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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-17
State of South Crolina, !,
EDGEFIELD DISTRICT,
IN COMMON PLEAS.

Foreign Attachment.
ANON FARROW.
FSlIE Plaintiff in the above stated case, having
u this day filed his Declaration in my Office, and
the Defendant having neither wife nor Attorney
known to reside within the limits Of this State.
on whom copies of said Declaration with rale to
plead can be served. On motion of Messrs Ma
grath & Wright, Plaintiffs Attorneys, ordered,
That sai'l Defendant appear and plead to saaf Be-
elaration within year and day from the date
hereof, Or final aud absolute judgment wilf be-
given against him.
THOMAS 6. BACON, c.c.E.D>
March 3rd, 1852 ~ II
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-17
Tunnel Hill Barbecue.
ORnER nE TIE DAY.

The following programme has been arrang-
ed for the Tunnel Hill Barbecue and Mass
Meeting:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-17

Perry's X Roads, Aug, 4 1859.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-17
Tbe Guardian:s Comments.

The Columbia Guardiaa 81 aston to re'ie"
:" \ Suggestion or Two" ..sth oy 'no az
re.tiscr The Guardian differs with Us toto c@fo'
Tho Guardian says it usks for no slare code' out
is content with the Constitution aud the prea
Scott Decision. Agreed. That is precisely tne
id.n. So let il be. But no,-the Guardian IS not
content to so let it be-" lie goes un to require 4
distinct proclamation from the Democracy OF It's
in sentions to sustain the Rights of the South un-
der said Constitution aud Decision. In o'nef
words, he makes an unnecessary requirement at
the hands of the only Constitutional Party IN Tue
country, the effect Of which (if hceded) would DC
to prevent that party from SO increasing It's ranks
nj the North rs to continue in possession oi Tue
government. Those who think rs we do, are
satisfied with the good faith and fair intentions OF
tLs marty under its present known creed. lhcy
also hold it to be both polite and right to use such
strategy, short of departure from prinoipc' as
will enable our true friends ut the North 10 carry
tie day against their and our common cnemiss'
tie Black Republicans. To do this, no new agita-
ton of the slave question just at this time Is con-
aucreu advisable. Let Dul Tue Deuoei@SJ SA'~-FN'
and all will go well. The republic will suffer no
dstrimeut and Southern tights will continue to DC
| protected by "thc Constitution and the Dreu
s.ott Decision" which the Guardidn admits are
a!l-suAicient. We said, that tho Souths insisting
| noon q slcrc code no,e would "destroy the Demo-
crot;c orrauization." And we believe that eYen
the requirement as explained by the G"ard'aa
would defeat it in the coming Presidential canvass
By giving new ground ofagitation to the hcpunli-
cans. This it is sought to avoid, by those who
| oppose that requirement. It very easy for our
contemporary to say of the Democratic organiza-
ton, "LEr 1T FALL lie should remember that
when it doca fall, the South may for d time inll
with it, and that the great conservative spirit OF
law and order will sink in despair ut the event.
LET IT rAL1,-and the Ship of State is at once
iriven upon tho breakers of dssension and STRIFE
If not into the gulf of revolution itself. we fecali
t, our friend Of the Guardian words he can so
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-17

II has been raining every day for nearly fort
night Tho atmosphere s cool and pleasant
CLAUDE.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.

John T. Trigg, esq, of this city, has ac- cepted the agency of this company and will visit the several counties on the route to obtain subscriptions. He will address the people at the different county seats, on the first day of the terms of the circuit court MT. Irigg's well known energy will insure success if success is possible.
 The necessity for the building of this and other railroads in the State, has been so often demonstrated that it is useless to add any more. Those who are not aroused to sense of the importance of opening the avenues to trade, as the favorite ex- pression is, will never awaken. The time for wind-work-fo talk and Reclamation has gone by, and those who desire road must act. To build any road in Arkan- sas, will require the determined, vigorous and united action of all concerned
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20

~ More space is taken up with the "per diem" question, this week, than we had intended. It is, in some measure, un- avoidable.
 The communication of Mr. Duval as it concerns only the consistency of the parties does not affect the question of per diem and of course is left to be defended by those whom it attacks.
 The former communication of Mir. Du val was placed on the outside of the paper by the workman who made up the form, but attention was called to it in the lead ing columns. We suppose it might have been set up so as to have stretched across the top part of the second page, but unfor- tunately, this was not done.
 It may be proper to say here that evi- dent errors exist in the manuscript sent to us, and especially in the copy of the letter of Mr. Garland, which reads as if some words were omitted or wrong ones substi- tuted Not feeling authorized to make any corrections, we have printed it from the copy as it came to us.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
Protection to the Property of Southerners
 in the Territories

