Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-03-27

him not to forget his Odessa convert. .
American Messenger.
A Terrible Scene.
A passenger who was on board the Au-
tocrat at the time of collision with the
Magnolia, one hundred miles above New
Orleans, has given the Louisiana Courier
a brief description Of the scene. The
collision was at day break, weather clear,
and the whole wide Mississippi for a chan
mel. All the deck passengers, thirty in
number, one engineer, and three cabin
passengers were lost. No names given.
There were eight ladies, all of whom
were saved. The Autocrat sunk in five
minutes, in deep water:
a Mr. Ferguson, we do not know his
place of residence, but understand his
father is landlord Of the Gayora House,
Memphis, snatched his child from the
arms of his wife, and ran to the forecastle,
leaving his wife, in the wildness OF his
alarm, in the ladies cabin. He stood by
US moment, and made such appeals to
save himself and child, trust in God |
never may have occasion to hear again.
We got him somewhat calm and quiet,
and for which he stopped to thank us /;
but the next moment the cry that ace are
lost was heard, and indeed it was cruelty
true with them, for he attempted to leap
to the Magnolia, and fell with his child
into the pitiless element to rise no more.
His wife was saved, and as she stood on
the shattered wreck watching with the
widest eagerness for. the husband and
chfiiid; she saw q man struggling IN The
water whom she supposed to be him. By
maniac yells and distracted appeals she
induced attention TO the drowning man,
and by power almost superhuman lie was
rescued, and when he reached the boat
the lady fell round him with ber arms. and
thanked God for the salvation of her
husband. Poor, helpless, widowed wo-
man! she awoke from a sad and cruel
dream, clinging with phrenzied tenacity to
the neck of him who was another's. You
may partially imagine surrounding scenes
when the gentleman thus saved remarked
that he almost wished indeed it had been
her protector instead of himself"
South Carolina Shoe TGanufactury.
We had the pleasure, short time since,
of recording the determination Of Messrs.
Carew & Hopkins to enter upon the expert
ment of manufacturing Shoes for Plantation
use, and their intention to erect, at once,
suitable buildings for the purpose. Their
factory has since been located at the corner
of King and John streets, near the Rail Road
Depot, where they have commenced opera
tions.
The Proprietors have been fortunate in
securing the superintendent of Mr.. F. N.
Bartlett, whose long connection with both
the sale of the article in this city, and famili-
arity with the details of manufacturing as
carried on in the largest establishments in
the Union, renders the selection very judi
ciovs one. The buildings on King street are
to be greatly improved and enlarged, with
suitable offices and work rooms attached
On John St, large and commodous build
ing of 3 l-2 stories is in course of erection,
80 by 25 in dimensions, containing two eXten-
sive apartments on each floor, to be used for
Cutting Rooms. A large number of hands,
among them some sixty or seventy boys and
girls, are engaged in this operation; and ar
rangcmcnts arc in progress for Increasing the
force employed in the Establishment, on a
scale commensurate with the eXtented accom-
modations for work rooms, now nearly COM
peted.
Our planters should bear in mind that this
undertaking is a practical response to the spirit
recently manifested, in various sections OF our
State, to give the preference to articles tor
plantation use manufactured at home, to the
exclusion of those imported from the North,
and that they have now the opportunity OF
vigorously carrying out in practice the resolu-
tions ofnon-intecoursc adopted with so much
unanimity from time to time, at various meet
ings of this influential class Of our people,
They have very appropriately taken the lead
in measures of reform of this character, and il
now rests chiefly with them to determine
whether the movements they have recon-
mendcd, and the labor and capital which has
thus been stimulated into active exercise
shall prove, in the end, to be attendsd d with
promising and profitable results, to all con.
cerned.- Charleston Courier.
w The Buffalo Mercury says that ague
has been so bad in "them parts" that per-
son afflicted with it actually shook the naiis
! Of his fingers cads.