectability on board ship according to their merits. This is one step towards increasing the num ber of native born seamen for our navy, and it will be the means of giving employment to hundreds of boys that might otherwise be bropght up in idleness, which often leads to disgrace and ruin. We would be glad to see a law of Congress requiring our mercan tile marine to carry apprentices. Itcertainly would not be objected to on the part of our merchants, whose ships are now filled with foreign seamen, of every country, who can not feel that interest in the welfare of the ship and cargo, that would be felt by our own hardy sons of the ocean. How to raise a Blister.-The Lanect gives the- following quick and simple nod. of raising a blister: "The surgeon cuts a piece of brown pa per of the size and shape he intends vesicat ing. This being well damped or moistened with water, is placed on the limb affected; a smoothing iron, (such as is used by washer women,) being previously well heated, is applied over the moistened paper this plan produces a vesicated surface almost instan taneously, being effected by the steam gen crated by the contact of the hot iron and moistened paper. This method of blister ing, being more speedy and less painfbl than that commonly adopted, is now gen erally used in all cases where it is a matter of importance to produce immediate vesica tion." GEORGE BANCROFT, the ath:or of the History of the U. States, has been appointed Collector of the Customs for the City of Boston. The Madisouian thus notices his appointment; "George Bancroft has been appointed Collector of the Customs for the ports of Boston and Charlestown, in the place of David Hlenshaw, resigned. Mr. Bancroft is one of the finest scholars of the country. and perhaps the ablest historian of the age. His history of America, the second volume of Which has just been published, has been considered equal to Gibbon's History of the Roman Empire, in point of profound his torical research and philosphical acumen. We knownot how he may fancy an exchange of his delightful literary retirement for the turmoil of a large commercial Custom House." From the Jackson Republican. TurNos WE HArETE.-We hate to see very little men ride very big horses, for if they should fall, the probability is that they would get hurt. We hate snakes, unless they rattle. A man is a fool to be bitten after fair warning. We hate to see a man without money, and have a pocket full ourself. Prudence says keep it, and the world cries hold fast; so poor conscience is kept quiet by public opinion. We hate to hear people in church sing through thteir noses instead of their throats. It may be a very sanctified way, but not a pleasant one. WVe hate to pay our own debts, but expect every one to pay us. We hate sin, and like religion. We hate men who are smarter than us to be constttly ringing it in our ears. If the world thinks a man smart, it does not mater how big a fool he is in reality. We hate to see a young man go into a grocery itt day.light to take a drink. It looks so like dissipation. And then goo.d 01ld mother Morality is apt to go into fits whenever she hears of it. An extlensive E ditorial Force.-A German paper has been started in Phtiladelphia whtich is edited and published by six doctors, one ma'jor and three privates, besides which they have beent promised assistance in the way of edlitoi'ials from four lawyers and a literarv old maid. Fire and Fury, Guns and Thunder... The first number of a neutral paper, corn menced at Naples, (Illinois) contains the following :-"With fearless footsteps we'll tread the billows beneatte sky of'wrath, our halyards tipped with fire, carrying with us a tongue ofthunder, and none shalU con quer until the last armed man has deserted or fallen in the conflict." This mtist ho a.