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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15
Playing on the Jackass.

On board the steamer lndiannl, in one OF her
trips down tile Mississippi. were large number
of good-na,urcL ssengrrs. They were seeking
10 while away the hours, according 10 thelr
several noluns Of pleasure, and would have got
on very well but for one annoyance. mere
happened to be on board Il llooer from the WA
bash. who WAS going down 10 New Orleans,
and he had provided himself with an old SIolln'
tancyinr that he could fiddle is well rs the best
man. and planting himself where he could attract
attention, scraurd away. The fellow couldn't
fiddle any more than Il setting hen, aud the 'or-
ribIe noise disturbed his fellow passengers
excessively. A Frcnchnmn, of very delicate
nerves, and Il very fine musical err, WAS especial
" annoyed lie llultered, liygclted and sw"re
ut the sacrc' fiddle. The passengers tried va
rious expcdicnts 10 rid themselves oI the li"o.ler
and his fiddle; it WAS no go" lie would iddle
inst rs long us he ID please" At last, 4 OIg
kentuckian sprang up from his seat, saying:
reckon iii fix him." placed himself near tie
ameeur fiddler, aud colnmehced braylny Will
all his might.
The effect of the move was beyond description
Old Kenluck Lrayed so loud thai he drowned
The >crecchins of The fiddle, and amid the shout:
of the passengers the discomiled ll"osler re
treated below, leaving the victory OF The unrqn'
contest to the kentuckian, and his singula
improptu imitation of Balaams friend; lh'
delight of the Frenchman knew no b"unds-an'
ouiet WAS restored for the day. During tn
n,iubt the kentuckian left The boat. The mex
morning after breakfast, the passengers wer
startled by the discordant sounds of their o
tormcnlor. lloosier had discovered that tn
coast was clear, and was bound TO revenge him
self on the passengers. ,,,
Loud and worse than ever screamed the fiddle
The Frenchman was just seated TO 10 read III
paper, on the first sound rose, looked anXlousl
around, shrugged his shoulders, and then shoI
cd" Ware is he? Ware is he? Qucck qneek
Mon Dieu. Ware is Monsieur heMuck, de ma
rot play on de Jackass!"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

ABOLITION SYMpATHY.-We have already STA
ted that the marsha's guard having in charge
the fugitive Burns, raised By subscription enough
money to procure good suit of clothes, breast
pin, hat, boots, &C., and some $50 pocket money
with which Burns was supplied before his de-
parture. But it remains for US now to state the
extent of the sympathy of his abolition friends
in the same cause they took Burns old clothes,
had them mended and returned We have OH
hand the subscription list by which this gigantic
undertaking was accomplished, but want Of
room prevents its publication this morning
Boston Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

taken. pate. bef4re the audience who now hear
me, it il. UNNECESSARY for. me to rccapilnhe.
Your criminlltrss have been so long continued,
so mullitnrous, extensive. and devastating you.
have persevcrcd with so much. cQnstancy of
purpose; and stbletyof design through a long
life oG iniquily. y.inrcdeemed by single praise,
worthy aclion, tIn5 you canhot expect mercy or
delay: The. sentence Of justice, which, as the
presiding officer in the court of public opinion,
now To9ouice upon you, is, that you he taken
from hence to the place from whence you came,
a rum puncheon. then 10 be cast into The next
river, that you may be drowned in COLD WATER.
And MAY you die and be forgotten! Mr.. Sheriff.
YOU wl seq The sentence forthwith executed
Crier adjourn thy court. -,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15
From the Charleston Courier.
Ladies Calhoun Monum't Association

In the commencement of every work, there
are obstacles 10 BE- removed and prejudices to
oyercoInc-and it is only when earnest spirits
bring all their will to the task, that success will
place the vctor's crown on The brow Of effort
In Il movement like this Of the ladies' of our
State, whilst there w;lS much TO incitc them to
the good work, there WAS 4 great deal to dis
courage, aud much TO intimidale Grim lions
seemed to stand forbiddingIy in the path, imagin-
AIRY perhaps, but not The less formidable on that
account. With that spirit Of quiet, but devo-
iGed an.d eRE4rsl ehLAusiss. which has bsAn
lingIy and dcvotedy they enlisted themselves
under the banner of Il common cause; and the
little spark, that originated in one devoted heart,
wide spreading into glorious blaze, has lit up
"cily, town, and village SMALL with the res
plendent fires of i generous patriotism.
TO those Districts that have responded so
promptly 10 the appeal made by the Ladies OF
Charleston, they would now tender their most
grateful thanks; assuring them that in their
hearty cooperation. they find both strength and
ENCOURAGEMENT. Kindly bestowing their sup
port aud sympathy, they have turthered the
cause most nuby, most generously.
Those Districts That have made no responsive
motion. we would most earnestly invoke their
assistance. This is no local matter, no self
interested move of city, it belongs 10 the
whole S,aie,-that Stale Calhoun served with
his abilities, adorned by his virtues, and guided
safely, by the mighty power of his genius
through the threatening storms Of political fury
Let every District then, consider it a privilege
to unite in this glorious undertaking; and We
implorc them all to come generously forward
eager to lay their grateful gifts on the haIIowed
SHRINE of the mighty dead. Z.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

