Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-12-13
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ay" Four hostile newspapers - Said the grea,
Napoleon, are more 10 be feared than hundred
thousand bayonels."
ryo In tho Criminal Court at PHILADELPHIA, on the
18th ult, DR.. STErAEH T. BfALE, convicted some
time ance of an outrage upon Miss NUDGE, wus
sentenced to four years and nI months imr isonment
in the county Jail Prevou, t. the sentence Il, made
speech, in which Re asserts his eiirs innocence and
censu:ed the district a::.ornsy and the jury.
81 rrne Rus,ellrille tTenn) Herald sayn the ven
.rable Bishop SouLu remarked, in the se,oon Of The
Confsrenc. on Thursday morning the 23th ult., when
the report Of the committee on Temperance was up
for consideration that he was now "a years OF age,
and tho, he had yet to learn how whiskey tasted!
e<-v The London correspondent Of the New York
Time, writes tha, pending the SoyLE difficulty the
Americans residing in Paris, numbering from eighteen
hundred to TWO thousand, declared they would leave
France with Mr. MASON, if he should be compelled to
do so on being denied the asked.for apology
~ CALpEnos DE LA gARcA, formerly Spanish
minister a, Washington i, said to bo in eIo in Paris
since the outbreak in Madrid
Fy The Postmaster Generals Report speaks more
fvoraby OF the working of the chenp postage system
than any since 1851
- rather curious incident, rays the Jackson
(aiss Mercury OF Saturday, occurred in our streets
Yesterday large train OF emigrant wagons from
Henry county, Georgia, vending their way to Texas,
with gang. of negroes, was met by another similar
train, from the same sec,ion returning from 1exas
Sy JOSEPH WHITE hn, been arrested in New Or
leans, on charge Of having murdered Levi Barrow,
in Liberty county, Texas, Dome ten months ago. He
10 also accused OF having attempted 10 gSi Two slaves
belonging 70 c,zens of New Orleans into his possess
sion by fraudulent representations thai he had money
deposited in certain houses and could easily pay for
tho neCroes Between the different charges against
him. WHITE will he very likely to get hia dessrs lie
is at present awaiting requi,on from The Governor
of Texas.
~ Two men, both dreadfuIly burned, were found
on tho top OF lime kiln on the outskirts Of Bali.
more, last Sunday morning. One Of them, named
Aonzo Mari, was already dead, and hi, companion
was reduced 10 such state of exhaustion from the
effects of the fire md the gas escaping from the lime,
that was questionable whether he would recover.
rw A Pastor in one of the New Jersey Churches
has made arrangements TO emigrate to Kansas with
some forty families belonging 10 his congregation. This
reminds IL, of the times Of old, when the multndes
were led into strange lands BY their ministers instead
Of their generals.
ET- JOHN l.. Norris, OF 81. Mary's county, Nd,
has been sentenced TO The PeneniiarY for five years
and seven months, for killing his slave.
~ The typhoid fever, reported to be- raging with
with great rirulency at Charlottesville, Va.
ES No business was transacted in either branch Of
Congress on Thursday, in consequence Of the an
| nouncement Of the death Of Hon. PRESLEY EWING,
of KY They adjourned till Monday.
~ Ii is said that Mr. DoDBrS the Secretary OF
the Navy is well satisfied that the six new frga,es or
der.d by Congress it, last session, form nnclens
ong, for the American Navy it should be. He will
present. in the strongest light the imminent cessity
for very large increase in this branch of the service,
and not improbably urge the immediate construction
cf a, leas, dozen additional of the first
class.
s~ PARDoNEp.-The brothers JAMES and New.
TON VIcKERs, says the Carolina Times, recently tried
in York District for the murder Of DoDsoN, were
fenced TO be hung on the 29lh instant We learn that
ono of the parties, who recommended fit SUBJ
ject for Executive interference, has been pardoned by
Hi, E1cellcncy, Gov. MANNING, and in lieu of being
hung, will remain in confinement until November next
The other will be executed in accordance with the
sentence of the court.
Gg Men are like tea; their real strength and good
ness cannot Be properly drawn out till they have been
in hot water.
~ The Washington Star a'ates that the impres.
sion is current in European diplomatic circles of that
city that tho Spanish Government, acting under The
prestige or influence Of what has Of late transpired IN
France, will certainly again refuse to receive Mr.
SoULE.
~r A friend Of ours. pauDing house where shere
wns a.funera stepped up to an Irishman and asked
him if he could inform him who was dead The Irish
man replied: a. cannot exactly say, sr, bu, pre-
sumo it is the man in the coffin"
Ep Our last advces from the Sandwich Islands
are quite satisfactory, far relates to the
tion project, against which hear of no further de-
monstrations being made by the British Consul. From
Tahiti the reports Of a melancholy character
Some portions OF The country had been nearly depopu
lated by the small poI
g The Prohibitory liquor bill, which il is thought
will pass the Canadian Legislature is of more strn
gent character than even the Maine Law. 1t positive
prohibits the manufacture sale Of intoxicating
jquor Of any description under rerero penalties. 1t
10 p,saibo tho may 10 vetoed BY the Governor