Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, May 06, 1857, Image 2

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SI PUBLISUED EVERY WsDNEUDAY MORNINo. ti I. SIINS, D. 1. DURISSE 4 EWAR 8EE, 5'IOPRIMTRS. fal TEIXE OF SU OECRIPTiON- c Two DOLLARS per year, if paid in advance-Two DOLLARs and Frry Czxrs if not paid within six so months-and Tnaza DOLLARS if not paid before the fr expiration of the year. All-subscriptions not distinct- w< ly limited at the time of subscribing, will be con- m sinned until all arrearages are paid, or at the option of the Publisher. Subscriptions out of the District and from other States must invariably be paid for in advance. RATES 0 ADVERTIBIIG. All advertisements will be correctly and conspicu ously inserted at Seventy-five 'Cents per Square (12 Brevier lines or less) for the first insertion, and Fifty - Cents for each subsequent insertion. When only pub lished Monthly or Quarterly $1 per square will be ha charged. ar Each and every Transient Advertisement, to secure W1 publicity through our columns, must invariably be , paid in advance. fe All Advertisements not having the desired number cl of insertions marked on the margin, will be continued ru until forbid and charged accordingly. r4 Those desiring to advertise by the year can do so on the most liberal terms-ir being distinctly under stood that contracts for yearly advertising are con fined to the immediate, legitimate business of the firm or individual contracting. a All communications of a personal character will be H charged as advertisements. to Obituary Notices exceeding one square in length will be charged for the overplus, at regular rates. Announcing a Candidate (not inserted until paid to for,) Five Dollars. m For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be Q paid by the Magistrate advertising. al to From the Yorkville Enquirer. TE RIGHT OF BECESUION' no Quite a lengthy discussion of this subject has been going on between the Courier and News; f and latterly, the Edgefield Adeertiser and the former, have had an amusing tilt on the same battle'field. We have hitherto refrained from mentioning the centest, because we thought, and Di still think, that it will all end in smoke. The fol question has long been settled in favor of the x right of secessien, and the eloquence of the Cou rier can never overturn that firm-fixed opinion. But it resembles too much the metaphysical jargon of the school-men, to begin at this late Ti day the discussion of the abstract right of seces- in sion. Were the right established incontroverti- T1 bly, "Father Yeadon" would next object to the s1 practicability of exercising it. Were he driven ss from this position, "the old man eloquent" would find an Asylum in a Platonic Love of the th Union, a phantasy of the brain, an imaginary 0 she-Cupid who directs the headless arrows of the Courier. If there was any stopping place to the retrogade movement, we could patiently await the issue. But if we wish to unite the a i South, and promote her interests, there is one gr common ground on which we all can stand. do There is one right which even sophistry cannot ob deny us, the right of Rebellion. That right rio cannot be refused us, without casting an impu- C tation on our heroic ancestry and on that long list of bright names which history immortalizes P' as synonymes of heroism and patriotism. The State-Rights party can find a sanction be for their politics under the right of secession; the Union party, if they have any scruples of conscience about the existence of such an ab stract right, can co-operate with them and dis- ~ pay their heroism under the right of Rebellion, hi Tose craven spirits, who have determined to re endure every outrage and oppression must con- Pt tinue as heretofore to " charm with the whistle al of a name," themselves and their deluded fol- wi lowers. The only question then, worth afig, is the expediency of a separation of the Union, and if the Courier and the Neras, wish a theme . "worthy of their steel"-pens, let them estimate ' the value of that Union. We believe firml in a' the dogma of the sage Bentham, that utilt is the only safe' and sound basie of ' eilation. of Once contine a pepei what direct.on their ts interests lie, and tedifference between " twee- hi dledum and tweedledee" vanishes instantly. It ki is a sickly patriotism that inveighs against cal culating the value of the Union, and chivalry hi on stilts that effects to treat nations like indi viduals, and act the mock-heroic at every viola- P tion of an imaginary code of honor. If the ~ "governmental organization" which our fore- P1 fathers have handed down to us, has failed to " secure that pence and happiness to the North fe and South, which they intended to secure to ha them, what fools we are to debate about the 51 propriety or the right - of making a change for d, the better.. Instead of displaying a laudable reverence for our forefathers, we should be disgracing themby . our ignorance and imbecility. When convine that they were oppressed-that the laws of the old world were fettering the genius of the new, our forefathers did not stop to debate the idle k: question of a right to secede or rebel-which ever term sounds the best " to ears polite" cc They felt that heaven had never sanctioned *l and never would sanction, the plundering of bi any people, whether done opely or perpetrated of under the fiction of legal right, and in that be- hi lief, they were strong. But even then, " when hc the souls of men were tried" there were many Ci who preferred the "glorious Union" with Great Britain to independence out of it. If the peo ple of the South think themselves oppressed, nm if she is convinced that the civilization and ge nius of the two sections of the country require different laws, if she can direct her destinies to her own advantage independent of the North, then say we, that the right of secession is clear ly made out and the expediency of it incontro vertibly established. Like the right of Revo lutiog this right may be disputed at the point of the bayonet, but the blood of millions can not wash it away. We refrain from any nice distinctions on this subject, since it is an easy matter to make a distinction without a difference. It is an easy thing for ingenious sophistry to construct a labyrinth, which will bewilder and entangle the unwary, for there never yet has been a traitor since the world began, who did not plead some plausible excuse in justification of his treason. Arnold has his defenders, Caesar his eulogists, and Bonaparte his admirers and par tisans. Those who have pre-determined to desert the Southern cause, can easily plead a love of the Union-an indefinite nothing-to justify their wourse. Union !