Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, May 21, 1856, Image 2

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*THE ED9EFIELD -ADVERTISER, is FUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING BY W. F. DURISOE & SON. Two DOLLARS per year, if paid in advance-Two DO.LLARS and FiF.IY CENTS if not paid within six months-and TkaaE DOLLARS if not paid before the expiration of the year. All subscriptions not distinct ly limited at the time of subscribing, will be consider ed as made for an indefinite period, and will be con tinued until all arrearages are paid, or at the option of the Publisher. Subscriptions from other States must INvARIAtluY be'socompanied with the CASH. 5ADRIsEMENTS ill be cnspicuously ipserted at 75 cbnas per Sqn 2inesorless) for the first in sertion, and 371 cents for each subsequent insertion. When only published Monthly or Quprterly $1 per square will be charged. All Advertisements not having the desired number of insertions marked on the mar gin, will be continued until forbid and charged accor Those desiring to advertise by the year can do so on liberal terms-it being distinctly understood that con tracts for yearly advertising are confined to the imme diate; legitimate, business of the firm or individual ,contracting. Transient Advertisements must be paid for in'advance. iaFor announcing a Candidate, Three Dollars, IN ADVANCE. For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be paid by the Magistrate advertising. SOUTWEl X&N ACTURES. In the various commercial expositions of the past year, a remarkable feature, which appears in bold relief, is the growth of manufacturing rnd mechanicat industry. This is particularly apparent in the cities and towns of the West. Our attention has been drawn to some state ments of the progress of manufactures in Cin cinnati and St. Louis, and the details that art! given show, that the great and substantial ele ments of manufactures are progressing with a rapidity that fully justifies the langunge used by the press, that we should deem extravagant in the extreme was it not sustained by facts and figures. The enterprising inhabitants of these two flourishing cities seem to realize the maxim by carrying it out in practice, that the strength of a wealthy and prosperous city consists in the union of agriculture, commerce, and the manu facturing arts. Cincinnati, for instance, the youngest of all the first class cities of the Union, had in 1850 a -population of 115,000, having increased in the last decade 150 per cent. 'if her increase of - population continues at the average ratio for the last fifty years, in .1860 she will have a popula tion of 311,000. lint the growth of her manu factures is a much more significant index to the sources of her power and prosperity than the mere enumeration of her inhabitants. From a +able now before us we find that the industry of Cincinnati has grown in advance of her popula tion, for while her population from 1840 to 1850 had increased. 150 per cent., the aggregate of its manufactures had increased 200 per cent. In 1850 there were in Cincinnati 3350 manufactu rinte establishments, employing 33,098 hands, anAielirng an annual value of productions of 652,109,374. The manufactures of iron alone amounted to $5,779,495; of food to $14,473,562; of liquors to S5,240:930; clothing to .4,325, 500. The shrewd, thrifty people of the "Queen City of the West" have discovered, that the ac cumulation of the industrial arts is the true sourceof their strength, power and prosperity, and they have verified the political and social truth, that the increase of industry resists at cor responding demand for population. The question may very properly be asked, cannot manufactures, which succeed so well at the West,-prosper.equally well in the South west, and produce the same satisfactory result ? Cannot the surplus capital, accumulated from commercial pursuits in New Orleans, instead of being carried out of the country, be invested in manufactures, and, by a process of retention and reproduction, be made subservient to the wealth and. prosperitysf the place? There is nothing repelling-or incompatible- in the elements of commerce and -manufactures ; on the contrary, they arc twin arts, congenial and sympathetic in their natstre, and flourishing best when recipro cally acting~together and depending upon each ohier. 'We have been reading an article' which ap ~peared some time since in DeBow's Review, up on Southern Manufac~tures, whieh: was written ~'3Mr. Gregg. of South-Carolinti, hiniself alarge manufacturer. Mr. Gregg has conclusively demonstrated the fact that manufacturing may be conducted at the South successfully, and may be made the source of individual wealth and national prosperity. HeI established in 1849 a Cotton Factory at Graniteville, in that State, aind although for three years siueceeding the corn mencement of~ operations, the manufacturing interests experienced.a period of unprecedented depression, during which millions of capital were sunk by the New England Spinners, the company at Graniteville were able to hold their ps itio)n, and now show a very fair average re turn on theiroperations during the time they have been in existence. In 1852 the net carnt ings were 8 per cent. In 1853 they reached 113 per cent.; and in 1854 they amounted to a frac ion over 18 per cnt., thus giving the stockhol ders an interest of 7 per cent. on the entire cap ial from the time it was paid in. If the business of 1855 shall equal that of 1854, and there is every reason to believe it will. the average profits will'be 8 per cent. from the time the capital was first paid in. A general impression prevails, that manufac tures at the South are hazardous risks, uncer tain speeslations, and that they invariably prove losing concerns in the hands of the original stock. holders. These are erloneous impressions ; they are rnot sustained by experienee ad faets. What failures have oceurred at the South are reducible to certain causes not local and inhe rent, but accidental and adventitious, and which can easily be removed. A fatal mistake is generally committed at the very inception of these enterprises. Our South ern people are apt to come to the conclusion, that they can erect a manufactory for the sum a similar establishment would cost at the North. This is a grand mistake. The machinery should be ini every respect as perfect and complete, and the buildings, appurtenances and equipments, a substantial and trermanent. Wheni correctly constructed, found and organized, an abundant supply of cheap labor, convenient water power, mild climate, with raw material so -cheap at our door, and an adequate home market for our fab ris, all this gives us buperior advantages over any other country, and furish the assurance of large remunerating returns. 