Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-01-09
actions.
u. the sum of ten thous..


rs pc appropriated for the purpose OF
and publishing the two manu-
script works of the Hon. John c. Calhoun,
comprising treatise on government, and i
discourse on the Constitution OF the United
States.
RcsolreJ, That his Exccllcncy, the Cover
nor, is hereby authorized to appoint sulia-
bic editor to contract for a superlntend the
publication. within tllis State, OF said manu-
script; and that said agent, after rcscrving tor
the use of the State five hundred copies OF
the work, shall place the stereotype plates
and the cntire proceeds of sales at the dispo-
stl of the family OF Mr.. Calloun.-Green-
vile MOuntainccr.
A NEW PLATFoRM-Some Of the Sub
missionists in Georgia defended the late acts
of Congress, the Federal Government and
the Union generally, by asserting that the
price of cotton was high, and the people had
plenty to eat.
We suppose these gentlemen will be out
soon with Il new platform They will be 81
lent about territorial rights, abolition of sla-
very in the District, of the slave trade between
the States ard slavery in the States, or about
any of their political rights in the Union, but
pledge themselves to resist at all hazards, and
to the last extremity, when cotton falls to five
cents pound, when bacon and hominy be-
come scarce, and when their coats are out at
the elbow. They will resist no breaches of
the Constitution, nor breaches Of faith, nor
breaches of any kind but breaches into their
brccchcS pockets-Southcrn Press.
Ok Friday last gentleman from Maryland,
in search of fugitive slave, accompanied by
a Deputy United States Marshal, proceeded
in vehicle to the vicinity of Coatsvillc, on
the Columbia railroad, where it was under
stood the fugitive was secrctcd. They ar
rived in the ncighborhood Of the house about
two o'clock in the morning and reused the
inmates by asking for light to mend the
traces of their vehicle, which they pretended
were broken A colored woman came to the
door, when the officers rushed into the house
and commenced the search. The owner re-
cognized his slave, but the other colored per-
sons in the house interferred, and arming
themselves with axes and firearms, succeeded
in enabling the fugitive to escape. They also
assaulted the officers, who were, in sclf-de.
fence, forced to use their pistols; and it is
believed several of the colored persons were
wounded. The slave owner recognized among
the men in the house several that he knew to
be slaves recently escaped from plantations
in the ncighborhood of his OWN. Y. Sun
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VorE OF GEoRGIA-The Milledgeville Re-
corder has published complete returns from
the whole State except Appling county, and
announces the grand result rs follows:
awe have added the highest vote on each
side, and find the entire vote to be 71,lI5.-
BY comparison of the same vote, we find
the union majority to be 22,ll7, the Union
ticket thus exceeding by about two-thirds Of
the vote of the State"
We learn from reliable source, that scarce,
ly more than two-thirds of the entire vote Of
the State was polled on this occasion.
This is signifcant.-Southcrn Press.
cW a panther, measuring three feet ane
a half from snout to tail, was killed neal
Niagara Fulls last week.