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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17
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.. .uuIu not be more close and
dreary You might walk here in good stiff
hurricane and hardly know it; Il summer shower
might pass and leave you dry. You are in the
region of perpetual shadow, and the women and
children who sit and sprawl upon The door-steps
are scarcely less indoors than when languished
in their dark and fetid room; and no wonder
for according to actual measurement, the courts
vary in breadth from six to twelve feet. Here
are the holes in which our human fcllow.crea-
lures swarm like vermin. According to report
published in the Daily News Of May lst, no less
than fifty inmates were found to reside in one of
the houses in Middle Series places (formerly
Little Shre-lane,) and in Shipyard many of the
houses are built back to back, entirely preyen-
--sng thorough ventilation. The gentleman who
aeathe examination states that water butts
s5pt in underground cellars, the walls and
ocS4ng of which are continually damp to the
touch, and where the water, mbbing the filthy
exhalaton of the place acquires dreadful odor; ;
that the ceilings of some Of these cellars are ac-
tually below the level Of the roadways, so that
the inhabitants are obliged to burn candles
through the whole day, with the exception of 4
few hours, and that terrier dogs are kept in ma
ny of the houses as i protection against rats
i
sums of money are drawn every year by letting
and s:5 citing. Hideous women, foul and slat-
tcrnly loll out of windows, or lean against
door. posts, overcome with terrible lassitude and
Incidence, which cannot fail to arise from tile
Influences by which they are surrounded; not
impudcnt and brazen, but oppressed with the
hopeless burden of their lives. The children,
sulIen, dirty and iercc-young tigers, without
their beauty or their heallh-play or fight in
the roadways amidst the cabbage-stalks, potato
peengs, oyster shells. and standing puddles.
Men are very seldom seen. And over the young
and old tower the melcholy house-fronts, shut
ting out the sky and the breeze, and, black and
saturated with the peslient vapors which are
rising unseen around them
t!Hang their poisons IN the sick air.o
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17
A FRENcHwoMAN AT HOME.

She helps to cook the dinner she has bought
for servants are wasteful with CHARCOAL and
she knows TO an inch how little she can use. In
that marvellous place, a French kiichcn-where
two or three little holes in Il stove cook such
delicate dishes and perform such culinary feats
as our great rearing giants of coal fires have no
conception of-She fits about like fairy. Great
ing magical messes out Of raw material of most
ordinary description. She mixes up the milk
and eggs thai make the foundation of the soupe
Il cosee, if it be meagre day, This sorrel soup
is great favorile in economical households, and
is vauntcd as being highly fraiciiisSant for the
blood-indeed, one of the mnst strefreshing things
YOU can take, next to ii tisane of lime flowers.
She mixes the salad--oil, salt and pepper, are
all she puts into il; she fries the potato chips,
or peeps into The pot Of ha:lcots, o. sees that
the spinach is claen and the asparagus properly
boiled. And then she turns TO the plat sucrc,
or sweet dish, it. she have one for dinner--the
riZ au rlum, or the nufS Il III nege, or the ere me
a la vanilie-a simple enough and cheap, and
not unwiliingy rejected if properly made. in
fact, our friend does the work of i head cook,
the servant doing the dirty work. Yes, though
a lady born and bred, refined, elegant and agreea-
bic in society, Il belle in her way, yet she does
not think it beneath her dignity to Tighten the
housrlould expenses BY practical economy and
activity The dinner of Il French family is cheap
and simple. There is always soup, The meat OF
the stew pan--sometimes, if not strict in eSpen-
dture, another plate of meat--generally two
vegetables dressed and eaten separated ly; and
sometimes, not always, sweet dish; if not That,
4 llIle fruit, such rs may be cheapest, and in
the ripest season. But there is very little Of
each thing, and it is rather in arrangement than
in material that they appear rich. The idea
that the French are gourmands in private life is
incorrect. They spend little on eating, and they
eat inferior things, though their cookery is. ra,h-
er science han a mere accident of civilization.
A, home the great aim of The French is to save;
and any selfsacrifre that will lead to this result
is very cheerfully undertaken, more espeei&fy in
eating and in the luxury Of mere i1leHess. No
Frenchwonan will spend shilling g5save her
self trouble. She would rather work. gke u
dray-horse to buy an extra yard of ribbohaar ~
new pair of gloves than lie on the softest sofa in
the world in placid fine ladyism, with crumpled
gauzc or bare hands.
How TO KEEP GATHERED FRUIT AND Flow
ERs ALWAYS FREsH--Fruil and flowers may be
preserved frum decay aud fading by immersing
them in solution of gum arabic in water two
or three times, waiting sufficient time between
each immersion to allow the. gum to dry This
process covers the surface of the fruit with a
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17
EFFECT OF IMAGINATION.

