Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1838-12-06

| s""Set,-the scene that met the eye could
hnve lew parallels. At first, the orange
aud lght crimson Of the zodiacal light
next the gold and the light brown,-then
'he purple, spreading awav like a mighty
sea oil umbered blood, mingled with dark
name, as far as the eye could reach from
| right to left,-were the successive shining
oi the pictured west. There slept the
giant river, now shrunk Of half is width,
| rehecting every change Of tint shown in
10, .ne vast helting of the western heavens
ne upward spires of shooting rays of The
rehect"n,gradualIy contracted until the col
U''"s iay like bank of smoky red. ming
| nhS WIN the darkness of the forest and
'ne o"scurlty of The evening, as if it were
'"e 'ar "a reflection thrown up from the
eh'"crs OF great conflagration,--a dark
quenchine fire. smotherins itself in the bo.
som o. gloomy clouds.
The reflections of a river of Iova now-
ing at night from the crater of \esuyius.
Guild not be more imposing than some of
the radiaions Of our autumnal sunsets.-
Then I" see The river grow black, reflec,inp
no longer on lis stvgian waves the now
sonbre west, while the white fog curls a.
long It's surtaCe-and then TO turn round,
ana Sc" the pure blue OF the east, hathcd
III moonlight, with its thick. sown radian,
siars.-hy contrast producing anorher class
OF emotions, change from the sublime to
the heaulful; all constitute the scenery of
hclear October evening on the Banks Of
'he lower rMlsSissippi.-Ndtches F. Trader.
=, Died at Paris, August I'd. 1898, Jean
baP'Iste Pe'ry, honorary Consul General
os france, and officer of the Royal Order
"f the Legion of Honor.
NIr. retry was horn al Vaucouleurs De-
pariment OF the Meuse, on the 25th july
i|"|, md had already numbered many
years ol service in the administration of
ms province, when, in 1880 in consequence
OF the friendship with which MIR. de Barbe-
Marbo's, honored him. he was called 10 the
"eaa OF me Bureau of The Major General
oi 'he French army, which under the com
nahd OF The Marquis de Rochaml,aut,con-
'rihu'ed so powerfully to establish the in
dependence of the United States. After
y, at" "as signed. the Department Of For
e'sn Affairs readily adopted him. and he
snccess'vely occupied the Vice Consulate
OF wilmington, The Consulate of Charles
'on' aud that of Philadelphia. The abiIi-
,!es displayed Ivy him in these different Of
noes. amidst the difficni' circumstances in
nv vas soon placed by the events of
INC French Revolution. subsequently, noin,.
e,i h'n out to the noiice of the Consular
Government. by which he was sen, hacI n
'n' u. States in lS02, as first Secre,arv
OF the Lcgniinn. r station he filled mil
iolo. at length in 1915, when il was deem.
en exprdient to renew the close and an
c'ent ties of friendship between France
aud the United States which so manv og;-
ratng events had disturbed. II wos io he
.ct've zeal and consnmmate experience of
Mr. pe,ry. thai an APPEAL was made. and
to which his patriotism fully responded. al
though he could have claimed func,ions
more elevated than those Of Consul AT N.w
Orleans, with which he was in,rusled. or
even those Of Consul General which hc
fulfilled, al first nd interim. and afterwards
as t'tulary, until he was admitted on the
Pension Lisr. VIC
MIR. Petry, like his iIlustrious friend. Mr.
de Barbe- Marbois. preserved to an nd.
Vanred age degree ofbodilv strength and
mental Visor. which seemed to promise
nm still many wears; therefore his dea,b
ias mol less surprised than afflicted b;s
family and numerous friends
phiu Gazette.