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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-11-10
;far11ers' Golnnlr,
From the Cotton Planter and Soil.
THE FARMERS FIREsIDE.

THE FARMERS FIRBsIDE.
How happy was the erenli,e,
Iu tho good old days now past aud gone,
As round tho farmers treside,
We gathered whom the day was done;
The fre-light Pickering on the wall,
Sweet voices sounded in the hall.
Then songs and mirth and tales won't round,
And many shout of laughter clear,
Rang out with joyous pealiug sound,
Which loving hearts grew warm to hear;
Gay shadows danced upon the wall,
Like city belle at the city ball.
The ruddy blaze of tho great pine fire,
Glanced on the good dame, happy and mild;
FURNISHED the locks Of the gray-hsired sire,
Painted the cheeks of the frollickipg child;
Frightened with lustre the long broad hall;
Cast many shadows on the wall.
And when the merry Christmas came,.
Stockings wore hung on the Christmas tree;
And the simple gift, and the good old game,
Made the old feel young, and tho young full Of
glee
The shadows fingered long on the wall
And light feet fingered long in the hall.
Many Christmases came and won't;
The old folks stood on tue brink Of the grave
Their forms we're withered and feeble and bent
And the youth grew up to manhood, brave;
Then the shadows trelnbls on the wall,
Like leaves # Autumn, ere they fall.
Those days are gone,-time swiftly fed
And green mounds where the willows weep,
Among the nations Of the dead,
Show where those old folks calmly eeep!
Then silence reigned within the hall,
And darkness shadowea all the wall
The little ones that sported there,
Scattered Ger earth far and wide;
Assailed by worldly grief and care,
Weep as they think Of the old fireside
In dreams they sport again in the hall,
Ard dance to tho shadows on tho wall
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-11-10

GATHER THE LEAvEs.-No manure is so well
worth saving in October and November as the
now falling leaves of the season. According to
Payne, they contain nearly three times as much
nitrogen Us ordinary barn-yard manure; and
every gardener who has strewn and covered
them in his trenches late in the fall or in De-
cember, must have noticed the next season how
black and moist the soil is that adheres to the
thrifty young beets he pulls. No vegetable
substance yields its woody fibre and becomes
soluble quicker than leaves, and from this very
cause they are soon dried up, scattered to the
winds, andwasted, if not gathered and trenched
in, or composted, before the winter shall set in
with severity.
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A x E N
Military & Classical Academy,

A / * e N
Military & Classical Academy,
THIS ACADEMY is designed for those who de-
Il sire that their SONS be carefully prepared for
admission into tho South arolina COLLEGE or oth,r
similar Institutions, into the Stae Military Acad
emy, or for the active business of life
The course of studies is specially adartrl TO
these ends, embracing so much Of tho Ena'!sh,
Greek, Latin and French languages and the Aia.Il-
ematics as are requisite; in all of which it is tho
aim of the Instructors that their Cadets become
thorough masters of fundamental principles, a;,d
acquire habits of thought and self-dependenre
Composition and Defamation receive their due
share of attention.
The Cadets are drilled in the Infantry Tactics;
and the discipline of the cadcmy is of tho Mil
tary order,-strict, infexible and impartial.
The second scholastic year will commence on
the First Monday in January 1859, to continnc Tor
ten months exclusive of two weeks vacation in
June. Candidates for admission must be able to
read and write with facility, and not bo less than
thirteen years old.
Tuition, Board, Lodgings, Books, Lights and
Fuel, furnished for One Hundred Dollars per ses-
sion of five months. payable in advance.
Parents will be required to furnish the uniform
and other articles of clothing.
For further particulars apply to the undersigned,
GILES g. MANGUM.
Aiken, S. c Oct. G, 1868. OF 80.
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MEcoNoM1cAL HlNTs.-l. Have q workbench
and few tools in your woodshed, or in little
room at one end of your barn. There are many
small jobs in the course Of q year, which any
man of common ingenuity can do as well as a
professed carpenter. And there are many rainy
days and " odd spells" when these jobs can be
done. And how much runnings to the village
and how much waiting and patience this would
save!
2. Have place for everything and every
thing in its place. Those tools-why should
they be lying around, the auger here, and the
jack plane there, and the saw yonder, and the
adze and screw driver nowhere? Don't put
away shovel, hoe, spade or any implement
without cleaning it. This may seem needless
Care, but in the long run it is saving of time
and money. Rust corrodes and weakens the
beStamase tools. There are men who leave
thsaPlows standing in the furrow, or laying by
the side of the fence from one year to another.
And the "bran.new" scythe is often left dang
ling from the crotch of an apple tree month
after month. Hear what sensible farmer says
"Drive in stout wooden pins to hang your
yokes upon; nail strips of board from joist to
jost to hang chains upon make rack over
head for pitchforks, rakes, turning sticks" &c.
To all of which We respond, So let it be!
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-11-10
Sept. 81, 1855