The opposition aver that the claim of the right to protection of slave property in the territories, is in direct violation of the principles laid down in the Cincinnati platform. The doctrine of non-interven- tion by Congress with slavery in the terri tories as there held does not conflict with the power to provide for protection of pro- perty. The fugitive slave law, which was for the direct protection of the property of shareholders, was upheld by those who adopted the platform. While it does not contain single negative of the position taken by the south, it affirmatively says:
 "Every citizen and every section of the country has right to demand and insist upon an equality of rights and privileges, and to complete and ample protection of persons and property from domestic vlo- lence or foreign aggression"
 All that is now asked for is equal rights that the property of one kind shall be equally protected with property of another kind. If this is refused, the south will exhibit that spirit which has already been ennnc;ated in the sentiment of "equal rights in the Union or independence out of it."
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
Mexico and the Isthmus

The news from Mexico is exciting great deal of interest. Juarez is again in the ascendant, and Miramon in the descendant scale. There is report of battle wherein five hundred men were killed on each side. but this is doubted, for the greasers do not fight to that extent.
 The American minister has recognized Juarez as the Governor of the Republic of Mexico. The announcement of this event was received with the greatest enthusiasm by the people. A national salute was fired, the bells were rung, and grand military parade had.
 On the isthmus there are no less stirring times. Affairs there are fast coming to focus. and must be decided for or against us at once. The American Transit Company has been severely dealt with. There is a concentration of force at this point and warm work is expected.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
Pike's Peak

That there is gold at this locality, and that few are making good wages, will be admitted. But it Is too late to go there now. The numbers there and on their way, almost exceed belief Through one little town in Missouri, no less than f 300 persons passed in one week, on the road to the mines. Vehicles of all kinds, from the wheel-barrow and hand-cart to the dearborn and wagon; tools and machinery of every possible description, all are on the way. The accounts from there continue to be very contradictory. It is very proba- ble that gold may be found on that chain of mountains further south, as far as the Spanish Peak. Indeed, there was rumor of gold found near the Sangrede Chrlsto Pass. As disappointed parties to Pike's Peak will scatter and go prospecting, 1t IS likely they will find other diggings as rich as those discovered, for 1t is fair to presume that the gold fields are not confined to a single mountain neighborhood. Should other places be found, it may do for the adventurous to go there, but Pike's Peak is overdone All the gold there dug up and divided out among those persons there and soon to be there, would not be enough to cover the aggregate cost of their getting there.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20

I@ The honorable by courtesy, but by or in nothing else,) editor of the State Rights Democrat, at the close of black guard article, takes occasion to talk of a 'cowhide in connection with the junior edi- tor of this paper and says tha. it is the instrument with which saucy slaves are punished in that region If all who re- fuse to knucEle and truckle to him are to be considered as saucy slaves, he will find Arkansas is full of them. If the junior editor of paper is a slave in his opinion and the cowhide is used in his region. it goes to explain why the State Rights De- mocrat has new editor every new moon. Such miserable trash as his allusions to us. IS not worthy of notice, only to show to the people of Arkansas, how man like the Congressman elect, can descend to the very lowest and most disgusting depths of bragging blackguardism.
 As politician he has shown himself unsound, ungrateful and unreliable As an editor, he has done more to lower the tone of the press and injure the democratic par ty than all the know nothing editors in the State. And it Is to be feared that when he goes to Washington he will disgrace the State that has had the misfortune to elect him, to represent her, in part. He has sense enough to know better and for a course such as he has seen fit to pursue there is-there can be, no excuse.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
The Fort Smith Herald and Col. Duval.


 The Fort Smith Herald and Col. Duval.
 That paper of the 9th inst, dubs us with several new titles. First, we are called a "cur," but in another part of the paper we are told those democratic U. s. Senators who took grounds against the miserable heresy of Senator Douglas, that a territo- rial legislature might refuse to protect slave property and so, by non-action, legislate it out of the territory, were "Hke so many curs upon Hon" Then, if such men as Hunter, Brown, Davis, Mason, Gwin and others are considered as CUTS, 1t may not be term of reproach after all. Next, we are the executioner of Col. Duval It would be an unpleasant task to execute any body, but in this case the criminal saved LIS the labor. The verdict of the coroner's jury is |" Died by his own hands. |"
 Further on, we are called 'an oracular mountebank. This new title does credit to the editors invention. Oracles are gen orally grave and mountebanks generally talk as the editors of the Herald write- But 1t IS a new name, an eXpletive, and as these fellows are trying to see which can make the ugliest face and call the hardest names, let us give them the credit due to their inventive faculties The Herald says that Mr. Duval did not write the articles abusing the legislature of 1856 and demo- crats generally. This denial should have been made before. When supposed credit was to be obtained among certain class, the authorship was claimed for Mr. Duval. Now, when 1t is inconvenient, somebody else is to shoulder the responsibility Last winter, it was understood here that he avowed the authorship. It matters very little, as it was known that he was the head of the concern. We were asked to repub- fish the anti-democratic articles from that paper. Unfortunately we kept no files- We ask one question now to clinch that charge. Do the editors of the Herald indorse the sentiments of their correspon- dent M., whose article under the head of "Douglas" appears in the issue before us?
 We are somewhat ignorant of political astronomy. If we are a cur baying at the moon, pray who is the moon? Who is it, that in the language of Quince "must come in with bunch of thorns and a lan- thorn, and say, he comes to disfgure or to present the person of moon-shine." Sure ly, it cannot be Mr. Duval The moon re- fleets and he has nervous horror of 1e~ factions. When the Herald gets tired of making faces and calling names, we may notice it further
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20

