Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-11-30
VOLUME xxIY.---No. AZ.
From the Richmo ond Dispatch.
The Alarm of Saturday Night.

Tie telcgraphic messages from Char!eS-
town, received by the Executive on Satud day
night, were such that it was deemed proper
to sound the alarm previously agreed upon as
the signal for the immediate rendezvous OF
the volunteers Of thls city at the Richmond,
fredericksburg and Putonac rail road depot,
to take their departure for Charlestown. Tho
bell gave its warning. ahout seven o'clock
after the departure uf the mail train for the
North. The whole force-amounting to about
six hundred men-plomptly assembled, fully
aroused, and took thcir departure by the cars
ut ten minutes be.orc ten o'clock. This was,
indeed, prompt movement. Governor Wlso
accompanied the military, and is determined
himself to look into the condition OF affairs
about Charlc,town.
Yesterday morning, three volunteer COM
pauies from Petersburg passed through thus
city On the regular mail tsain, en- route for
| Charle,town.
We have not tue messages received by the
Governor; but 1t is understood that they re-
ported bodies Of men proct eding towards
Charlestown for tue purpose oi rescuing john
Brown. The numbers were variously re-
ported. One report was, that they were
marching from Wheeling; another, that they
were lcnr Cliarleetuwn. Both reports were
irnprubaLe-very hut Gov. Wise had pre-
viousy received undOuLtcd information OF
the organizing ul body ut men in Pennsyl.
vania, under oath tu reecue Brown; and that
with other communications in his possession,
led him to act promptly upon the receipt OF
tao tclegrupLic messages. And though these
messages are not borne out by the intelli-
gence received yesterday there is enough in
what is true aud palpahle--in the well au-
thrnticatrd preparation i'll at least one neigh
buring State, and in the destruction OF pro.
perty in tue vicinity Of Clarlcstown-to JUS
tity active measures and tho presence OF
strong force there.
Great ss was the excitement ainoI.s the
people Of this city, on Saturday night, there
wss nevertheless, plainly IN 10 read III their
face, the re,ulnte determination Of their souls.
The outragcs Committed upon our ctizena;
the absence If all expression nf sympathy
with uA and Of condemnation Of the outlaws
by northern conversation; the strong and
universal ou,pourins Of sympathy for Brown
and his followers a,inns the Black Republi.
can, and AbulitioniSts; their determination
10 make hero and martyr Of him, and the
ianatical Trades Of pulpit and pres at the
North, have worn Uut tie patience OF the
southern mind, and almost ey,inguisked III
it all hope of anything generous or just from
that quarter Of the Union. To disappint-
ment, amxzcnent and modification at tue
course OF our northern fellow citizens, has
succeeded readiness for an emergency: We
shall no longer be surprised at anything, but
We shall be ready for ever. thing. This
was apparent in the multitudes in this city
Saturday-it is the expression Of the public
sentiment in all quarters Of Virginia and the
South.
The extravagant rumors which are set
aaoat are suggested by the course OF north.
ern people, and their; sympathtss With the
outlaws who have murdered our citizens.
They haze one good effect-tley at least
show with what readiness our people respond
to the calls of our. constituted authorities in
the hour of danger. 1t is lor the North to
consider seriously how far a State Of this
Union is 10 be disturbed, and the lives Of its
people threatened by the sche.nes and mad
appeals of people in. their midst. 1t is for
the North to consider nov how much the
Union is worth, and whether it cum Continue
in the face Of these outrageS. The sobcrest
and most conservative citizens of Virginia
have come TO regard it Of nu valuo ut all, if
these things are to continue. Let the north
ern conservatives show their hands. They
have bren talked of long enough. 1t is time
they had done something to prove their 10y
atty to the Union.