Ten coolies. imported from China, arrived at
Louisville few days ago, and have sold them
selves for a term Of years to Tennessee iron
manufacturer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

EXCITEMENT AND LYNCH Law IN ARKANSAS.
The citizens of Crittenden county, Ark, have
recently been much excited against desperate
nanc of outlaws in that county, and a few days
ano an affray occurred in which a DR.. Dewitt,
son.in-law of ]. Abels, one of the alleged offen-
ders, was shot dead by R. p Taley, in self:de-
fence. Soon after meeting of one hundred
citizens took place, and proceeded to the house
of Abe!s to tear it down, but desisted through
the entreaties of his family, who promised to
leave the county. They were subsequently,
informed that the house would be cannonaded
the next day if they did not leave. A publIc;
meeting was t5en held, and resolutions adopted
notifying Abels to leave the country by the i3th
instant, and giving nine others until the 18th to
leave, or else abide the consequences.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

THE Queen of Spain has presented taPt'
VIM. burrows. Of lhe American ship Ie"cola' !,
with a splendid massive antique chased sllVer r
lrumpct, for saving tbs passengers ana crew OF
the Spanish ship Perseverance, oil cape floTtl'
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

ILLINOIS WHEAT CRop.-The season is now
so far advanced that growers can judge, with
much accuracy what are the prospects Of the ap-
proachng wheat crop; and the accounts which
realh us from all parts of the State give promise
of Il full and bounliful harvest. We learn from
one of our mers, who has just returned from
! tour throughout this part OF the State, that he
has never seen finer wheat fields anywhere, and,
that nothing intervenes to cut oil the promised
yield, the crop will exceed all calculation.
throughout Madison, Jersey, Greene, Macoup!ln'
Montgomery, Scott. and other adjoining counties
a much larger quantity than usual has been
planted and the same, We believe, is true IN
other parts of the State. We shall not BIZ
surprised if illinois shall this year take her place.
next to Ohio, as the second wheat-growing
State in the Union.-Aton (lll) Telegraph.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

AN uRcHlN not quite three years DID, SAD
to his sister, while munching piece OF ginger
bread" Siss, take half dis cake 10 keep to ALTER
nopB, when get cross" This is nearly as good
rs the child that beloved from the top oi 'he
stairs, " sla, Hannah won't paciy me-"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

No BUSINESS TO EE A DAcIlELoR.-1n the vast
tlowery field of human affection the old bachelor
i, the very scarecrow of happiness, who drives
away the little birds that come 10 steal away the
hemlock seeds ofloneIiness and despair. Where
is there a more pitiable object in the world than
Il man who has no amiable creature Interested
in his welfare. How dismal does his desolale
room appear when he comes home at night, wet
and hungry, and finds cold hearth, or barren
table, and lonely pillow, that looks like the
white urn Of every earthly enjoyment! See the
sick bachelor in the dark afternoon Of life, when
his heart is sinking 10 its sundown. Not a
solitary star of memory CLEANS over the dusk OF
hi, open grarc-no weeping wife to bend like
Il blessing over his dying bed-no ford daughter
TO draw his chilly hand into the soft pressure OF
hers, and warm his icing blood with the revlving
fires of unfaing aleclion-no manly boy TO link
his breakin. name with the golden chain OF hon.
orable suricly, and bind his history in the vast
volume of The world he is leaving forever. lie
has eat aud drunk, and died and the earth is
glad she got rid of him; for he his done little
else but cramp his soul into the circumference
of sixpence, and no human being but hi:
| washerwoman will breathe sigh at his funeral
Fhzgcrads City Item.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

