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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1860-02-22
From the Charleston Courier.
Southern Patronage. to Southern I'M
ports and Domestic Industry.
No. ~:


The failure of the Augusta Cotton Mills
has done more to put back the progress Of
manufacturing at the South, than any failure
that has taken place, and. the success Of
Graniteville has been q beacon light which
has kept confidence somewhat alive in that
most needed and simplest Of oil branches Of
manufacturing. With the Augusta Company
some twenty-five or thirty cotton manufac-
turing establishments in the South went
down, and others have dragged outa sickly
existence from the same cause-want Of home
patronage.
From the same cause the various attempts
to make buckets and tubs, in different parts
of the South failed. They were far better
buckets than those made at tho North, but:
our merchants would not purchase them.
twenty-five cents in the price of dozen
buckets would tempt the country merchant
to buy Yankee article instcaa of the home
made, which would give twice the satisfaction:
to the consumer, but would not pay 80 good
profit to the vendcr;. and here lies the
grand secret why home patronage is not lib
orally extended to the encouragement and
protection Of Southern enterprise and home
industry, IF which We will treat more fully
as We progress with the subject. There was
quite spirit abroad sunse years ag" for
raising broum corn mad manufacturing broms.
and that business llns failed and been alan
doned from the san canse. Chair making
is another branch Of manufacturing that ough,
to have succeeded ut the South; but that
shared the fate Of other enterprises from the
same causes.
Paper making is another and very impor-
tant branch of business to the South, and
that has suffered seriously from the want of
Southern patronage. Even our newspapers
were not until recently printed on Southern
paper and :. ,.;....
ticle. One
in New Orl
.itntnns,
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A"FoNr" OIL TYpE.-As scrap Of infor-
nation we give the proportions in which the
different letters are cast to font of type, and
in which they occur in print: Letter e, 1900;
t, 900; q, $50; II, o, o, i, 800; b, GAO; T,
62O; d, 44o ; n, $40; c, IN, 300; f, ESQ; ~
200; 6, p, 10; b, l6O; v, lao; k, 80; g,
so; j, x 40; 2, 90. Besides these are the
com ined letters, Il, so; fl, 40; fl, 20; fl,
Is; fl, 10; &c, 10; e, 5. The proportion of
the different letters Of capitals differs very
materially from that of the small letters, the
letter being usod most frequently, then L,
then A and E, &c.
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despatched their victims, the cries for mercy,
the pleading of innocence for pity. might
paint this all again in the terrible colors Of
the vivid reality, if I thought your courage
needed such wild excitement
But know you are strong in the might of
the Lord. You will 60 forth to battle on the
morrow with light hearts and determined
spirits, though the solemn duty-the duty of
avenging the dead--may rest heavy on your
souls.
And in the hour of battle, when all around
is darkness, lit by the lurid cannon's glare
and the piercing musket's fash, when the
wounded strew the ground, and the dead litter
your path, then remember, soldiers, that God
is with you.
The eternal God ights for you-He rides
on the battle cloud--He sweeps onward with
tke march of the hurricane charge-God, the
Awful and the Infinite, fights for you, and
you will triumph.
"They ,cho take the s,cord, shall perish by the
S,pord."
You have taken the sword, but not in the
spirit of wrong and ravage. You have taken
the sword for your homes, for your wives, for
your little ones. You have taken the sword
for truth, for justice and right, and to you the
promise is, "Be of good cheer" for your foes
have taken the sword in defiance of all that
man holds dear, in blasphemy of God-they
shall perish by the sacord.
And now, brethren and soldiers, bid you
all farewell. Many of US may fall in the fight
of to morrow-God rest the souls of the fallen!
Many of US may live to tell the story of the
fight of tomorrow and in the memory of all
will ever rest and linger, the quiet scene of
this autumnal night.
Solemn twilight advances over the valley
the woods on the opposite heights fling
their long shadows over the green of the
meadow-around US are the tents Of the Con.
tinental host, the suppressed hustle of the
camp, the hurried tramp Of the soldiers to and
fro among the tents, the stiffness and silence
that marks the eve of battle.
When we meet again, the long shadows OF
twilight will be flung over peaceful land.
God in Heaven grant It'll
Let us pray.
PRAYER OF THE REVOLUTION.
Great Father, we bow before thee. We in.
woke thy blessing, we deprecate thy wrath ;
we return thee thanks for the past, we ask
thy aid for the future. For we are in time Of
trouble, oh, Lord and sore beset by foes,
mercless and Implying; the sword CLEANS
over our land, and the dust of the soil is
dampened with the blood Of our neighbors
and friends. OIL God Of Mercy, we pray thy
blessing on the American arms. Make the
man of our hearts strong in thy wisdom
bless. we beseech, with renewed life and
strength, our hope, aud Thy instrument, even
George Washington. Shower Thy counsels
on the honorable, the Continental Congress
visit the tents Of our hosts comfort the SOL
dier for his wounds and Affections nerve him
for the fight prepare him for the hour o.
death. And in the hour of defeat, oh God
of hosts, do Thou be our stay, and in the houl
of triumph he Thou our guide.
Teach us to be merciful. Though the men,
ory of CALLING wrongs be at our hearts, knock
ing for admittance, that they may fill us with
desires Of revenge, yet, let US, Oh Lord
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For the Advertiser.

