Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-10-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


the bills Of any other than specie paying bnnks The
State treasurer has issued circular directing that.
"nothng but gold ana silver, their equivalents,
will answer for the payment of taxes"
Gfs- 1t il stated in financial circles in New York,
that the steamship Persia which left Liverpool the
18th inst, will bring s2,OOOoOO in specie.
~ Tho corner stone of building intended for
the congregation Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South Mt Aiken, was laid OH the 10Th inst, with
appropriate address from Rev. u. S. Bird.
~ The drought having cut of the corn crop on
the Texas frontier, the squirrels arc emigrating to
Arkansas swimming tho Red river by thousands. It
is stated that ono woman killed FIVE hundred with her
washing implements, in one day, on the bank of the
river. Rather tough.
tsE The Sentinel says that bear weighing 200
pounds killed in the upper partof Barnwell District
few days ago. Several of the "varmintS" have been
seen in that vicinity recently and Capt C. c. Cooper
wounded very large one, near his residence, the
Eli:to.
sI Intelligence has been received in Washington,
announcing that Brigham Young publicly declares
to the demands Of the Government Of the United
States.
ty We understand that the official returns from
all the counties have been received at Millegcvc,
and Joseph E. Brown is elected Governor Of Georgia
by majority of eleven thousand an fty-scvcn votes
over his competitor, Benjamin II. Hill, Esq.
~ Mr.. WILLIAM MILLER, of Hamburg, lost
very valuable negro few days since in that Town
who died very suddenly whilst driving drny. 1t
is supposed thnt the disease Of which he died was Oh
apoplectc fit.
GD- The Pennsylranian says there thirty
thousand operatives and working men without en-
ployment in the city and vicinity of Philadelphia.
These, with their families, make up it is thought, full
one hundred thousand persons
laa- sl,O6O,96 worth of boots and shoes we're cr-
ported from the United States to foreign countries the
past year.
B~ The Arabs have good proverb on what is
called tho "lucky man." Thoy say I" fling him in
the Nile and he will come up with fish in his mouth"
GS~ England has given official assurances to the
United States government that she will not interfere
with any of arrangements in regard to treaty rcla
tions with Nicaragua for a transit route.
5s5- Spain is represented to be on tho eve of an
other crisis That country in fact seems to be
out of one; yet, if increase of population bc proof
Of prosperity Spain ho. been and is cninenty pros
porous, for the population amounts to l5,5lS516,
or 1886, ,664 moro than at tho last census.
sss- Richard Taylor, Esq, only son of the late
President Taylor is the Democratic candidate for the
Senate of Louisiana in the St Charles district
IsS- Charles Mackay, the popular song writer, mr.
rived in New York on Saturday from Europe. He is
one of the editors of the London Illustrated Newa.
gaS> 1t costs the New York Central Rail Road
Company one million hrco hundred and Fifty thousand
dollars ycar for wood.
5sf,- An cpicurean dyspeptic, applying to physi-
clan fer advice, told to steal horse. lie would
be put in rcntentiary, the dict and exercise of
which would restore him.
a5- ThcLynchburg virginan of the 18th inst, saya
there snow the mountains within sight of that
place on the previous day.
g1i3- One Of tho partners in prominent Philadcl-
phia frm that lately suspended, kept two carriages,
five light riding wagons, four fast horses, two dogs,
two coachmen and five scrvGut girls. I. is no won
der such men fnil.
aS- Tho last quarterly returns of the business
Of the Now York city post Office, which WI, re-
ccive;i at the department in Washington city in
day or two after the close Of tho quartor if stretched
out page by page continuously, would mako string
of paper quite thrco mile. long
g:5s- The proprictors of the Grard House, Phia-
delphia with view Of adapting their charges to suit
tho times, have reduced the price Of board from So,
to $500 per day.
s:y Col. Benton is improving slowly, but it il
feared that his disease is chronic and that he may
never recover his health and usefulness.
tsT correspondent Of the New York Times ear
nesty urges the necessity Of u National Gank us Il
grand regulator CT the currency.
&4e- Mrs. Cunningham has not left New York "for
parts unknown '-shc was Sick und could not attend
court.
- 1t has Lecn thought that people desencra-
ting. bccnusc they don't live long in the days of
Melhusesl. But the fact is provisions 80 high
that no boly afford TO live very long, ut the cur
rent prices.
@S- 1t il stated that at Lagos, tho greatest slave
market in Africa, prisoEcrs Of war arc sold Mt from
S25 to S7j payable often in tobaccoand other articles
of traffic. and that many Of these slaves will bring
$1,000 in Cuba.-Lagos is tho place where tho British
have abolished the slave trade So Says tic EOston
Pos.
BARyIM ONCE MoRE.-Thr Stamford (Cunn.)
Advocate says: "It is certainly with pleasure
that we announce the probable fact that p. I.
Barnnrn is again on his legs; that he is today
q richer man than he was before his connection
with the jerome Clock Company. 1t is said
that he has bought all the claims against him.
self for from five to twenty-five cents on the
dollar, with the exception of some $4,000 in
and about Danbury, which lie will probably have
to pay in full. The whole Of the vast property
assigned by him: for the benefit of his creditors
has again passed into his hands, and he is now
and re.ftting lrarstan in good
style for his future permanent residence"
KANsAs.-Thc returns of the election in Kan.
sas are still incomplete, and the character of
the newlyelccted Legislature is involved in
doubt. Alvces from Lawrence to the 18th
claim Free State majority in both branches,
but it is added that in many precincts the Judges
are throwing ont votes upcn the ground OF III
formality. A letter. from Quindaro gives the Free
State men nine and the other party four of the
and says tho House Of Representa-.
tives will contain twenty-five Free State men,
and thirteen pro.slavery men, with four districts
TO hear from. Parrutt's majority as Delegate is