-there is no uion. In this instance it is a word without a correspon ding idea; for there is not and never again can there beacordial,brotherly,warm-heartedonion, between North and South, " They stand apart like cliffs that have been rent asunder." When we hear men pleading an " over-righteous" love of the "glorious Union" as an excuse for dis tracting the counsels of the South, we consider of it the unequivocal index of folly or hypocrisy. tih We are accustomed to attach different ideas to the words Secession and rebellion, but the right of both when brought to a practical issue , rests upon the same foundation. A rebellion may be peaceable as well as a secession, or in ce both cases, force may be called in to coerce the seceding party. But we promised to avoid all at hair-splitting distinctions. " The war of the Giants" has worn threadbare that filagree non sense.A We did not peruse with care either tho arti- 0. eles of the Courier or News, but read enough. to conclude that the articles of the former trc --g Were curious examples on the whole. Of Rhetoric, which the learned call rigmarole." a "Father Yeadon," as he has been affection-a ately dubbed by " Boy Simkins," merely TI wishes to show, we opine, " That tho' out argued he can argue still." e An innocent and laudable ambition, but one mi not likely to convince any one. The News has ably defended the deeply ingrained doctrine of c State Sovereignty-that noble bulwark against the consolidation and centralization of power, c, which the South should ever defend. The Ad- mi vertiser was quite felicitous in its reply to the dr thunder of the Courier, and sceems to have wi 3ELLING A MAN AT AuTrio IN ILLIyois.-The eriff of St. Clair county advertised a negro in for sale at public auction, he being guilty the "high misdemeanor" of having come into State of Illinois and remaining there for ten ys, for which offence he was ined $50, as 3vided by the Black Law of 1853, and in de alt of paying which fine, the Sheriff of the anty in which he was fbund is directed to sell n to any body willing topay the $50. hose free soil papers at the north, which were shocked a few weeks ago at the idea of selling e negroes in Georgia to pay their taxes, iuld do well to make a note of the above. Eky %hafistr. ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR. 1DOIIELDS 8. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1857. pf- Those "stray leaves from somebody's journal" ve been received and shall appear next week. They a crowded out of the present number by articles ich have precedence of it. The newspaper is an inibus in which the gentlemen passengers do not 1 constrained to ofer their seats to the ladies. As aductor, we are not at liberty to depart from the le laid down in such cases, which is the miller's le of "first come first served." DECLINES. Capt. Cicmno ADAms desires us to say for him, that ie Is no longer a candidate for Major, inasmuch as older officer of the Battalion desires the position." s wishes to be considered " entirely out of the con it." OUR FIRST AND FOURTH PAGES. Attention is asked to several original articles of in rest on our first page. It will be seen that the church in hereabouts are warming up on the Revision iestion-A letter from Capt. BELL, of Kansas, is ,o on the same page. And some verses are there ) which the ladies are invited to criticize. On our fourth Page, we have opened up something w in the way of Agrioultural entertainment, and tich we hope will commend itself to the favor of our rmers. DISCONTINUED. The Post Office known as Higgins' Ferry, in this strict, has recently been discontinued. All matter r that office must in future be addressed to Coleman's Roads. THE BEST TURNIPS. Ma. Josu B. HAMIL.Ox takes the lead in Spring trnips. All who have seen the fine samples, sent to our office, pronounce them the best of the season. iey are as large as - as - well, as large as >ring Turnips ever get to be and that's enough to (We know a certain M. D. about seven miles from is place who will probably have a quarrel with his od wife when h; sees this, from sheer envy of us.) ----0.... A NEW ENGINE. The late fire has reminded some of our citizens that ow engine and engine-house are necessary to the eater security of our village property; and we un rstand that an effort is on foot to build the one and tain the other. Thisis laudable, and should be car d out. When it is, there will exist the further no sity of attending to the exercises of the Fire Com ,y with ten-fold the zeal that has heretofore been nifested amongst us. Without this, an Engine is >rth little or nothing. With it, much good might done and some serious calamities avoided. Mr. LsBxscnuLTz, Secretary of the present Fire impany, has addressed letters to several Insurance mpanies, requesting assistance in this business. If a applications are successful, we think the owners of al estate in town ought to step forward and do their rt likewise. A fine Engine might be thus procured, da new Company formed on a sounder basis and th more vigorous rules of government. THE COLD OUT WEST. A gentleman writing us from Winston County, Mis siupi, thus takes off the weather as it has Marched d Aprilled itself out there: " I neticed in one of your numbers about the first April a complaint of old Mr. Winter havizng re; rmed. -What say you to this:i He called en us out re the.5th of April accompanied by Mr. Sleet, and lied or crippled our wheat and corn-remained with till the 12th, at which time Mr. Snaow 'set in' with m. Since that time he still lingers,waiting (I sup se) for our cotton ; and, as there is no more seed in e country-owing to the fact that a great many have anted a second time-I am quite uneasy. If my ed are killed, I shall certainly be in the ph.c of the Ilow at the Faro-table who feelingly remarked to the -betters-" Gentlemen, here goes the last of about ,000-if that loses listen and you'll hear mny licer " TRIBUTE TO WORTH." Under this heeding the Charleston Courier repub ahes the Resolutions of Respect to the memory of e lamented HoLmxaswona adopted by the " Edge. Id Hussars," prefacing them with the following adly notice: "We transfer, with melancholy satisfaction, to our lumns, from the Edgefield Adlertieer, the following ituary tribute to one, with whom we had, but a short ne since, a memorable companionship, in the sad, t grateful office and duty of removing the remains the lamented Bnsooics from the Capitoline city to a mother. We then little thought that one of the dy guard of the deceased would himself so soon ase to be numbered among the living." JONES AND BROWN. This is jot bad, which we extract from the 1st unber of RussuL's MAoAzINs: Jones had once a single bed, Shorter than his four foot wife; On a shelf, a loaf of bread, Half a forkand broken knife, - Lonesome, empty whiskey jug Iron spoon and fractured mug Pipe of clay, with horrid crack, Last year's Miller's Almanac ; These were all his goods: you add, Jones the next to nothing had. True; but though a wretched boast, Jones his next to nothing lost ; And the whole calamity Of the fire must be endured; Jones was quite too poor to he ~ Even." partially insured." Brown, the bachelor, next door, Had a house of marble fine Rice, and grist, and meats in store Casks of brandy and of wine Snow-white sugar, silver spoons Bxtra boots and pantaloons Old cigars and cards in packs Books in red morocco backs All that "many men desire ;" But a devastating fire Burned the marble mansion down, And its fixings up. Did Brown Weep the conflagration o'er ? .No ! the loss can be endured; Brown is richer than before Brown was " heavily insured." THE OLD ONES. TaE papers are getting up some fun at the expense the aged Anne and Aunties of earth. Thus runs a vein: Miss Ann Tiguity is said to be the oldest female aown in history.