ABSENCE
The grave of the heart with its long where roses,
Its memories vain, its regrets, and its void,
Suunlkc the true grave where all dreamess reposep
The still, painless form that chill Death has de-
stroyed!
All! this tomb of the heart, all around it entwpiug
The sunbeams that glittered in Hopes Long Ago,
Till the shadows of grief mingling with their
bright shining,
Spread pail DER the past and its joylight below!
Life is too short with its passionate dreaming,
Itshopes and its fears, and its wild restless love
For hearts that adore beyond NIL of earths seeming,
To throb calmly on, when loved forms afar rove.
Absence, this gloom of the grave not its quiet,
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Lazy Boys.

A lazy boy makes lazy man just a.
crooked twig makes crooked tree. Who
ever saw boy grow up in idleness that did
not make vagabond when he became q man,
unless he had fortune to keep up appear
ances. The great mass Of thieves, paupers
and criminals that fill our peuitentiaries and
aims houses, have come to what they are by
being brought up in idleness. Those who
constitute the business part of the community,
those who nuke our great and useful men,
were trained up in their boyhood to be indus.
trious.
When boy is old enough to play in the
street, he is then old enough to be taught how
to work. OF course, we would not deprive
children of healthfnl, playful exercise, or the
time they should spend in study, but teach
them to work little by little, as o child is
taught at school. In this way he will acquire
habits of industry, which will not forsake him
when he grows up to be man. Many per-
sons who are poor, let their Children grow
up to fourteen or sixteen years of age, before
they put them to labor. Such children, hav.
ing no idea what work is, and having &C.
quired habits of idcness, 60 to impose upon
the employers with lazness. There is re-
pulsiveness in Ill work set before them. and
to get it done, no matter how, is their only
aim. They are ambitious at play, but dull at
work. The consequence is, they don't stick
to one thing but a short time and they rove
about the world, get into mischief, and finally
find their vay into the State prison or aims
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Tue subject Of bet, or, that he should win
wife by gambling for her; and, perhaps, be-
cause he knew the old man was "hard to
beat" and there was strong probability OF
his losing both wheat and wife.
1t was not until the Major, with his usual
obstinacy, had sworn that unless he won her
be should never have her, that the young
man was forced reluctantly to consent to play.
The table was placed, the candles lit, the
cards produced, and the players took their
seat with Miss Fanny between them, to
watch the progress of the game. The cards
were regularly shufled and cut, and it fell to
the Majors lot to deal. The first hand was
played, and Robert made gift to his opponents
high low game. Robert then dealt, the Ma
jor begged; it was given,' and the Major
again made three to his opponents one.
"Si1 to two," says Miss Fanny with a
sigh.
The Major as be dealt the cards, winked
and said;
aIm good for the wheat, Master Bob"
The old man turned up u trump-it was
spade-Fanny glanced at her fathers hand
her heart sank; he held the three, eight
spot, and the king She then looked at Rob
ert's hand land lo he had the ace, queen,
deuce, and jack or knave. She whispered to
Robert to beg-he did so.
"Take it," said the Major.
