Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-03-04
VOL. XYH.--NO Z.
DEFERRED ARTICLES.

The NORTH EASTERN RAr1RoAp.-From
what we learn, this enterprise has met with
popular favor worthy of the public spirit
which characteristics our community, when.
ever the interests of Charleston are involved.
1t is now well understood by every indiyid-
nal, whatever may be his station in life, the
laborer, the merchant, indeed without par.
ticularizlng, every individual, who feels that
his home and his household nre his all, that
it becomes his duty to contribute his mite to
aid as far as his means will allow, any pro-
ject that will benefit the place where Lis
homestead is permanent.
Entertaining these views, and sincerely
believing that it is highly important to our
interests that the North Eastern Railroad
should be constructed, We trust the Commit
tees engaged in the patriotic although oner-
Gus duty of calling on our citizens for aid
may be untiring in their efforts, and that they
be met without an exception, with such con.
tr!butions as will cyince determination that
the work shall be accomplished, and prove
the truth of the adage that " when there is
will, there is 4 way"--wllich will insure us a
railway to what will rebound much to the
onward way of our increasing and to be in
creased prosperity as commercial city.
1t gives US great pleasure to learn that one
of our monicd institutions-the State Bank,
has promptly stepped forward and subscrib-
ed to the work, and we feel assured that the
example will not be without its effect. In
terested as they are in every movement cal
cuated to advance our commercial facilities,
an enlightened and liberal policy dictates
generous and helping course to every enter
prise predicated on a prospective benefit. We
feel assured and speak with confidence, that
the subscriptions to this Road viii be suffi-
cient to put the question beyond doubt that
it will De ommenced-that it will be con-
tinued-that it will be completed that
within the shortest possible period. Let our
citizens take care that it fails not-let the
city council make it sure that It shall not be
abandoned.-Charleston Courier.
From TAMPIco-The schooner Mary Ell.
len, Capt. Earl, says the New Orleans Plea
yune of The 18th inst, arrived yesterday
from Tampico, bringing S5O,O0Oin in specie on
freight.
BY this arrival We have files of Tampico
papers to the Cd inst.
We observe that on the 10th nit, duel
was fought near Tampico between D. Fran
cisco Mclgarejo de Guzman, Spanish Consul,
and Jose Maria Pima, a Lieutenant of artille-
! ry. Atthe second fire the:former fell, hay
I ing received a severe wound a comnsGni.e
cation from his second asserts that Pima
violated the rules Of the duelfo by firing be-
fore t! proper time. Great excitement was
manifested on the subject. Guzman subse-
quently died of the wound he had received.
Several shipwrecks are mentioned in the
Tampico papers. The Mexican schooner
Emile was lost on the bar on the eth Of
December.
The brig Frances Elizabeth sunk with her
crew near tile Gazones, OH the 18th ut.
The coasters Tuspan aud Eduardo also
sunk, but their crews were saved.
The French ship Boulounnaise was lost
on the bar on the 7tl ult Her crew also
was saved.
Great discomfort has been. created in
Tampco by the new regulations for the COL
lection of the Dercho de cosumo. The pa
pers say that they are oppressive and illegal,
and impose most annoying restraints OIL
commercial intercourse.
New YORK PoL1rIcs-Thc correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger, writing from
Washington, says:
8" 1t is understood here that the rupture
between Gov. Marcy and Gov Dickinson, i'll
New York, is complete, and that open hos
tilities between these two eminent statesmen
are about to commerce. Mr.. Dickinson
charges Mr.. Marcy with bargain and sale;
with having sold himself to the barnburncrs,
thirteen in all, who, with singular unanimi-
ty, are all out for Maryland having be-
traycd the Cass Hunkcr interest to the
barnburners. The papers are ready-and
in the hands of the printers-and are pro-
badly now being struck off for general cir
culation.
1T isnow certain that New York will not
act harmoaiously at the Baltimore Conven-
ton, and that the Hunkcr delegates will in
no case 60 for the Barnburncrs. In word,
New York will present divided delegation,
and on that account will be as little able to
dictate the nominee as Pennsylvania. The
only concentrated power in the Convention
will be presented by the northwestern
States.
PROTECTING LETTERs.-Many thousands
Of letters sent to the Post Office are returned
rs dead letters, the persons TO whom they arc
sent not being found. These are destroyed
unless they contain enclosures of some kind;
and often information of value TO the per-
sons addressed, or their friends, is destroyed
with them. In the new edition Of the regu-
ations of the Post Office, about to be publish
ed, it is provided that in every case where tho
writer Of letter chooses to protect it from
the chances of being opened Mt the depart
ment, and destroyed as dead letter, he can
do so by preparing the postage, and writing
legibly on the sealed side the words "to be
preserved" in this case it will be secured from
the liability of being committed to the flames,
and its seal will remain intact.
FoheERY-Thc following facts about the
fraud practised on the Bank of Charleston,
to which our despatch referred, we find in
the Courier:
"a servant called on the gentleman in
question yesterday morning and handed him
4 note, purporting to have been written by a
lady, and containing check for 1920 on the
above named Bank, signed w. B. Pringle,
which she requested him to collect and give
the amount to the servant He, not for a
moment suspecting any fraud, went to the
Bank, presented the check, obtained money,
and gave it to the bearer Of the note Short
ly afterwards, however, the check was de.