Many years aeo u celebrated physician, author
of an excellent work on the effect Of imagina-
ton, wished 10 combine theory with practice, in
order 10 confirm The truth of his proposition.-
To this end he negged the minister Of justice
to allow him to iry an experiment on criminal
condemned to d,:th. The minister consented,
and delivered to in in assassin Of distinguish
ed rank. Our s-,ram sought the rulrrlt, and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

Every school.boy knows that 4 kite would
not fly until it has string tying it down. 1t is
just 30 in life. The man who is tied down by
half dozen blooming responsibilities and their
mother, will make stronger and highe, flight
than the old bachelor, who, having nothing to
keep him steady, is always foundering in the
mud. If you want to ascend in the world, tie
yourself 10 somebody.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

PArENrs-Since the first of January 1854, as
We learn from the report of the Secretary of the
Interior. there have, been issued upwards of six
teen hundred patefts, and, within the year, the
number will reach nineteen hundred, which will
be about double the number issued during the
last year. The arrangement by which this result
has been produced was judicious, and has proved
satisfactory to all parties nterested.-Washing-
ton Sentinel
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

POPULATION OF MIssEsorA.-The st. Paul
(Minnesota) Pioneer says, From all that We
have seen and heard relative 10 the number of
persons who have settled in Minnesota the past
season, we should judge that not less than
twenty five thousand actual settlers have pitched
their tents with US since the opening Of naviga-
ton. They have not settled in any one particu-
lar locality, but dispersed themselves all over
the territory. Next season the number will be
much increased"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

The FIRES AND CASUALTIES OF l854-Du-
ring the last year, there were forty fires in the
United States where the loss exceeded 100000,
or upwards The entire loss of property by
fires during that period is estimated at Sl5,0OO,-
600. During the same period, 600 persons were
killed by steamboat and about 200 by railroad
accidents
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17
THE EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER;
IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY
WE. DURISOE & SON, proprietors.
ARTAUR SIMKlNS, Editor.
@~ 10 III Sa

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contracting. Transient Advertisements must be paid
for in advance.
For announcing Candidate, Three Dollars, IN
ADVANCE.
For Advertising Estrays TolIed, TwoDoars, to be
aid by the Magistrate advertising.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

quesllonaDiy ue ,"U or~..:.!e :I.; -
the naval flags of all nations. The old treaties,
which closed its navigation by the most impene-
trable Of diplomatic barriers, will be annihilated
forever. International relations on the Black
Sea will be reconstructed on 4 new compact, and
this most important body ofwater will be brought
again within the pale of the civilized world
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

IGNORANCE is an expensive luxury. The want
of little gumption costs many life of COM
fort, convenience and similar fine things. Mr.
Short don't know but everybody is as honest as
other folks, and so gets taken in every time he
goes out. Miss Simple, too, has universal
confidence in everything and everybody, and pays
for the privilege by being universal victim.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17
A CHILD AT PRAYER.

