Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-08-26

our planet long anterlor the period when
man became an occupant of its surface.
A gentleman Of This county, several years
ago discovered the remains Of Ihein
moth associated with those Of the Masto-
don, Meealherium, Hippopotamous; and
probably an extinct species of horse, in a
locality similar in geological structure 10
that in which Mr. Plant found these homes.
Yours, CULVER.
ECCLESIASTICAL POLTTY.
We are glad 10 see that special attention
is, of late. being called, in variousn1uar-
ters, 10 Church Government and D7scip.
line. A year or Two since, u very excel
lent little work was published on this sub.
jcc,, by our T,v. Brother, w. Walker, Of
Homer, N. Y. IVo have somewhere seen
a statement that Gould. Kendall g.; Lin
coin, Boston, have in press. or have lately
published volume still larger and more
full than Walkers. Dr.. Johnson's Lee
lures, first published in the Carolina Bap
list, will wc learn, be thrown into The
form of e volume, aud s1on, io that shape,
be accessible 10 our people. The Biblical
Recorder has published some twenty num-
bers on the same subject, which ought TO
60 forth in book. Lastly, wc have been
favored with a pamphlet, by our brother
Crowell, Of Boston. on The advantages of
Baptist Church Government. W., should
not subscribe to every thing our brethren
have said in these several works; yet
much, nearly all. they have said is strictly,
scripturaE and ofthe utmos, importance.
With the materials tlusaceumulaIed, some
brother, who has the leisure. pnd; !. abiIits,.
Wiz Jr uIsT5Ut lIa r, pTaCc- m;
the hands of'our churches a work, in every
way worthy oflho magnitude and impur.
lance oflhc subject.-Carolina Baptist
We understand that Mr. Maverick of
this neigbborhood. exhibited in tire village
lew days ago, some fine specimens Of
fruit. Among the resi- a Peach weighing
eight, and an apple weighing sixteen uzs.
Troy or gold weight.-Pendleton Mess.
On Monday night last, we had an alarm
Of fire in our village. A house put up by
The Town Council as Guard h6tise, in
which to confine negroes taken up during
unlawful hours, was burned down, with
out communicating the fire to any other
building. Ii the wind had been high. The
village would have been in great danger.
There is no doubt that The house was Sc,
on 6re.-fHd,
A correspondent Of The New Orleans
Delta, writing from the seat of war, gives
it as his belief, that the Uuired States will
ere long be involved in a war with :he Ca
manche Indians.
Arrestea.-On the l4'h inst, (says the
Savannah Republican, a man by tae name
Of Samuel a. Housh,. of South Carolina,
was arrested by the City Marshal, under
The following circumstances. He offered
for sale TO several persons a likely negro
man, calling himself at one place Jacobs.
al another Mahon, and at third Connor.
The circumstances coming 10 the know.
ledge of Mr.. Montmollin, he arrested and
carried him before Justice Raiford, by
whom he was committed to awai, the re-
quislIion of The authorities of Carolina.
The negro, who Is also in Jail, belongs To
The estate of Charles Graves, near Char
lesion.
An Outiac KiNed-Juhn Work, no.
torous outlaw, and wholesale murderer
and robber, was killed in Washington Co.,
Arkansas, about Two weeks since. lie
had been concerned in several ofgthe out
rageous murders committed in aud near The !
Cherokee nation, within year Ior two
past. 1t is stated that Work threatened
The life Of a Mr.. Funkhauser that plan !
was laid to catch him; thai a negro was
10 give information 10 Work where he
might steal horse; that he led him 10
The place. and eight men, wilh.!rifles in
hand were to wait his coming. When he
was within ten PAGES, each man fired, and
he rushed upon The negro, but fell dead
before he could injure him.-St. Louis
Spurious Coin.-Wo were sheRn yes
erday, a Mexican counterfeit dollar, which
vas discovered accidentally by a siyersmhh
who was melting up specie for some sill,
yer work, aud makes it a practice to cut
he coin before melting, TO prove lis pu.
iiy. This is an ingeniously contrived
the interior is made up Of cop.
'er. or composition of metals, over which
$ soldered Thin plate Of pure silver, SO
lea'ly put on aslo deceive the most expe.
fenced. We are unable, on conparison-
0 advise our readers how 10 tell the differ.