Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-03-11
MONTGOMERY, March 5, 1852.

The Southern Rights Convention adjourn
ed this evening, after 4 session of two days.
A series of resolutions containing the usual
seneral,ics were passed, tho sixteenth of
whicftcauscd an animated and protrIctcd dis
cusSiOn.
The resolution was in substance as fol-
lows: That in consideration Of the fact that
the people of Alabama and the other South.
crn States had declared against resistance to
the Compromise Acts, consequently tho
Southern Rights party would not press the
issur, but guard against the future.
This was earncsi Y opposed as being tah-
tamount to 4 dissolution of the. Southern
Rights party, and IN adoption of the Gcnr-
gia platform. 1t WAS supported by Mrssrs.
Buford, Yancev, Elmorc, and others. Ulti,
mately, however, Il substitute was accepted,
which modified The language in some re-
spcctS, although it was considered 10 amount
practically to The same thing
4 resolution against the doctrine of Inter
vrnion was also adopted BY the Convention.
The other proceedings were unilnportant.
Two Millions OF DOLLARS OBTAINED
FROM A BANK BY FORGERY The National
Rank ut Bucnos Ayrcs recently paid out two
millions of dollars on forged order. 1t
appears that hio IN the evening man
named Andres Viilegas, Of Il respectable
family, presented mn order purporliug to he
from the Governor, for two millions of dol
hsrs. The forgery was SO admirably perpe-
trated that none Of the officers for a mo-
mcnt suspected ii, and promptly paii him
The money. Subsequently they sent word
to the Governor that they had aaslcd his
order, when 10 their amazement they were
tollit was forgery. The police and other
authorities were Immediately called into re-
qui>iIinn and the whole city ransackcd ;and
cn the next day The forger was found at the
Globe Hotel. with the bank notes (somc of
which he had exchanged for goldD in his
possession. The evidence of his guilt was
so overwhelming, that he made a prompt
confession, and on the next morning he was
taken to The courtyard of the public prison,
and summariy executed,
SOUTHERN LITERATURE The Mobile Tri-
buno has the following pithy paragraph on
this subject:
aThere is a great deal said in this world
about Southern Literature-much of it very
bald blather, that any thoughtful man may
laugh at. The reason why this literature is
not better paid for, is because it is mainly
not worth better pay. The popular literature
at the North is hardly superior, but there it
is got up in a more attractive style by expe'
rirncrd, mouey.making, business men, no
bv adiuncts make attractive what otherwise
would have no attraction at all. The South
has higher duties to pcform than flooding the
country with such stuff, and our young men
can find more manly pursuits than that of
supplying a demand for it,"
HORACE Mann thus sums up a few Of tho
advantages of modern Inventions.
"One boy, with fourdriner machine, will
make more paper in u twelve month than all
Egvnt could have made in hundred years
during the reign of the Ptolemies.
sOnc girl, with a power-press, will strike
off books faster than million scribcs could
copy them before the invention Of printing.
"One man. with an iron foundry, will turn
out more utensils than rubal Cain could have
forged had he worked diligently till this tine
A PROFITABLE RAlL-RoAD.-The net pro-
fits of the Southwestern (Georgia) Rail-
Road, for the last six months, were S49,509
81 i; at the end Of the year the company cx-
pect to declare dividend of not less than
sight per cent. The road was opened on the
ith Of July last, from Savannah to 0gle-
thorpe.
ARKANSAS is said to be the only State
IN the Union where the mineral called
apis lazuli is found. 1t is worth four
.imcs its weight i'll gold,