d V111AU IA @1tR 4 ~@3|'
Sweeter than the songs OF thrushes,
When the winds are low;
Brighter than the spring time blushes,
Reddening out Of snow,
Where the voice and cheek 50 fair,
OF the little child at prayer.
Like a white lamb Of the meadow,
Climbing through the light;
Like y pries.ess in the shadow
OF the temple bright,
Seemed Ehe, saying Holy One
Thine and not my will be done.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

sw AN exquisitely dressed young gentleman,
after buying another seal to dange about his
delicate person, said to the jewe!er that he
would-ah like to have-ah something engraved
on it ah to denote what he .was"" "Certainly,
certainly, will put cypher on it," said the
tradesman,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

The EXECUTION OF VIcKERs.-In accordance
with the terms Of the sentence, the extreme pen
atty of the law was executed, in our town, on
Friday the 29lh ut., upon james Vickers, con-
victed for the murder of William Dobson He
was attended to the gallows by the Methodist
minister. Rev. Mr. Creighton, and after engaging
in the customary devotional exercises and ex-
pressing his readiness to abide the justice of the
law, calmly and firmly met his unhappy fate
The feeling Of morbid curiosity, which is part
of our nature, brought together number of
persons to witness the execution but we were
glad to see that the crowd was unusually small
and without an exception demeaned themselves
with propriety in keeping with the solemnity
of the occasion. Above all, we were pleased to
meet with but little of that sickly sentiment
which, in sympathy with the misiortunes OF the
criminal, would bring in question the justice of
the law which condemned him to death. Let it
be remembered that this sanction has been Or
dained by wisdom superior to that of man, and
that the criminal but pays the righteous forfeit
of his own crimes.
The brother, Newton Vickers, whose sentence
was commuted by His Excellency Governor
Manning will remain in prison until next No.
vember-Yorkville Enquirer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

GP To restore drowned miser 10 conscious.
ness-whisper in his car that "stocks have gone
up" This was tried in Paris, with the happiest
effect. A money broker was restored to life by
it. after laying ia the water over three weeks.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

YELLOW FEvER-Dr. E. H. Barton, who was|
placed at tho head of 4 sanitary commission byj
the City Council of New Orleans to investigated
the cause Of the epidemics which have lately
prevailed in that city, with view to guard
against their recurrence, has concluded his re-
search, and the results are comprised in vol-
ume of five hundred pages. The New Orleansl
Bee says:
"Lel it never be forgotten that the conclusionl
reached by DR.. Barton is, that "yeew fever isl
an evil, remcdiable and eXtinguishable by humanI
agency" Having demonstrated this Important
truth, the author Of the report sets forth in de-
tail the various measures to be employed forl
the gradual but certain banishment of the cpi-l
demic. They are of course hygienic in their
character, and comprise many suggestions here
tofore offered, with some others peculiar, We be-
lieve, to the writer. The theory that yellow fe-
yer is the invariabe sequel to marked distur-
bance of the soil of the country, is one which,
we do not remember ever TO have seen advanced
before, and we must admit that the analogics
cited by DR.. Banton, and the illustrations and
arguments used by him in support of his views,
seem to us to bear the impress of truth"
COOKING FooD FOR ANIMALs.-Raw food isl
NV III ~ w S"S %SHa'SS
of animal life. The experiment, often tried, has
proved that l5 or 10 lbs of cooked corn is equal
to so lbs of raw corn for hog-feed. Mr.. Mason,
of New Jersey proved that pork fed with raw
grain cost l2dc. pound, and that from cooked /
food 44c. Cooked cornstaks are as soft and
almost as nutricious as green stalks. 1t is an
improvement that pays. Cattle can be fattened
Mt about half the expense upon cooked food in
cio oh ot oth thars fad nj
on raw food. would not cook food for horses.
Carrots are valuable for horses, because they
sist food to gelatinize. For oxen, 80 quarts Of
corn meal boiled in 60 gallons Of water and +
poured over cut corn stalks, make excellent feed.
1t is we'll known that hogs fatten fast that follow
cattle fed with whole corn In all stables great
deal more food than we can afford TO loose passes
off undigesled and goes into the manure pile
1t is poor economy to feed hogs or horned cattle
on any kind of raw grain. All course feed
should be chopped, and corn-stalks in partlcu-
Iur, are increased in value very much by steanng
Professor Mapes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