-Boeton Star. Pshaw I she ain't near as old as .Anty Di .eana. trcuee Journal. Both old, to be sure. But didn't Anna Terior pre Is them ?-Utica Telegraph. True, but Aunty Date was born before all on 'em, d holds her own yet.-Toledo Blade. The list of " old una" is not complete without Ann tral and Aunty Cedent.-Burlington Free Press. Aunty Xfoacic is also one of the "old uns," but nty Mundane is the oldest of the whole batch.-N. Picayune. It strikes us that our venerable friend, Ann Ticipa n, should come before either of the above.-Chur tona Courier. At this point the vein culminates, and sinks lower i lower until W. J. C., nearly kills off the whole air by the introduction of one "Jie A nn Tiuch." reupon a watchful reader nays, through the Char ion Mercury : 'MEssRs. EDTRs: The Courier's list of aged fe ls seems to hav'e reached its Anti-Climnax." But another watchful reader redleems the whole in early next morning by the following 'good one :' 'I cannot agree with your correspondent that the urir's list of aged females has reached Its Anti-Cli i. While its Antgi-S eeion editorials continue to iw out their long length, the age of Old Aunties 1 never end." lie think, this te righ. t lace to maon THE COURIER AGAIN. Although the Courier uncourteously reiterates its rough expressions in regard to ourself-and that too after the amende honorable wasmade on our part- _h yet we are willing to drop the matter just where It is, so far as any offence is considered. We suggest to our th older brother though, if we may venture witout dis respect to do so, that a supercilious tone of comment is not more becoming to extreme age than to early fio youth; perhaps less so, as censorious people might set fri it down to a soured heart, whereas the same judges an would excuse a boy (who had only seen some twenty summers since leaving his Alma mater) on the score pe (pardon the pun!) of his youth and Inexperience. de The Courier's sur-rejoinder perhaps demands that ale we should say a word or two of rebuttal, (another pun Is? here hovers around the tip of our pen, but we will not yield to the influence of example) and we proceed to 'say our say:' of 1st. The Charleston Courier says: Sa "We intended, first, to be witty, and there are people, as slack-ioitted as ourselves, who think we succeeded, ce or, at least, by no means made so "dead a failure," r as did the Advertiser in discharging its harmless vol ley at us." T It was not only a "harmless volley," we may con- M tinue, but a really serviceable one, as it has been the instrument, in the hands of Faust, of supplying mat- U ter for more than two long columns in the Courier; and that is something these dull times. But more than this, it has given the Courier the meed of " wit," which some "people" have been awarding to it at our expense. Very well-we do not complain. We are the Courier's benefactor in wreathing its fae with er a smile of complaeency which, but for us, had'never relaxed its facial muscles. 2nd. The Charleston Courier thinks the Advertiser " absolutely spiteful in Its application of the lex tal- to ionis "-because, forsooth and grammerey I when ter smitten upon one cheek we did not turn the other. to 3rd. The Charleston Courier's parry, under its fourth specification, is an awkward afair for so vote. th ran a swordsman. PA 4th. The Charleston Courier republishes, for our ry benefit, Its request of the 9th ult. addressed to the ne Edgofield Advertiser. It was this: " The Edgefield Adrertiser.-Our good and esteemed friend of the Advertiser promises to re-publish 'that gallant article of the Ne,..,' upon the Patriot and of Courier. Will it do us the favor and the justice also, is to re-publish our replies to the News, in the Courier, co of the 3d and 4th instant, and especially the latter, W in which we repel the charge of "partisan and un generous fings at men and parties in this State.' SO None Verrons." - cie The Advertiser greatly regrets not having seen this pa request until now. The friendliness of its language me would certainly have saved both of us all this spar- fro ring. But n'importe-its all in a man's life-time. We be are 'making friends' as fast as possible, and why re- be gret it now ? If the Courier yet wishes 'us to repub- as lish its replies to the allegations of the News, it has - only to say so. see Lith. The Charleston Courier's 8th count we trans- W fer without comment to our columns, as being at once dignified and correct-correct, except in construing ye what it elsewhere terms a "harmless volley" into an g "onslasght"-to suit it purposes: in 8. " The Edgefield Advertiser says, it seeks no eon- th troversy with us; yet, it is both ready and willing to meet us on any question and in any way. Now, all ri we have to say, on this head, is that the Advertiser ta made an onslaught on us, not we on it; and we think de we can challenge the minutest search of our past re cord, to show that we haveinot only been ever courte- w ous to both our juniors and seniors of the press, but th that, in editorial controversy, we have never beens the wi aggressors. At times, we have hit back very hard, ar we admit; but we have both borne and forborne much from the country press-not, however, from the Ad- N vertiser. Like the Adrertiser, we trust pe " We dare do all that may become a man; N Who dares do more, is none." The 9th plea of the Charleston Courier is coupled us with one of those long parentheses which leave it In ev doubt whether the after-remark is to be applied to the of subject-matter of the parenthesis or to what went be- oc fore. Under the circumstances therefore, we beg leave na to enter the Irishman's demurrer of an Alibi. Under the 10th of its classifications, the Charleston hia Courier gives some of our recent "Glances at Ex. si changes." n After all this, the Charleston Courier has a Post th Scriptua which is so very seitty that we give it entire: "Post Scriptum-What does the Edgefield Adverti- ta ser mean by "our categorical strictures ?" Does it hi mean that we applied the cat-o' nine-tails, in our " fu-. rious charge " on itF Or was it only imitating Mrs. Partington, or Mrs. Malaprop, when the latter spoke of meeting " an allegory on the banks of the Nile ?" di Will the Advertiser give us a cat-e-gor-l-cal answer to gl this question, or series of questions 1" in w It was a writer in RussaL's MAGAZINE that accused se the good old KNICKERBOCKER of perpetrating cat-as- ri trophes, and other things of