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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-04-15
qbe a0uertiser.
ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR.
EDGEFIELD, s. C..
WEDNESDAY, APRIL Is, 1851.
ss nIINNIE,s, "MY MOTHER"

Another very nico sample of n beginners poetici-
zing. "MISSIE" and LILLE" make r good little
match of poctical ponies, if they will permit us the
expression; and we would like to have them traned
rightly. The truth is, they so good match that
we find some difficulty in telling 'tother from which.
Go Oh, girls
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RELIGIOUS NOTICE,

Rev. T. c. TEASpALr, H. u. will preach in the Vii
lagc Baptist Church. Tuesday night 2lst instant
lie also requests the Pastors of the Gsnl and Lit
tie Stevens Creek Churches, to make appointments for
him at o'clock, A. NJ un Wednesday 22d at Gilgal,
and Thursday Odd inst at Little Stevens Creek.
Will the Pastors of these Churches, brethren HRrS-
son and TnArr please MAKE the appointments.
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A WORD TO DELINQUENTS.

No subscriber to our paper should take offence d;
our sending his account for payment 1t is not alone
with one here and there that pursue this course.
but ndiscrminately with all. Our object is to make
the cash system reality; and We feel certain that
readers and advertisers will all be we'll pleased with
its operation when once fully carried out.
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MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN COLUMBIA.

The election held on the 9Th inst, in Columbia, S.
as Mayor, by Il majority Of one hundred and nine
teen votes, over DR.. JOHN H. BoATwRIGHT.
The Aldermen elected are--Rurus D. Sem, NJ.
A. SHELTON, DR.. W. POWELL JAMES PEcKnAu. A. X.
TAYLOR and JOHN CoRDERO.
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COMM NICATI0N Is.
For the Advertiser.

For the Advertiser.
The Undersigned takes this method Of returning his
thanks to the citizens Of this place for their generous
efforts in his behalf at the late FIRE.
S. B. GRIFFIN.
April IA, 1857.
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ROYAL STARCH.

Mr. RAMSAY at the Post Office has superior kind
of starch, the kind Qeen Victoria of England uses
Oar roncr tried it yesterday and We have on the
shirt now. 1t gives smooth polish to linen without
making it too stiff and does not need the help Of sperm
It is also used without heins boiled. Try it.
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BRING ALONG YOUR CORN-MEAL.
Our Stean-Nfi is burnt up and corn meal is badly
wanted at this place. Will not the good farmers bring
in enough to supply the necessities Of the pluce They
will confer favor on their citizens here, and
receive good price; cash down, for the commodity.
We repeat hurry on the meal.
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CHALMERS, BLAIR BAscoHsE, or even the grsat sPuH-
oEoN himself? And the uarrutor says mt the end:
Here the preacher cnved in, completely dono up,
and falling back ON the seut, began to fan himself
with white cambrc, while the congregation went OF
in particularly steep hymn adapted to the extra sky
larkng, short-lck metre"
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FOR CONGRESS.

1t now appears TINT, beside the two Edgoheld ean-
didatcs for Congress- there is hut other viz Hon.
c. P. SULLIVAN, Of Laurcns AL the rest have dis
tnctly declined.
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MB- An election held in Watcry Branch Company,
on the It'll inst, resulted in tho choice of Lieut.. Mo-
srs y. HoLsrEiS for Captain, he having received q
plurality out Of ninety eight votes cast.
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alone If women are foolish enough to get married,
do pleuse let their dress alone If they contrive to
appear in public one fourth Of year ut time, do
let them do so.
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ENGLAND AND TIE UNITED SrATEs-At ban
quet given to the Palmerston ministry, by the
Lord Mayor of London, the. ..2lst ult., Lord Pal
merston spoke on the foreign policy OF Great
Britain and thus alluded to.the relations with
the United States:
81 will only say believe that at no time in
recent years has there existed 50 thoroughly
sound and wholesome a feeling as now prevails
between the people of this country and the
United States, who, understanding their resipro-
ca interests, feel determination that those in:
terests shall not be disturbed by quarrels and
disasreements, which may partially dersnge,
though they do not interrupt our friendly com.
muuications | believe that this amicable feel
Ing is shared as well as by the Government Of
the United States as by the Government Of Her
Majesty, and we have this advantage-,hat the
eminent man who has now been raised BY the
voice of his countrymcn to preside over the des-
TIMES of those States has but recently left our
shores, has lived among us, has mixed with all
classes of our people, and has been able to aop'
preciate the esteem and respect felt for his
country by all sections in these kingdoms"
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Nnw NInaonic Hall.