31r. Gregg enumerates five prominent causes to which he ascribes the failore, or partial sue es, of cotton factorias at the South: The first is an injudicious selection of machi nery, and of the kind of goods to be made. Thie second is a lack of steady, ellicient and cheap motive power. The'third is an injudicious location. The fourth is the lack of proper effort for the religious and moral trainig of the operatives. The fifth is t&embark i'j such an enterprise without sufficiem capital. The neglect, he urges, of any one of these may lead to serious embarrassaent; while the last, seemingly one that would easily be correc ted. is a prolitic source of failure, and has led to more ruinous disasters than anything else. He instanes two or three failures of manufactories in South Carolina, traceable solely to this cause. All other circumstances, were favorable to suc cess, but there was an insufficiency of capital, and this primary defect was -the cause of their *speedy ruin. The manurtaetonles in Georgia, which started full handed, and w'ere based on sufficient capital, have uniformly; succeeded ;and even during the terrible pressure of 1850 and 51 there was go failure among them. The m anufactring establishments im that State have multiplied largely within, a very few years, and they number inow somne sixt in the full tide of success. The returns sho that the yield on the stock paid in is from 15 to 30 per cent. t seems strange that, when capital can be so profitably employed, it will not be wore gene rally airected to the'establishment of Southern manufactrea. . There must be some strong coanteractiug empese operating against the in a tent of capital in such insitutions, other wise the induoemen~t of large remunerating profits would ulutiply 'them throughout the whole cou~ ossessing, as it does, -extraordinary Thrtr rsin of many of the Southern . Btateis' traced.4 directly to the want of manuatures, and-other means for the absorp tion of eapital... There is no encouragement acl out..sse.foEhe mployment of accumulated wealth. .The consequence is, that the: thrifty plair find'suceessful merchant look to other lands fo' -the employment, upon a sure and re minerating basis, of the capital which years of assiduous labor and dashing enterprise have ac cumulated; their desire is, when the necessity of laborand close application to business has ccascd, to invest their earnings in industrial en terprises of sure foundation, with A moral cer tainty of yielding profitable and permanent re turns. The absence of such enterprises at the South and the abundance of them at the North, has proved the strongest incitement to emigration, And the transmission of capital. Mr. Gregg has given two instances of gentlemen of South Ca. rolina of large views, of practical bevevolence, who contributed liberally to all the local chari table institutions, the promoters of every indus. trial enterprise in their native State, and were in every respect useful, patriotic citizens; on their death it.was found that the greater portion of their capital had been for years invested in Northern Manufacturing, and in the far West, pushing forward enterpiises in that new country. Mr. Gregg ascribes to the same cause the with-drawal, during the last twenty-five years, from Carolina of planting capital which, if judi. ciously applied, would have drained every acre of swamp land in the State, besides resuscita ting the old worn out lands, and doubling the crops. The same gentleman is satisfied that this system of abstraction of capital and emi. gration have prevailed to a still greater extent among the combercial classes, and is confident that within the same period of twenty-five years he cn count up twenty-five millions of capital Accumulated in Charleston, and which has left with its enterprising owners, who have princi pally located in Northern cities. This is bad enough; but were it possible for us to count the number of emigrating New Or leans merchants and capitalists within the same period; or to estimate -the amount of capital transmitted hence to other sections of the coun try, seeking investment in permanent indnstrial enterprises, what a melaicholy picture we ntght hold up to the laze of the reflective portion of our citizens! The millions of money earned by mercantile thrift, at the cost of comfort, health, and even life, has been abstracted, and lost to our city forever, and gone to add to the strength mnd general welfare of other communities. Had this immense wealth, or even a tithe of it, been bsorbed in the establishment of factories, or, we will even say, in one single branch of manu actures, that of coarse cottons, for which this locality excels all others, the spare capital which is annually taken away from us to enrich other ities, would remain at home, and by its action, reaction, and retention, contribute to the increase f our producing power, and of an industrious, thrifty, and permanent population, elements es sential to our growth and prosperty.-N. O. Commercial Bultetin. CONGRESSIONAL. WASHINGTON, May 14. Telegraphic despatches from Kansas have produced not a little excitement to-day. The President on reading them was heard to exclaim to a gentleman, not privately, but within the hearing of those present at the White House "If there is to be armed. resistance to the laws of the country and constitutional rights of .the South, it might as well occur at this time and in Kansas as elsewhere." ~MAY 15. A message was received from the President in relation to Central American affairs, including the tr'ansit routes and the general condition of Nicaragua. He does, not however, in it enquire into the causes which led to the change of gov ernment, but states that Padre Vigil had been receved because satisfactory evidence exists that lie represents defacto et dejaue thie government. he President, also, adduces numerous consider ations in reference to the propriety of his recep tion, and suggests additional measures for the security of the Transit route. The documents accompanylug the message are voluminous, and include the letter of Padre Vigil to Mr. Marcy, of Presideit, Rivas to Presi dent Pierce, a spicy correspondence between M. Moina and Mr. Marcy, in relation to the late mnaere of Americaqs att Virgin. Bay, and eco pies of the instructions to the -jiaval comman ders at that depot for attending to the interests of American citizens. Mr. WVeller spoke warmly in favor of Gen. Walker, and Mr. Crittenden responded by stating that in less than ten days after the reception in Europe of the intelligencee of the action of onr government'in regard to this question, a war would be on our hands. Cisi reported that Mr. Marcy yesterday in* fored M. Marcoleta of the decission of our government to receive Padre Vigil as minister who protested against the decission, as being.a violation of the laws of good n'ations. He is, it is said, preparing a circular to the diplomatic corps complaining of the act. From the Augusta constitutionalist. THE NEW BODUNTY LAND LAW. We have received from a friend in Washing. ton, a copy of the act to amend the act in addi tion to certain acts