Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-04-29

I'VE" \'RLEASN, fpTii 10.
Laier from IeraS.-Ihe steam ship
Savannah, Capt. Wade, has arrived since
our last, bringing Galveston tlalcs as late
as the 18th instant.
We learn from all parts OF the connlry,
says The Houston Telegraph, that most ex-
tensive crops of cotton will be put in this
season. On the Brazos and Colorado
more than twice the amount planted last
year has already been put in; and every
settler, new or old, has given his attention
to cotton raising. We hail this improve
ment as the harbinger of better times.
The steam ship Zavala. Capt. Lothrop,
had arrived at Galveston from Laguna.
The Galveston Courier says -" Our re-
lalinns with lhr people of that portion of
Mexico are oftle most amicabIe character,
and every courtesy and kiudncss was cx-
tended to the officers and crew of the Ia
vala."
Judge Webb was about leaving Calves
ton IuT Mexico, in The schr. of war San
41 ! n n .gsl 4! i - 1a!!al
of tho Courier, in commenting upun this
ntnve Says:-" How much better il would
he if Inc Government had appointed Com
Moore, TO 90 down AS minister. accnmpa-
nied by The whole fleet We could then
have treated aud coerced alternately, ac-
cording to circumstances
The Houston Morning Star OF the 10Th
instant, says there has been another fight
with The Indians abnul irIy miles above
Austin, in which eish Indians were killed
and 81 horses captured. The expedition
was under the command Of Capt. Dolson
who was hadl ly wounded.
The editor Of the Gavcstonian, gives
the steamer Friend friendly bul rather
equivocal puff. He says she is the oldest
boat in Texas.
Important Discouery.-A 4 friend has han.
dctl us recent number OF the Guzette dss
Deur Mondes, of Paris, from which we
translate The following :-Pennsylvaniun.
"Some days ago. Baron Dupoter pre-
senIed to The Academy Of Medicine Deal f
Mute, ten years ofage, whose speech and
hearing he had restored by magnetic pro-
cess. The Academy Immediately appoin-
ted commissinu 10 inquire inlo the truth
of fact which threatens to overiprn all
previous notions of science. Their report
is looked Tor anxiOusly.
Since that time the Baron submitted
to his process deaf mute of the age of 5
years. A certificate of member of The
Academy Of Medicines, proves that The
child was both deaf and dumb from its
birth. The miraculous process Of the Ba.
ron was evident, for nj The end of three
siItinss, the child heard and repeated eve.
ry word pronounced in its presence. We
have seen This ourselves.
Assurances have been given us which
we dare not douhI, that the Baron has
cured nineteen persons similarly afflicted"
Scramble for OGcc.-One Of the pecu-
liaritles which must strike every observer
as remarkable, is the scramble for public
employment, that characIerizes so large a
portion of the people of the Uniled States.
This would not excite surprise in old coun
tries, in which competition for employment
is strenuous. aud rhe raIe Of compensation
for lah0ur low. BuI in new republic, in
which pride and independence of charac-
ter should combine with The facility ofpro-
curing employment, to place almost every
citizen above the necessity of soliciting Of
flee. the peculiarly 10 which we hav" alln
dc,I strikes the mind as moral anomaly. |
The sturdy citizen of a Democracy. whose
lhews and sinews indicate their physical
capabilities, and whose intellect is sharpen.
ed by emulation seem anxious 10 creep on
all occasions into Executive patronage,
and crouch before popular favor, like rho
variesr depcndan, in Monarchy. This
introduces not only serviliiy and syco-
infancy, where there should be moral ele-
walton and selfrespecr, but strips our popu-
lar institutions. in one at least Of their as
poets, of that harmony between their the.
orctical perfection and practical operation,
that produces real Experimentation.
Patriot.