Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-02-14
Miscellaneous.
From tie South Caroiinian.

From the South Carotinian.
The COUNTRY BANKS. our. first page
will be seen The Report of the Committee
of Ways and Means, as adopted at tue
late session of Inc Legislature, in relation
to the country Banks of this State which
do not redeem their bills in CharIeston.-
We greatly approve and admire the liber-
al and lar-sishted policy of the CONNER
cal Bank and Bank of Camden, in re.
deeming their bills in Charleston. and,
should he gratifed to see it adopted by tho
others; but cannot approve of any measure
to compel them TO do so,- contrary IN the
provisions of their charters, and all Bank
ing principles We understand they
promptly redeem at their own counterss
and are willing 10 make satisfactory peril
Odical settlements with The Banks in Char.
lesion, and propose TO do so, and 10 bear
their portion of the exrenscsof such set.
tlemen's; and this, unquestiouably, is all
that can be properly required OF lhem.-
AS well might we require them TO redeem,
their bills in our office, as the Charleston
Banks, that they should redeem them in
theirs. How would the Charleston Banks,
like 10 be compelled TO redeem ia Cheraw,
or Hamburg, or any other place in the
Stale, where their bills were to be found?
Another Tanner of Brutes The Mar.
seilles print, LIE Semaphore, publishes the
following miraculous piece Of news from
Tuscany. which attracts the attention Of
most of our Partisan contemporaries -
Leghorn, Nov. 10Th, 1S3S.-We are
here all in establishment, since the arrival
from Columbia, of the American vessel
Buslard. 1t has brought Senor Marin
Ootaya, his son Pamela, and racer of a
new description, which Senor Martin has
succeeded in tanning with wonderous dex.
lerity. This racer is Condor OF the Cor-s
dilleras, Of enormous size; the extent be-
tween the two extremiIies of his extended
wings is 81 feet. He has been rendered
So gentle and so traclable thar Senor MAJ
tin Ootaya's son uses him as horse, gets
upon his back. and 10 the astonishmcut Of
all. flies with him 10 an immense Height
Young Pamela manages him as easily as
u horse by the means of a little stick with
steel point. His first ascension took
place yesterday at moon. He rose from
The Place d'Armes. and at certain eleva-
lion young Pamelo stood up and sala,ed
the Leghorn people by waving his hand-
kerchief He mex, got astride his steed,
and they disappeared.in lrlce. The bird
and boy reached Florence in IL minutes,
and were back in thesevening. The child
was the bearer of certificates from the
Florence authorities. Every body hastens
10 see the condor, the, price Of admission
being two francs. Senior Martin pro-
ceeding with his son and condor TO Milan,
whence they will repair TO Paris"
Yankee Girls lido love to meet:a Yam.
kee girl, let il bswhere it will, bu, more
especially whehWest Of the Hudson, for
then her pure simplicity of word and ac-
ton, contrast so amably with The con-
strained manner of lon many amongst Us,
whose heeds and hearts have been spoiled
by an artificial state of society. She gen.
orally speaks what she thinks nor sshe
fearful of thinking independently either;
her actions, though free, never 60 beyond
the strictest rule Of propriety; and the most
idStlulOdS, WIZ IDdy u uTSt tiIIldpIUe HeI
imprudenf, soon become assured that she
is less erratic lin though, than the minc-
ing prudeswho chides her niece of fifteen
Tor smiTfns with unconstraiued open heart
edness in..he face of her cousin who has
just Returned from abroad. feel as il /
had jusIemerged from the confined air Of q
city, inldgpIre breezy atmosphere, when
ever findsmyseif in the society of gem
uine YanksegirI. who has moved in good
society andpossesses a cultivated mind
The m6srexcelIent traits which I!have
observedJnt The Yankee girl, are her even
ness of disposition and fine flow of spirits.
You will always find her The same.see her
where you Syill and when YOU will.---and
you are never alta loss 10 understand her.
for she hasEnone OF the low tricks which
have bec6me TOO fashionable among 100
many young ladies, who are constantly.in in
their social iaiefcaurse with. our sex, en-
gagged in 6ghiing under falss.colofs, until
we are obliged 10 slsFaabou,, aud in mere
self protection becSme as great hypo poerites
as themselves. - - = 80
sHEEp.-Keep in ,rous during sihe
winter in your sheep-foId, hisxl,Iye:ofta tar
aud salt, to which your sheep canshaye
free access.
uoeo-Once q week during winfer.s