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Yasa meeng of Rdgefield and Lsington On Thursday,,of week before last, a laroge meeting of.the citizen&aof Edgefield aud Lex ingtor,;was held t Bethel Church. Object f muaeting"'o, consider the debt, qiestion2' Nev. Abner W. Asbell,.a. promient eititen of the Ridge4 was called to the Chair;: and Messrs..Robert W. Cannon and James T. Ba eon'l were requested to act as Secretaries. A Committee of Twenty-One was,. on- m tion, appointed~to prepare business. for the meetIng, and retired for consultation.. The Chairman of this Committee was' Uor John Ruiet- of our town ; a prominent member was Gen. Paul Quattlebain ofLexington. After a couple of, hours consultation and discussion, the Committee of Twenty-One re ported-the following Preamble and. Resolu tions ; which were read to the meeting atlarge . and then.unanimously adopted: WHEREAs, The Courts iave been thrown open to creditors, and the debtors of the State suddenly placed in a condition. of immMent peril ;:And-Whereas,. The prospective wide spread ruin and' desolation which. must surely and inevitably result therefrom, so terrifie arid alarming to the people, call most loudly for them to rise up and speak in theii own behalf, as the only means left them of averting. the direst calamity that ever befell any -portion of tfie human race; And Whereas, The debtor eI,sses are about to be sacrificed most unjust lv and ungenerously fo. that- which within it self is no crime-Indebtedness. Be it there fore . Resolved, That it is unwise, impolitfic, an reasonable and grossly subversive of the best interests of the country, to maintain that the great upheaving of property and revulsion of finances which the country has experienced, silouDIenot be a most powerful argument in faVor of the rights of debtors against claims' that were predicated on slave property,. now swept away as by the besom of destruction, an event which. could neither be foreseen nor avoiTd'd. Resolved, That debtors have rights as well asmoreditors, an~d that while the former are not disposed to deprive the latter of a reason able satisfaction for their .favor of the past, they mnost eanestly and -urgently protest against having thejir rights ignored, and js tie tramnpled upon ; whbich must inevitably be the.result, unlass the imnpendihg evR be avert-. ed by an organic law of the laud. Resolved, That the Chairman of.this meet ing be nequested to appoint a. Commission' of three of our citizens,, to wait 'upon has IAcel lency the Governor at an early day, and. urge upon himAto.assemble the Legislature as soon as possibre, to th nd tat r4easures may. be adopted to avert the ruin - and. distress now threatening to fail upon us. Resolved,. That our fellow-citizens through on.t the State,. be requested~ to co-opera4e wih' -us in. urging the justice of our cause.. Resolved', That the thanks of; this meetimg are eminently due, and are here'oy tendered, to thle LLon. A. P. Aldrich, for his able,.manly and independent effort on the Bench to stay the disasters of which we have spoken in the preceding' Preamble and Resolutions. The Committee appointed under the third Resolution consists of Major Joseph: Abney, Col. John Huiet~ andiJames T.. Bacon, Esq.. MNaj Joseph Abney addressed the metmtrg at length-in eloquent terms.-~dgefield Adver tiser.. Miss Ann Dickenson remarked, in a public speech a few days since, that 'the raation wants a man"-which is perhaps a modest way of saying. that Miss Aina consulrs her-~ &elf the nation.. SHOCKING ACCIDENT-Two YOUG LAms DROWNED IN A VAULT.-An accident of a dis tressing nature shocked the community in th lower end. of the city last evening., A party of! friends and visitors had. assewbIed at: the house of Mr.. W. E. Brown, on Madison-street, between E venth and .Twelfth, yesterday afternoon, and among thenr a Miss SkTlie Hart,.a young lady froni the country,'just come inN on a visit- to-her friend Miss Jennie Brown, daughter of Mr. W.. E. Brown spoken of, at whose houge the accident whibh- we are about to relate occurred.. Miss Hart was engaged' to Be fritivd ih a few weeks, ind perha-ps wihing. to tell. Miss Jenni about. it, the young ladies repaired to the water closet at the-end! of the yard,. .and about seventy-five feet from the house. They were not missed for nearly an hou-r, when Mrs. Brown, finding them absent,. said to one of her lady friends, "Let usa. go and see where the girls are." Not fihding.them in the-house, they went to the yard, and upon opening the dbor discovered their ffite. They had entered the water closet. the floor had given way..and they were precipitated into the water several feet below. The abarm was given at once and assistance procured. The-bodies were hooked up from the water, after a great deal of difficulty, and examined, but -life was found. to be entirely extinet in both of them. The accident occur red at about half-past three o'clock, ad they were notr discovered until half-past four. MiNs. Brwn was about seventeen years of age, and Miss Hart nineteen ; both beautiful and accomplished' Their untimely death easta gloom over the community in that part of the cityl ii which they were w.ell known. The accident seemed to be the result off a careless neglect of repairs of the privy building.-Louisville Courier, 19th inst. irFATICIDE.