Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-09-26
o,rR .cR1cr,.ruRAL DEPARTMENT..

OUR AGRICULTURAL NEFAfIuENE.
: IT will be seen that Messrs. COULTER and SCOOTER
are to be limited for while to monthly appearance
before the public. This is because are compelled
to accommodate our advertising patrons and will need
during the winter two entire pages for that purpose
The agricultural interests shall in the mean time have
three columns month and as soon as the business
season is over, hope to return to three columns
week. We beleive OUT agricultural readers will
cheerfnlly admit that COULTER and SCOOTER have
done admirably, the business Of writing and catering
for their benefit. We have heard but one man sneer
at their efforts and his opinion is Of consequence
In the course of months, reader, have
been favored, through this channel with nearly ninety
columns of welldigested and weseected agricultur.
al reading: If they have paid proper attention to it,
they are unquestonably benefited. If not, the fault
is their own We hope TO keep this department of our
paper up next year it has been the present; and
have only regret that We forced by circumsIan
ces to suspend it, in part for the next three or four
months.
DIR GIBBES AND THE COLUMBIA AUTHOR.
ITIES.
Dr. GIBBEs, the editor of the Cdrolintan, wanted
TO attend the meetings Of the City Council Of ColuR
ba for the purpose of reporting ihor proceeding. in
his paper The Mayor signfed to the Doctor that hs
should do no such thing. So the Doctor determined
to test the matter. And sure enough, he walked into
the council chamber one day with this purpose in his
head. The Mayor forthwith propounded several ques
ons, 10 which the Doctor gave satisfactory reply
The consequence was, marshal of the city was COM
manded by the Mayor to put the Doctor out of tho
room And we are told that this officer did then and
there ncontnenlly shove the Doctor across tie foo:
and out of the door. So when the door was slammed
to, the council was on one side of it and the Doctor
on the other.
Well, what then
The Doctor had in the mean time addressed cir.
cular 10 nearly all the Mayors in the land from Fer
nando Wood down, asking 10. know their practise in
such matters. These responses are brought out in
heightened order and in successive numbers OF the
Carolinian, all Of them going to show that the Coum-
bia Mayor more than half wrong in that peremp'
tory mandate of his which caused the marshal to lay
forcible hands upon tie Doctors person.
And is this the end oft!
No, indeed. The Doctor is not disposed to do
with the most remote idea of stopping ut this point.
The whole business is be carried before the Court
for investigation and decision. We do not know that
Just such case has ever been adjudicated So that
the occasion will perhaps afford the Honors the op-
portunity of establishing precedent, which shall
guide all f+ure Mayors tof the city Of Columbia at
leas in this thing of eecting editors from the council
hall OF their Corporation.
And what do people say about it!
Well, some are Of opinion that Mayor ARTHUR an
his Board of Aldermen were disposed to domlneer over
the Docor while others say that the Doctor kicked upa
fuss rather unnecessarily. For own part, we have
not thought moment upon the subject. We incline
however to the opinion that the Doctor ought to have
been permitted take his notes of Council Proceedings
without let or hindrance. It would have been MOTH
ing more than courtesy to have furnished him
table and chair for that purpose. In two or three
weeks he would very probably have tired of the under.
taking and left the common Council alone again in
their glory. AS it is, one has run the hazard Of
the Laws condemnation.