that species, with its eve- di ry issue. This was, wre thought, very unkind to one a of the best, and most ancent, and most liberal, and it most varied of our American Monthly Magazines- s and withal, it was untrue ; at least we could now re flect upon the Courier with egual truth. We could ni say that it would not let one of the compounds of at cat pass unsubsidized, if it was the last cataplasm ap- C plied to rescusitate its own fainting existence. But to a the questions of our frienad: Know then, oh Courier! a that one Wassrzu, a "great Lexicographer," as Ru- na F Us C0oAT pronounces him, defines categorical, part. ly thus: "absolute; positive; express." Our use of d the word, which the Courier criticizes, may not be such as a regular logician would make of It; but we submit that, according to Webster, it is no violation T of (at least) American English. al One other frienadly retort: The Note Dceue thrust pl of our cotemnporary was so difficult of comprehension fe as (at first) almost to bewilder our musical capacities. is We thought and thought over the utter dissonance-the incomprehensible dissonance-of our veteran cotemnpo- a rary's witticism, until eventually we despairingly fell p a-sleep ; and all the while, as we slept, broken ideas _ of Bagpipes, cracked Hlaut-boys, and split Gourd vines came crowding upon our dormant mentality in u pell-mell confusion ; yet, ever and anon, we could dis tinctly hear above the storm of discordant rhapsodies it a still small voice which seemed to say-" visit all this C upon the Courier and its commander. Thou canst not say I did it" Ac. I i tr MIISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ci fpf The "Springfield African Church" of Augus- b< ta has raised within the past year, by contribution of its members, the sum of $732.50O, which has been de- pa voted to various benevolent purposes. Besides this w outlay and the expense of supporting their pastor, at they have erected a neat chapel. pm "Honesty is the best policy," said one Scotch- 1o man to another, who had narrowly escaped hanging Ii for robbery. "I know it," said the other," "for I have Ii tried baith sides of that question." t~e pm' Cheerfully acknowledge merit in others, and Of in return you will aliways receive the kind considera- ni tien which you desire. When you cannot consistently al praise, by all means keep silent, unless there be af manifest wrong deserving censure.,S p* Tua State Penitentiary, at Huntsville, Texas, as is now turning out an average of seventeen hundreda yards of cloth per day. The Item thinks this equal ' na to any product of Northern mills, in proportion to then labor employed. pm' Porter's Spirit of the Times has an account of a dreadful old fellow who ' would rather tell a lie on i six month's credit, than tell the truth for cashI' h pr Among the exports from New York during the Is past week were ten printing presses to Australia; sev- er eral had previously been shipped by Messrs. Hoe A th Co., to England and France. to pm The leading Hotels in New York City, are rai sing the price of board to $3 per day in consequence of the dearness of provisions. O p' The Richmond E?caminer candidly believes of that the aggregate wealth of Virginia, Including that p of slaves, approximates $1,000,000,000 and that the Fl aggregate worth of each white man, woman and child, PE in the- State is $1,000. ti #- Major J. R. N. Tenhet has been appointed Specal Agent of the Post O0fice Department. The fel States of North and South Carolina are especially as- ja' Ca signed to his supervision. bc .Zm Tax Cheraw Sons of Temperance have adopt- I ed a resolution permitting lady visitors to attend the meetings of the Division- as pa Mr. Charles Miot and Mr. Win. G. Hunt, two st old and estimable citisens of Columbia died in that fit piPr AN absent wife is here called upon to return "bed and board:" "Jane-your absence will ruin Think of your husband-your parents-your ildren. Return-return-all may be well-happy. any rate, enclose the key of the cupboard where i whisky is." 0- Tua New York Herald says that an expedi n is being-fitted out there against Mexico by the ends of Santa Anna. A vessel has been chartered, I arms, ammunition and men are being prooured. $0i A telegraphic dispatch to the Richmond pa rs says that Henry J. Adams, the Free State candi. to for Mayor, at Leavenworth, Kansas, has been eted by 180 majority over all. No further particu a are given. 00- Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, member of Congress, Ohio, advertises his real and personal property for e, with the view of leaving that State. p&- THE Augusta Constitutionalist says four sue sive verdicts for ditorees were rendered in the Su ime Court of that county on Saturday afternoon. ee of the suits were biought by parties who had oried in South Carolina, and one in Ireland. I Arszcvro.-The following lines are by some known, but evidently distracted individual: When Peggy's arms her dog imprison I often wish my lot was hisen, How often would I stand and turn And take a pat from hands like hern. pg* Tua wheat crop in East Tennessee, the Knox le Whig says, is unusually promising. A very large p was sown, and it now looks very well, notwith ading the severe weather of the winter and spring. $Of A bill Is before the Massachusetts Legislature allow the taking and receiving of 12 per cent in est on all notes, &c., having not over twelve months run. MR- A PLAASANT TRATELLING coNPAXION, and one ,t no traveller should be without is Perry Davis' In Killer. A sudden ailack of diarrhoa, dysente or cholera morbus can be efectually and instanta ausly relieved by it. GLANCES AT OtR EZXCHANGES. THE DUE WEST TELESCOPE is the exponent Presbyterianism in South Carolina. J. 3. BoX.-R the regular Editor; but-he Is assisted by an able -ps of corresponding editors, via: Reverends J. B. avv, W. R. HzxPIuLL, T. TumrNn, T. W. PAitIN a and J. A. SLOAN. Of -eours such names are suffi nt to establish the Telleope's merits as a Religious per; but our cotemporary of Due West is by no ans deficient in its secular department. Not un quently we observe somethin'g spirited and spicy, Lh in the line of news and of politics. The number roro us Is filled mainly with editorials of a denomi tional cast and a long letter from an absent brother. By the significant paragraph we subjoin, it will be a that Spring has been as tardy with the Due esters as with all the rest of us: Postponed.