Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-02-08

wesry conflict. with his armof on.
Let not our glorious Southern cross" fade
from out the sky, and We raise no memorial to
tell Of the departed glory, that. resplended in
beauty, tracked our irmament with gGca lus-
trous light.
Let the woman Of Carolina rally. in this cause,
snG, certsin of success, we shall sce, cleaning in
beauty, the memorial stone of apeople's graft
tude.
Standing still and calm in marble majesty, it
will yet speak cloquenly ofa peoples love, and
the mothers of Carolina, gathering ut its base,
and, proudly pointing their sons to the hon'rcd
name of Calhoun, shall bid them learn = lesson
of Truth, Justice, aud Virtue-Evening News.
TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF FRENCE'S BALL CART
RIDGE FACTORY.
About two o'clock Yesterday afternoon the
building occupied rs factory for the making of
ball cartridges ut Lowe Rayenswood, Long Is
land blew up with an explosion that shook tho
houses in the neighborhood for two miles around.
and breaking the windows of all those buildings
which were within six hundred reight hundred
feet Of the place. II was rented by Mr. French.
who together with his son, are generally enSagg-
ed in the building, but being at the moment
otherwise occupied, happily escaped serious in
jury, though Mr.French sen. is suffering severe
w from contuSions.
The number Of persons employed is general
" about thirty, being for the most part girls OF
the ages of ten to eighteen; but some men and
Youths also fnd work in the factory. The ex-
act number of lives lost is now not known, for,
being the afternoon of Saturday, greater or
less number than usual might have been there,
according to circumstances.
Our reporter was on the spot half IN hour af-
ter il occurred, and the sight Of such slckening
scene he hopes to be spared again. The site OF
the building aud the surrounding lots were COW
cred with the Debris Of the building, human limbs,
and fragments of machinery. We saw man
draw from the mass the head Of little girl
which he knew was that of his daughter by a
bit of ribbon fastened to her hair; but any other
portion of the body he would never find, or it
he found it he would never be able to say it
was the body of HI, Child. :,
The precise cause of the explosion no one re-
mains % explain. Ii is known, however, that
the stove used for warming the building was
red hot, the day being very cold; and from the
highly eombustbe materials which were used
in close proximity to it may readily be accoun-
ted for by supposing some particle ignited on
the floor, aud communicating with the articles
in various stages of preparation caused the ex-
plosion.
The shock occasioned by the explosion was trc-
mendous. and was sensibly felt 1T distance of
six or eight miles; and during Yesterday after
noon repor, was current in Williamsburg and
Brooklyn that IN earthquake had taken place
somewhere upon the island.
Il is supposed that there was about twenty
persons in the building, and but three were
known to have been taken out alive.
The people of the village censure Dir. French
severely for not employing greater degree of
caution in his dangerous manufactory, and es-
peciaIly for not appointinga judicons and eSpc-
nenced superintendent over his juvenile work:
men. many of whom were of tender years, some
Of them being under twelve, and only two or
three adults among them, if we are rightly in.
formed Several of the Irish resident of The
plate became, shortly, after the occurance, quite
riotous on the subject, and one WAS heard to
threaten to "string up" Mr.. F. Perhaps, in con-
sequence Of these threats, that gentleman, with
his family, have left the place temporarily.
HON. L. H. KEITT.
The following from the correspondent OF the
Charleston Standard contains an account Of the
Speech lately made in Congress by the Hon.
Laurence NJ. Keitt:
Mr. Kcitt made powerful speech in the
House yesterday, advocating the imposition r"f
tonnage dH;ies as the best meaus to Secure econ
omy in laying taxes. His arguments were clear,
full, and unanswerable, and were received with
marked attention by the House, and warmly ap-
plauded By the galleries.
Mr.. Keit, said that South Carolina was re-
publican and would support any administration,
in the attempt to bring back the Federal Gov
ernmcnt 10 It's primitive republican simplicity.
South Carolina had never stopped from her high
snd sovereign position TO minsle in the strife of
party, and 10 gamble away her rights for pelf
and patronage; nor would her delegation bind
her 10 the car of party. She staTds upon tho
old republican platform, which was wide enough
for all to stand upon, too narrow TO sh1Jfe on.
She was always first in the field of battle, when
called upon, and if again demanded, TO send her
sons forth to battle, she would do so right mer-
rily, and would uphold our flag and ask no share
of the spoiis.
He would not discuss The slavery question for
that institution was founded in the immuabc
law of God-that it was q great national neces-
sity-and was, as the South believed, the corner
stone of society. That class is an enduring, not
a conquering one, and hence, the annals of that
section are not stained with BLOOD nor its histo-
~ marked by popular violence
Mr.. Keitt showed the present canting, hypo-
critical abolonists, in their true light and strip
Sed from their persons all their garments of pre-
tended philanthropy, and painted the character
of the political demagogue in vivid and glarlng
colors.
He did not ask for territory-he did not ask
for Cuba war, but, under two contingencies, he
would seize it and hold it, ut all hazards. The
first was, in case of European intervention in the
affairs of the island, and the second was, if Spain
attempted 10 emancipate The slares.
REPEAL OF THE Missouri CoNPRosslsE.-: he
Bnghampton Democrat, Pnpcr published in the
immediate neighborhood Of Governor Dickinson,
and which enjoys his peculiar confidence, comes
out distinctly and unequivoeally in favor of re-
pealing all the anti-slavery restrictions of the
Missouri compromise, so far rs the territory of
Nebraska is concerned, and of leaving it to the
people of that territory to admit Or exclude
slavery, as they deem fit, when they come to
form State constitution.
DR.. Adam Clarke badI perfect aBhoranee of
both pork land tobacco. HI: is, n'por'ed to have
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