Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-04-18
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s REMEMBER that "Uncle SAM has adopted
the cash SYSTEM and no letter will be mailed unless
the postage thereon is paid in advance.
~" By reference TO our advertising columns it
will be seen that Mr.. FELIX C. BoDIE has declined
being Candidate for Sheriff at the ensuing election.
GY Isaac Newton, the well-known proprietor Of
the Hudson River steamers, died in New York on
Saturday.
sp The Emperor Nicholas by his will, which
was opened after his death by the present Emperor,
expresses wish that the duration Of the mourning
the occasion OF his death should be shortened much
possible.
agT England imported 3O,5i3533 pounds of tObac-
CO in 1854, from which she received revenue OF
eS So LATE spring as tile present has not been
known in Texas for thirty years past. Both corn and
cotton have had TO be repanted, account of the
bad stand from the first planting In many instances
planters have plowed up their ground entirely and
planted their entire crop But the drought continues
and there is now scarcely moisture enough to sproui
the seed The prospect is indeed discouragng Never
before have the rivers of Texas been known 10 be
low as now, at this Of the year. So suys the
Galveston News.
sy GREAT FrRE-Nearly eighteen hundred bales
Of cotton were destroyed by fire at Magnolia, Texas
on the night Of the 18th ut, the entire loss being esli
mated at sixty thousand dollars, which the largest
ever sustained by fire in Texas.
~ A STEP FoRwARD'-Bya law recently passed
in Michigan married woman may receive, buy, sell,
DEVISE mortgage, &c, her real and personal property
without the consent Of her husband and also and
be sued without joining the husband in the suit in
either case So the ide nifty OF the woman ndi.
vidual is beginning to be fairly recognised.
GSp THE corner stone Of new Episcopal Church
was laid by tia Rt. Rev'd Thomas Frederick Davis,
D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina al All
Saints Waccamaw, April, 2d 1855.
eSy THE TINES IN CALfroRNIA.-Passcngers by
the steamer Illinois from California give rather dis.
couraging account of business matters there. Me-
chanics and laboring men, they say, can find but little
the country is depressed extent far beyond the
representations OF The public journals.
~ Is UTAH, a collision has occurred in Salt
Lake city between the U. S. troops stationed the re
under COL Slep,oe and the Mormons, growing out OF
the soldiers expressing their opinion that Young and
Kimball are rakish old reprobaes Some of the sons
of those worthless being present, grand fight ensued
in which the boys fought with fists and clubs, and the
soldiers used their guns. After much trouble, the
military and civil officers succeeded in stopping the
riot A portion of the militia were called ont and
placed in the streets on guard.
sgP THE barns and stables Of DR.. C. II. Black, at
his plantation in Marion District, were totally con-
sumed by fire on the night Of The I'd inst About five
hundred bushels of corn and eight head of horses and
mules were consumed. Tie fire is supposed 10 have
been the work Of an incendiary.
PAUL r. GEORGE, of New Hampshire, is u candi.
date for the United Safes Senate. He used to boast
of being the man that nominated Gen. Pierce in the
Baltimore convention.
~ The importers and dealers in wine and spirits
in New York city are to have meeting in the Park,
some day this week. TO protest against legislative in.
reference with what they claim 10 be their constitu
tional rights.
~ Mr. S,ratton father of the we'll known dwarf
Tom Thumb, rendered famous by B rnum, has be-
come insane, and is now an inmate Of the Hartford
Luna,c Asylum.
rSy THE Hebrew population of Chicago seems TO
be quite numerous. During the recent celebration OF
the Feas, of the Passover there, about six thousand
pounds of unleavened bread We're sold TO them
Ey A New York journal states that lady in
that city has made quarter OF million Of dollars by
keeping school.
~ If thou hast but little, make it not less by
murmuring. If thou hust enough, make 1t not too
much by thankfulness. He that is not thankfully con-
tented with the least favor he has received hath made
himself incapable of the least favor he receive.
D THE Tallahassee Eoridian of the 7tl inst,
says: GA sale Of land known as the "Harris Ham
mock" about seven miles from town, was made last
Monday, under execution. The tract contained 2,l32
acres, and was sold in body at S2l,O6 per acre to
Gen. VIM Bailey. This is the largest price that has
been for land in Florida in many years.
Tt.r Wur.T CRop.-The wheat looks much