REsPIrE.-We understand that Peter Cosnel
has been respited. He was condemned in Spar
tanburg for the murder of his father.in:law, butt
has been respited on account of his feeble rsate
of health.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

JUST so.-The Boston Mail fatty contradcts
the report that the Pacific Ocean is to be enlarg-
ed for the purpose of accommodating the grow.
ing commerce of California
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

eY'"I cannot hear children" said Mrs.
Prim disdanfully. Mrs Partington ooked over
her spectacles mildly before she replied. "per.
haps if you could you would like them better"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

sw A Texas exchange says that the earth
is so kind in that state, that just tickle her with
hoe, and she will laugh with harvest"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

THERE is 4 distillery in Albany, New York,
which daily converts 400 bushels Of Indian corn
into whiskey, whose business amounts to $780,
900 per annum Another WHICH does busi-
ness of some S35O,OOO Or 100000 per annum,
while the manufacture is said to be worth to
that city Sl,OOO,OOo annually. But recently the
h~""c &c .-.t;-L Loot ennnl ranaivcd an order
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

ExTRAvAGANT people are never generous.
The man who pays fifteen dollars for vest,
would think he's being robbed" should you
ever call upon him TO give six shilllngs towards
burying old Bristes, the shoemaker.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

SY- The ague RACES SO in some parts of
Iowa, that the people are obliged to sleep with
corn cobs in their mouth, to keep from shaking
their teeth out.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

OK late excursion up the Mississippi, gcu-
tleman in the wash-room said to the captain OF
the boat:
aCan't you give me clean towel, captain?"
"No," said the captain, more than fifty pas
sencers have used the towel there, and you are
the frat one that's said word about it"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

A convict in the Ohio Penitentiary recently
cut off his fingers to avoid being set to work.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

w Miss Smith says she will never marry a
widower with family, and for this reason she
is down on secondhand children" Sensible
girl that. 1rr "ea, RI -
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

cSatU
ings in that State single man on their ticket
who WAS not voted for BY the aboliionists
Mr.. Gidding. did not know of Know
Nothing in Michigan.
Nr. Stuart. Was not every candidate on the
State and Congressional ticket put in nomina-
tion by the wings and abolilonsts, no;oriously
known in Michigan as Know Nothings?
Mr.. Giddings. did address an intelligent
audience IN Michigan on the principles | profess,
but never heard any inlimation that my hearers
were Know Nothings. want all parties, here
or elsewhere, to avow and proclaim their senti-
ments, without deception and fraud.
Mr.. Keitt, aluding to Mr.. Sellers, remarks
about secession and abolitonism, said, as 10
notification, it had been illustrated and expound-
ed by the great intcllccts Of his own State
Calhoun, McDulie, Hayne, Preston, and all
other great men-who swept in convolution
CT splendor over the sky of South Carolina
We, he said, fought the battly openly. The
nuIifcation party Of 1882 sought no subterra-
mean hole to ferment in, and no Catiline was
there to foster midnight conspiracy and when
denounced, offering himself as Know Nothing
in the Senate.
We Offered to fight the Government on prin.
ciple in open day-the Government brought oul
its stars and stipes; but the sons Of Carolina
were under their Palmetto flag in defence OF
their friends, and ready 10 perish for the right
was member of the secession party of 1850
The sons of that State are ready to give their
blood when their country demands it. But if in
peace the Government strike our liberties, by
Heaven III strike back. only owe allegiance
to my State, and through my State to the Gen.
era Government. When anything personal is
said, | shall answer by monosyllable (Sen.
salion.)
Mr.. Letcher imagined that not five men in the
House had thought of the pending bill since the
discussion commenced. 1t was to relieve pur.
chasers and locators Of swamp and overAowed
lands. He confined himself to the subject, and
finally the bill was amended and passed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

sY" THERE is an old lady in Troy so full of
sympathy, that every time her ducks take bath
in the mudgutler, she dries their feet by the fire
to keep them from catching cold.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