MELAscHoLY CASE OF DRowY1EG.-On the
30h ult, after the very heavy rain three children,
Mariha Hyde, aged l3 years, Rebecca Davis,
aged 9 years, and George Schlobecker, aged
about years. on returning from School at
Davis school-house, taught by Mr.. Whitemore,
in Hartford county, Md went 10 see the water
rushing from one of the streams into Winters
run, which was very high and full, and falling
from plank which they used as footway, all
three were drowned.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

KNOXVILLE AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD
The Knoxville Register Of May 90 says: Mr.,
Lythgoe and his party of engineers arrived in
this city on Thursday last and proceeded at once
in the work of locating definitely, preparatory
to its construction, that part Of the Blue Ridge
Railroad between this place and tile North CaE-
ona stale line.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

Rich GOLD MINES exist on the Yakima river,
Orepon, aLont one hundred miles from the Dali
les of the Columbia, in region inhabited by
Indians, who Hitherto have used their utmost
efforts to prevent the white people from exanin-
ing it. Ii has long been known that gold exists
there, and three years ago some of the gold
edust obtained ut the plachrs was carried TO
Portland by an Indian, who said that the chief
would not let the whites hunt for it, as they
would seize their lands and drive them off, Now,
however, considerable quantities of gold are be-
ing taken out of the mines by some parties who
have spent the winter there. Those who have
traversed the country say that it beats all the
appearance of gold region for a great extent.
The Yakima river heads near the Cascade Noun
tains OH the east side.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

A PEsIrENrrARY-Judge O'Neall, in letter
10 the Newberry Sentinel. says:
ave have the extraordinary spectacle of five
men capilaIIy convicted; four for MURDER ana
one for negro stealing. Since The adjournment
of the Courts of the Eastern Circuit, four HON.
icidcs have occurred. These shocking enorIni-
ties in this State make it an imperative duty on
the part of the Legislature, it seems to me, TO
establish some mode of punishment My opin-
ion is in favor of pcniten.iary. Until that be
done, criminals will go unwhipt of justice"
The Judge is right: the grand jures are right
public opinion, we believe, is right, in relation
to the necessity of the establishment of penl-
Tertiary and when the Legislature get right we
will have it-nut beforc-Carolinian
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

RAly.-The rains have been abundant in this
section for the last few days, and crops generally
are in aourishing condition. The harvesting
of wheat is going on, and better yield than was
at one time apprehended, is Observation-Disclosures
vile (Ga} Recorder.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

AfTEEyunY, May is, 1854.
The Cour; met according to adjournment. al
, O'Clock p NJ All The Judges present. The
Jurors We're called aud an>w cred 10 their names
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-06-15

HoERID MURDERS on Long IsLAND-A triple
murder of most diaboIical character was per-
petrated at Cutchogue, in the town of South
hold, Suffolk County, Long Island last Friday
The Sierra citizen., 1854-02-18
ReccIiectiops.
BIZ ROBERT II. TAYLOR.

with what fairy spell doth memory
Call up the past to throng the present hour.
My native hills my native hills!
For you how oft my bosom thrills,
By recollection drawn
Back to your lovely closing day,
And glowing rural morn.
How sweet the spell that fingered DER
Those sun-lit hours, the days of yore,
UnclOuded by tear,
When merry shout went loudly forth,
When blithesome friends were near.
When DER each young unwrinkled brow
There came no shadows, such as now
Der manhood's often fit;
But when each joyous, laughing eye,
With happiness was lit.
My native hills! your every glade,
And each old haunt where have played
In happy childhood free,
Live yet within my bosom-yet
Endeared by memory.
A tear will start for pleasure fed,
But ripper joys seek instead,
For time is waning FAST
'Tis idle in me to compare
The present and the past.
The Sierra citizen., 1854-02-18