granting bounty lands to certain officers and soldiers who have beeni en gaged in the military service of the United States,'approved March 3, 1855. We invite sipecial attention to the 5th and 6th sections of this aet: Be it enacted by thre Senate and House of Rep resen'aties of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases wherea certifcate or warrant for bounty land for any less quantity than one hundred and sixty acres shall hays been issued to any oficer or soldier, o- to the widow or minor child or children of any officer or soldi~r, under existing laws, the evidence upon which such certifieate or warrant was issued shall be received to establish the ser vice of such officer or soldier in the applicatior of himself, or of his widow or minor child or children, for a certinecate or warrant for so mneh land as may be required to make up the full sum of one hundred and sixty acres, on proof of the identity of such officer or soldier, or in case of his death, of the marriage and identit) of his widow, or in camse of her death, of the identity of his minor child or children: Prorid ed erertheless, That if upon a review of such evidence the Commissioner of Pensions ahall not be satisfied that the former certificate oi warrant was properly granted, lie may require additional evidence, as well of the term as of the fact of service. SEC.t2. And be it further -enacted, That in all cases where a pension has been granted to any officer or soldier, the evidence upon which such pension was granted shall be received to estab lish the service of such officer or soldier in his application fotr bounty land under existing laws, and upon proof of his identity as such pensioner, a cet tifieate or warrant may be issued to him for the quantity of land to which lie shall be enti. tIed; ad in ease of the death of such pensioned officer or soldier, his widow shall be entitled tc a certificate or warrant, for the same. quantity of land to which her husband would have been en titled, if living, upon proof that she is such widow, and in case of the death of such officer or soldier, leaving a minor child or children and no widow, or where the widow may have de eased before the issuing of any certificate or warrant, suebi minor child or children shall be entitled to a certificate or warrant for the saine quantity of land as the father would have beer entitled to receive, if living, upon proof of the decease of father or mother : Provided necverthe less, That if upon a review of such evidence, the Commissioner of Pensions shall not be sat. isied that the pension was properly granted, he may require additional evidence as welt as of the term as of the fact of service. 8SEC. 3.47zd be it further enacted, T hat 80 much. of t third section of the " act in addi. tion to eritain acts granting bounty land to cer. a oiers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States, ap. proved March the third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, as requires the party claiming a certifi. cats or wari~lnt under the provisions of said act, to establish his or her g'ght thereto, by record evidene of the serviee rpr which such certificate or warrant has been or may be claimed, be, and te same is hereby, repealed, and parol evidence, where no record evidence exists, may be admit ted to prove the service performed,.under such rules and regulations as .the Commissiotner of Pensions may prescribe. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the eighth section of the act above mentioned, ap. A MODEL DUN.. Among the varied specimens QiAmerican ingenuity, e ine of the shrewdest are in -tlshape of advertise ients elicited by the moneyed wants of the day Es ecially in the collection of accounts, do we see the for te faculties of creditors taxedjo hit upon the most fiective appeals to the purses.of:their debtors. But pr fall the compositions of this class we have yet seen, e following from a man up in Chester, given to the pr orld through the Chester Standard, is certainly the ost unique. We give it in - tote, as a curiosity in se nd a rich evidence withal of the tight monetary junc. are we are passing: THE RATTLESNAKE! -N spite of his slimy folds and. poisonous fangs; is still admired for one trait in- his character. He Iways gives warning before he strikes. Liki the ser ent in his coil, I am now springing my rattle: there ire take warning or suffer the consequences. I have maited with patience the convenience of other people, ntil forbearance is no longer.a virtue. Therefore, be at surprised if by Return Day a Valentine is left at our house, not written in sweetstrains of poetry and ve, but stern facts of law. - Our -business relations re have undergone a radical change. We cannot ay a Load of Wooil, bushel of- Meal, or pair of Chi kens, but the Cash mustcom.. As regards the wood s really amusing! The reverberating echo of the Lst log falling from the wagon is not passed away efore the negro comes, like a monkey in a menagerie th his out1tretched hands, begging apples from chil ren. Query-What do you want buck I My PAY !! I For me to pay out money has become an instinct om long habit-to receive, a wonder. When a arkey comes up into my shop my hands unconscious glide into my pocket, expectin a call. None but fiol would find fault with this, if the rule worked oth ways. Strain a chain to its-utmost and the links ust give, if not belayed. I am not financier enough know where all the money is gone. Some assert i-re is no money in the country. THAT IS BLAR Y! Others say, the Bank gets itall. BLARNY, GAIN! ! The Bank is neither a whirlpoo or des rt of Sahara, to engulf everything. Tell that to the arines. A bad excuse is better than none. Against ie burglar and highwayman waean be on our guard, t against tie man who violates his word of honor r promise, and upon the faith -of that promise we orrow either from friend or Bank, the last resort Is aw. I am well aware that toa.sue injures a man's siness; but who would not -rather face the angry own of a defaulting debtor, than:io hear the hoarse ry of the Sheriff Gone! gone! down it comes, and irely down it is, to rise no mre. I have a duty to erform to kind friends and myself, which must be erformed at all hazards. Some will say, that fel )w, ]HoLsT, is forever grumblirg about money. Vould the Jew, (whose case is so beautifully For rayed in the parable) laying weltereng in his blood y the road-side, have attracted.the notice and sym thy of the Samaritan, if hircries of woe had not rawn him nigh. I am neitherKPhiarisee or Saducee; t like the poor Jew, I need h 1I. Who will be the ood Samaritan pouring the a of Gilead on my ounds? Let us see! Or, if no calm of Gilead is at and, there is an infallible plaster which dnes burn g tears, and can relieve many. an oppressed heart, tbeled, BANK OF CHESTER. cannot go to every man's house, telling him my tale f sorrow ; but a great many see and read the Ches r Standard, so they cannot say, the scamp sued, me