~ SOME of our exchanges mention the fact
of a" Know.Nolhing" having been turned out
Of the society of which he was a member, for
drinking an irish whiskey punch with German
silver spoon itI it..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

N- THE man who is always fortunate cam
not easily hays great rere9enes for virtue
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

nv OODoA'A
And wors! Of traitors prv'-,
Blu, LEI not anger, Neither pride,
Thy coolor rcasoa move.
Thysrlf agains. his wilcs secure,
And be more wstcllful yet,
The wrong with forti,udc endure,
But never scold and fret.
This maxim holds good every where,
And nature proves it true,
Thst nrortals bu, increase their care,
Who fretting stop 10 view.
The cunning spider proves my rhymes;
He calmly builds his net,
And tho destroyed one dozen times,
lie does not scold and fret.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

ECONOMICAL" My !ad," said Traveller TO Il
little fellow, whom he met, clothed in pants and
small jacket, but without very necessary arll-
Gle OF appareld "my lad, where is your shirt! :"
"Mammy's is washing it,
Have you no other! %
"No other" exclaimed he urchin in surprise,
would you want Il boy to have thousand
shirts :"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

DEATH PREFERRED TO DIsHoNiR..-Durng
the Irish reign of terror in 1898, Il circumstance
occurred, which, in the days Of Sparta, would
have mmurlalized the heroine; il Is almost un-
knowll-no pen has ever traced the story. We
pause not to inquire into principles that lniluen.
ccd her suffice it that in common with most OF
her stamp, she bcIlcId the struggle as one in
which liberty varied with lyranny. Her only
sou had been taken in the acl Of rebellion, and
was condemned 10y martial law 70 death she
followed the Office, on whose word his life de-
pended, to The place Of execution, and besought
him to spare the widows stay; she knclt in the
agony of her soul and clasped her knees, while
her e, es, with The glare Of Il Inanac, fell on the
child beside him. The judge WAS inexorable,
the transgressor must die. But taken advan-
tage of tie occasion, he offered life TO the cul-
pril on condition of his discovering the members
Of the association with which he Was connected.
The son wavcrcd; The mother rose from her
position Of humiliation, and exclaimed: my
child, if you do, the heaviest CURSE Of your moth
er shall be poisoned in your veins" He WIS
executed The pride of her soul enabled her to
behold his death without 4 tear; she returned 10
her home--iile support Of her declining years
has gwen way, and The opening ot the day that
saw her lonely and chldless, left her at rest
forever Her heart had broken in the struggle.
-AluckruZe's Gazette.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

e8 NARROW SoULs.-It is with narrow
souled people us with narrow-necked bottles
the less they have in them, the more noise they
make in pouring it out.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

specimens of fruit, particular care should be
taken to cover the stem, end and all, with the
gum. A good way is to wind thread of silk
about the stem, and then sink ii slowly Ill the
solution, which should not be so strong as to
leave particle of The gum undissovcd. The
gum is so perfectly TRANSPARENCY that you can
with difficulty detect its presence, except by the
touch. Here we have another simple method OF
fixing the fleeing beauty Of nature, and surr"un-
ding ourselves ever with those objects which
do most elevate the mind, refine the taste, and
purify the hcarl-Country Gentleman.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

- SCANDAL, like Il kite, to fly well, depends
very much on the length of the tail it has to
carry.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-01-17

A man called upon an unfortunate lradesman
to pay demand.
81 can never pay it." said he. " am not
worth f;,rllling, but will give yoL note.
am not So poor yet nut thai can sign IL note u