Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-10-13

recently as high as $40 lbs of cotton each per day
In the same field this season, four hands have picked
a5l lbs without laboring after sun down.
s% ARTHUR WELLEsLY, Duke Of Wellington
is dead. He was the conquerer of Napoleon, and,
greater still, the conquerer of himself lie was the
prandest relic of a past age. He was not only the
,nos, us,rious man of his time for deeds and ties
bu, was one Of the richest subjects IN Europe. lie
was called the Z" Iron Duke," from the austenly OIL
his habits and the rigid integrity of his life Ills
reputation was entirely military, his warmest admir-.
ers having never claimed for him any marked civil
ability. He died Of apoplexy, at the age OF a.
ssv The CHARLESTON STANDARD holds that
Willow Fever IS not so fatal as Bilious Fever, If
commenced with in time and attended to with care
The Editor refers to the experience Of his oUn iamy
relatives and friends as evidence IN favor oi MS
oufuion We once heard an intelligent resident IN
New Orleans advance almost the came idea. He
however. went further and asserted that ne would
rather endure an attack of Yellow Fever than OF
severe Cold, provided physicians accustomed 10 It's
treatment were at hand In accordance with these
opinions, we find report from the ST. Marys Relief
Hospital Of Charleston which represents that oi oa
Yellow Fever patients received there this season, on
the frs, day Of attack, only has died, and that
case was singularly virulent ono
~ OLE BULL, the renowned Violinist, has Sc
cured a large scope OF land in one of the mountain
counties of Pennsylvania and is now bnsily engaged
in planting there a Norwegian colony. The place Is
to be called Olcona. Verify. ours is the land where
nll the nations of the earth are to meet together
The amalgam must produce something extraordinary
for good or for evil 1t is hard to say which.
s1r THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST offers valuable
religious books 10 any persons who will procure for ii
new subscribers and remit names and cash by the
first of January next. The Board, IN whose charge
the paper has been for some years, speak in the
highest terms of the present editor, the Rev. f. T.
WiNKLER.
s-rys THE RESIDENTS on Sullivan's Island are, in
respect to the real estate they occupy there. tenants
at will of the State Of South Carolina the rent of
penny per annum The title to the land is entirely
in the State No individual upon the Island has
freehold thereon. 1t bequcathel to the State by
man named SULLrYAS. The Governor, for the
time being, has the power of breaking the citizens
tenure. We suppose this however would only be
justified where the necessity urgent and extreme.
The right Of eminent domain rests in the State in
regard 10 all real estate by which is meant That i
NAV be taken at a fair equivalent for any purpose
deemed by the Legislature sufficient to justify so er-
treme an invasion Of private right. Hence in case
of Railroads. commissioners appointed to assess
value &C." This is the sum and substance Of an
interesting communication we find in q late number
Of the Charleston Mercury.
sS FAIRFIELD DISTRICT must be doing finely
in the cause of Temperance. We gather, from no.
ces in the last Ecra,'' that there three divi-
sions in the District belonging TO the Order of Sons
ny Hon. GEORGE VI. TRoup of Georgia, who
has accepted the nomination Of the Southern flights
Convention FOR she Presidency. was, at the last nc
counts, ,soseriousy sick that little hope was entertained
Of his recovery.