The brothers of tho Masonic order will hoar in mind
that their next meeting will be held in the new hall,
3rd story Odd Fellows i Masonic Building.
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We HEAR BUT ONE REPORT from all who use
Perry Davis Vegetable Pain Killer, and that is,
that its wonderful power in relieving the most
severe pain has never been equalled.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICE

The Rev. +. T. BELLrSGER may be expected to per-
firm Divine Service in the Episcopal Church on Sun
lay next, commencing at the usual hours.
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rs THs ladies arc making progress in raising
means for the purchase of Mt Vernon. new zoSl
has recently been enkndled for tho enterprise ny
urgent appeals from the "SOuthern Matron." DO
not tho ladies of South Carolina wish place in the
picture?
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From an article in the spartanburg Express
We learn that Col. Orr positively declines re-
election to Congress. The Express says, in no.
t;c;np a short address maic by Col. Orr, to n
party Of young men who had honored him with
a serenade, on Tuesday evening the 3lst ult:
"Col. Orr took occasion to express his graft.
tude for the renewed marks of appreciation and
esteem which those present had given him, and
TO say that no circumstances in the future, which
he could now conceive Of, would induce him to
be a candidate for reelection, but with the per
mission of his constituents, he would reserve bis
decision upon this for the future"
Col. Orr would be, if returned to the next
consress. prominent candidate for Speaker of
the House, and we hope that be will be induced
tn rc-consider his determination to retire from
the Houye of Representatives.-Augusts Con-
stitutiouslist.
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w A copy Of my Commission will be left with
the Clerk Of the EdgeGcld Court OH Monday next
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It is left to "DAIsY," LILLE, MISNIKr Hno
all tho rest to say if ours is not tho best selection
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

e- The "Montgomery Mail" of Wedne..
day last, contains an eloquent letter from r..
IL. Watts, Esq, addressed "To the American
Party of this (Nlontgomery) District" We
admire the ring of the following extract and
commend it to the Americans Of Tennessee:
Let us organize our forces, fellow Ameri-
cans Let us fight on, fight ever until our
Jam has Gen established in the hearts of the
people! Let MS teach our opponents, that
only the Lexington and Bunker flill of Ameri.
eanlsm have been fought; and, although diff
cnltles may surround us, and dangers harrass
us-stllI, we fight, with the assured conf
dence, that the Yorktown of our triumph
awaits us,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

o. The strike among the conductors of
the freight train on the Baltimore ard Ohio
railroad was eflectually put down on Monday
by the authority of the State. The strike
resulted in very serious riot on Thursday
afternoon. All the trains were stopped by the
rioters near Ellicotrs mills, and three were
obliged to return to Baltimore. One train
only got through. Several musket shots were
Tired from the cars, and two of the rioters
wounded. The strike was very general, and
there was much excitement all along the road.
The strike appears to have originated in con-
sequence OF some new regulation of the com.
pnny' to which the conductors were opposed.
The business operations of the road will now
go on as usual.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15
REMARKABLE LIKENESS AND MAR
ROW ESCAPE