-In this latitude, JXay day will come this tr, about fifteen days 4iter the last of April. The la cannot find dowers to deck their queen. THE KINSTREE STAR is upon our table, exhibit a long article upon " The Northern Spirit," in course of which the Editor deduces the very cor t conclusion that the North has played the advan ;s over the South with a vengeance, and is still ing so. The amusing part of the business is, that ile reaping nearly all the gains of tho compact, my impudently turn the tables on us and say that are the aggressors and they the oppressed. "We a charged (says the Star) with aggression upon the >rth, and for what? Has it been, that while in the aceful possession of our domestic institutions, the irth has called upon us to give up those institutions, d receive others which she presumes to Impose on ? Is it aggression, that we have been driven from ery foot of territory, won by the valor and blood the South, and the enemy are threatening to invade r fircsides ? If this is aggression, heaven protect from submission." A writer in the Kingstree Star maintains that Wil ,msburg is one of the healthiest Districts in the ate. We should like to hear of the place that was t so, In the estimation of the people who lived ere. THE NEWBERRY RISING SUN is a very enter. iing sheet, certainlyg hut we incline to think our other a little of an alarmist. Witness the follow. g glimpses of our Future : Clouds and darkness; threatening clouds, ominous ,rkness, gather around our political future. A night, omy and terrible, sets in upon us. We are drift. g, slowly, silently into an ocean of storms, furious airlwinds, quicksand, and fearful whirlpools. A lemn silence prevails.-'tis the precursor of an hor le tempest. Hark ! the low muttering rumbling of stant thunder breaks upon the stillness. Fitful hes reveal the sullen gloom. The lurid air is heavy 4 chill. The storm approaches, nearer and nearer comes, louder and more loud it howls. Man the ls-all hands to their posts. The South expects ery man to do his duty. Life and death, honor and erty are involved. Let each heart be firm, each rye be steady. The conflict will be fierce as hate d malice can make It. Stand firm. hark ! what ash was that? Kansas is gone ! List, a triumphant out from the spirits of the storm! Missouri is yield g. How fierce the blasts, how lurid the lightning! ow terrible the tempest; sea and heaven are com ingled. Howls horrible, yells terrific tear our ears, rginia is assailed. 'Gloomy, dark, terrible, howls e tempest. Watchman, what of the night ? All is rk ! dark ! no dawn appears. A very well-drawn picture, but decidedlysuggestive rape, shipwrecks and "The harp that one thro' ta's halls." Our cotemporary has, this ti,,looked the gloomy side of the picture only. Upon the 'inciple of "post ,,ubila pbua," we doubt not his ling more hopeful the next time his thoughts veer that direction. THE KEOWEE COURIER announces the death Col. JOSEPR GRmSHAM for a long time a useful and ominont citizen of Pickens, but latterly of Georgia. The Mountain oaurier, unlike the Seaboard Courier, leives most heartily in the Right of Secessio.-Of Cotton," our Pickons cotemporary thus remarks: " With cotton at its present price, we can well af'ord a prominent place in our columns. It is quo ted in ireston at 14 3-8 ; Columbia, 131; and Ander.on, Scents per pound." And, we would add, in Hamburg, Edgefield Dii et, at 141 eta-ahead of them all. Tell it in Pick. .s, and any where else, that old Hamburg is yet the t cotton-market in the South. THlE FAMILY FRIEND is the title of the now per published at Darlington.. It expands its new ngs in the joyous spring-time. May the fact be spicous of a cheerful and prosperous existence. THE LEXINGTON FLAG of the 30th ult., has a og and patriotie article upon "Black Republicanism." e think our neighbor is entirely too despondent. s evidently would like to think so too, from the ne of his article; but the political 'blues' have hold him just at this time and his organ of Hope is tin working order. Cheer up, gallant Plg ! the ys is further off than we imagine. It is not a le lullaby to say so. " The people of the Slave ates," you admit, "were never more united." Why on to extract " danger" out of this, instead of rety ? Even that last hope, a "Southern Confedera ," has the most beautiful tinge of rose-color imagi ble to our vision. Let us cease these .Jeremuiahde, d work yet for justice is the Union. If we cannot ta it now, with the Executive, the Judiciary, the nate, and the entire strength of intelligent patriot a all over the country, in our favor, then it may ppen that the last greatalternative will be embraed, there anything in this prospect to dampen our en. ies ? It appears, from our stand-point, like a good ing almost in our grasp, but (if that should chance escape us) a better thing still, a little further on. The Legislature of Massachusetts has refused reconsider its resolution, apropriating $100,. 0 to the cause of Kansas, bythe decisive vote 218 to '13. The towns of Saem and Newbury rt have protested against the appropriation. e Boston Bee, also, which was one of the titioners to the Legislature for such appropria 'n, now opposes it. A GY LotNArIo.-A good story is told of a low of North Carolina. "Havmng been put in I for marrying thirteen wives, he made his ca pe, and was seen three or four dais afterward a gentleman who recognized him. The gen man, anxious to secure the reward for his, prehension, invited him to his house to dinner, d then slyly slipped out in pursuit of a con ble; but great was his horror on his return to A CALM--AND WHAT NEXT Politically, there is nothing of great and exciting interest astir upon the expanse around us. An occa. sional storm-in-a-tea-pot arises to amuse this and that locality with its short-lived and limited 'fussing.' A little more news from WALKER and his Revolutionists comes along now and then, toletus know that the Nica. raguan strife is still progressing. The Atlantic steam. era continue to bring accounts of the markets as usual, with more or less of conjecturing as to the tendencies and drifts of European diplomacy. Calafornian gold is reported too from month to month, by the San Franciscan ships ; although the quantity that finds its way to our ports is on the decrease. ELI TxAvln's enterprise still engages a little attention, more from its absurdity of course than from any expectation of its being carried out. The illing up of a few vacan. cies in Congress, also elicits some local excitement. (We have just had an election of the kind in the '9 District-not yet known who is the member.) Even Kansas matters are more stagnant than they ought to be; although we believe the South is doing something, about in spots, for the cause. Washington items have lost their spice, since the new administration has set tled down to hard work, the rush for appointments having in a great measure subsided. Our good old. bachelor President has done nothing yet that the op position can make capital of; and so the political can onading of parties is suspended for the nonce. The cold Spring of '57 seems to have had some influence in chilling political as well as agricultural affairs in our section of the Union. Indeed, the sea of politics with us for a month past has been so nearly frozen over as almost to admit of a comparison with the ice fields so forcibly portrayed by the lamented Kane. Our able and respected cotemporaries of the Charles ton Mercury and the New Orleans Delta have repre sented (we mean no disrespect by the allusion) the deep hoarse