Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-09-30

LIE LONDON TIMES ON SLAvERY.-On the
lst ult, the following remarks were made i'll the
London Times
The worthy men who extinguished slavery
and ruined our West India possessions are very
tuuclly, very obstinate, very inconvcrth!c on
that tender point. 1t is not our business to deny
them much truth and justice ON their side, TO
stand up for the planters, who took a limo which
rcpellcd all reasonable advocacy. But, conies-
sctlly taking that grand summary view of the
question which We cannot help taking alter
quarter CT century, the process was Il failure;
it destroyed an immense property: ruined thou-
sands ol good families, degraded the negroes
still lower than they were, and, after all IN
creased the mass Of slavery in less scrupulous
hands. After many attempts at Indirect dis
couragement, we have been obliged ut last to
recognise and admit persistent slave owners to
an equal rank in our commerce. Everybody
who comes fresh into the question, uncOmpro-
missed and unbiased, admits the failure, and
asks why we did not attempt gradual or spont;-
neous emancipation, if it was, indeed, utterly
impossible to improve the practice of slavery
into something more like that VIC read OF i'll sa-
cred as well as classical antiquity.
New REASON FOR DAScING.-The Florence
correspondent Of the London Morning Past, tells
this good story:
"Thcre is a story of an Imperial Highncss
watzing thrice in the same evening with an
English lady at the Court of Berlin. She natu-
rally felt, and frankly expressed, herself highly
flattcrcd by the compliment. Il did not intend
it as compliment" was the answer. Then,"
said the lady, somewhat rcbutled, ".your High
ness must be very fond Of dancing" i dctcst
dancing" was the still unsatisfactory response
Cndctcrcd by her i'll success, our fair country
woman still prosecuted her inquiries, What
then, may ask, CAN be your Imperial High
ness motive for dancing?" "Aladam." was the
exalted persunage's reply, 81 dance to perspire'
AsEceEsTRrc FRENCH SccLpToR--M. Pigal,
sculptor of some merit, and one Of the best
known-coilccors of curiositics i'll Paris, has died
at the age Of G7. His death was caused, it is
stated, by the grief he experienced on discover
inr that q specimen of a most valuable medal,
which he had been long seeking for, and had re-
Gently purchased at very high price, was after
all only wcll-cxecutcd imitation of the genu-
inc one. Pigal had reduced economy, or rather
absurd scll-dcnial, to system, to which he all
llcred with collstancy tlrous b life. In his youth
his daily expenditure, apart from rent, was
thrcepcnce halfpcnny per diem, but in later
years he gave way to luxurious ideas, and actu-
ally expended sixpencc daily. All lis money
went in the purchase Of curositics, which, in
the absence OF any heirs, becomes the property
of government pigal restored the Porte st.
Dennis, and executed the bas-rclicfs of the
Madeleine, besides contributing to many other
public buildings.
A SAD AcclDExr.-Mr. John Castor, On en-
ploycr of Dr. j. Togno, on last Saturday, was
found dead. lie had been cutting timber or
Friday upon steep hill side, and was by acci
dent caught and crushed under one OF the piece:
as it rolled down the slope.
An inquest was held ON Saturday. The jury
rendered o virdict that the deceased came tt
his death by mischancc or accident.
vile Banner, 24th inst.