Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-07-18

for Sheriff in Charleston was quite an excltlng
affairs. COL John E. Carew has been elected
over his opponent, C. E. KanapauI, by nearly
900 majority. The vote was the largest ever
polled in the city.
The election of COL Carew is claimed as a
Know Nothing triumph; but the remarks of the
city papers do not justify this assumption. The
Mercury says:
awe share in the qualification at the result.
Although The issue of Know Nothingism was
made among certain classes of our citizens, yet
it never took the form of distinct and general
issue in the community, and thus Col. Carew
was warmly supported by very many who werc
able to crafty their preferences and friendships
for the man, without any sacrifice of political
principle" "
The Standard is more particular, and thus
comments on the results.
"The political force Of this resnlt will hardly
be estimated properly. 1t will doubtless DO re-
garded rs triumph of tho American order; but
i! would be hardly safe. to say that they alone
had carried the election. There were nearly
1000 more votes cast for Carew than is claimed
by that party. But it may be taken as an eyi-
dcnce of the fact, that with the Know Nothings
on one side, and the foreign vote upon the other
the conservative vote of the city is mt present
with the litter; and to this extent, At Least, it
may be taken as test Of the American senti-
ment of the district"
We also subjoin the comments of the organ
of the party, the Erening Neps:
We do not claim the triumph Of Col. Carew
to be strictly Know Nothing victory-a triumph
of the Order proper. But we do claim that it is
triumph of the American party, of.American
principles, of American order. There was an
open and direct issue made against Col. Carew
on these points, by combination Of the foreign
and Catholic vote, aided by many others who
oppose the Know Nothings."
A LARGE BEEr.-We acknowledged last
week the receipt from Mr. McMaster of very
large beet. MIR. w.. S. Rabb has brought US
one weighing nine pounds and measuring TWEEN.
ty.four in circumference--thi beats Mr. McMas-
ter's two pounds and n half in weight and three
inches in circumference Gentlemen fix up
your Agricultural Association, give big State
fair, and see how Fairfield horticulture will t:!ke
your premiums.-Register.
CABBAe E WITH CoR..-AIr Brooks, of Prince.
ton, Massachusetts, at the last Legislature Agri-
cultural Meeting in Boston, alluded to the prac-
tice of planting cabbages among. Indian CON.
He knew an instance where cabbages Were
planted in alternate rows with corn, and the
cabbages sold fol- $3.50 per acre.
THE REDAH AND THE MALAKoFF.-These
now famous towers, that may be said to guard
the gates of Sebastopol, are already celebrated
for deeds of vulor, on the part both OF besleged,
that almost rival those which old Homer tells
of, before the walls of Troy, thousands of
long years since. -.
The first of these towers, the Redan, is
huge semi.circular earth-work, forming, in fact,
part of the main Notifications on the land side
of the city just outside the walls. 1t was orig
inally of stone, but since the investment of tho
city by the French and English, immense EARTH
works have been added 10 it.
The Malakoff Tower is next north and east
of the Rcdan; between them are tho Ochakoe
ravine and earth.works. The Malakof stands
upon low ground, near the head of Careenlns
Bay, but on the southern and western side. The
Mamelon stands 400 yards in front of: it, in
more commanding position; and when it waS
taken by the French, the Russians hauled their
ships GU: of the bay, rs they were exposed 70
the guns of the Mamelon in the hands OF The
French. These three works were in fact all
outworks, and have been thrown up since the
commencement of the siege, almost in the
presence of The French and English, but still
they NAV be considered as forming part of
The main defence of the city; whilst tho Name
Ion, although important from its commanding
position, was nevertheless a detached work,
separate and distinct from the Russian main
line of defence.
1t il noteworthy fact, that the. unsuccessful
assault on the part of the allies was made on
the 18th of June, the anniversary of the Battle
of Waterloo. Possibly the purpose was to
cement still closer the union of England and
France, by sinking the memories of that memo
rable day in the storming and reduction of
Sebastopol. A happy thought perhaps-but
terminating in a melancholy disappointment.
New York Express.
"samBo, went a cunning t'oder day.,
seed four coons, and shot the biggest one out
OBJ de lot. How many was dere left?' '':'
IVY, dree, OBJ course" =,
"No, Pomp-dare was only one left"
allows dat, Sambo?"
aKaze, after shot him, de rest all rund away.
Yah! YAH" !.
SHOW, Sambo, as you bc so berry clebber,
can you tell me which side oh dat coon had do
most hair on't?" 3>.:S .lrf -,
"No, Pomp, can't tell dat, nor you neder." ;.
"But can though. Wy, don't yousec, F
was de outside, you tam black nigger, you!
Yah yah! yah%s = ---,:'.s.l - Z -
. 1t is an interesting fact that the very htst use
to which the discovery Of the aH OF printing
,yas abplied. was the production Of Che bible, at
Mentx. between tho years 1850 and .l456.-
Gottenburg was The inventor Of the art and
Faust, q gqldsmih, fnraishod. the necessary