Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-02-18
VOL. xxII.---NO. 8.
DIVERGING EMPIRES.

DIVERGING EMPIRES.
THE SWORD OF PHYSICAL AND MORAL TRIUMPH.
Two classes Of conquerors appear upon the
earth, and from each class we select type to
illustrate the difference which lies between their
practice and achievements. There are soldiers
whose mission seems to be to pull down and
overturn-and such were Alexander and Napo.
leon: there are reformers who, from the ruin of
decaying systems, create and build up new
structures-and to this latter class belong such
men as Luther and Holloway! Let US contrast
Napoleon and HolIoway-two men, alike per-
haps in the normal nature of their genius, and
each aiming ut certain universally of empire
in the professions they respectfully selected.
The empire of the sword which the former
created and for so many years of fuctuating
victory sustained and fostered was, after all, an
idle and a bloody dream. 1t faded in the frost
Of his first reyerses and when he died, lonely
exile on the sea-grt rock, there was no compen-
sating benefit that he could point to for all the
carnage, misery and ruin his personal ambition
cost the world.
Professor Holloway made wiser choice,
although the enemy he grappled with had more
than mortal terrors at command. He levied war
upon disease, and with the self-made weapons
of mis- Universal Remedies has fought and over
come his enemy in every land, on every sea,
among all tribes and na,ionalities of the earth.
1t was stubborn fight and one in which suc-
cess brought no trumphal cries to cheer the
prowess of The conqueror. The silent graft.
tude of rescued sufferer, the still small voice
of an approving conscience the assurance that
his years had been devoted to worthy object,
and the growing respect and admiration of all
whose good opinion deserves to be considered,
these were the only stimulants which prompt
c6 him 10 despise the caumnies Of interested
hate, and persist in the dissemination of that
medicinal empire which he has at length estab-
lished among all the nations and branches of the
human family. And his is an empire that will
last, and reward that shall not pass away. =.
1t would be an insult to the understanding Of
our readers-vsrsed as we must suppose them
to he in mstter of such vital ainterest-to enlarge
upon the different steps of the investigation by
which Professor Holloway succeeded in demon
srating that all maladies took their rise in an
organic impurity of blood. He did discover
it; and by discovering in addition, one single
combination of herbs capable of restoring the
bIoud to purity. arrived at that Universal Rene.
dy which, though dreamed of, and believed in,
and hoped for by The wise men Of all former
ages, had never before been realized in the test
OF universal practice. Great, indeed, is the re-
ward of the learned and indefatigable physician:
the prayers of the millions he has saved accom-
panyng him through life, and the record of their
gratitude will have gone before him when he
is summoned from The scene which bis genius
and philanthropy have so largely contributed to
improve, The reward of practical beneyolence
is an imperishable erewn:---N Y. Sunday Mer.
curry.
The Montgomery Adre,tiser says: 1t was with
infinite regret we heard yesterday of the death
of the Hon. Preston S. Brooks Many years
ago, when both Of US were young, we met him
often at the house of q common relative, in South
Carolina. He had then the careless gaiety of
youth, with the bold, daring spirit which he ha,
since manifested. He was fit to have been one
of Ruperts cavaliers, and would have dashed
against the advancing pixies of the Roundheads
with the same indifference he would have I" thur.
lercd on their rear" He had not only rosolute
courage but intellect. To one of his organiza.
lion, though, life was too full Of enjoyments for
that application to study which, when greater
responsibilities were cast on him, we have been
told lie was devoting himself Had he lived, hs
might have been known for intellectual achieve
ments as we'll as for the incident of year ago
which made him noted. He was fearless,
chivalric man, devoted to the South and her
cause. His death, under present circumstances,
is one which the South may unite with his friends
i'll lamenting.
BRUTAL MURDER OF ASLAvE BY HIS OWNER.
Michael Boylan, German, residing on Lor-
er's Lane, near this city, was arrested yesterday
by Sergeant Wilson and Privates Richardson
and Waller of the Mounted Police, on charge
of whipping his own slave, man named Step
ney, to death. The circumstances of this out
rage as we have learned them, are as follows:
1t appears that the negro had been run away
for some time, and was taken on Tuesday last
and carried to Jail by Constable Jones. lie
was then whipped, and turned over to his mas
ter. Yesterday, Boylan, while under the infu-
encc of liquor, renewed the punishment, and
continued it until the negro sank under the in
Fiction and died. When Sergeant Wilson ar
rived at the spot, the negro was lying on the
ground iielesS, and Boylan by the side of him,
completely stupified by liquor. The latter, to-
gether with his nephew, whose name we did
not learn, was arrested and carried before Jus.
tice Russell, who committed them both to Jail
for further examination. Sergeant Wilson is
of opinion that but for his prompt arrival on
the SPOT, the negro would have been buried and
tie crime concealed, as the conffin was already
prepared and a hole dug to receive it.
We are shocked to record such crime in
our midst, and trust the law will be risidly en-
forced against the offender.-Savannah Repub-
lican, 9th instant.
MONUMENT TO Mr.. TABER.-The amount of
money raised for The purpose of building q
monument to the memory of Mr.. Tabor, has,
we learn, reached one thousand dollars, which
has been contributed by the press of the South,
which is thought to BE- sufficiently encouraging
to Justify the commencement of some initiatOry
measures looking towards the commencement Of
the work. 1t is now proposed 10 locate it at
Magnolia Ccmetarv, and have it of such mate
rial and proportions as to do honor alike to the
living and the dead.-Correspondence York Dis.
trict Chruicle
"WnNr's the matter, Uncle Jerry?" said Mr..
-, as old jeremiah X. was passing BY, Srowl.
ing most ferIciously.
"Matter!' said the old man; "l've been lug
gin water all the mornin' for DR.. C's wife to
wash with, and what d'yo s'pose l got for it ?"
"About ninepence."
"Ninepence She told me that the doctor
would pull tooth for me sometimep'
Gan ILL WIND" &c.-The Boston Herald
mentions as one of the incidents of the late
snow storm that a milkman got blinded with tho
blowing snow, and failing to find the village
pump, drove into town with several cans of pure
milk