Kate and the boys were weeping bitterly
over the first death of the household when
Captain Lee returned.
When the morning came, with its cheerful
sunshine, and the blue sky and summer
breezes, two men were seen thoughtfully
vending their way through the tangled
wild, over hill and vale, with heavy mat.
tocks on their shoulders, seeking spot the
most meet in which to lay their emigrant
friend
Willie Morton, the millwright, nailed a
rude coffin tUgether-very rough and rude
it was, too-and the cold form was laid in
it with tile slightly tinged gray hair put
aside from his white brow, and his blue:
veined, bony hands rigidly clasped together
All the men, women and children, for
many miles around, were there-a fearful
group Four of the strongest men carried
the cofin on their broad shoulder from the
cabin to the stream, when it was placed in
canoe and taken across to the other bank,
Without knowing the direct way, they
passed on slowly, over hills and through
ravincs and swamps, and patches of wild
briars and thckets, until the mound of dark
earth was before them. Then the fathers
and brothers took the curious little Won
derers from off their shoulders, and the
weary mothers, to rest their arms. stood
their babes upol their feet, and the stall #art
men wiped the great drops from their
bronz,ed faces as they gently placed the
collin among the trampled viclets and
w:thcred leaves. The fat lid, fastened not
by hinge or screw, was removed. and the
bereft widow sank Oh her knees and bent
her head on the pulseless breast, while a
wall, pteous. as though wrung from heart
broken and hopeless, and weary of life,
pierced every sympathizing breast present.
Oh how they sorrOwed over that lost one
by that first yawning grave in the wilder
ness! 1t was the first sorrow of the emf grant
band: Little Abe Bold, the baby boy. with
but one garment on, coarse, tow shirt.
without hat, coat. pants or shoes, and the
blood trinkling down his legs scratched by
brush and br.ars his little heart filled to
bursting, cried ooh, if that was my pa -
and fell fainting through excess of grief.
The lid was nailed down, sadly and tear
fully, the brown earth was replaced, the
sod carefully laid on, and then they knelt
around that hallowed grave, and prayed as
does the full heart in the dark hour of
chasteninS affection.
The Sierra citizen., 1854-02-18
Court at Puddlef0rd.

Squire Longbow held his court at the
public house, in a room adjoining the
bar-room, because the statute prohibited
his holding it in the bar-room itself. He
was a law-abiding man, and would not
violate statute. | found on my arrival
that the whole country, for miles around,
had assembled to hear this interesting case
Men, women and children, had turned out
and made perfect holiday of it. All
were attired in their best. The men were
dressed in every kind Of fashion, or rather
all the fashions of the last twenty years
were scattered through the crowd. Small
crown, steeple-crown, low-brim, and mar
row-brim hats; wide-tail, stub-tail, and
swaliow-tail, high-collar, and low-collar
coats; bagging and shrunken breeches;
every size and shape of shirt-collar were
there, all brought in by the settlers when
they immigrated. The women had at
tempted to ape the fashions of the past;
some of them had mounted a "bustle'
about the size of bag of bran, and were
waddling along under their load with great
satisfaction. Some of the less ambitious
were reduced to a mere bunch Of Calico
One man. noticed, carried upon his head
an oid-fashioned bell-crowned hat, with a
half-inch brim; shirt collar running up
tight under his ears, tight enough to lift
him from the ground; this ran out in front
of his face to peak, serving as kind of
cut-water to his nose; a faded blue coat,
of the genuine swallow-tail breed; pair
of narrow fall-breeches that had passed so
often through the wash-tub, and were so
shrunken that they appeared to have been
strained on over his limbs; this Individual,
reader, was walking about with his hands
in his pockets, perfectly satisfied, whistling
Yankee-Doodle and other patriotic airs
Most of the women had something friMled
around their shoes, which were called
pantalettes, giving their extremities the
appearance of the legs of So many bantam
hens.
The landlord of the Eagle was, of course,
very busy. He hustled about, here and
there, making the necessary preparations.
Several pigs and chickens had gone the
way ofall flesh, and were baking and stew
ing for the table. About once quarter,
"old Stub" "moistened his clay" as he
called it, with little "-rye," so as to .'keep
the blood a-stirring." hrs. "Stub Bulli-
phant' was busy, too. She was perfect
whirlwind. Her temper was made of
tartaric acid. Her voice might be heard
above the confusion around. giving di-
rections to one, and "piece Of her mind"
to another. She was the landlady of the
Eagle, beyond all doubt, and no one else.
Better die than doubt that.-Puldleford
Porsrs.
The Sierra citizen., 1854-02-18
No. 2.
'0rrible.