ithout letting me know. I have tried by letter to rge payment, but who cares for a letter; all that it good for is to light a pipe. -oYou 'will please not ke this as newspapergaf, or TIke the Sheppard boy rying wolf to alarm his neighbors. No, no, the wolf here, gnashing his teeth. Now, if any of my friends wisi to feel like a sover ign prince with a standing arniy, and no national ,b, come to my shop before lieturn Day and pay up. Lnd, take my word.fur it, as you leave my yard, your osoms will swell with conscious pride, to know that ou have performed a good and just act to . C. HOLST. ly barque is upon the breakers, The sea ii running high; She is boarded by the wreckers, Come help before I die! Miscellaneous- Items, L"|P Ahtos B. CoawNE, formerly United States onsul at Havana, has been appointed a Commission r to proceed to Panama, to take tistimony relative to he recent massacreS and robberies at the Isthmus. gg'. Titos. CUNNINGHiAM Fgi, formerly a member f te Legislature from Anderson, died at his residence n that district, on the 6th inst... . IW WAsH tNGToN, May I2.-MIr. Herbert has been eleased from custody, having given $10,000 bail to ap ear at the June term of the Criminal Court, to plead o an indictment, for manslaughter. Sgr TnE plate and other decorations of the table, ow owned by. the city of Parisyare said to he worth om eight to ten millions of fra s. tel gg A comet, ia isa nou ., ton, N., r . is visibl'ena norlihasterly8eto ~n eleva- dc ion of 50 degrees. It is-not of great magnitude, nor T rery bright, of 1WP Five thousand slaves ir, the city of Charleston, i. C., at is stated, have contributed- the last year to re ,enevoent objects $15,000. ar ggAn honest Dutch farmer thtus writes to the Sec etary of thie:Massachusetts Agricultural Socety:- t 'Gentlemen you will have the goodness to enter me en your list of catttle for a bull." gw" A man in Florida, who swallowed.- an orange th ed last fall, lia a breath so fragrant of orange blos- to ons this spring that, lie says, the ladies are constant- se y teazing hum for kisses. Poor fellow ! th ggr7 A Minnesota writor brags that a neighbor of S s raised onie squash which weighed 221* pounds and ch neasured seven feet and four inches in circumference. h knoter raised a flat turnip whIch weighed twenty th oe pounds. : . in ggY' TuuE Cleveland (Ohio) Lealer of the 8th Inst., ch aye: A train of sixteen passenger andsbagage cars u: xent out yesterday on the Toledo road. There were of ix hundred Mormons along, all the way from England, nt and bound for the promised land of Utah. ggr Salt was selling at Turks Island on the 2d ul- de imo at 20 and 2" cents a bushel, and tending down. d CW'P IT is said mechanics, especially carpenters, are at n such demand at Chicago that they are sending East - 'or them. cC 9g Can't do without the women. A Hoosier i'n at ansas las been making his fortune out of a woman'sd Iress. There being no women there the, squatters d ive him a dollar a sight, andl pre-emnption claim to n ut a pillow in it and give it a sque'eze. i gg TuH physicians of Alieghany, Michigan, pledg- be d themselves not to attend a patient unless the physi- fri ian previously in attendance shall have been " regu- si army discharged, and satisfactorily compensated for th s a'tedanc." T 9W HEN a man goes three times a day to get a Iratn, I wonder if he will not by and by go four times. an anybody anrger? -t ggr Just one century ago, in August, 1750, the first hi erinting press was introduced into New Hampshtre, mn lie first newspaper printed in October, and the first tm iook in November of the same year. hi ggr ONs the 12th ultimo, at Galveston, (Texas) thc 1ev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe was unanimously elected ishop of Texas, by the Convention of the Protestant ra 'iscopal church of that diocese. ggr BAL.-rntoIE, May 9.-A party of 130 men left crc today, said to be destined for Nicaragua per i teamer Orizaba. They were organized into two com- re anies, and were mostly froit the interior of the State. gWP Honm. Mr. Herbert, of California, who I am he Irish waiter at Willard's Hotel, Wasintgtont, last ty reek, is a native of South Carolina. Pe gWg TuE smallest bank in the United States is tbe in ank of Cayuga Lake, at Painted Post, N. Y., with 1 o,000 tapital. OF W', TaHE Madison (Wis.) Journal learns that the in orwegian population of Dane county amounts to 6,- w} 28 persons. Trhey constitute the majority of the in. lie abitants in several of the towns, and are industrious so n good citizens. mn gg TuE London Times suggests that Lord John cn tussell should be made a Peer, as lie is no longer of Ow ny paticl use in the House of Com~monls. . gg Louis Napoleon is 43 years old, and the Em. gWP I#Mason county, Va., the value of hogs an- L ually packed for exportation is $33,500, and the fat L atte driven to the East $48,000. The wheat crop 100,000, and the corn crop $50,000 All the above re exported,and yet leaves enough for plentiful livig. B W" PanE~ar EAsTERts has been sentenced to jai lat K ing and Queen county, Vas., for six months, and TI ned $50, for disturbing a Methodist meeting. fo1 W" TicE Hon. M.t H. McAlister, Judge of the Uni dd States Court, California, is at present on a visit to A is old home in Savannah. . dni gg TzaE are eight hundred idiots in the State di f onnecticut, one-fourth of whota are under fourteen we 'ears of age. ,lot 9W"' TE Massachusette Legislature has resolved fot ot to elect a United States Senator this session. No ti ne wll csr if they never dno, C OMM!UNICATION, For the Advertiser. Ca lR. EDITOR: I would suggest to the candidates ma the Legislature who advocate division of the Sts strict, that it would become them to designate the i"u anc eise mode of division-that we may judge of its So eticability and merits. VOTER. wh For the AdvertIser. net THE WIFE'S APPEAL. " t You took me, William, when a girl, tra Unto your home and.eart-. sel To bear in all ydur after life - sp A fonf an'd faithful part; the And tell me, have I ever tried i That duty to forego? anI Or grieved because I had no jay pri When you were su'nk in Woe? Te co .No-I would rather share your tears PT Than any other's glee, wi For though you're nothing in the world, Ur You ai ill the wrild to iie, ft You make a palace of my shed, n This rough-hewn bench a Throne; bi There's sunlight forme in your smiles, toa And music in your tone. pri the I look upon you when you sleep. m. My eyes with tears grow dim; br I cry 0 !'parent of the poor, dat Look down from heaven on him; dif Behold him toil from day to day ted Exhausting strength and soul- be Oh! look in mercy on him lord sig! For thou canst make him whole. Ba can And when at last, reviving sleep tep Has on my eyelids smiled, arr llow oft are they forbid to close the In slumber, by your child. Be I take the little murmerer, Ur That spoils my span of rest, if t And feel it as a part of thee wi I lu!led upon my breast. vai in . There's oply one return I crave I may not need it long; And it may, soothe thee when I am where La The wretched feel no wrong; $1 I ask not for a kinder tone, ed For thou wert ever kind; tie I ask not for less frugal fare- kil My fare I d6 not mind; for I ask not for attire more gay- no If such as I have got rai Suffice to make me fair to thee, an: For more I murmur not; the But I would 'ask some of the hours,' to That you on clubs bestow- tal Of knowledge which you prize so mueh, Cal May not I something know. Subtract, from meeting among men, Each eve an hour for me; un Make me companion of your soul, me As I may safely be; Re If you will'read, I'll sit and work, Fr Then think when you're away, . I ess tedious I shall find the time. i Dear William, if you stay. pr A meet companion soon I'll be, For your most studious hours ; rel And Teacher of those little ones, . pu You call your cottage flowers. . i And if we be not rich and great, a We may be wise and kind; in Andas my heart can warm your heart, So may your mind my mind. PaisoNsa. an XONTVALE BPRING. 