Robert led his deuce, which the Ma!'":
took with his three spot, and followe>; by
playing the king. Robert put his queen upon
it. The Major supposing it was the young
mans last trump, leaned over the table, and
tapping his last trick with his finger, said:
aThat's good as wheat"
aIs it 2" asked Robert, as he displayed to
the astonished Major the ace and jack, vet
in his hands.
"High, low, Jack, gift and game" shouted
Robert.
"outm ejsculated Fanny.
aGood as wheat" added Robert, as he
flung his arms around her neck and kissed her.
In due ime they were married, appd eyer
after that hen anything occurred Of a pleas.
ing nature to the happy couple, they W ould
express their emphatic appreciation of it by
the phrase, " Good as wheat
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fields of corn looked forth from amid the waste
Of the wilderness, aud the glad music of hu-
man voices awoke the silence of the forest.
Now |! God Of mercy behold the change!
Under the sanctity of the name of God, in
voking the Redeemer to their aid, do these
foreign hirelings slay our people, : They
throng our towns, they darken our plains, and
now they encompass our posts on the beauti'
full plain of Chadd's Ford.
{" They ,Oho take the S,rord, shall perish BY the
.Spo-d."
Brethren think me not unworthy Of belief,
when I tell you the doom of the British is
near. ThinE: me not vain when I tell you,
that beyond the cloud which now enshrouds
us, seslgathering thick and fast the darker
cloud and the blacker storm Of Divine re-
tribution.
They may conquer US tomorrow. Might
and wrong may prevail, and we may be driven
from the 6eld-but the hour of Gods own
vengeance will come!
Ay, if in the vast solitudes Of eternal space
If in the heart of the boundless universe,
there throbs the being Of an awful God, quick
to avenge and sure to punish, then will the
man George Of Brunswick, called King, feel
in his brain and in his heart, the vengeance
of the eternal Jehovah! A blight will be
upon his life-a withered brain, an accursed
intellect; blight will be upon his children,
and upon his people. Great God how great
the punishment!
. A crowded populace, peopling the dense
towns, where the man of money thrives, while
the Iaborer starves (: want striding among the
people in all the forms Of terrors; all ignorant
and God:defying priesthood chuckling over
the miseries Of millions; md merci-
less nobility adding VT
heaping insult upon r
royalty corrupt to the We
rotten to the very core;
ed hand.in-hand and te
of woe and death; tn
doom and retribution
English throne and tn
Soldiers look orr
faces with strang
morning we will all sv--
need tell yca your unworthy Minister
march with you, invoking Gods aid in the
fight? We will all march forth to battle
Med / exhort you to fight the good fight, to
fight Tor your homesteads, and for your wives
and children?
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SJflistellap;eous,
A Revolutionary Relic.

The following eloquent Revolutionary Ser
mon, preached on the 10th of September,
III, on the eve of the battle of Brandywine,
by the Rev. Jacob Prout, tc large portion
of the American soldiers, in the presence of
General Washington, General Wayne, and
others of the Continental army, was recently
discovered among the old papers of Major
John Jacob Schce6nyer, an o:Icer of the
Revolution. 1t should be perused by every
lover of patriotism.
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: From the Charleston Courier.
Save Him.

