Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-11-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


ne- Mr. Dodge, our Minister to Spain, and Mr..
Mason, Minister to France will bo ii is stated, re-
sign and return home in the spring.
ty 1t is the opinion Of tho United States officers
acquainted with the of Utah. that will cost
sluO, 900, 900 to cxpel or subjugatc the Mormons.
10 Tho Tallahassee Sentinel understands that
the bills of tho ssAbr rWestern. Railroad Bank Of
Charleston, s. C., which has IN agency and large
circulation in Florida, selling in Thomasvillc, at
IS cents for other bank bills, and 30 cts for specie
If this be true, only say that the bill holders
arc sadly dupcd.
l1- The Raleigh Registcr announces that the Bank
of the State of North Carolina suspended specie pay
ment last Wednesday. This is the mother bank, and
| ,vc suppose the children will follow the example.
ew Ladies, prepare for IN extreme change in your
hubis, for Paris correspondent of the New York
Courier says the ladies are coming out without hoops
bustlc, waddins, or anything else.
G.S- 1t was Cobbett who aaid-and ho told the
truth, too-that woman is nover 80 amiablo as when
shc is useful; as for beauty, though men msy fall in
love with girls at play thoro is nothing to make them
stand to their love like seeing them Mt work-engagcd
in tho uaeful Offices of homo and family.
ET THK South Carolina Conference will meet al
Charlotte n. c., on the 25th November, and Bishop
Paine will preside.
~ Telegraphc adricss from Now Orleans on
Thursday last, present lamentablo picture of the
effects Of the monetary pressure in Sugar and Molss
ses. They have declined about so per cent. in five
days.
~ Private dispatches from Lauronce, in Kansas,
state that Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton have
fled from Dcnica, in consequence Of tho threats Of
the ultras. Tho pooplo Of Lawrence have offered
them an asylum and protection.
|I- TnE Albany Puiriot Of Thursday says:-
The ears now run to within about two miles of the
town. and hope they will reach tho Depot by Sat-
urduy."
Gc- A letter in tho Presse Of Venice aays it il
perfectly truo that tho Russian Government has sct
apnrt six millions roubles for tho reconstruction of
sebnstopol, and that, although the treaty Of Paris
forbds tho building of Notifications, it is supposed it
may be easily eluded
Gs~ The Governor of Maryland has applied to
the President for troops, if necessary, to preront
outbreak in Baltimore at the election in that city on to-
day wednesday, but it is believed that the President
will not grant his request. Gov. Wise, Of Virginia.
has sent 5000 Muskets to Baltimore, at the request
Of tho Governor.-Great excitement prevails in the
city.
tY The Winnsboro' Register learns that several
planters in that vicinity are taking measures for
shipping their cotton direct to Europe.
Gs- Examine the advertisement of tho Executors
of the late D. I. IIollinssworth. It sets forth an
array Of valuable property soon to be aoll
I'D Partridge hunting has iairly sot in with us.
Several companies have been out sluughtcring tho
birde. Wo were with q party Saturday last, which
killed ffty-sercn. A pretty fair beginning for tho
season.
gJ- Curn-shuckiugs are on hand in all parts of
the Country, and tho moonlit welkin is made to re-
sound with tho dcep-toncd corn-songs of the happy
laborcrs.
E Curncilles piece indicates the truo poetic tenn
poramcnt little moro cxactnoss of vcrsifcaton is
necessary to mako her verses read smoothly.
5sS- large quantity Of land was sold at this
place on Monday last the greater pnrt Of which
brought more than ten dollars per acre.
E1s- The London papers announce the death of
Mr.. Thomas Crawford, the distinguished American
sculptor. c died in that city the 10th Of October.
~ monster Iulian passed through Chattanoo-
n last week, going to the Atlanta Fair for exhibition
This human monster is said to bo seven oct nine ich
" high eighteen years old, weighing AGO lbs.
~. Tho Commercial Bank Of Columbia, the |
Charleston, Union, and State Banks, Mt Churlcston
nd perhaps one two Of the interior banks of the
State, have pot suspended specie payments for their
ills.