Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-01-07
A Scattering Screed-."N New York,
Philadelphia " CO. -. and what
their Papers say of ,he War, d c,

their Papers say of the War, &C.
New York, Phiiadrlphiu / co.. :" A rather nice
little co.partu rship,' the reader will say. They
rather larger firm, than They ought to have hcnr,
in Southern eyes. We wcll remember old Pbila
delphia ten years ngn, and how it impressed one
with an idea of wealth. masnihcencs, and NIL that
sort of auumery to roll through its long streets
mud gaxo upon its manifold sights. l; Was thought
great thing t"u in that day I" arrive in Gothu'n
at ucluck p. NJ, just from the South" und {"
prucerd amid the blaze "f Gruulway to the snudy
st. Nicholas or the ample Metropolitan, or. stiil
better, to the quiet and aristocratic New York
H.te, and having comfurted ones inner u'an
with isshut punch, UT spiry tom -and-g gerry
sumo such gsuiul putation. TO I'll, in comfortable
bed chamber before glowing rtove nnd begin to
calculate how onu c"uhl make the hest OF weeks
srjourn iu the Chem Great Metropolis" Th"fc
we're days of vanity und folly great revolution
hrs swept them into n"nrntity, aud none nrs now
80 poor un this sidc of Mason Di1on's line Ms to
wish tNnt they should over return. Nc" YORK,
Philsdelphia j Co., huye learned that they arc
not America, aud VIC Of tho South have come nj
lust to conceive commercial ss well ny political
independence in which those oncc-proud cities are
never, never moro to button upon Southern gull
bty and TO ill their Golfers to replcton by prae-
Using their ten thousand tricks of tho trade
upon the unsusperting generosity OF the Southern
pubic. We hive been weak, foolish, stupid, blind,
in cur dependence upon Yankee Land for all the
comforts md many Of the Lecessarics Of liEe but
u change has suddenly come over the whole face
of afIairs.-a change which the EXTREMIST advo-
cate Of Southern Commercial Independence did
not hope to effect in less than lifetime, but
which Two brief years, under the Mighty Guidan"o
of power infinitely higher than man, has made
coupletc and rrevcrsible, e,--and this too whether
the South shall triumph eventually, or be crushed;
For if the former, our sails are spread on new
sun, with new mnrkets aud new allies aud II the
latter, our ldnd becomes desolute wuste, to be
parcelled out between England and France
possibly, but never more to swell tho exchecquer
of the Northern United States.
But whittier do we wander? Our main purpose
was, und is, to glance over couple of papers,-n
Philadelphia Enquirer and n New York Herald,
of date the 22d ult kindly furnished us, FROM
across the lines, by very considcrntc ladyfrieud,
who has just received them from her gallant hus-
band in the Fredericksburg front. They are not
exactly damp from the PRESS but will suffice to
give US an idsl of how the world Tags IN the
"big Norrd" just at this juucture.
! II.ro roou In Enoujrer-Dape first,
"WAR NEWS" with big head lines ;-p"ge
second, "WAR NEWS" with little head-lines;-
page third, Var Ners mixed and miscellaneous; !;
and page fourth and last also war news in partj-
nearly tho whole paper devoted to the contempti-
BILE rebellion which was to havo been sulnmarily
crushed ut least eighteen months ago, but which
now evidently looms up to the Philadelphia En-
ouirer thing of such mammoth proportions rs
to occupy nearly the whole scope of its vision.
The Enquirer admits that our artillery ut Fred
ericksburs carried u,oay erery iriny thing IN it's
electric lara flood" COL WALTON and his inrin-
ciblcs cleurly mnde their long experience tell fear
fully upon that memorable day. And not only
our artillery, tu. our infantry also did their work
nobly and efficiently. The Enquirer admits nm
utter defeat, but says that BURSsrpE's army Is in
good rpirt4at nhiS-a.-iA>il inn
mediate advance murt be made. It exhorts an
immediate concentration of the whole Union
strength against two points, viz: the defensive
lines near Fredericksburg, Va, and the posi-
ton in front of Nashville, Tenn; " smch cen-
centra'iOn," wittily remarks the Enquirer, 2. our
= 4 al al n,ufs
oreruhrlm them utterly"
loRa!-The Enquirer gives an item Of news
from New Orleans which SCARCELY cumPorts with
the facts us we know them "n#ay down here in
Dixie" Speaking of Mrs. BgAuREGARD, who in
sculity left New Orleans "lpng time ago." that
paper plss,ers Beast BHtier Us follows:
at will crafty every man of scusibility to
learn that MS Mrs. Boauregard ID lying dangerous
" III in New Orleans, General Butler. the best
hated officer throughout the South, has sent cor.
dinl invitation ta Gcner Braurcgard to come
and visit her.
"G rim. visagcd war hath smoothed hiswrinklcd
front" when such rnurtesies nre offered. Will they
he received as they are Intended? Will the foul
mouthed Rebel press find in them new proofs of
Buffers atruciy VIZ do not know, and he does
not caro-. Buffers government in New Orleans
has caused Il suciu regeneration there which His
tory will recogni,s and applaud in spite Of present
slanders."
I. goes against the grain to print such stuff, and
VIC only give it as sample of the contemplate
'.iupery -packcry' by which the corrupt Northern
press continues to justify tho me4nest tools Of
thoir unhalluwed cnusc.
So fur as the E"q"irer's pages arc reflex of
the business prosperity Of the City of Brotherly
Love, they tell 4 tale of suspension the like Of
which no Southern city has yet felt. Although
claiming circulation Of 5000 subscribers, We
can 6ud; NIL told, barely two columns Of adrer-
tisemcnts 10 the whole sheet before US, and the
largest portion of these are military and thea,ri-
cal. This is literally and strictly true, and may
or may not mean u good deal: We incline to
think it at least signifies that Philadeiphy is not
exactly "what it used to wns." aud this poverty |
of advertisements is tho more refreshing, inus-
much ~ it stands directly cuntrasted with two
columns aud half in closely printed lists, Of