Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-04-23


E Thomas MCDONALD has been arrested at
Michigan city, charged with robbing the United States
mail of $4,000.
sy THE Episcopal Convention of the Diocese oil
Virginia will meet in Fredericksburg on the 2lst oil
May next.
~ THE Chicago Journal states tha, the tide Of
travel is fairly setting eastward and westward. The
trains moving to and oover the Galena road enor.
NOUS KANSAS, Iowa, Minnesota, are the words, and
whole cars full of "household goods are making
their way thither."
aS THE New York Courier, in alluding to the bad
efec Of the Maine law, says:-
"Thousands and tens of thousands, who are among
the most respectable portion Of The people Of the
State, and who sincerely wish we'll to the cause OF
temperance utterly disbelieve in this coercve SYSTEM
r 3ARuARIsM.-Th grand aqueduct of sebas.
topo, abuu, eight miles in length, width six feet and
mean depth seven feet and half has been destroyed
by the French.
aeSS' Two thousand working women in England
have memoriazed the Queen not TO open the Crystal
Palace, the British Museum, &c., on Saturdays
nsP TIE Postmaster General has appointed Will
liam P McCuly, Route Agen, on the line between
Charlotte and Columbia South Carolina, vice J. S.
S,igraves, resigned, at salary Of 500 year
~ TIE anniversary Of the bnttle OF San Jacinto
is to celebrated Galveston. This battle, fought
on the 2ls of April, 1886, established the ndepen-
dence of Texas.
assy DYING OuT.-The State Of Maine (Whig)
says: "We saw the statement few days since In
reliable anti. Nebraska paper in Massachusetts, that,
regret they might, he feeling of opposition to the
Nebraska bill was dying out
eSy THE Legislature of Alabama has passed a Nv
prohibiting gambling on steamboats,, under heavy pen.
alties.
ne SHAD are selling in Washington City at ten
cents piece.
n% new Post Office has been established al
Chapel Hill, Campbell county, Ca, and NJ. Smith
appointed P s'master
rys Boston has 5000 more females than males,
while Chicago has about fifteen thousand more males
than females.
- new Post Office has been established at
Table Mountain, Pickens District, and S, D. Keith
appointed Postmaster.
ty The Connecticut river is open to Hartford,
Lake Michigan is open, but tie Mackinac Straits are
still closed. The Welland canal w:R be opened about
the 25th inst.
neI' Rev. Daniel Ware and Rev. James Byrd,
Methods. missionaries, lately died In Africa.
nr The New Orleans Crescent chronicles the
remarkable fact, that since the organization Of the
Howard Association in 1887, no active member has
died.
aT A slave, carpenter by trade, was lately sold
in Adams county, Miss, for three thousand seven hun
dred dollars.
e WHAT THEY WANT.-The New York Mirror
we'll says Newspaper readers want short stories
acres OF roses condensed in phials Of O.tar."
~, ,ALpHEUs J. LYMAN, a Connecticut school.
master, has been fined $3.50 for brutay whipping
boy with a rattan.
~ THE reported recall of Mr. Wheeler, our Min.
lister at Nicaragua, is contradicted.
Er THERE is said to be living in New York, in
state Of great des,ituon, blood relative Of Gen.
Washington, named RuNNELL.
aI Col. J. G. KING, one Of the oldest settlers in
Texas, and formerly of Columbia S. c., died recent.
ly in Texas.
rV FLocks Of will geese are frequently noticed
flying Norlhward, showing that the climate at the
South ia getting too warm for them.
ey The New York Picayune has tho following
wi,ticism on Nicaraguen affairs: Motto for Colonel
Kinney-veni, Yid, vici- Versa"