Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-12-25

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/ Our Foreign Relations.
The London Globe confirms the report
that the Queen of Spain has pardoned twen-
ty-three British subjects taken in Cuba.
They are chiefly young lads, inveigled by
the plotter of the expedition to join It under
false representations
At the sitting Of the f1th, the Marquis Dc;
Mirafores said that he regretted not to be.
able to explain to- the House the important
negotiations now pending .with:thes United
States, relative to Cuba, and in which other
powers took part. But the Government,
conscious of the justice Of it. cause; and
strong in:i its duty, would support, with encr-
gy, the rights of Spain. = y; =. =.
The negotiations pending with the United
States, relative to the Cuban invasion, give
rise 10 much. discussion in 1.-THE public Journals.
The Baltimore Sum-. n paper not given 10 )
lend any countenance to: the; promotion Of
Government quarrels, says:' - -.
"Weare little disposedito see the Aner.
can government precipitate shostilities with
anyforeign powers; yet, 1.-THE factstas sta
ted are true, the American people have been
deeply wronged and grossly insnlted IN both.
The rash fool who has. been entrusted with
the charge of Greytown had understood, we
suspect, that the British had taken s,iryeil-
| lance of the American coast, and prcsurning
upon this stroke of audacity, he has thought
proper to introduce'a direct and unavoidable
issue of a most threatening chaneter. Tile
act involves an utter abandonment By' Great
Brtain.of allher .pretensions totlie police of
the Mosquito coast, and n distinct apology
for the outrage committed by this spawn Of
arrogance and folly, who has dared TO FIRE
upon the flag of the United States: ? ~ -.
CoTToY- GRowTHAKD CoNsuMpT1oN.-We
find the following statement lin one Of our
exchanges, which would go 10 show that Tie
consumption of cotton has decreased in this
country: go y. -! g.. 49,
"a smaller amount of cotton has. been
worked up by American, manufacturers the
past year than for three. or four years pre-
ceding. Some have attributed it to increas-
ed manufacturing at the South, but the ,statis-
tics here also show that the consumption of
raw cotton has fallen off more at the South
than at the North. Neither is itiowing to
the excess of thesimports of cotton goods,
or.these. show asdiminution compared with
last year. i..s,, Co.. 8. :,;,l #6Jl.iaT
"The best explanation that can be given is
that the large imports ofsilk and; other high
cost goods, is the effect of a fashionable cx-
trayagauce which has some way apreyented
the mass of the population from supplying
a.tbcIpaelse sesas In 5arnsEainacs with the cheap.
erartlcles OF domestic fabrics. Itin1ay Be
said that this increasing consumption oft,i1ks.
dc laincs, and other. costly stuffs goods, indi.
Gates increased ability of the popuiationtsto-
indulge in these articles >: but the depressed
condition OF business generally, the low pri-
ces of all our agricultural and manufacturing
staples, prove to the contrary, and establishes
the fact that it is to extravaganza and inrpro.
vidence that we owe the consumption. of 40
large an amount of costly manufactures,
principally foreign.
+" In the last two years the consumption Of
cotton in the United States has fallen off
about $4,000 bales, or more than 25 per
cent, and that onc-third of the dfninution
occurred last year. fl.
"1hc total crop of the United States last
year was 2.355.247 bales, of which England
consumed l,4lS,265 bales, and the United
States only 464,l0S bales; while the total
crop of 1850 was only 2,l96,706 bales, of
which England took 1,I06,77l bales, and
the United States 595,269 bales. ~!
"This shows that while the CONSUMPTION
of cotton in Great Britain has Increased in
the year which has just passed 31l, l,40l bales,
or about % per cent, it has diminished in
the United States l3l,l6l bales, or about
% per cent"
DEATH OF WILLIAM Prrr.-Pitt died alta
solitary house on Wimbledon Common.
Not far off the roadside, stood and still
stands, small country inn, where the vari-
Gus parties interested in the great States
mans life were accustomed. to apply for In
formation, and leave their horses and car
riages. On tbe morning of the a2d of jan
uary, 1906, an individual having called Mt
the inn, and not being able to obtain a satis-
factory reply to his inquiries, proceeded to
the house of Pitt. He knocked, but no ser Z
want appeared; he opened the door and en-
tered, he found no one in attendance ;.he
proceeded from room TO-, room, and at length
entered the sick chamber, where ON n bed,
in silence and in perfect solitude, he found,
to his unspeakable surprise, the dead body
of that great statesman, who hadso lately
welded the power of England; land influenced,
if he did not control, he destinies Of tho
world. We doubt.whether anynucIi more
awful example of the lot of mortality has
been ever witnessed: - - ~ -
A FEELING JUDGE.-Ap Individual having
been convicted upon rather slight evidence
the Judge proceeded to .pass Judgment as
follows:
"prisoner at the bar! 5sYou have been
found guilty by a.jury of your own country
men of a crime which subjects you to tho
penalty of death. You say you are inno-
cent: the truth of that assertion is onlykno
to yourself and God It my duty to leave
you for execution. If guilty, you richly; de-
rve.the fate which. awaits you; if innocent
it will be a gratifcatio to feel that you were
hanged without such crime on your con-
science. But in either case, you will. be
delivered from world of care' q: .sE
A LUCKY BLow-Sone time ago, a man
in London, in n quarrel with his wife, struck
her a blow which sent her. reeling against
the mantel piece, when out fell two guincas,
rolling on the floor. A cessation sof 'hostili-