Oh! save him-that poor young man You
may save him-he can never save himself, for
he is sold, aye sold all his clear intellect
and lofty endeavor; all his proud birthright
of manly independence, noble, unainching
purpose and fearless self reliance, sold to
-nthe worm of the STILL"
"Nothing to you only "a stranger--im-
pertinent interference7'' Nothing to you 2
What for then did Providence place him in
your path Father of that bright eyed boy,
mother of that fair haired girl, he had faith.
er, another once; save him rs you would
save that boy from drunkard's grave, that
girl from the untold miseries of drunkard's
wife.
Man Of God, pass not by on the other side.
Man of Science, is he nothing to you2 Think
how you wrcstle with the destroying angel
for his victim how you battle, inch by inch,
with the very foot in the grave, for his prey.
Can you do nothing here? Is there no anti
dote for the fang of that viper, that "stingeth
like serpent and biteth like an adder:?"
Must it be alone forever, to creep and coil
into the soul "without let or hindrance."
Christian man, Christian woman, is he
nothing to you? Save him-he is worth
saving-God made him in His image; Christ
died to redeem him, and shall YOU abandon
bim2 You
"Heir of the self-sams heritage,
Child Of the self-same God;
lie hath but stumbled On the path
Thou hath in weakness trod."
Feariully sullied and dim, are the shattered
debris of that image of the Almighty, but
there is hope Of him still. He has struggled
-manfully once--he will struggle again and
again, feebly and more fitfully, for the coil Of
the serpent is around, the spell of the sorcerer
is upon him, and the strength Of his iron will
hut yours unbroken. Go to the re
;;--"ra than the strength.
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Rules for d


How TO SUCCEED IN.
rules were:
l. Cut short your losse
2. Let your profits rul
In order to do this, OIL.
ence-and to avoid a to,
begin small. Feel yo'
had a quick and powe:
learn from him, observir
our knowledge, instead
When in Egypt, he and
were riding out in o dark
beach, where it was. yer
the tide came in rapidly, a
every moment deeper "
stood ). they could not Sc
land. they became alarme
and destruction threatened
seemed never to fail for o
ordered all to form a circle.
outwards. They did so.
to ride ahead /; if any found
deeper, they were to turn a
it growing shallower, they
and all the rest to folio
them to dry land. 1t is
Proceed cautiously in diffel
failure results, wheel ab
tends, 60 ahead. This is
out Ricardo's rules, +" Cut 8
let your profits run on"
ANOTHER REQUISITE FOR
''-"- unfinching pr
."aful
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VOLUME xXY.-..-Eo. T.


ten.l to say that we lack patriotisnf ., the
South, and that. t. ..v are m - - =
whose breasts :duwaS7.
domestic enterpii,"st
You will scarcely 9.
rejoice 70 seu. a.ly
growing up among.
idea that we can nt
ton as good anu - cl
made at the MOI.
commend the spirit ~. a: j..
talist to invest his mon :, ,;anch Of
manufacturing, but when goods manuiac-
turel have to ti'd customers, in ORDER to sus-
tam the manufac;ory, there is an unaccounta-
bic indifference and apathy, and that gives
the merchant power to dictate to The purcha-
sr, and if he be governed hy selfish motives,
he will offer tie article on which be can make
the most and will be likely to put forth an
article which hos been manufactured farsway
from home. Every body knows the price of
home. made goods, and not mLc'i chance for
p oft on them.
In purchasing supplies there is !. mac
countable indifference perva'ing everywIS,
at The South about pa,ro,.izing> home indus
try. That fact is strongly cxemplltietl in tue !
almost universal use of Yankee sl., es, when
everybody knows that they will not wear
half as long a' Southern male article, and
that they are aearsr in the end to the con-
sumer; then again there is the article of car
riage and wagon harness, one good set OF
homemade is worth two Of such o. yof are
able to buy ready made, and still we find
people unwilling to pay reasonable advance
III price for ! Substantial home made article.
Those who are not conversant with such mat
ters may think We exaggerate, but all man
ufacturers at the South will confirm what we
say about the want Of Southern patronage to
enable them to dispose Of their manufactured
articles.
Politically We are the most suspectiug,
people OIL the face Of the.slobe---
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Go Ahead!


