Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-05-21
P0STOFFICE ADDRESSES,

sometimes gets thessbeneft of blunders o
which it was never.guity. The Dead Let
ter office at Washington is not filled altogeth
er by the carelessnessof the subordnates o
the Postmaster General. The carelessnes
of those who put, matter in the mail has al
most as much to do4with it. If letter il
misdirected, the Postpfice is not going t.
hunt up the proper direction, and how Otter
letters are sent on Wild goose chase by per
sons who utter grievous complaints about i
afterwards, the clerksin this department o
Uncle Sans business only know. The sto
ry of the Irishman who thought the address
to his "brother In Ameriky," sufficiently
specific, is no fable; Blunders quite as un
reasonable are continually repeated. One
of the coinmonest of.them is to write illegi
bly,, or entirely omitin the address, the name
of the State. ln the latter case, like the
gender OF verb wilhtwo nomnatives agree
ing with the most Werthy, the letter is gene
rally, but not always. presumed to belong tc
the State in which Ills mailed; in the for
mer, it may travel about till it is delivered
up to the flames in Washington. To show
the necessity of themost explicit direction
of matter which is to be entrusted to the
mail, glance at list of the Post Offices in
the United States, and the numbers of the
same name, will be sufficient. Taking oul
illustrations from such as are found in out
own State Of South Carolina, and it will be
seen that:
There are IL Cbarlestons; 19 Columbus
the same number ofs.Hamburgs; l6 Cam.
dens; 20 Greenviles. % Chesters 9 York.
vlles; 81 Mount Peasants; l9 Manches.
ters l2 Midways; IS La Oranges; l5 Rock
viles; l6 Millvilles; s Summervilles; q
Centrevilles; 10 Baths; IL Belmonts; II
Brownsvilles; Is Roekvilles, and I Ridge.
viles.
There are 4 Snow Creeks; the same num-
Der of North Creeksand Buck Greeks; IL
Cedar Creeks; II Big Creeks; 8 Willow
Creeks; the same number Of Mountain
Creeks and Martins Creeks; 2 Fowlers
Creeks, and the same number of Sleepy
Creeks
There are l6 Pleasant Hills; 6 Cottage
Hills; 5 Hickory Hills;7 Liberty Hills; 4
Locust Hills; S Sugar Hills, and Sand
Hills.
There are q Chesnut Groves; 10 Spring
Groves 8 Mill Groves, and Holly Groves
There are IA Edsns; 8 Antiocks; II He.
brons; 13 Mount Carmes; 9 Shilos; ID
P Prnyiden@ @S220 I apens and l6 .Bsthels.
There &c IS Basna Visias; 6 Aaiafsngos
l6 Montereys; 8 Cherubuscos; Is Spartas
IL Lmas, and l6 Monticellos.
There is nothing in the peculiarity Of the
name, which will. confneit to single State
for there are 9 Calhouns 3 McCopnellsvtles
8 Travellers Rests; 4 Pinckneysyilles;
Pea Ridges, and Rehoboths. There is 9
Shop Spring in Arkansas, as we'll as in New.
berry; Poverty Hill in Georgia, as welLas
in Edgefeld; an Oconee Station in Illinois
as well as in Pickens a Pocotalgo in Vir'
ginia, as we'll as in Beaufort; a Feastersvile
in Pennsylvania, as we'll as in Fairfield; q
Gentsville in Florida, as well as in Able
Vile, and Gum Swamp in Georgia, as vel
as in Marion.
The conclusion is that it is better to write
the full address of every letter in very
plain hand.- d.-Charleston Standards.
GENERAL WALKERS CAREER.-The N
O. Courier, aludes in the following manner
to General Walker, of the Nicaragua army
The writer Of this article has known
William Walker from his childhood and has
it therefore, within his power to correct sew
eral errors which prevail with regard to him
In the first place, then he is native Of the
city of Nashville, Tennessee, his father be
ing of Scotch birth, coming, we believe from
Glasgow or its vicinity; his mother, who
was sister of John Norvel, at one perioe
Senator in Congress from Michigan. being
a native of Kentucky. William the eldes
of their children, is about thirty-three OF
four years Of age. At school and collegt
Walker was most taciturn and studious; ht
was particularly proficient in mathematic.
and the exact sciences, and on his gradua
ton at the University of Nashville, he wen
to Edinburg. where he wenh through tb'
School of Medicine, and afterwards attended
lectures on that science at Paris and thet
travelled over considerable portion of mid
die and southern Europe. On his return t.
Nashville he found that neither his health
nor his temperament fitted him for the life o
physician, and came to this city with th'
intention of studying law and obtaining ad
mittance to the bar. He pursued his studies
for some time, and was admitted to practice
but never, we think, n ade any very strenu
GUS attempt to advance in the profession
Sh6ftly afterwards he became connected
with the Crescent, and devoted himself will
great earnestness and zeal to editorial labors
The experiment did not, however, prove sc
fortunate as he had expected, and he there
fore gave it up, and followed the example o
many other adventurous and ambitious spir
its, by going to California. In that State he
was also for a while connected with tht
press, and at the period of the descent upon
Sonora. which he made with q handful o
followers, he was, if we baye not been mis-
informed, again trying his luck at the bar
However iii advised and unfortunate tha
adventure may be regarded by many, all vii
agree that so far as its history has transpred
Walker displayed indomitabie nerve and he
roism in the midst of the sternest difficulties
ANOTHER TREATY WITH MEx1co.-O1
the authority of letter from Mexico, whi' !
It inserts, the Journal OF Commerce state'
that our Minister to Mexico has essential,
adjusted the terms of Convention with th'
Comonfort Administration, by which we ar'
,l;oo &C Mov;oon to.,;to