Gathering Jane, for the last time az
you will you ave me?"
"YiIiam Henry, no! If all your panta-
looms were lined with gold, I'd still say
mol"
Gathering Jane! Gathering Jane ave
pity. Call to your minds heye the many
'appy days that's parst, the str0lls we've
'ad, the sparkling waters of the noble I'd
sOl, the waving foliage of the Pawk, and
more than all remember my devoted love
for you"
g Young man, lad you permitted me, I
would ave spared you pang of hanguish,
but now, in all your mental hagony recol-
lect you brought it upon yourself William
Henry, love another!'
MAY 'Evin's lightnin blast him! may
all that part of lis hexistencc that bears any
similarity to molasses or sweet, be turned
to bitter gall may he hexperience hall the
torture | now feel ! and at last, when life's
weary pilgrimage draws to close, may he
rush to meet fate to vich mines henjoy-
ment! Farewell, Gathering Jane, farewell
forever !"
A splash follows and silence ensues-a
silence that is soon broken by the sound of
oars A voice from the wilderness of dark
ness shouts forth:
"Ello there. darn your nightcap, vot the
bloody 'ell are yer d0in on?"
The craft approaches, and then 0 horror
turns again upon its course. Its inhuman
occupant has discovered that William Hen
ry is in no great danger, for he jumped into
shallow water
Gsy The Boston Post says that a young
man, a member of an evangelical church,"
advertises in New York paper for board
Sin pious family, where his christian
example would be considered compcnsa-
ton" Modest, amt it?
p~ STREET CoLLooUY-" Good morning.
Mr.. Smith; on the sick list to-day?"
=" Yes, sir; got the ague."
"Do you ever shake?"
"Yes, shake Ike thunder"
"When do you shake again?"
"Can't say when; shake every day. Why
do you ask?n
"Oh, nothing in particular; only thought
If you shook bad, I'd like to stand by and
see if you. wouldn't shake the fifteen dollars
out OF your pocket which you owed me SO
long"
Mr.. Smith sloped
ssg~ Mrs. Partington, in giving an ac-
count of a man cuttin, his throat. says, "he
came to his death by discovering his
jocular vein.'
l1- To drive rats out Of your house--let
the basement to new band practising on
wind instruments.
1sS- They have got pig in Ohio so
thoroughly educated that he has taken to
music. They regulate him by twisting his
ta'l-the greater the twist, the h CHER the
notes.
Ng-P. S. 7" We stop the press with plea
sure to announce the decease of our cotcm+
porary. Mr.. Snaggs, sen., editor of the Fo3-,
town Flash. He has now gone to another
and better world. Success to him. Per-
soas who have taken the Flash VIII find the
Fusilier a good paper"
The Sierra citizen., 1854-02-18
Tcms Pictqfes Eramse.
[FROM ARTHUR S HOME GAZETTE.

at grieves me, Matte, to see you so often
weeping" said Captain Lee, as he climbed
up into the travelling wagon, and seated
himself beside his wife, who had turned
away her head to hide the traces of tears
from her husband. 'If had thought you
would have grieved so, after leaving the
home of your girlhood, l could not have
subjected you to the trial"
The poor wife smiled, and, placing her
hand in her husband s, murmured-
''Say no more, Allen; we will have a
home beyond the Ohio, even though it be
in the wild forest. l was thinking of the
graves of our children, and wondering if
any kind hand would train the white roses
and culture the violets. l wept not that
was leaving the home of my childhood, for
wherever you are, there is my home"
Captain Lee thought his wife never
looked lovelier than at that moment, with
the light of love radiating every feature
Allen Lee was one of six families who
were journeying from their pleasant homes
in New York to our own Ohio, then known
as dense forest, inhabited by the Indians
and few hardy emigrants
1t is useless to follow the enterprising
travellers in their long and toilsome march.
Needless to tell, in this day Of peace and
hospitality and plenty, of how the honest
Dutch rebuffed them from their doors and
their mistaken hearts, for the simple reason
they were Yankees; how, in the evenings,
the mothers crept silly apart from the band
of husbands, and huddled together and
wept bitter tears, of the noble-hearted
fathers and brothers keeping guard through
the long, dark hours, listening to the night
bird, and wolf and panther in the wilderness.
After weary weeks of travel through the
sweetest wild that nature ever smiled upon.
after fording streams, some deep and dark
and swift, others wide and winding and
pure as crystal, they halted where the oaks
were monarchs in size and beauty, and a
>willow-fringed stream flowed swiftly.
sparkling in the sunshine The land was
ihill and dale intermingled-a beautiful
spot. a rude shelter was hastily formed of
;boughs and bark, in wild nook where a
spring gushed forth plentiful supply of
good water.
The little band had become so attached
to each other that they resolved to select
their lands in . body. Uncle Solomon
chose quarter section on the bank of the
stream, running westward over the range
of hills. Willie Morton, the mllwright,
chose his down by the great bend of the
sFesm, thinking Of . valuable mill property