Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-02-24

performed his duty It remains for the South to per-
form her part. If Kansas is subjected to the ndig-
nifty of the inquiries got on foot by the House of
Reprcsentatives-"lct the Union slide" It is not
offered to her-he outrage upon the constitution and
the equality of tho Southern Stacs."
Tho Spartanis evidently dissatisfied with Mr. EEIr7s
course in the late Congressional fight We think lie
scarcely makes sufficient allowance for the exciting
nature of tho occasion on which that fight occurred.
7. Tho Patriot d. Jfomntaineer speaks leploringly
of the late sect and its destructive influences. 1t
| must have boon terrible. See whnt is aad of it:
Few of US slept unbrokon sumbers on Friday
night. The sound us Of ratlng muSkctry and the
distant booming of cannon, as limb after limb parted
from its pnront stem and struck the ground. indicated
uumistuby the work Uf destruction that was going
on without. The damage that has accrued cannot,
of course be reckoncd in dollars and eents-it s i'll
cacuable; and it will require the taste and labor Of
many years to obliterate the injury that has been
sustained in the few days just passed by"
s. The Camden Weekly Journal, like the Cheraw
Gazette, tells of wild pigeons, and perpetrates this
joke about tho matter:
owe wonder if they are included in the general
category of those BIRDS which choose mates at this
season. If so We hardly think the boys about here
would give them much time for choosing mates, and
if done at all, it must be on the ,ring."
The Journal then, among other things, sets the
Carolinian right us to Bishop BAscoNp's death,
which latter paper ustnow notices. but which
occurred gears ago. We copied tho paragraph
from the Caronan, and hereby lay our fuult at Its
door. Tho truth is, nrc so much in the habit OF
clipping confidently from its columns that we doubt
not our boys would readily set up the intelligence
that the Dutch hud taken Holland" if that state
| irol1y in Its
But so long rs have watchfu monitor like tho
Journal to keep us corrected all will come right in
the end.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF AN ACTOR"
Under this caption, an English journal chuckles
delichtcdly over an incident which we do not remem-
Der to have seen before. Lest some of our friends like
us, may have missed its first appearance, we now re-
produce the thing for the benefit of their risoie mus
cles 1t is entirely too good to be allowed to escape
the ken of the Adrertiser's readers Says the Eng.
lish paper:
Tho Boston Post, one Of the American journals &C.
| customcd to eulogse Mr.. Edwin Forrest tragediah
who made q remarkable failure in the English me-
tropols fow years ago, says:-"On his Deneht-night
n tremendous thunderstorm came on lnsteaa oi
going on or dropping the curtain, Mr.. Forrest calmly
folded his arms, retired step or two, anu became a.
fixed as n poce of marble. He remained so until the
storm abuted 1t WAS graceful acknowledgement OF
u superior power" Commenting on this ABSURD para-
graph, the Albany knickerbocker observes that inc
"superiOr power must doubtless have becn gratihed
Mt this "graceful acknowledgement the part OF Mr..
Edwin Forrest; and adds:-We recall somewhat
similnr incident An English Judge, in sentencing
man to DEATH said you will now have the satlsuc-
ton of having your transferred to the tribunal o1
higher and, let Inc add, an abler judge"