barkings of the distant Walrus; while another press has attempted an exploit not altogether unlike that of the great Arctic voyager when he strove to fasten his brig to the "low rocky island." There is this difference though between the two cases: whereas the bold voyager had his "noble ten-inch manilla " to rely upon, the adventurous editor had on. ly a rope of sand. There is' this other difference: that the Arctic storm was one of fearful magnificence and fraught with iminent peril to its witnesses, while the political whirligust scarcely disturbed the equa nimity of a single beholder. But we fear we shall at this rate obliterate all resemblance between the two occurrences. Suffice it to add that the Advance could not be fastened to the rocks, and South Carolina has yet to be tied to the ice-berg of Centralization. We repeat, it is an icy political calm that is upon us. Whether it portends evil or good, may be briefly con. sidered in another paragraph. Some imagine they bear the low muttering of than der from beyond the seemingly smooth horizon. Oth. ers speak of it as the rumbling of a coming earth. quake. (How rapidly one gets from the Pole to the Equator in this hazardous business of similes !) Many sit with folded hands awaiting the next political de. monstration. While not a few believe there is no great danger after all to be apprehended from the pre. sent posture of affairs, provided the Administratioa is true to the Democracy, the Democracy true to the Ad. ministration, AND OTH TRUE TO TE CoNsTIvuT103 Of this last number are some of us in South Carolina, and for these reasons: The Democratic Party of these United States is not only now in power, but has many chances of remaining so. Its strength is on the increase in almost every State in the Union. The current has been Bowing strongly in this direction for several years and it still advances steadily. To say that it will be reversed, is a naked assumpti'on having its origin only (so far as we can see) in a dogged dis. position to look exclusively upon the dark side of oum prospects as a people. This triumphant party finda its chief enemy now in Black Republicanism. By these two armies is the battle of our fate to be fought, Can there be much doubt as to its issue ? It is as im. politic to undervalue the strength of our opponents aw it is to overestimate our own. We therefore admil that the Black Republican Party of the North is for midable; formidable not only from its wild fanaticisn and untotored prejudices, but formidable also from its actual numbers. Its strength, however, is not the strength of right or of law; and it is a faint hearl that can accord to lts dark masses the prestigeof ap. proaching success, especially in view of the powerful position and bright-waving banners of its great one my, the Democracy of the United States. At the pres ot juncture, how stands the array on either side! With us, may be found the entire strength of the Soutl and all the sound-hearted men of the North-againas us, Black Republicans ; with us, the Constitution e0 the United States-against us, the Higher Law ; witl us, the Supreme Court--against us, no vestige of con, stitutional right; with us, the patriotism of Washing ton-against us, the treason of Arnold ; with us, en. lightened Freedom-against us, grovelling Anarchy In such a contest can there be the hesitation of fea: as to the final result, if all do their duty? Let the Democracy cling to its principles, let the South come up as one man to the conflict, let the Administratios prove itself worthy of the Democracy and the South and the victory is ours. We hold the triumph of thi Democracy synonymous with the triumph of the South. If it should prove otherwise, then indeed wil have come our real day of trial. ONE WEEK LATER 710K EUR0PE. AlIIRIVAL OF TIlE STEAMElR AFItCA. NEw YoRK, May 1.-The steamer Africa hai arrived with Liverpool dates of the 18th ult. Livuaroos. MAaRKys.-Cjotton was quiet ani slightly easier. Sales of the week 42,000 bales of which exporters and speculators took 6,50( bales. Fair Orleans Sad.; Middling 73d.; Fall Upland 7T-d.; Middling 7 9-16d. Breadstns steady at a slight advance. Stock of cotton at Liverpool 560,000 bales, in eluding 403,000 of American. Money was very' active. It has been resolvei to double the capital of the Bank of France. Queen Victoria has another daughter. Political affairs quiet. Napoleon was about to visit Algiers. Rumors were rice of other conspiracies ii France. The ship sen burning at sea was the Robert Parker, from Mobile, for Havre. The union betweeni France and England ii regard to Chinese affairs is perfect. Lord Elgis is to demand the renewal of former treaties and the opening of nine ports instead of five to Eu ropeans. Ships of war are to be admitted when ever there are Consuls. The treaty between Persia and England has not been concluded. It was reported that the Circassians has agair defeated the Russians. Portugal was about to send an expedition against Maca. At Liverpool Flour was unchanged. Whea: advanced 3d. Corn 1s. a 1s. 6d. h igher. THE AFRICAN TwIs.-The Cheraw Gazetti moots a singular question. Mr. J. P. Smith ar rived at Cheraw a few weeks ago, from Scotland, with the African twins, of whom some little talli has been made. During her stay in Scotland, their mother gave birth to another child, whorm she brought home with her. Now the question arises, if that child, born on the soil of Scotland, is bond or free? If born free, how can it be held in slavery here ? And was not its intro duction in this country a violation of the lam prohibiting the foreign slave trade ? The mothes became free when she entered Scotland, but re. turning here, she returns to her owners. The remaining question is, can she enslave her child in her own return to servitude ? DowND.-Wgare pained to learn from s citizen of the upper part of this District, that a man named Silas Cochran was drowned, on Saturday last, in Reedy River, near Fishdlam Ford. Mr. Cochran leaves a wife and eight children in destitute circumstances. [(Laurenaville Herald. We clig from an exchange thre following edi. toal notice, which is decidedly cool. We won de to how many editors the same remarks would apply: " Absent.