Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-05-26
FROM THE KoUHrAHs,'

New Market Abbevills Dist, May 13, 1858.
PROM THE KoUHTAINs.
P1cKESs DIsrRIcr, S. c., Nay, 2I 1858.
Nix. EDIToR:-I feel grateful for the very cordial
manner, in which you have been pleased to call on
me for q letter. Would that could make response,
in some degree, suitable and entertaining But at
this jancture, have no interesting items to commu-
nioate, and what is most fortunate for the patience
of your readers lack the leisure requisite for the
writing Of studied composition. You havebeen 10
well supplied Of late, with original matter, both lite.
rary and epistolary the most of which Is very good,
especially a. T. Bs" lettors that Il seemed uselss,
for me to "pteh in," until something roaly impOr-
tant and stirring should como to pass within tho
range of my observation.
"The highland laddis," am happy to inform
yon, "yet lives to the things of sarth"-stu trsads
his native hills and breathes his native air. Nor IL
it in his ro or his pldss TO forget the land Of wav
ing pines, and Of snowy cotton fields. Indeed 80
dear to his heart is every portion of The Palmstto
State from tho lowest cypress swamp up to the loass
mountain summit-tst no Fl Dorado Of the Wost
could ever onticc him away from South Carolina.
Having In great measure lost his taste for poetry.
tho "addie aiorO. has ceased TO believe In
"ymrA and all other imaginary beings belonging to
the old hesthen mythology. It was, perhaps, we'll
enough for the Greeks and Romans to amuse them.
selves BY peopling meadow, and grove and mountain
and bosky dingle With goddeses and sylvan deities
but the American must think and act negotiate and
,rork out bis manifest destiny"
Peter Pilgarlic, formerly Of Piekens District was
queer specimen Of humanity. When Peter had
seen about winters enough, but with hardly sense
enough, to mako titles to land, be concluded one day
in the absence Of his mother to have little extra
fun. seising an Over-grown grimslkn by. the paps
of the neck, ho shut her up in an oSsn arou. which
he kinded . blazing hro. Pus,ys aise lirss were
soon exnguished in this heated and psntup furnace
His mother having returned, Peter met her at the
door and said, with an air which was innocence itself
Nam, 0 i! Haa, come and see the old cat in The
height Of her glory" Leading tie way, he uneorsrs
the oven and sure enough there was the cat grinnpg
horribly, and burnt to cilder.: Bpt Peters plan
for killing tho black snake was his mss,er-stroke.
One bright morning in May, ho ssx serpent glide
beneath his fathers barn. Destruction BY FIRE is
vowed against his snake-ehp,-and so seeloe mosiAs
Gftert0ards to day, Peter sticks chunk of fire To
the barn, and as matter Of course, thero followed
considerable conhaSration. But what became Of the
big black snake, this deponsnt saith not Peter Pill
garlic wssan oddly, and bsringthe name, . reality!
Mefsrs. Ashmore, Jones md Vernon are now
fairly launched ont upon the sea of politics, snd
are gettingon swimmingly, believe, in the "Con-
grcssional race" Each one, from what can learn,
seems to be buoyant with the hope of coming out
ahead Of his competitors at the next October election
With rsspeotto Federal politics. there seems to bo
great similarity Of sentiment as we'll anon the peo.
pie as among tho capdidstOs. No excitement can
spring from such contest and the issue IL altogether
uncertain, and rosts upon grounds entirely personal
and local.
understand that the work on the Blue Ridge Rail.
road is progressing this season much more rapidly
than it did Inst year. Hunter, Hitchcock Co., the
present contractors at the Stump House Tunnel arc
gentlemen of character, energy and experience in
their business It may be said without any great s1
agseration thut like POmpoy Of the odon time, they
seem to call a host Of men around them by stamp
Of the foot! They had short time since Eve hur.
dred and six hands employod,-quite battalion of
laborers. Messrs. Hunter, Hitchcock / Co., have
also undertaken the tunnel at Dicks Greek. and no
ono seems to doubt their determination and ability
to complete both that and tho "big tunnel" in due
season. So mote It be.
South Western Pickens, it is supposed, will be tap.
ped by the Air Line Railroad which is To be built
from Atlanta Ca, to Anderson South Carolina. Thii
now enterprise seems to have no little vitality about
1.-THE Georgians arc at the head Of it. and they
know how to make the &ball-gipp" tlayel. Of ths
msttor, more anon.
Tho Wheat crop was somewhat injured by the late
frosts but to what extent no one can tell perhaps,
till after harvest. jack Frost loft fruit enough,
think, for all edible purposes, but not enough it is to
DO hoped, for the manufacture of
Brandy, brandy,-bane of life,
Cause of tumult, cause of strife"
1t has beon rather sickly with US this Spring, and
few deaths have occurred 1.-The dissase was sosrena
Or something like it. But now rosy health, am glad
% state, is again in the ascendant
Hero am at the end of my paper with nothing
more to say probably until next month.
4eeE. y sIig: E:K:
Gs- There is strong latent feeling In Washing
on against the recent outragss on our commerce by
he English cruisers in tho Gulf
~ The Charleston Eeessng Ney., speaking of
ho Senatorial election, indicates the following - th,
rominent names from whom the selection will proba.
ly be made: Ex-Gov. Adams, Hon. R. B. 'Rhett,
chancellor nslsau, Col. James ehpsnut Or . mem,
or of Congress.
ESa The Charleston Standard, Of Thursday, says,
Ye saw on Monday, three vel. oars Of Mutton
orn, from one Of the private gardens Of thi, city.
D the same garden ore ripe tomatoes, and okra In
lOssOu. Also, HOvsys Seeding Strawberries, four
,ches in circumference.
S Tha ship Speed, from Mobile for Quebec, was
recked on the 18th inst; about forty miles East of
Halifax. The Crew and cargo were saved.
n n n m 2 2 HYArT