Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-12-26
COMPLIMENT TO MR.. TILLNAN.

Hon. B. F. PERRY, Editor of tile Patriot q.
Mountaineer, writing home from Columbia to his
paper on The Electoral Bill, says:
"Col. Tillman, Of Edgefed made speech,
which, electrified the House, and when publish
ed will tell on The politics of tie Sate. He
replied to some of the speakers who had precc-
ded him, gave his views generally on the proprie-
ty of giving the election of Presidential Elce-
tors to the people, and then pitched into The
parishes, horse, foot and dragoons In his speech,
he embodied a great deal of statistics in refer.
ence to the wealth, power and influence Of the
different divisions of the State The Colonel
said so many good things in communicating his
information and in the argument ofthe question,
that he kept the members in bursts of laughter.
His speech, when reported, shall be published in
the Patriot and the friends of popular rights, OF
progress and reform, of truth and Justice, NAV
expect a rich treat. He concluded by saving
thut in State politics he was married to the
member from Greenvile, henceforth and forever,
but in Federal politics he differed from him
widely. / came very near rising in my seat and
saying that good wife should give her whole
heart with her marriage VOW, and that did not
like divided love. Some one asked what was
likely to be tbs fruits Of this marriage? hope
an equal distribution Of political power in South
Carolina, and an extension of popular rights
and republican principles:
The MOUNTAIN OF GolD-The Sacramento
Union has been informed by gentleman, who
has just arrived at Sacramento from the new
diggins in Table Mountain, that the excitement
among all classes relative'to the richness of the
auriferous deposites therein buried is iutinse, and
increasing.
The mountain, which is seven miles in length,
has all been staked off, but many have exceeded
in extent the legal limits, and it is supposed that
they will be forced to yield the overpius terrific
ry to Others Some of the shafts are sunken to
the depth Of eighty feet, at about which point Is
bel: of black mud sixty feet in width, and
from eighteen to twenty feet in depth. In this
are contained those fabulous amounts of gold,
which far surpass in richness the depositc dis.
covered at the outbreak of the California fever.
This layer Of mud is filled with sticks and other
foreign substances, and has every appearance of
having once been the bed of stream.
KAssAs.-Capt Alaster Nelson, we'll known
in Georgia as an active and energetic man, has
taken his departure for Kansas. We hear of u
good many others who design settling in the
Territory. Captain Charles A. Hamilton, o.
Cass, offers TO raise and equip one hundred CPL
grants, carry them to Kansas and keep ttem
until the question of slavery is settled, prFided
he is furnished with funds to the arrunt of
$25,000. This certainly is reasonaFe prcpo-
sition, and the enterprise could no''be under
the leadership of n better man dan Captain
Hamilton.
A smart lad recently atteded church, and
after listening to the paraR OF the wise and
foolish builders, said to himother, on the way
all" "Wby not, nv, arr why, fhis house
was built on rock zhere could he find place
for a cellar?" =, ,.a.,-,.,.,
A CAL,roRr FAT GIRI.-A gentleman IN.
forms the s, Imento Tribune that there resides
within f.! miles of that city n gir, only Dix.
teen veor3f age, who weighs four hundred and
fifteen ;;dnds, AND is Increasing in flesh at tho
r,tc.'tt ra,c tthrce. pounds per week. - VIZ