Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-09-17
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s,sfss GEokGETowE, Sept 6.sss
Fire.-on Sunday morning stgtfles
dwelling Of ex:goyer1of.J John sL. W. Yiison,
in Brown town, was totally destroyed by
FIRE, which is supposed to.iave originated
in carelessness. Mrs. lydia Ienkssalldts
who were theEl narrowlys
escapedwnh life. saving nothing but their
night clothing. Z Z,
The Rice Harvest, as.we uoliced' IN oart
last has commenced on various sPlantaE
lions. Tue rice not eiready matnredssi
rapidly yimproying-but is beset with rice
birds. which have arrived In large -focks.
Upontconlerrence with several gentlemen
familiar with the extent of the injury e:
the crops on lie Santees and the rivers
adjacentto Georgetown, The loss blythe
the late dry summer and sail water isses.s
limaled al Is; 900 tierces. -
Yesterday the the thermometer was up
10 90 with most oppressive heat ifromttte
sun. This morning it stands al 76, ma.
king delightful temperature for the tar-
vest laborers. n stsssssssis
September has now fairly commenced
and ESQ farue have been blessed ccmpar.,
atively healthy season. We have had
fewcases of sickness but theyihaye Yields
ehiseadiIy to medical tfeatmenr.rss
have seen fewer bleached faces, less o..
tae sl .ynnd measured tread so characst
terlsit: of that uuwelcome guest, chill and
fever,slhan usual.-O Obserrer.l - sss4
Serious Illness aojf Judge 3Story,-We
learn, says the Boston tEraveller5off We'd
nesday evening, lharJudgelsS Story Tho
:. s. Supreme Courf is seriously sill,yand
that he is not expected survive Though
the day. Judge Slory's disease issan iinss
ternal strangulatiop. Itwill5be feeollects
ed that this is the same disease .with5whichl
Mr.. Legare Of South. CarolnaRdied in
Boston two years SINCE JudgeiSloryshas
resigned his seataoni the, Bench ;stheifes-
ignation to take place neg, MONTH.
d ns,o Staple in Alabama.-We are
grali6ed TO learn tsays the Columbus En-
qurer) that Gen. HamiIton;has erected at,
The Oswichee Bend, a Merchant Toll
Mill for the manufacture of Rice. This
is, we believe, the first mill of the kind
ever erected in the State ofsAlabama.--
As many of the inland swamps leading
lnlo, the Chattahoochee river can 8be
brought into the successful cultureeo eof this
valuable grain,- this enterprise Of Gen.
Hamilton will be one Of greatipublicsuil-
ity. From the sample we have seen Of
the Rice manufactured at his mill, tits as
we'll prepared as the best Rice imported
from Charleston or Savannah.
MILLEDGyvILLE, Ga, Sept.9 g.
South Western Georgia.-From this,
decidedly The most productive collon grow
ing section ofihe State, we have renewed
ACCOUNTS of the most ,discouraging kind,
relative 10 the effect of The drought upon
The growing crop of cotton-of all other
crops best calculated to withstand 1t. "A
friend from Baker, whose INDIGNANT we
consider aII0gErherr rolfatfo; informs US
that he crop cannot, under the best state
of weath.r yet 10 occur, exceed one-half
a full crop-that fields whose 6rsts picking
last year amounted 10 300 and s250llbs.
l,er acre, do not now, at thes6rstpicking,
Yield over 100 lbs. This shestbinks,he
general falling of through the whole of
that productive region.-Rscorder.
The London correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser makes the
following statement:
"a preacher belonging to one Of the,
Southern Conferences, who has spens
some lime in England in search of health,
applied 10 some of the preachers 10 be
admitted into the British Conference he
said that his credentials were signed by
Bishop Soule; The question was then ask
ed by some members Of the Conference,
whether The Bishop had signed them be-
fore ur since his special Identification With
The South. Upon which, DR.. Newton. as
Secretary of The Conference, was deputed
to wait upon him, examine his credentials
and repor, 10 Conference he did so, and
asked the gentleman distinctly if he. es-
poused the cause Of the Southern Con-
iereuces. He affirmed that he did; and
the consequence WINS, be was not admitted
iulo Conference. So it would be with
any other preacher. whatsoever might be
his talents or his fame, connected with
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
This is exceedingly characteristic of
our age petly--dosmatical- and revenge
fulfill Of mouihiug-fuil Of meanness---s
pursuing the hobby Of The hour, as if is
contained the essence and test and mea:
sure of all truth. The simple couse-s
quence will be. to make the English Meth
odists of as little consequence tofours, as
the English Catholics or the English Qua
kers or The English Aristocracye-CourleT
In all the conjeclures, prognos,ications
and speculalions, in which the editorial
fraternity have INDUCED, on our relations;
with Mexico, one fact of noliltle sigui6-