Young Men If you ever expect to any.
body-if you ever hope to rise in the world,
just go ahead. The great difference which
exists in regard to wealth, fame and distiuc-
ton, are not half go much attributable to
extra talent as 10 extra effort. He who is the
most vigilaut, active and persevering, is the
one who is bound to outstrip all others in the
attainment ofhis objects, whatever that may be
Go ahead Work away with zeal worthy
of the cause in which you have enlisted. No
matter how many competitors you have, it
will only inspire you to the greater diligence,
ifyou only remember that extraordinary efforts
always triumph over ordinary ones.
Go ahead Ifyou aim for public honors
they shall be yours-depend upon it you shall
attain them, for such results are produced by
causes as we'll defined sho-o ~hieh Regulate
the direction of o bullet when discharged at q
target. The best aim will make the best hit.
Go ahead you are head and ears il
love with some fair one, who has half score
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ransomed 60 free, if man psi
naught y him but gold, show hinge
1t is his God; before it he bows every
pulse of being Human souls ate as dus
the balanl M,
Man of means, buy him off but for one ~
month, one year--it may save him. Resc.
him at all hazards, at any cost-save him
time, save him for eternity.
LOUISE L. M
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tury, if he had known one who had pursued a
business strictly Of the character of the specu-
lator for thirty years that came ont rich. He
said he did not know any. All our rich
men have accumulated their wealth by gradual
and constant accessions." We have known
many men who were pointed out as "im-
mensely rich" through speculation, but in
every case that we can recollect, they after.
wards failed.
a Rich EsTArE.-The best legacy which
man can leave to his children, is tie ability
to take care Of themselves. Fit them for
active, responsible business, and they have at
once an income; but this income in as much
greater in value to them than the same in
come left in money, as activity and useful
employment are better than idleness and
lounging and dissipation. Give n young man
good moral habits and good practical
thorough school education, (which by the way
need not necessarily be acquired at Schools
and he can secure salary of perhaps two OF
three hundred dollars at first, and in success.
sve years up to q thousand dollars. He is
then worth thousand dollars, his real .yalue
counted in money. But a poor young man
who can make thousand dollars year, is
worth far more than young spendthrift who
has sixteen thousand dollars, because be is
more useful in many other ways, and is making
himself happy instead of miserable.
"WHAT BUSINESS SHALL I FoLLow?"-This
question is often asked, and the proper answer
may be, any useful and legitimate business
That is usually the best business for man
which he can perform best. He must be well
fitted for whatever be undertakes. Afte,
that, success depends upon the man, and moi
on the business. We have known some men
of deficient energy and capacity who failed
with the most favorable commencement; and
others who, under great difficulties, perseyered
without faltering until eminently prosperous
But it is all-essential to stick to your 6usi
ness. Several years ore often required to
attain proper knowledge of ell the ramifca
tions of trade. A man who was clearing
FIVE thousand dollars year, remarked, "fo'
the FIRST FIVE years I made almost nothing
by that time he had accumulated great expe
rience. Another, person of high capacity
changed his occupation eight times in fourteen
years-he began rich and is now poor,
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OF la.
meats, not from capluIl :.
but by the issue Of bonds
generations to come the
debts.
With our immense expo
known in any Of the civil.
globe, where are we able
accumulation of wealth ?
be found except in the ent
lands aad negroes. Our f
gros have risen in value, J
of money, from a thousal
millions in value, and our |,
in value from the same
any better off now than 7.
when Cotton brought as
Except from the natural i
gro population, we have NJ
wealth. A negro lsborer
of producing a larger inco
produced. Our soil has nt.
ard where, let me ask, is
signs Of our accumulated VIC
1t may be truly said Il
greatest power Of any peopl
come, but it may with as mi
that we are the greatest speI
most dependent people, anu
other people to supply us g
est necessities Of life, than a
worl. ,ncompassed by the /
We rev.. the Yankees for
! enemies, VI. "A we ore spen
or them In the purchase Of
articles of domestic Use, 3
fly-trap, broom and axe-hs'
steam engine and rail road
Is it not time that re we
to our interest, and e1hortiI
of the South TO patronize h,
to give q preference in all in
the product Of Southern
DOMESTIC
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DENTISTRY.

nRJB COURTNEY will prompt GyEa.
u " perform all work in the line
Of Dentistry that may be entrusted 0IONY
to him. He will take pleasure in waiting on those
desiring his services at their residence if they will
notify him through tho ofice at Edgefeld c. r..
He will be ut the Village Sale days and Court
weeks. Oct. 3rd 1y 80