In the cnse Of the young woman found
murdered at Newburgh, supposed at first to
be Sarah Blooms remarkable state of affairs
existed, which came near costing VIM. Jen-
kins, who was last seen with Miss Bloom, his
life. Miss Bloom appeared, showing that the
dead body was not hers, and that Jenkins,
was, of course, innocent Of her murder for
which he had been arrested. The News says:
The resemblance was indeed extraordinary.
The body had scar on the left eyebrow
precisely where Sarah has one the body had
cut on the main finger Of the left hand pre-
clsely where Sarah has one of the same char.
acter; the body had small black mole about
half way between the ankle and the knee, on
the shin bone, exactly where Sarah had one:
but strongest of all, the body has two toes on
the LETT foot grown together, precisely like
Sarah's except that Sarah's are not grown to.
gether so far down on the joint the toes Of
both feet of the body, like Sarah's, were
pressed together from wearing tight shoes.
and Sarah wears coral ring on Just the fin
ger from which on the corpse ring had been
stripped. These facts, connected with Sarab's
absence, the curious story of Jenkins as 10
where he had left her, the incident of her
going in direction where she did moi b.or
OF tbe discovery of the body, and was not
herself head from for four DAYS, combines TO
make probably one Of the strongest cases of
c'rcumstantlnl evidence against Jenkins that
could well be conceived.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15
WALKERS PosITIoN.-The following, from

WALKERS PosITIor.-The following, from
the accounts BY the Illinois, Is the latest and
most authentic intelligence from Walker:
On the 18th, the steamer Panama arrived
at Panama, with the news that Walker wns
hemmed In by n force of allies quintuple bis
number. and sure to be increased ffty Der
cent, before he could extricate himself; TINT be
was destitute of provisions, and cbnnces of
supplies cut off that the Costa Ricnns bad
the heaviest metal and good range upcn him.
but that he seemed determined TO hold out.
aud that he was well entrenched and other,
wise fortified. He has over six hundred men.
is well entrenched; living on mule and doc
meat; fighting ably at every point; bis men
deserving him at the rate Of FIVE per day: The
allies fighting him with twenty-four pound
guns against his nine Founders.
letter from DR.. J. p. Hogan, native of
Philadelphia, but for ton wears past n prom-
inent physician of Costa Rca, gives the fol-
lowing additional particulars of Walkers
condition:
A flag of truce WINS dispatched from Riyas
on the 25th Of March to Gen. Canns, offer
ing to surrender on being allowed a free exit
out OF Nicaragua. Gen. Canas declined, as
he had strict orders from President Mura 10
grant Walker individually no pardon; also,
Gen. flenningsen. Walker il now fairly sur.
rounded by about 1000 Costa Ricnn troops.
Gen. Canas has taken his position about L.
o yards from Rivas, having brought up
the chief portion Of his artillery to his DO
sition from st. George. We feel certain.
then, that at this date the fillibusters are
routed. Starvation alone would compel him
to surrender.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

t6 The Southern Pacific Railroad has
been endowed by the State of Texas with q
grant OF 100000 acres of land, and six thou.
sand dollars per mile towards it's construction.
The road through Texas will be 1888 miles
long! The land-taking those of the illinois
company MS basis-with which Texas hns
thus endowed this railroad, will BE- worth
more than hundred and twenty millions Of
dollars! In amount it is nearly twice us great
US the whole State of Massachusetts, and. in
quality, superior to the rich lands of the ILL
nols company, and said to be capable of pro-
due'ng anything from cotton and figs to po-
tatoes and oats.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

give have received short note from
the postmaster at Chattanooga in relation to
paragraph in Our last about an irregularity
in the arrival of our Nashville Exchanges
We had no intention of casting blame upon
that worthy functionary-we have always
heard that he was an efficient officer and on
estimable man. Delays in the papers from
Nashville have occurred frequently, and We
called the attention of our friend at Chatta-
nooga to the matter simply with a view of
ascertaining where the blame was, and hay
ing it corrected If possible. While complaints
from the press of both parties, about the un.
certainty in the transmission of mail matter,
have been constant and general for the last
three years, zoe have seldom alluded to the
subject-not half dozen times in all; and
we have kept silence because we preferred to
suffer the Inconvenience rather than wound
the susceptible nature of some honest officer
who had no control over the matter. We
repeat, we hid no design to locate the de-
lays at Chattanooga, or to cast an imputation
on the postmaster or his assistants; and we
are pleased to learn from him that there is
prospect Of large improvement in mail IA
cil;tioo
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