HE SICKLEs TRIA..-The trial of Sick les for the killing of Key had closed at the last accounts from Washington, and the lawyers were arguing the case before the jury By this time, no doubt the verdict of "not guilty" has been render ed We have neither space or inclination to give the testimony produced on the trial, for we do not think much of the taste that leads to perusal of all the details of such affairs. One great crime has avenged ano- ther
 A number of the papers in the south are conforming the practice pursued by the catch-penny papers at the north, of repro ducing every great crime Or tragical event in pictures and wood-cut Illustrations Thus when a murder is committed, we have all the horrid incidents depicted, not onf~ with glowing pens but with the art Of the graver. Minds become familiar with crlpe, the craving for prurient excitement IS pan dered to and the inevitable tendency IS demoralizing one. A love for the terrlbley is aroused, disregard for the common or ordinary; the latent instinct for crime de- veloped, and from spectator the transl- tion to an actor is natural While this IS all true, and while the pictorial repreSentas1 tions of the incidents and surroundings of the Sickles-Key affair have been giveh.to nauseating, 1t may be asked If out ofsth's evil some good may not spring. In these cases of liasons and amours, nothing IS so much dreaded as discovery-nothing so much avoided as notoriety. There is muc& reason to believe that if the intrigue of Key with Mrs. Sickles had been known only to few. that the public killing of Key would have been avoided. As the disgrace was widely known so must the revenge be- Now, when it is known by every libidin- ous woman, that if her intrigues should ever be exposed, she and everything con nected with her would be written about, commented upon, and pictured in ten thou sand ways, to be the wonder and gaze of all classes, if she has particle of shame she will hesitate. And the libertine may we'll count the cost of an exposure. Should he survive the attack of the husband, fath- CT or brother of his victim, yet he has be- fore him a notoriety to which confinement in the penitentiary would be preferable.-- If intrigues will continue with these risks before the parties, knowing that these pie torial panderers to vitiated taste stand ready to bounce upon them and dish them up, they will at least be more carefully con cealed and perhaps some of them checked.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
Cuba,

We put but little faith in the telegraphic dispatches that represent the whole island in state of revolt. It is very question able if majority of the inhabitants are not opposed to us, which opposition arises from that pride the Dons retain when all else is lost, as we'll as from the repugnance with which catholic nation feels towards a union with one it believes to be protes- tant. Some decisive movements have been or will be made there. During the month of March and more recently, expeditions are supposed to have left our shores for Cuba, and it is possible that they may get up revolution.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
A Chanca for Somebody.

Rusticus, of Alabama, advertises in our paper for wife. He is no myth, but has been, for years, subscriber to our paper. He says that he is serious, and we have reason to believe that he wishes to make his future home ill our State. We would not, knowingly, lend our columns to quiz of this kind. but believe that >Rusticus is in sober earnest and wants an Arkansas wife, He shows his good taste by apply ing at the right shop to get pretty one Don't you think so, girls?
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20

