Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-01-26
Tom s6owmeny Generally.

a WHAT we have to say to you is, that our little town
N Edccfield has at present kind of Show-Mania
4 nd if YOU wish TO make your Jack for couple oil
Nights or even week, just come along and give our
8Iks y call. If you don. go away the best pleased
(ncp and women in the world, We'll almost agree 10
b,v YOUR expenses. We had Circus here last week
\ hich gave two exhibitions, and; 1t Is supposed
sarly fifteen hundred people were present each time.
She yery dav after the Circus left, along came the
Magician. EVERETT and old BILLY CREIGHTON,
Si,h their little Pavilion. And this exhibition too
has crowded for several nights TO overfiowng. We
that at least one hundred whites, besides un
koun,ed darkies, were turned away from the door oil
4 his last show for want of room TO accommodate
4 b.n. The CARycRossEs" were here too some
;m- ago. and they had " tremendous run" OF five
nights. Come along then, we say to every one oi
ron. provided you can give us any thing like de-
Aent entertainment. I" If not, stay away, for we
liave no use for you"
Bye the bye, it is but right that we should speak
but our opinion as to all exhibitions &C., which come
bur way. All the city Editors do it, and just to
4bink that we " had like to- have forgotten 1t! And
1, would be well enough for all showmen, who may
.,,endel to bear in mind that, no matter how much
he puff them beforehand, we always reserve the
High, of lashing them as they deserve afterwards
Well then. MS 10 the Shows above mentioned
4rhe Circus came heralded by flaming Bills that
lowered ten foot square upon wall Besides 1t was
SRonwsoY &; ELpRED's Grand Circus. or course
,hey had. as we said before, crowds to see them But
{he general impression left behiri was truly one ct
GENERAL dissatisfaction. For cwn part we thought
Ii, one of the poorest things Of the kind we ever saw
tI, was fiat in the extreme. 1t is believed that they
made no eIeron, inasmuch as this was little vii
lage. Now our advice To this little village is to pay
Them back wellthe very next time they come around
The animals, however, which they, had along were
worth seeing, and Mrs. RoDINsoH's management OF
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lone night and must say that we We're entertained lar
beyond our expectations EyEnETT's own perlor-
imanccs occur to us Us being about good as MAC
ALLlsrER's. Miss CREIGHTON, although deficient
in voice. makes up for all other defects lin the eyes
of the male sex at eastl by her uncommonly fine
appearance and tasteful dressing. And old BILLY
lCRErGHroN-but We really must give him separate
paragraph.
We remember well how, twenty.three years ago,
our childish fancy was caught by this same little,
old, jolly Comedian. He seemed to then TO be the
iYery impersonaon OF all that was laughable We
have since been possessed with the idea that he
was of the very bes. comic singers in America (;
and attributed it simply to the fact that he was
among the first we had ever seen or heard. Bu;
here We are in 1853. Since old BILLY was last
among us, we have seen and heard thousand pro.
f.ssors Of The art comiquc. The old fellow comes by
once more after long, long interval. We see his
merry face again. precisely as it was when first its
Anzical expression wcaried our youthful lungs. We
hear his pleasant voice-we his grotesque antics
f exactly as they were in the olden time. And the
Fcsul, is that rs TO this old travellers merits, we are
4 of the opinion STILL" Good luck attend ye to
fhe last, BILLY CREIGHToN-if it were only for the
Frightening which your return has impaired to many
links in memorv's Chain. Push along, keep NOV.
ing" j" and may you have the heart to keep up your
svorile old air of " ri al laddy too fa laddy until
$he Fa,cs shall hurry you down below!''
or the CARNcRossEs we have said nothing here
fofore and will say nothing now. "Let them pass"
And let these scraps also puss into the printers
3lrawer.