'nm Montvale Spr ini tare situated near the wes -n base of the Ohilhowee mountains, in the unty of Blount, East Tennessee, nine miles *ed athe town-of Macyville, twenty from 'Iu. n,and twentysfour from the city of-Knoxville. au 2ir elevatior. is near 1400 feet above the level fri the sea: l Motvale has been long a favorite summer ort for those residitig in its vicinity, and who P a acquainted with the medicinal effect of itsp iters; in fact, before the country was settled t the whites, the Cherokees regarded this wa-t ring.place as a health-inspiring Spring, and th ide annuatl eicpnempmets in the immediate ighborhood; when the red men gave place to t e whites, the virtue of these waters continued Gi be acknowledged and appreciated: the pre- l nt proprietor, Col. Asa Watson, travelling in e mountainous region of East Tennessee, in n arch of health, during the summer of 1850, eli sually learned of their remarkable efficaev in er ronic diarrhosa aind dyspepsia, under whicii he d suffered for a number cf years, and visited em at once; lie proved their- sanative powers' his own case, became fully restored, and ptir- tic ised the farm upon which the springs are sit ted, and set about a series of improvements so such a character as to necommodate the large c;, mber of visitors he knew would be attracted 511 the Springs so soon as their virtues should come generally known. In carrying out his jt, sign, Col. Watson has erected a large and br; iniodious Hotel, with wide piazzas on each W. iry, running the entire length of the building TI -so constructed that the invalid need not en-. unter the slightest exposure to any inclemency hai the weather, and at the same time affording~ V all seatsons, a heathful promenade to those Gi siring moderate exercise. In addition to this im otel, Col. WVats'on has built ndmuroita cottages, of of which are tastefully arranged on the lawn, pr front of~ the main building--so situated as to easily accessible both from the Spring and m the Hotel.. These structures .are well de- e ned and extensis e, being amply sufficient for a r e accommodation of four hundred visitors. T tese improvements, together with the offices, tel ibles, carriage houses antd shops of variouish rs, are all situated in a beautiful glen of the ilhowee mountains, and give to the Springs uri a air and appearance of a village eneireled by de Is, whilst unmbriugeous sugar maples, and other ijestic for~t. trees,.shade the whole from the ke dday sun, and render Mont dle truly a de- c htful retreat during the surenier solstice. tea How DID Ir'GET THERE.-T. . Norfolk He d has been credibly informed thatione of the yu nizens of the polar regions, a veritable phoca M< seal, by some means or other recently found aei way inito the marshes of the Roanoke river, we Tyrre~ county,-N. C., where it was. quietly Ce aling itself upwi. the.fish which . had become vis tangled in a shad net..belongini .to. s gentle- eri mengaged intbe fishery business in thatancoun- ed The proprietor not liking such an interlo- sei went after his kuikand I suche'eded in shoot r the animal, which, when brought 'to shore, awed by its size that it had not neglected it portunities in the matter of good living. It Th 'ded three gallons of oil, and the skin is nowth possession of Mr. G. WV. Bluford. of Norfolk, h re it may be seen by the curious. We be- R e this is the first seal ever seen in tho waters th of N. York, and though some. suppose it n y have taken an involuntary passage on ath ce of icg the question we consider, is still h" en for the discusion of naturalists, how did itth Sinto North Carolina.-Wimingtonl Herald. In WHEAr.-The Athens Post says: "As far but we have had an opportunity of observing, xl Sgrowing wheat looks very well; and we e k the apprehension that it had been serious- a injured by the severe winter was premature." int The same paper gives a table showing the w~ mber of bushels of wheat shipped over the eu ,t Tennessee and Georgia railroad, of the tyears -harvest, up to the last of February. le total foots up at four hundred and twenty- Fr r thousand five hundred and sixteen bushels, be in FORTY-ONE subordinate lodges of Free and mi cepted Masons, within the provinces of Cans- St having, for causes set forth in a circular ad- sol 'sed to the ditferent grand lodges of the mi trid, separated themselves from the grand uri Iges of England, Scotland"'and Ireland, and tie 'med an independent grand lodgegrere, on by 0 th inst., recognized by the Grtpd Lodge 10 e. District of Colnmbin. -pri proved the third day of March, in the year eigh teen hundred and fifty4ve, shall be construed as embracing officers, marines, seamen and other a persons engaged in the naval service of the m United States during the revolutionary war, and p the widows and monor children of all such off- e cers, marines, seamen and other persons engaged e as aforesaid. SEC. b. And be it further enacted, That the t provisions of the said act shall extend to nil , persons who have served as volunteers with the armed forces of the United States, subject to military orders, for the space of fourteen days, in any of the wars specified in the first section of th'e said act,- whether such persons were or were not mostered into the service of the United States. SEC. 6. And be it further enactcd, That the widows and minor children of all such persons as are specified in the last preceding section of this act, and are now dead, shall be entitled to u the same privileges as the widows and monor n children (f the beneficiaries named in the act y to which this is an amendment. SEC. 7. And be iifurt)Ir enacted, That where b any company, battalion, 'or regiment, in an or. c ganized form, marched more than twenty miles D to the place where they were mustered fnto the 1 service of the United States, or were discharged , more than twenty miles from the place where d such company, battalion, or regiment was or ganized; in all such cases, in computing the f length of service of the officers and soldiers of any such company, battalion, or regiment, there a shall be allowed one day for every twenty miles b from the place where the company, battalion, or n regiment was organized, to the place where the t same was mustered into the service of the Uni ted States; and also, one day for every twenty miles from the place where such company, bat- e talion, or regiment was discharged to the place. n where it was organized, and from whence it ti marched to enter the service: Prorided, That such march was in obedience to the command b or direction of the President of the United 1 States, or some general officer of the United b States, commanding an army or department, or the chief executive offieer of the State or Terri- c tory by which such company, battalion, or regi- p ment was called into service. Attest: ASBURY DICKENS, Secretary. ti (Ily %bufrtiser. ' ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR, 9 EDGHPIELD, S. C. ........ ...... ..-31 WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1856. . OUR SENATOR. HloN. A. P. BUTLER arrived in our village on yes terday. He will remain, however, but a day or two as it is his intention to be in Washington by the Lt of June. . EMPHATICALLY APOLOGETIC. c Foa this week and the two next, we are compelled i by a force above the sphere of newspaperdom, to in termit our labor in this department. The readers need d only be informed that we hive ten Equity Raports to m~ike out in two weeks, with a laborious session of Court immediately following, so excuse us utterly in the premises. COL. ORR'S SPEECH. Wz would be obliged to any gentleman who will furnish us with a copy of the Courier containing COL. OaR's speech before the late convention. Our copy has been miss-laid, which accounts for the non-appear ance of the speech in our columns this week. e HO I FOR KANSAS. Foua yonng citizens leave our Village to-day for Kansas. They are sent by the Edgefield Kansas Association. Their names are Wx. L. F~vAys, WVs. CLARaKE, WV. W. WhITEv and C. P. LINDsaY. God speed end prosper them! NO ICE..p TUE Edgefield -Ice company having wound up their heretofore business, and gnne to the Court of Equity for a settlemens,of theirmatters, we are likely to hav'e no ice this summer. ' Is there nobody who wilt take the house and haul up supplies from Augusta through thte summer ? - ~ . .. .. - FINE RAINS. Corrous showers have fallen upon us for the last few days. The earth is now welt soaked preparatory to the heat of summer. The Oat crop is materially benefited. 'MISS BRENAN. WE observe that this lady is to give a Concert in Charleston the last or this month. The next one, it is hoped, wilt be given in Edgefield about the middle of June. By that time, our great halt will be ready for HARD TO KILT1. Wa brought some moss from Florida this Spring. It was tossed about, neglected and trampled on in coming outi. A few days after reaching home, we hung it abuout upon the trees in our enclosure ; and now it is green and a-growing. SOMETHING GOOD. A-r H. L. CUNNINOiUAM & Co's in the town of Hamburg, some choice liquors are to be had by thoe who apply soon. We have tasted their fresh importa-1 ion of Madeira. and Sherry wines, and advisc those w hio are in need of such things to go get them while I they can.' Also, at H~tavLEY & MAYs' in the same place, an extra article of whiskey can be found. Take our -word for it. JUDGE O'NEALL AND TIlE COLLEGE. His Honor has asserted that one fourth of the graduates of the South Carolina college are drunkards.] A writer in the Mercury repells the assertion ; and the< Judge rejoins with the same odoriferous illustration he once attempted to foist on osrself. But after all, wo I believe the Judge is but a mis-guided, not a bad man. NORTHIERN TESTIMONY. I The author of a Boston pamphlet, thus discourses upon the status of the " pour A frican" in the so-called Free States: (Read carefully.) ' In the Northern section of the United States this question amalgamation has, for more thaan half a ccn turv, been subjected to a practical test, and that, too, under circumstances mufliciently various and direct to fix the result-teyond alt shadow of contingency. In order to show what that result is, it is only necessary to look at the act ual condition of the colored mant as I hs is at p resent found existing in the non-slavehiolding .t states. In these he is free--that is, free to dispose of himse!f-and in many of them, by law, a coeqnal with the dominant class. This is his position legally. BEnt, as matter of fact, does he, in the free states, find him-t self, outside the statuses, recognized as an equal, ini any sense satisfactory to a sensitive mind ? No one will pretend that suech is the fact. Legislative enact ments or prescription declare him one thing by inclu ding him as a co-equal in' the general description of citizenship; but public opinion and social inhibition, ' both of which are a law unto themselves, declare him entirely another; under these circumstances, then, what actually is the position of the African in the non-slaveholding states ? Social equality he surely does not enjoy. Of this he may not so much as dream. He Is free, says the abolitionist. True, but how ? Should he set up a claim to a participation In your social enjoyment and privileges, you would reject it. I Boasting friend of the negro, as you profes< to be, you do not allow him a seat at your festive or family board; you do not admit him a co equal guest upon the floor of your drawing room; you would not for one moment willingly allow him a seat beside your daughter, to whisper soft things in her ear, and seal them uponI her lips ! Nay,,pzore, you would even reprove your son were lhe seen in the streets arm and armi with aa black man. These are a few of the social disabilities under which, in the. non slaveholding states, the African I labors; and they have their seat rather in the unwrit-a ten law of our typical instincts, thatn in any mere ar bitrary custom. There are others resting on custom exclusively or partially, or are the creation of positivep legislative enactments. In some states the negro Is denied the right of sufirage altogether ; in others lhe can claim thts right under some special qualifications, stuch as the possession of a certain amount-of propertyc either personal or real. In very many of the free states ho cannot ester into the marriage contract with white persons; nor is he anywhere required to doa military duty, or allowed to nerve as a juryman. ore; custom never justified but almost universally, sanctioned, either entirely excludes him from our a hoses of worship, or assigns him a place in some fI remote corner, conspicuous only for its isolation, or for its ohscurity of approach. I may also here say that, with few exceptions throughout the north, hist condition is emphatically servile, a large proportionI being but the servants of servants. Mark the tone of candor, of honesty