'.
 This craft is evidently difficult one to manage It has had so many commanders real and nominal, that we have lost the count. Indeed, no man with any self-re- spect could suffer his name to be used to cover the disgraceful articles that appeared ln that paper or to pursue the low course it has pursued of late The junior editor of this paper, working fairly, openly and un- trammeled, from sincere conviction of light and desire to advance the interests of all, has been sneeringly and indignantly called by Hindman, Danley, Duval & Co.,, a "chatteI' and " hireling," but before he would permit himself to be dictated to by the little giant, to follow him in his tor tuous windings, aiding him in his low tricks and indorsing his dishonorable acts, he would suffer his right arm hewn from his body. In the number before us the mem. Der of Congress elect announces his retire ment. Let us hope for decency's sake, and for the reputation of the press in Arkansas, that this retirement is req and not, as before, a sham. He has shown us to what depths of slang and vulgarity an editor can descend; he has eclipsed Bonnet, and com pared with his sheet, "Ned Buntline's Own' might bear the palm for decency
 A new editor, by the name of R. w. Phipps, is introduced. He tells us that he IS a Mississippian, a state rights democrat and adds:
 "The Democrat, under my control, will cheerfully and cordially yield obedience to democratic usages-support the nominees of the party, and advocate their success with all the ability it may possess"
 If he does this he will do more than his notorious (not illustrious) predecessor has done, for he, not content with abusing and traducing the prominent democrats in this State turned his filthy weapons against some ofthe most distinguished leaders ofthe party and hung the democratic flag at half-mast. A few weeks more as editor and he would have hauled it completely down.
 If the new editor is to be guided and di- rected by the would be autocrat and has particle of honor or manliness his term will be short one. But, if he is left free and will avoid the outrageous and.. d..disgraceful course his predecessor has followed to his ruin, he will, we hope, succeed If he has any discretion, he will see the folly of war ring upon the great mass of the party, and use the paper as means of harmonising and concentrating the democratic party Utterly unknown to us, as we suppose he is, with very few exceptions, to the whole peo- pie of the State, it may not be deemed rude in us to tell him that if he comes to Tabor in good faith for the interests of democracy he will be sustained, but, if brought here to wage war upon democracy and democrats he will find that
 Jordan is hard road to travel"
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
' Jordan is hard road to travel.
Aheni

Colonel and Honorable Thomas c. Hind- man, esq, in the last State Rights Demo- crat, says:
 The senior editor of this paper will canvass the county of Phillips with any of them, from Senators down, pledging him. self to resign his seat in Congress if a ma iority of the democrats censure his course; conditioned that Sebastian will resign if the result is not according to the True De- mocrat's statement.
 This is fair proposition. Dare the True Democrat accept it? And when?''
 Whenever he does so he will find that the people of Phillips county will spew him out their mouths. But the proposition is a humbug and he knew it when he made 1t. He knows that we could make no con- dition concerning the resignation of Sena- tor Sebastian. Besides the odds are too great. What becomes of him is matter of little moment, but Senator Sebastian has been elected for eight years, and the people expect him to serve them. Hind mans can be imported should they be needed, but men like Senator Sebastian, who have grown up with the State, been identified with her interests for years and served her in various capacities, are not to be pitted against every political adventu- Ter who may come along. If John c. o. Smith will accept the offer we will enter him and bet heavy odds on John.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
G9- The card of Dr. Hammond, den,

GS- The card of Dr. Hammond, denv- ing that there were any cases of small pox at Hot Springs, in this State, in the form of letter to us, was copied from the Ga- zette of this city, wherein it originally ap- peared and published in our last issue.- Appended to 1t was notice to the Mem phis, Vicksburg, and New Orleans papers to copy it, and send the bills to Stidham and Aiken, at Hot Springs. Dr. Ham, mond wires to us that this notice was un- authorized by him, and if the papers of those cities have not copied the article as an advertisement, they are now requested not to do so.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20

~ Goggin, the opposition candidate for Governor in Virginia, growing tired of the drubbings he received in the contest, has made appointments to speak in certain counties of the State where he knows Mir. Letcher cannot meet him and fill other ap- pointments. Goggin is heartily sick of discussion.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
Two Steamers Sunk.

The steamer Arkansas, one of the mail packets, was sunk about thirty miles below this point on her downward trip last week. The boat is total loss, and we learn that the insurance upon her had run out we re- gret this, because Captain Haines, her com mander, is amongst one of our best river captains and citizens.
 The steamer Resolute, regular packet from Cincinnati to Fort Smith, was sunk five miles below the latter place last week on her downward trip. No lives were lost, or freight injured. The Resolute was a large boat, valued at twenty thousand dol lars, with an insurance of twelve thousand. The machinery and boilers are taken out and the wreck abandoned as utterly worth less.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
"Shake not thy gory locks at me, Thou canst not say l did it.''

R Major Joseph L. Gregg, chief er- gineer of the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central railroad, was shot on the 18th ult., at Jacksonville, Fla, by Alfred Sears.- The deceased was known to many of our citizens.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20

The lower house of the General Assem- ply of Ohio has passed bill which au.noI- izes the judges of any election m the s. S',''e to reject the vote of any person who .l.s distinct and visible admixture oi Ailiosn blood. The vote, which was a s,rlc'iy party one, was 59 yeas to 50 nays. livery democrat in the House voted TOT It, ana every republican against It.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20

Eg The United States District Court is now in session, Judge Daniels presiding. Several important cases are before it.
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
overlooked.

RIVER, ETC-About seven feet water in the channel and falling. There has been a rise of about eight feet since our last re- mort
Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-04-20
The Helena State Rights Democrat

tTy- Dr. Peter Brugman is our general agent for the State to make collections, and obtain new bus ness and subscriptions for this paner