Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-08-21
To Our SoltIiars.


part of the country is not yet washed away, al
though some hill-siles luuk seriously wounded
Tho rains have continued to fall dny after day,
until the earth Is perfectly saturated, which is
j,st as it should bo. Our pastures will be fine;
this would not have been the caso but for these
copous showers, s,-eryo it is ull Tor the best.
We are put to it somewhat in the Adrrriisr''
Office just INV, aud yon must therefore excuse MI
bad spelling ana hen. scratches Charly and Willy
have both left us iur the wars and better soldiers
never left printing office They hure been rest
less here ever since their return from Morris Is
.lanl,-havc had the going-uyain fever oil the
time, and sure enough have gone again. they are
in Capt. PEnnIN's Company. Quinsceontly, ID.
Il. D., McC., a. Z. and JoHyxY are all that's left
Of the uld rrcw. Never mind tive are on the
"open sen" the "ever free" thus far, and, thanks
to many good readers and friend., the breakers
are not yet visible uhuve the horizon. You oh
serve over there t''oa frw, yn''n' cw, who still
contiEuc their advertising faynrs. They hnvo
nnied their eolurs Ia the mast, md if the public
ever forscts their nerve, it shall not be any fault
Of ours, be sure. But this is too much Of i mono
dy; Lets change the tune.
Sine the departure of the Edgcfcd Rifles, the
town is becoming lucr and dullrr. The country
too is becoming loncier nnl loncler for the want
uS The youth and vivacity which the wars have
taken from every neighborhood. a few days ago
thirty or forty stalwart men drew up suddenly in
front of our Court House, and proved to be some
of our district people from not fur above this point,
going to join the service. They were commanded
by Capt. HOLLOWAY and will Immediately unite
with the part of II company held in realincss by
Lieut.. A. p BUTLER. OF the Cherokee Volunteers.
Tho two pieces, properly welded, will stand US
heavy II strain as Captain AnybOdy's Company.
BUTLER will be Captnn end HOLLOWAY first lieu
tenant; and they propose to go on to GREGG's
Regiment.
A company was formed few days ago at Phi
lpp Church, you will see by reference to anoth-
et column. We do not know the numbers, but
believe it is full.
The acceptable information has just reached US
thGt WM. B. DoRN, our Gold-miner, profers to
uniform company to be formed in the district,
and to subsiG. the families of such among them MS
may be needy, while they are in service. The pro-
position vas set Oh foot ut small barbecue in the
Suuirc's nrishborloul last Saturday, when six
teen or eighteen ncu immediately stepped for
ward. 1t is hoped the company will rapidly pro-
grcss.-Anothcr company is spoken of in the
ncighborhood of Squire Ben PERRY, his sou being
at the head Of it.
The sick, Of whom We wrote you before, aro all
improving. JOE ABSEY is out, JAKE YOUNG
BLOOD is sitting up, and the rest convulescent.
There is still comparatively little sickness in the
listrict.-Dr. GnESvlLLE HORDE, whom many Of
you know Of old, had the great misfortune to lose
his excellent wife last week her death was sud-
den, being the resul; Of one Of those unavoidable
accidents TO which the better sex is alas! so lia-
bic, in giving birth TO man. The affective dis
pcnsation has cast u gloom over the community
OF which shc was sU marked Il member.
To-day the weather. which has for one long
week hung heavy with lraprry Of clouds frnscd
with many showers, has Frightened up, and the
promise of fair spell is cheerful und bracing.
Last nlSht the lull moon swung SrhhuIy lnlouSn
the newly y-washed skius, and shed upon our homes,
your homes, Curious profusiun Of svery beams.
How lovely was the Silly night All then, brave
soldiers, many were the fond hearts that looked
upward and thought Of you and prayed for your
safety And like the mocn- beams, did not those
prayers pass from earth to heaven and from hen
ven back to earth again, bringing sacred calm
of resignation ali trust, to you as well as 10 the
dear ones ut home: Let US hope so,-aud that
like this glad."pcning day" the light Of return.
ing peace may soon burst over your homeward
march,-your duty done and your country saved!
SO mote il be
But the brightness of this lay-itis is the goth OF
August that we write-iS hallowed by remini-
scence which Carolina never fails to call to mind;
For was it not on this day, Of all in the year,
that our brave BUTLER fell upon Churubusco's
plain, anil with him many n gallant youth, giving
by their deeds Of valor prestige to the soldiery
of the Palmetto State which is at this moment
firing your hearts aud rcrving your arms on the
frontier posts of this angry caupagn? And how
cum we better close our rambling epistle than by
proposing, "The memory Of the Palmetto Regi-
mcnt at Churubusro, and tic oll-being and glvry
of its successors on the Potomac" Farewell.
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