with which this statement is made ! It is evidently too the testimony of oas who knows. Remarkably villany ! that can desire to convert the happy negroes of our Sunny South into such degradedn outcasts of freedom ! JECEPTI0N OF THE NMCARAGUAn AfnIS.ZL r telegraphic despatches ofvesterdav brought gratifying intelligenace of resideait Pierces ,ing received Padre Vigil son theground-thab,-.t . , represented ade facto and a de jure Govern t." This, we believe, is eminentlynight. In. - ing this step, the. President 1:as acted.with' usual promptness, has strengthened his ad iistration, and commended himself stillmore angly to the onqualified suppodl of his Soth. friends,.in particular. Nor in takiPg the Po on he has so fearlessly done,- is he to be re- - ded as favoring the cause of fuibusterism. e present. Government of Nicargnua.1s8eer.. ly ago vernment defaco and &. jure; an&d to W'aiker, he not, at least is nofibuster Qied to the support of the- Democratic party Nicaragua, he led his band there, put-.hs nds in power; and now, though he doubtless the directing spirit of the country, yet he da but a military commission under the naitii vernment of Rivas. and at the present moment what is he doing fighting the. enemies ,fJher Jwieraguian, h a force of which three-fourths, at least, p natives of the country, which J, ha.rdeemA from the misrule of tyranny, and the whiclih. I he been untnoestdj he would-.hkveq' iven its excellent portiou peace,' and the fifnta o - Lee. We are pleased, them, to see that our. Govern nt has given to Walker that .moral support ich is derived from the recognitioq q( I[ s tigeW nister.--South Carolinian. Subscription Rteeipts, he following persons -bave paid up to the time; red to their names: rillman Harling to 27th December 1856. WVm. Stevens, to 29th Dec. '56. 3. M. Foy, to 15th Oct. '56 L. W. Addison, to lst Jan. '57. dlaj. D. L. Shaw to 15th Jan. '57. Fas. Sheppard to 4th Jan. '57. drs. M. Swearingin to 16th Jan. 57. 3. M. Swearingin to 18th Mar. '57. 4. Padgettto 9th Jan. '57. [as. A. Dozier to 8th Aug. 56. [ohn P. Bates to lst Jan, '57 bgij. A. Jones to 8th Feb. '57 f. R. Bill to 13th Dec. '56 3atte Howard to 8th Feb. 57 fohn T. Cheatham to 6th Dec. 56. 1obt. Quarles to 5th Oct. 56. arrison Strom to 5th Dee. 56 3. Williams to 29th Jan. 57 4. W. Clark to 7th Jan. 57 3. M. Loveless to.9th Jan. 57 lonathan Tayler to 9th Jan. 57 reeman Roper to 9th Jan. 57 )r. G. Hord to 18th Dee. 56 3. F. Mays to 3d July 56. W. E. Rambo to 4th Jan. 57 enj. Rushton to 3d Nov. 56 rs. E. J. Nicholson to 8th Dec.56 F. C. Wood to 23d Jan. 57 L. H. Moss to 7th Jan 57 W. A. DeLeach to 7th Jan. 56 leff. Sturkie to 7th Jan. 57 Jas. M. Briggs, to 6th Dec. 56 Geo. F. Lenerd to 7th May 56 Chas. Parkman to 25thJan. 56 Geo. Addy to Ist Jan. 57 D. J. & W. H. Atkinson-to 7th Jan. 57 E. P. Coleman to 14th Feb. 57 . C. Walton to 22d Mar. 56 , Rev. J. W. Coleman to 13th Mar. 56 Jas. P. Wells to 1st Jan. 57 Dr. J. E. Lewis to 8th Feb. 57 Mrs. M.' A. Coleman 7th Nov. 56. ~ J. W. S.Bowen to 7May 57 John Adams to 8th Jan. 57 . Benj. Glanton to 7th'Feb. 57 , Win. Wheeler to 8th Jan. 5'7 Abner Sweariagin to 7th Jan.57. .. ' - Jas. Buckhalter to " -" J. W. Tompkins to 6th Mar.57 Thou. S. Bower, to 12th Dee. 56. William Whitlock to 18th Aug. 56 W. B. Bush to 4th Jan. 57 Dr.O0. W. Allen to 11th Mar. 57. R. A. McCaslan to-7th Jan.157 - Dr. S. T. Brunson to 10th Jan. 57 Robt. Bryan to 8th Jan. 57 Lewis Henderson to 7th Mar. 56 G. W. Holloway to 13th Dec.56 A. J. Rambo to 8th Feb. 57 Dr. M. Merriwether to 23d Jan. 57 J. N. A da to 7th July 56 J. B Sullivan to 1st Jan. 57 J. P. Pallatty to 8th Feb. 57 $manuel Corder to 6th Nov. 54 E. Busley to 8th Feb. 56 To be continued. coNmIEROIAL. H AMBURG May 19th. Co-ro.-Our Market the last week has been ite dull and prices have declined je. The Sales* the we ek light, at prices from 8j to 10g. We have had fine rains in the last 48 hours, sich was very much needed. K. SY NE NI AL. MAa:ED, on the 13th inst., by the Rev. J. H. nnerman, Mr. JAnes T. Otns and Miss Amas LoUaEY, all of this District. rhe regular fee was received, for which the Bride I accept our sincere thanks. O BIT UA RY. DIE, on the 10th of May, 1856, at Edgefield C. , . C., Mas. SARAH LABosRDE, relict of Mr' erre LaBorde. This venerable lady had-resobed 77th year, and had lived in the community and one residence, about hair a century. She was a believer in the christian religion, which Sembraced many years past, and died with 'a asing hope of' a blissful immortality beyonad thai Nrs. L. possessed many striking traits of char--, er and many virtues which endeared her to a e ircle of relatives and friends. Her children her descendants will miss her presence in the c where she so often extended to them the ad of welcome, and they will ever cherish her. 'mory with fond affection. P. D:E, at his fathers residence at Poplar Hill,'In beville District, on Wednesday the 7th' inst., MES, the second sop, of JAEss and E. :CaCKAN, of Scarlet Fever, in the. Eleve~1h yes its age. This is truly a great aiection,iniless than' week two promising youths have fallen victim# his dreadful disease and it still prevails In. the':. aily. . W. C. Religious Notice, flere will be presching in the Court House in a place on the 4rd., Sunday the 25th. Ins...a look P. M. by the Rev'ta. A GAGE an4 a Universalists. adeira andj Sher . sU UST IMPORTED and in Store twodeists et pure and fine old lMADETRA ' ail HERRY Wgus.. Prauaed bth it judges " Tue 4mest eibrcil'esd inthisiDt iM. L.'CUNNITGHAM 4 Co0 Rambg% giny 21, 1856 A 9 1 Fthis Disritonthe 17th inat, anegrom:as whony hi nmeis AMBROS -and .thati a pto Mr. Evrett of Alabama; maid noe'g aag was esid at J. Dobey's sale 'and purobsasd b - A. P. Butlertfo'r -Mr. Everett.. Hi'lk about fet 10 inches high, of dark soo mki,isad ut 21 years old. No rk pereivable. Ihe owner is regnested to comue'- ad rorien prty pay chargesgand take him away,'u so w.. will be dealt with as thei law dires.' JAS; EIDSONi 5.3.3. y 1, 1256 - t V From the Squatter Sovereign. During the past week, emigrants from South 'Ou rolina, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Alaba- the , Kentucky, Louisiana, and other Southern ha Lies, have arrived in this Territory, in great he abers, to enlist in the cause of the South, me I fight her battles, if necessary. Most of the tal uthern emigrants at this time are young men his o are ready to'embark in any honorable call. mi and are just such a class of citizens as is str ,ded at th s titne In the Territory. Should the err >csin of war" be sounded, woe be to the siti itors and abolitionists who may array them- gar Ves against the officers of the law. They arq Th a to be in the fight. -tai riE FUItInE or KANsu,.