Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-01-26
EDGEFIELD,B B. C., JANUARY rs, 1853.

Custis, Washington had been pleased witt
other ladies. The author above quoted or
this point says, that in 1856, Z" While ir
New York, he was lodged and kindly en-
tertaned at the house OF Mr.. Beverley Rob
inson, between whom and himself an init
macy of friendship subsisted, which, indeed
continued without change, till severed by
their opposite fortunes twenty years after.
wards in the revolution. 1t happened that
Miss Mary Phillips, sister of Mrs. Robin.
son, and young lady Of rare accomplish.
ments, was an inmate of the family. The
charms of this lady made deep impression
upon the heart Of the Virginia colonel. He
went to Boston, returned, and was again
welcomed to the hospitality of Mr.. Robin.
son. He fingered there till duty called him
away but he was careful to intrust his Sc.
cret to confidential friend, whose letters
kept him Informed of every important event.
In few months intelligence came that a
rival was in the field, and that the conse.
quences could not be answered for if he
delayed to renew his visits to New York.
scenes of war had moderated his admiration,
or whether he despaired of success, is not
known. He never saw the lady again till
she was married to that same rival, Capt.
Morris, his associate in arms, and one of
Braddock's aids.de.camps.
He had before felt the influence of the
tender passion. At the age of seventeen he
was smitten by the graces of fair one,
whom he called a "lowland beauty" and
whose praises herecorded in glowing strains
while wandering with his surveyors com.
pass among the Allegheny mountains. On
that occasion he wrote desponding letters to
a friend, and indicted plaintive verses, but
never ventured to reveal his emotions to-the
lady was unconsciously the cause of
his pains"
EARTnoUAKE AT MILLEDeEv1LLE.-We
learn from the MilIedgeville papers, that at
20 minutes before s o'clock on Saturday
night last, a slight shock Of an earthquake
was scnsibly felt in5thaf fplace,@s,Phis is the
second or third earthquake that has occurred
in the central$portion Of Georgia within the
past few month. These phenomenas ashaye
been more frequent the pass tIian for a
long while before sTbroag6oaE the est
India Islands:and South America, as we'll
as in Southern Europe and China, ((saysithe
Savannah Republican,; shock has succeeded
shock with fearful rapidly he ship Gym.
a:&itnessed s sub aliips serrfis
southern ATTITUDES. -: =
The frequency and simultaneousness of
these phenomena would lead one to believe
they arise from the same cause. If they do,
they afford some idea of the tremendous
forces at work within the earth, An agent
which makes itself felt in China and Peru,
and in the southern and northern oceans, at
the same time, can hardly be appreciated by
the human intellect. and yet it is but faint
manifestation of the infinite power Of Him
who holds the Universe in the hollow of His
and.-Southern Standard
A DESPERATE KILLED.-The Nashville
Banner gives the following account of a
desperate named Sam. Dixon, who was
killed at Des Are, in Arkansas, recently,
under the following circumstances" Dixon
had some time since shot a man, and was
under indictment for murder in Prairie coun.
ty. BY secreting himself in the cane, on
the Tennessee side Of the river, he had baf-
fed all attempts to arrest him, and was go.
ing at large in defiance of the civil author.
tiles. Last week, he crossed over to Des
Are, aud got into rows, beating and abusing
one or more persons, and setting the COM
munity at defiance. DR.. A. r. Wilson, a
very quiet and exemplary citizen, made the
remark, that such outrages ought not to be
tolerated. This coming to the knowledge
of Dixon. he assaulted the Doctor in the
street, knocking him down with brickbat,
and beating him most brutally. The Doc
tor, who is man Of small physical power,
procured gun, loaded it, and shot Dixon
the same day, killing him almost instantly.
Upon an examination before magistrate,
the Doctor was discharged-the killing, in
view of the desperate character Of Dixon,
being adjudged justifable homicide" DR..
Wilson emigrated to Arkansas from Middle
Tennessee, and Dixon from Alabama.
Southern Standard.
MASSACRE OF NUNS AT PAR1s.-A COM
munity of nuns, with their abbess, were all
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