-The Keowee (S. C.) Courier,. of Saturday,. records the follow ingpiece of de pravity : A horrible case of' infantibide occurred in theDistrict last week. Mrs. Sarah Calhoun has been arrested and committed to jail on the charge of drowning her own child, which was only3 some seven or eight days old. A feedman, Floyd,, was.arrested on a charge of4 compliity in the etime ;-but he was either re eased by or carried off by the garrison recent ly on duty at Walhalla. The head of the child, had been "scalped" or disfiguired to pre vent, if possible, its cokor from being identiy fed.. Good citizens believe that Floyd is gmilty of complicity in the crime, and that he should not be alloweb} to, escape merited punish ment. - An inqjuest was held on the- body of the child,. but no, ret.drn of the proceedings therein has been made . Mrs. Moseley, of Syracuse. N. Y., - took poison on Tuesday afternoon, laid' down on he lounge, asked'her husband to read to .her when ha came home, laughed h-eartily at what he read, and then tarned over as if to go. to sleep. An hour afterwards,, when he went to wake her up, he found-her in a dying condition. Subquently a letter was found,. in. which sihe acknowedged that her husband. hadf alMays treated her kindly,. bat said sh-e was tired- of living, anqd wanted-to prove that-she was not afraid to'die.. The letter was written partly Kbefore and partly after she had~ teken thbe poison, ands was very cheerful throughout. Mrs.. M. was a very benevolent lady, and on thxday of her death she had been' engaged in Isoliciting subscriptions t.o buy a sewing machine for a poor widow. An ex.,slaxe .4Beauaegard's is said to have married a Ned ngland sch-oolmi*arm She mus 1i-hosan her .Beaa-regardless of eor. IsoNS u o M . DAvIs.-Dre CrMem that when "twelv.e ongmen"hibybr force, riveted heavy shackles upon MrBavs, after:' brief period of insensibility the noble martyr:permitted his manacled feet -. reat upowthe floor of the cell, and:w.hen-he heard the elanking of the fetters he buied hiis fa between his hiands sobbed audibtj and exp claimed,, -"Oh, the shame r the' shame!" But the "shamie'says thb RiehmondTimes- wa&, that of the great natiel, which permito@ thi vile act to pass unpwiished. The, fetters no; more degraded President Davis than the Grucii-ion- did' the. Saviour of manind, or the off4r of a. reward. for the bead of George Washington made him a traitor.' There was no "shame," thank God, for the poor, wasted prisoner,:hurled down and boundt by a d'ozen men.-no "shame""upon the-btave,. nobleA eople whose late President was thds outra"ed-but a "shame" as enduring as- nrsZ tory, red;.burning and scorchig as the light--. ning ofteaven upon those who thus brutally abused te power'fta giant. That dbid of infamy wililive ii history like, the black crime of Judas,.,-and the- "goodly company" ofitorturers, tyrants,. mercillessjailr ors and brutaP conquerors,' whom Dante des cribes in-his "Inferno," will have in due sea*. s6n appropriate additions to their "a'rdenteir cle," as, the participants in that.fout deed meet their fiery rewardir.-Carolinian. HAT WOMEN CIN Do.-Two young lidies residing in Martinsburg, West Virginia, who were left utterly destitute and: homeless by reason of the ravages of the latb- war, have set themselves to work since the cesstion of bo tilities and nearly restored'their proporty to. its normal condition. One of thein-personally plowed. and p1hnted, manytccres of lnd. Their neighbor4 built then 1-Iog,-Muse to live -im and ettemporized -a sort of barr. Horses were loatted to them, and the gfrts with their own hands raised a profitable crop of eorn,; with the proceeed ofiwbich -they -are~ buying .agricultural -implements at Philadels phia.. In the place.of' the log.house they have a comfortable dwelling and substantial barni - and making such improvements upon the proh. perty they own as- to render it more valuable, to day than before the torch of conflicting: armies reduced its biidinogs to ashes. ---- -- e> - - hIn one of William Wert's letters to his daugh ter,~ oceurs this beau,tifu.l passage "on the small;. sweet.courtes3ies of life."~ "h want to, tell you a secret. The way to' make yourself pleasing to. others is to show -them attention. 'The whole world is'like the miller at Mfansfield, 'who cared; for nobody, no, not he, because nobody-.dared for him.' And the- whole world, would serve you& so, if you gave them -the same'causes, Let every one,. therefore ai that you do care for themn, by showing them what' Sterne so- happily called ther small courtesies;-in whch there is' no parade,. whose voice is too still-to tease, and which mam fst themnselves by te~ndei' and affectionate looksq and- little acts' ef.affection, giving other- the-pre ference in every little~ enjoymlent, at the table, in; the field, walking, sitting or standing." . Ew.rs na N.zw YoGR.-The New York-fimest' *says that a very wholesome Ieaetion has set in ii that city with respect twents.. Numberse of houses can- now be obtained at rates much lower than those' that were cur'rent in May. Evry where throughout the city placards are up stating that floors an~d parts of hodsg can now be had on a pplicatiOn wi{hmL.. A wonder--i fl. change;~ too, has come over the rea? estate' aents. They trea& pei-sonis now with the utmost polienes some of them.even approch ing' subserviency. ja -nnhap that the. same en M8herljde& saic