-The editor has gone up the river for a few days. All good articles, face. tious remarks, puns, and typographical errors may be attributed to his absence. In order to give variety and vigor to the--he will fre. quently leave it for a week or so. It is to be hoped that the readers of this journal will ap. piiata hia aunevors?" For the Advertr. KAY DAY. May at last with its beautiful flowers, It* freshness, Its joy-bri-athing out the sweet hours, GInd'ning our hearts with its radiant blooming, Relighting the ashes from winter's chill glooming, Cheering old Nature to bring back the shining Of old sunny smiles 'neath the green, shady lining, That spreading afar over hill, dale and mountain, Is brightly reflected from each sparkling fountain, 'Till its silvery spray takes the rainbow's soft hues. And love in our hearts falls like evening's light dews, The Miay-days 'lang syne' of our glad careless child hood, When roving at will thro' the shadowy wildwood, We culled the blue violets, and bright frail wild flowers, To twine a fresh Crown for some May-Queen of ours, And wreathed it amid the soft ringlets that clustered In sweet golden light, that no storm then o'er rustled, Till the tempest of life with its sorrow's rude power Shook the wreath from the brow, gave a thorn for each flower, And blanching with silver the curls of soft gold, Left its impress to tell of The heart's growing old. And we all can remember our youth when each May-day, Renewed all the Spring-time of life in its hey-day, And weep for the light of the past that is shaded Weep for its flowers forever now faded Sigh for the bliss that forever is banished Clasp the vain shadows of joy ere they've van ished Pray God, the wild phantoms that we are pursuing, With earth-wearied hearts tho' they heed not our wooing, Will change to a joyful fruition above, Where united we'll sing one long May day of love. DAISY. A xARAGRAPH 7R0K . x.1 (oMrrrED noX IS L'vhIr oF LAsT wa.) Several years ago, I heard a truthful man relate the following story of a remarkable fight in the mountains. In committing the narrative to wri ting I give it this caption: " THE BATTLE OF LIFE." The beams of the morning sun rested on the gray craggy peaks of the Blue Ridge. The loud scream of the eagle mingled with the hoarse voice of the cataract. A hunter with poised rifle was scanning the light graceful figure of adeer. Sud denly he Is anticipated In the work of death by a prowling panther. A prodigious bound and the long sharp teeth of the blood-thirsty beast were fastened in the throat of the unresisting stag, and in a moment it lay on tbe earth a lifeless and bleed ing mass. For a few minutes.the panther, sitting like a cat upon the trunk of a fallen oak, licked his gory breast and contemplated his coming feast. A crash is heard In the adjacent thicket of laurel, whence a huge bear is seen emerging, fierce, shaggy and determined. The panther and the bear, with a piercing cry and a solemn groan known only to glooms and solitude, meet in dead ly fight. Each found his equal id the mortal strife. The panther is crushed to death in the strong arms of the bear, whilst Bruin is complety disembowel led by the elaws of his antagonist. So, the three animals fell a prey to the astounded huntsman without the waste of a single round of ammuni tion. And thus we see how "the battle of life" is literally fought among the inferipr orders of creation. Wouldn't such a spectable as that be worth twenty pageants on Broadway'1 From the Carolina Times. THE BOUTHERN QUARTEBLY REVIEW. In the course of the ensuing week the 4th Inumber of this ably conducted Quarterly will be issued from this office. The forthcoming number will p rove to be one of the richest that has been published, and it is. to be hoped that the friends of Southern Litera ture, will rally to its support and ensure its per. manency. In order to prove to our friends, our desire to sustain the work, we think it not improper to state that we have paid out and incurred a debt in its publication during the past year, amount ing to....................... $9,343 24 Of this amount we have paid in cash.$4,173 20 Liabilities yet to be paid..........2,170 04 Total expences .............$6,343 24 Of this sum we have received...1,919 90 Excess paid out, over receipts .. $4,423 34 On examining our books we find the amount due ......... .......... 5,200 66 Profit, after paying expenses ...$778 32 If the above amount could be collected, we would be enabled to pay off' all liabilities and re alize a profit of $777.32. And when it is known that $3 per page is the price for articles publish ed in the Reciew, the reader must see that the work can be easily sustained if those who receive it will forward their dues. The amount of $5,200 66 found to be due does not include arrearages prior to the year just closing, and hence, we are encouraged to go on if the subscribers to the Review now in arrears will do us the just ice by remitting at an early period the sums due by them for the work delivered last year including the number shortly to be delivered. We are not asking alms. We 'simply entreat those who have not paid to do so, and we will endeavor to carry on the RevWW under the con viction that the people of the South will ultimate ly determine to support, liberally, the only work of its character now issued in the South. A~oTHIER REvivAL.-Last week we noticed the fact of there having been a revival of reli gion in the Baptist Church, of this place-; that has been followed by a revival in the Methodist Church, which is yet continuing. Preaching be gan on Thursday evening and was kept up till Monday evening at whichL time 18 whites and many colored persons had joined the Church. The communion on Sabbath was very largely attended and particularly interesing. On Tues day evening a prayer mieeting was held, and Wednesday evening was appointed for preach ing again, and, up to the time of going to press, it is not known when the meeting will olose Chester Standard. Aaar Tusrixo~tLk TO GEN. QUIrxAN.-The officers of the United States Army intend to present Gen. Quitman a service of silver plate, for his efforts in securing the passage through Congress of the bill making an addition to their salaries. Gen. Quitman, it will be remembered, was the chairman of the House Military Com mittee. Gen. Scott has written him a very hand some letter, announcing that, as the senior offi cer, he has consented to act as the organ of his brother officers of the army in procuring the proposed testimonial. SENTE~CED TO DEAv.-Romulus Saunders Chipman was tried in Guilford county, North Carolina, last week, for the murder, six months ago, of iliss Penix Saunders, whom he had pre viously seduced. He was found guilty and sea tenced to be hung on the 15th May. His coun sel appealed to the Supreme Court. The prisoner is a young man only twenty years of~ age, of very good appearance, good education, and appeared in the Court room well dressed. His parents are both living, are of the highest respectability, and are wealthy. His mother is a very pious woman, has written several religious volumes of interest, and also preaches the gospel; and in consequence of these facts'a good deal of feeling was elicited both for the young man under accusation and for the prosecution. ErnIGRATloN Faox NoaTli CAaoLINA.-A com pany of emigrants from North Carolina, consist ing of forty-two persons, passed through Madi son, North Carolina, last Thursday, on their way West in search of homes. They contemplate settlingp in Iowa, wher'e most of them will pursue Qhai Unrna business na farmars, tr The friends of Capt. W. C. MORAGNE re spectfrlly announce liim as a Candidate for Briga dier General of the 2d Brigade of Infantry, Ist Dision S. C. M., to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Gen. . R. Wever. W Tz Friends of Maj. DAVID L. SHAW, respectfully pominate him as a candidate for COL NEL 7th Regiment, S. C. M., to fill the vacancy occailoned by the resignation of Col. IHaAaiso. 