-If at any'time in as history of Kansas, we have had reason to in, r that she would not prove true to the South, of I adopt similar institutior.s as her own, the frie sent influx of Southern emigrants to the is rritory, is calculated to dissipate such vain ho ijecturem, and place the matter beyond the Gc isibility of a doubt. As surely as the sun I rise upon the day of her admission into the bu ion as a State; that sure is she to the South wi we surely believe that unless she is admitted - are u the Union as a slave State, she will never, ed the consent of her citizens, assume that posi. hat n. Northern fanatics may ship to our Terri- for y, their Sharp's rifles; their preachers and pes eats may attempt to invoke the vengeance of Almighty upon the patriots who are in the me ority here, but the men of strong arms and wh ve hearts from the South, will not be intimi- MI ed by such arguments, and before they can vart the designs of the party now in power, a 'erent plan of operations will have to be adop. . Kansas is settled with men who will not terrified at the sound of the cannon or a as ht of blood-the men who held the British at y at New Orleans, and who drove the Mexi is at Buena Vista, Cerra Gorda and Chapul ec, are ready here in Kansas to raise their is against an invasion of Southern Rights by fanatics of the North. When Seward, echer, Hale and Chase accomplished their ardly designs, and admit Kansas into the ion with a Constitution of their own framing, here is not resistance to suclr an outrage, it be because the sons of the South are all quished. As long As one Southerner lives Snsas, justice and right will be contended for. NEW YoRK, May 16. RRIVAL OF THE GEORGE LAw.-The George 6v has arrived, bringing 800 passengers and ,700,000 in gold. A severe accident happen to the George Law's outward passengers, on Panama Railroad, by which 30 persons were. ed and over 50 injured. ['he citizens of Panama had formed a guard the proteietion of property, and the Gover - had placed a force at, the disposal of the way. l'e correspondence between the Governor I Lieut. Bailey, of the St. Mary's, was sharp, latter pronouncing the former's explanation be unsatisfactory, and promising himself to e measures to avert futher danger.-South rolinian. ST. Louis, May, 13. LETTER FROX KAssAs.--The Lawrence cor pondent of the Democrat in this city, writing ler date of the 7th inst., says that an indict. nt for high treason had been found against eder, Robinson, Roberts, Lane, and other ae State men. Intelligence had been brought Lawrence by a Missourian that secret hand. Is were being circulated and forees marshaled the border counties, and the people warned to -pare for defence. A PalssT l1UNG IN ITALY.-Our readers will nember that in our issue of March 29th we blihed a correspondence from Piaceniza, Italy, luding the narrative of the numerous and fol crimes of a Roman Catholic curate, by name of Gregory Franchi. This monster human shape had been sentenced to death, ily of having deliberately shot a peaceful honest young man, for hsaving usarried his e, who, with another sister, had been previ sly seduced by the Reverend scoundrel. Since at'enee of death had been pronounced by the gh Criminal Court, the fiendish priest attempt to strangle~thgtunkeye in order to-make re his escape. We are now informed by 'our correspondent im Piaceniza, that the Bishop of .that city, with the clergy, tried to obtain a commutation of nishment; thus annulling the legatl proceed. s of the civil tribunals, and instituting the pa theory that there ought, to be two penal s in the world widely differing one from the cr, viz :-one severe, and the other lenient; former to be applied to laymen, and the other the priesthooti! put the clerical attempt failed, and Priest, egory Franchi was hung at Piacenza on the th ut. Had there been a concordat between Rome d the Government of Piacenza, or had that y been blessed with canon laws, the clerical muinal would have escaped the gallows.-New irk Crusader. TE Jal, of Malaga, gives the following par. ulars relating to cochineal: SAfler the war of independence of Mexico, e ime Spaniards conceived the idea of introdo ig into the Southern provinces of the Penui -= a the kind of enetus in which the insect med opa I occocionellifera (epchineal) passes life, and thus commencing in Spain the eding of that valuable insect. The attempt, crowned with the most complete success. irty years have passed since the first attempt a made, and although this branch of industry wl only been practised near Malaga, and at e lez Malaga iad at Motrie, on the coast of enada, it has extended so much within the= t four years, that not less than 801.915 lbs, rough cocineal have been sold-in England, Zi ducing several millions of reals." F. T. PaRNING TELEGRAP.-Many persons wi ppose that despatches by this beautiful mode - transnitted by signs, and printed afterwards. lis, however, is a mistake. The letter printing egraph inst rument, invented by Prof. House, a keyboard, similar to that of at piano forte, H on which there are thirty-six keys, each having pi etter marked upon it. The operator sends he spatches as fast as lie can touch the keys, at ng both hanits, anid every time he touches a r, a plain black letter is printed at the other sh tremity of the line, or, if desired, at all the in- ph mediate offices ant the same instant.gr GNs. GADSDEN iN NEWV ORLEANs.-The Pica- sc' se, of the 13th inst., says that our Minister to lar 'xico hs come.to the States on leave of ab. an ice, and contemplates returning in about six P1 eks. It is stated that he will urge upon the ha biniet at Washington the property of adopting "i orous measures to compel the Mexican Gov ment to release the ships which were engag- Al in the Zerman Expedition, and which were Ja zed at Lapez. BAst TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA RAILROAD.-o e Athens (Tenn.) Post gives a table showing g, quantity of wheat of last year'. harvest pping over the East Tennessee and Georgia iroad, up to the first of March. The total its up four hundred and twenty-four thousand , hundred and sixteen bushels. A portion of , s was sold at 81 50 per bushel, while none thi s sold at less than $1-amounting to more o'e ,n half a million of dollars in the aggregate. La addition to the wheat shipped, it is estimated - .t between one and two hundred thousand shels have been manufactured into flour, and tored. In 1850 one hundred thousand bush- i , in grain and flour, would have covered the t ount exported from the same counties. The S rease in this single item will serve to show be at effect the railroad is having upon the agri tural interest of that section. WAGON ROAD TO CALTFoRNIA.-TheO Saq ancisco Herald says :-Another movement lypq m made to interest the people ~of Calyornia ( the opening of a post road and the establish- bel it of a line of weekly posts by the United ig Itee government between California and Mis* Mi in. Meetings have been held in this city, fie morials adopted, and petitions largely msigned, ala ring the subject on Congress for .consilera 'n at the present session,~will be sept torward pc the next steamer. it is believed thit over he 3,00 signature.... Lo Lee netitions will be