MURDERER's FATE.-Smon Dillon was
tried at Bowling Green, Ind, few days ago,
on charge of numbering his son fifteen years
previous, and acquitted for want of evidence
to prove his guilt. Facts were given, how
ever, that convinced all who heard them that
he was the murderer. After his acquittal he
quafied deep of the "damning draught," and
left the place for his home, some miles dis
tant, of which he was the sole occupant. His
nelghbors knew nothing more of him until
one day last week their attention was arrested
by the blaze of light from his burning house.
They reached the place just in time to hear
the cries of the wretched man who persisted
in the flames. The supposed murderer had
met his fate.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

PAY UP.-Don't wait to be called upon
pay up at the very time, in the church and
out-pay up-walk up-stand up. Be
scrupulous on this point, conscientiously
so-it is your gain, your interest, your safety,
your life. No man ought to put hand to
paper. make any contract or engagement,
without intending, expecting, determining
fully to refund the sum promised at the time
precisely, unless it be for n newspaper. Pay
your grog bill, but never for moment think
of paying off your printers bill punctually-
indeed it makes but little difference if you
never pay III What does an editor or pub
Usher want with money?
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15
The Washington Star says.-

The Journal Of Commerce labors through
a column to prove "that the National"
disease arose from m effort to poison Mr..
Buchanan; conteuding that those affected by
it caught it only just before Mr.. b. went to
the national, during his stay there, or imme.
dIatrly after he left there. While We agree
with the writer that the subject has not been
as thoroughly inves igated by the authorities
here as it should have been, n single fact con.
nected with II refutes the theory of the Jour
nal beyond peradventure. We refer to the
fact that persons caught the disease in the
house, while neither drinking (even wa,er)
or eating mouhful in it. That is simply
from breathing the atmosphere.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

The CROPS AND FRUfT.-The Huntsville
Advocate of Wednesday says:
Under the magic influence of the rain and
the warm sunshine, vegetation has rapidly
advanced. Good stands of corn and cotton
are appearing. With no more frosts and rood
seasons hereafter. a fine crop year will still
bless the country, and relieve it of its present
destitute condition.
The Cincinnati Gazette of the 4th says:
~, The lovers of fruit may rejoice in hope
me peach, cherry, pear, and apple trees are
fuli OF FRUIT blossoms and buds. If not de-
s,royed by avery late frost, the fruit will be
abundant. In fact, the late spring will prove
great advantage, for it has kept back the
blossoms Till they can expand with safety.
Inc loss of fruit has generally been occa-
stoned by late frosts near the first of Nav
bnt when the spring is late that evil is not
likely to occur.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15
WARD THE "wIFE MURDERER

The history Of Return J. Ward Is not with.
out precedent for his last act of brutality
and crime, II reports are true. The Toledo
Blade says:
A great many stories have suddenly obtain.
ed currency in regard to Ward, during his
residence at Plankton, Richland county,
a young man by the name Of Hall, who
boarded with him, suddenly disappeared, and
suspicious are entertained that Ward MURDER
ed him. Mrs. Ward became deranged soon
after, and It is said that she often made dark
and mysterious illusions to the circumstance
in her rawlings. We also find in the Ply
mouth paper statement: that young woman,
now resident nenr Shelby, but then In the
employ Of Ward as help; says, that some
time previous to the murder of Hall, pedler
stopped at Wards lie was on foot, and
carried his packs with him. Early in the
evening Ward told the girl to 90 home; as
she would not be needed that night. She
did so, and, on returning the next morning,
while Ward and his wife were at break fast,
inquired where was the peder? Ward
said he had gone long ago. The girl then
started to 90 up stairs to make the beds,
and was told by Mrs. w. that she need not
make them; she proceeded up stairs, md
went into the room the peder had occu-
pied, and was alarmed by the sight of blood
upon the bed and upon the floor. She quick.
~ decended the stair, put on her bonnet and
shawl, and left the premises. She told the
story to her mother, but it was never diynl-
ged to any until since Wards arrest for the
murder of his wife ut Sylvania, for fear of
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