0' Wi are authorised by the friends of Capt. LEVI LYBRAND to announce him, as aCandi date for MAJOR of the Upper Batallon, S. C. M., to fill the vacanoy ocessioned by the resignation of Maj. Lovzr.sse. Religious Notice. Tus next 5th Sabbath Union meeting of the 4th Division of the Edgefield Association will be held with the Church at Big Stephens' Creek, commen cing on Friday the 29th of May. Introductory Sermon to be delivered by the Rev. S. P. Getsen. Rev. D. D. Brunson, alternate. Query.-Should the present version of our Scrip lures be revised. S. P. GETZEN, Mon'a. Gao. W. Nixox, Clerk. LOOK ZERE, 7BIENS AND PATRONS. We are ever anxious to sell our Goods and particu. larly so to accommodate our customers in Edgetsld District, a great many of whom stop in Hamburg to sel their cotton and buy their groceries, and conse quently And it inconvevient to get their packages of Dry Goods taken from Augusta to Hamburg. Now, this is what we will do: Every one who may have the kindness to patronise our House may rest assured that we will deliver their Goods in Hamburg raZZ 0 cuaos, at a moments warning. . p- We respectfully solicit an examination of our stock, and prices, which'we are confident cannot be excelled in Augusta. W Orders from our friends in Edgeteld will be put up in a manner that will give satisfaction. BROOM & NORRELL. May 6 tf 17* $35000 Worth of Clothing, Oheap I 500 Planters Linen Frock Coats, 300 4 " Sack " 200 " Raglans Costs, 200 Bro. " "4 -300 Black Alpaca Frock Coats, 300 " " Sack " 100 " " Raglans Coats, 200 White Linen Frock Coats, 100 Black Drap Dete Frocks and Sacks, 100 Fanoy Cas Coats (for Spring wear,) 100 Plaid Linen Frocks, 100 Marseilles " 300 Fine Black Cloth Frocks, 100 Drab Alpaca Frocks and Sacks, 100 Italian Cloth and Chambry Frocks, 500 Marseills Vests, all qualities, 200 White Linen Vests, all qualities, 300 Fancy Silk " " 300 Black Satin " " " 100 " Alpaca ' " " 500 Pair fancy and mixed Case Pants, 300 " Black Doeskin " " 100 " Drap Dote 500 " Planters Linen " 300 " Fancy Drill " 100 " Check Marseills 500 " Cotton Case 500 Boys Suits (for Spring and Summer,) 100 Dozen Cotton and Linen Shirts, (made to order,) 50 " Golden Hill Shirts, (fancy,) 50 " Cotton I Hose,~ 50 " Gloves, Assorted, 50 " Stocks and Neck Ties, 50 " Suspenders. In addition to our very large Stock of Ready Made Clothing, we will keep constantly on band a fine as sortment of Cloths, Cassimeres and Vestings, of eve ry description, all of which will be made up to order in the latest and best style, warranted to fit and please or no sale. J. K. HORA, A CO. Successors to J. M. Naw & Co. Augusta, April 15 1857 tf 14 DISEASE OF TEE LIVER. When the celebrated Dr. Rush declared that drunk enness was a disease, he enunciated a truth which the experience and observation of medical men Is ev ery day confirming. The many apparently insane excesses of those who indulge in the use of spirituous liquors, may be thus accounted for. The true cause of conduct, which is taken for infatuation, is very f, a quently a diseased state of the Liver. Nor organ in the human system, when deranged, produces a more frightful catalogue of diseases. And If, instead of applying remedies to the manifestations of disease, as is too often the case, physicians would prescribe with a view to the original cause, fewer deaths would result from diseases induced by a deranged state of the Liv er. Three-fourths of the diseases, enumerated under the head of Consumption, have their seat in a disea sed Liver. Dr. M'Lane's celebrated Liver Pills, pre pared by Fleming Bros., are a certain cure. pt-Purchasers will be careful to ask for Dr. M'LANE'S CELEBRATED LIVER PILLS, manu factured by Fr~aurxo Buos.. of Pittsburg, Pa. All other Liver Pills in comparison are worthless. Dr. McLane's Liver Pills, also his genuine V'ermifugo, can now be had at G. L. PENN'S Drug Store. None genuine without the signature of Flpming Bros. April 29 lt-(4) 15 VAL17ABLE MEDIOINE. We presume no medical preparation ever offered to the public las been more thoroughly tested than PERRY DAVIS' PAIN KILLER. Thousands of persons, were they called upon to do so, would cheer fully testify that they have used it for various ills, with the most satisfactory success. It is within our own knowledge, that the immense amount of suffering has been relieved by it. Its proprietors save no pains or expense in order to satisfy the public. Being strict ly honorable men, they observe the utmost uniformity iu the manufacture of their celebrated Pain Killer. The materials of which it is composed are carefully selected-none but the best being used. By these means the high reputation which the Pain Killer has long since acquired, is at all times sustained. In view of these facts, we are by no means surprised to learn that Messrs. Davis A Son's sales are constantly and rapidly increasing-[Providence General Advertiser. Sold by all Dealers in Medicine. April29 2t 16 Head-Quarters, SECON D REGIMENT CAVALRY, Aratr. 30, 1857. ORDERS NO - 'liH E Edgefield Suadron of Cavalry will assem ble at Edgefield C. B., on Saturday the 23d of May next, for Drill and Review. The Commissioned and non-Commissioned O0fi ers will attend on the day previous for Drill and Instruction. Maj.8S. 8. Toxrwss is charged with the exten sion of this order to his command. The Officers of the Staff are required to attend eaoh Review in fell uniform. By order of J. C. MARTIN, LieuL. Col. commanding 2d Reg't Cav. Jan. M. Launt, Adj't. May 6 3t 17 More Hides ! More Rides?! W ILL he taken at the Subscriber's Tanery, for which Fifteen Cents per pound will be paid for all good Hides, In barter for leather or shoes. M. W. CLARY. MaySt 17 Notice This, A LL Persons indebted to the Estate of Joel Abney, Sr., deceased, previous to his death, are required to make immediate payment, as cir umstances renders it necessary that that portion of the Estate be settled up at once. AU persons hav ing demands against the said Estate will present them to the Administrators in due form of law. WIHBON ABNEY,dor M. W. CLARY. A'r May 6 3t 17 AdsninIstrator's Notice. A LL Pesn aigcam agis the Estate properly attested--and all persons indebted to said estate will make payments to the undersigned. B. F. LOVEL ESS, Ad'or. May 6 3tm 17 Adaninistrator's Notice. ALL person. having demands against the Estate of Sarah Gregory, .dee'd., are requested to render in their accounts properly attested without delay, and those indebted MUST make payment by or before Return Day next, otherwise they will necessarily be compelled to settle with an attorney. RICH ARD GREGORY, Adm'or. May 6 tf 1 7 MackreE! Mackrel! T HOSE wishing FINE FiSH, inspected and packed wherethey are canght,uf all sizes and numbers, call en 8. E. BOWERS, Agenat. a..u.rg .. Jam 16s , ~ U