MONROE CoUNTY.-Circuit Court has been
in session at jacksonville the present week,
Judge SWAN presiding. No very important
cases to try on the criminal side of the dock.
ct, the Jail having emptied itself before
the converting of the Court. On Tuesday,
Col. VIM. HEIsKELL, and Z. f. GRIFFITH,
Esq, nnounced themselves MS candidates for
Representative. We learned, before leav-
ing Madisonville, that Mr.. RuDD, who rep
resented Monroe in the last Legislature and
who was understood to again be candi-
date, had signitied his intention to retire
from the contest. =
There is much complaint in Monroe about
the scarcity of corn and "roughness," but
the growing wheat looks healthy and prom
Using, and with favorable seasons, the enter
prising farmers of that large and fertile
county will! soon forget the privations induced
by the late long and severe winter, in the
bounteous harvests that await their indus.
try.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

MAY WE LAUGH IN CHURcH.--Henry
Ward Beecher thinks that u congregation
may laugh in church, if there is anything 10
laugh at, though he does not think that PEG.
pie should go to church to laugh. Remove
the restraint upon laughing, which the sup
posed sonctity of the place imposes, and we
should soon have the congregations of some
churches laughing At as well as with the
minister. Laughing may be "just as good
sa crying, and good deal better" as Mr.
Beechcr says, and cheerluness may be "char.
acteristic of Christianity" but people ought
not to 60 to church either to laugh or cry,
or to indulge any other extravagance of feel
ing. They should go in the sober spirit of
rational beings, to listen to dispassionate ar.
gument and elevated reasoning, upon sub.
jects certainly as far removed from visibility
upon one side, as they should be from wall.
ing and grooming upon the other.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

GUANo.-rhe Petersburg (Va.) Express
states that euano is rapidly going out of use
in tho southside counties of that State, on
account of its expense and want of adapta-
ton to the soil. We don't know how it is 10
Virginia, but the farmers of East Tennessee
waste, every year, an abundance of manure
far more valuable for fersIizing purposes
than the bird deposit brought from the
islands of the sea.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15
For the Post.
INFORMATION WANTED

The last Legislature passed law requiring
bushel measure to contain 2l5O42 cubic
inches How many quarts will that measure
containf Is it larger or smaller than our old
seal measured Is there any man in McMinn
authorized to furnish county seal, in accord
ance with the late Act of Assembly, When
corn is worth one dollar per bushel, it is i'm
portant that all measures should be of uni
form size. Who will give the desired infor.
nation through the post" and much ohlige
rs
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

HHARD TIMEs."-The press North OF the
Tennessee river is complaining distressingIy
OF the "hard times" One paper says the
Judge had to adjourn the Court at Jacksbo.
rough on account of the scarcity of proven
der, and another says in some portions of
upper East Tennessee the poorer classes are
compelled to subsist on one meal a day. We
hope our brethren ure exaggeratng, and that
the distress is not as great rs represented.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

MANUFACTURING IN THE SoUTH.-A letter
from one of the upper counties of Georgia
gives most ilattering account of the cotton
manufacturing in that State. Many of these
factories Were established some years since,
and even at the present high prices of the
staple, are paying the stockholders handsome
dividends, seldom, if ever, falling below
20 per cent. The yarns and osnaburps are
of the first quality, and n better description
of cotton being used in their manufacture.
they lind more ready sale in Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York and Boston, than
similar products of Eastern mils-Er.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-05-15

GOVERNORS PRocLAMArloN.-Gov John.
son has issued a proclamation for an election
for Judge in the Second Judicial Circuit, in
the place of Hon. Ebenezer Alexander, re-
Gently deceased. The time fixed for holding
the election is the 18th of August. The
counties composing the Circuit are Knox,
Anderson, Scott, Morgan, Roane, Monroe
and Blount. 1t is said Hon. VIM. II. Sneed
and Jas. NJ. Welcker, ESQ.,, of Knoxville, are
candidates for the Judgeship.