ANSLEY & son,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AUGUSTA, GA,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
BACON, LARD, FLOUR, GRAIN, &c.
WILL give strict attention to the Sale and
w Purchase Of Merchandise, Flour, Grain,
and all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE.
BY strict personal attention to business. we hope.
to secure liberal patronage from the citizens Of
Edgefeld and the adjoining Districts.
Orders for Bassing, Rope, Family Supplies, &c.
promptly filled.
Liberal cash advances made on Cotton and other
Produce when desired.
Augusta, Aug Is Sm 81
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-11-10

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
EDGEFIELD DISTRICT.
IN ORDINARY.
DYW. F. DURISOE, Esquire, Ordinary of Edge.
ID field District.
Whereas, Ehhn III. Thornton, hath applied TO me
for Letters of Administration, on all and singular
the gnods and ciattes rights and credits of Jacob
Thnrntun, late of the District aforesaid decd
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and
singular, the kindred and creditors Of the said deceas.
ed to be and appear before me- at our next Orinarys
Court for the said District to be holden al Edgsfed
Court House, on the 20ih day of November ins,., to
show cause, if any, why The said administration should
not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, this lst day Of
November in the year of Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ffty.eght and in tile eghly.third year
of American independence.
. W.T.. DURISOE, o.rD.
Nov. 8, 1858 St 43
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WHEAT SQEING.

We hear many complaints Of the total or
partial failure of the wheat crop, In various sec
! tions of the country. In some places it has
been Winter killed, in others smitten by rust,
and in many others cut of by the insects. Tic
truth probably is that, excepting destruction by
insects, there is about the same amount of in
iury received {, ON these sources rs occurs every
year. The business of collecting information
from the wheat-growing districts is now 50 sy:-
tematized that we hear much more Of failures,
than we were accustomed to ten years ago.
Whole columns of reports are published in the
daily newspapers, and the story of failure in
fifty counties of the union makes a great inn
preston Wheat has never been so certain
crop rs Indian corn. 1t is q more captiouS plant
in its wants, and must have more careful atten-
tion 1t demands porous soil, rich in Vegeta-
BILE matter, such as is found in the newly cleared
lands of the West. In old lands the n,echaaicul
preparation of ise soil IS a matter Of prime i'm
portance. The more nearly you can make it
like the virgin soil the better. If it be not a.
ready dry it should be made so. The soil
should he deeply stirred with subsoil plow to
let the rains pass down quickly, and to give air
to the roots of the plants. More wheat is Winter
killed by stagnant water freezing around the
plants than by any other cause. The deep
stirring of the soil is also a help in Summer,
guarding the crop against drought. If the land
Is not underdrained It should be plowed in mar
row lands, with deep dead burrows to give the
water chance to pass Oft into them.
Sow EARLr.-The experience of wheat grow
efs is very uniformly in favor of early sowing.
The sooner it is put in after the first of this
month the better. The roots have time to get
loId &c ba coil opd aosiI1p
thrown out by the frost.
SELECT YOUR SEED.-This may be done by
threshing the bundles only partially. A few
strokes OF the fail will knock out the plumpest
Kernels. Some of the tanning mills have rid.
dies for the purpose, running the smallest ker-
nels through, and saving the large ones for
seed. Attention to this matter is of great
Importance if you wish to keep up the reputa-
ton Of any given variety. The early red varie-
ties, such as the pure Red Mediterranean, are
most reliable against insect ravages.
Use drill if you cultivate wheat in any con-
siderable quantity. 1t will soon pay for itself
in the saving it makes in the seed, and in the
larger yield per acre. If without drill, plow
in the seed with shallow furrow.
MANUREs.-Do not be afraid of making the
land too rich. Wheat will not grow where
buckwheat and some other grains might yield
tolerable crop. Barn yard manures are al
ways good and safe. Ashes, lime plaster and
clover turned in green will each and all pay, in
certain conditions of the soil. As good wheat
can be grown now as ever, in the Oldest
parts of the country, if cultivators will heed
these suggestions whore the insects
happen to abound for the time being.-Nrh.
en-, Exchange.
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Copartnership Notice.
yHyHE Subacribrrs have formed copartnership
IL under the style Of
j. S. & j. A. BOWIE, & co.
For the purpose Of conducting
General Factorage & Commission Business,
IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON,
md sulicit cnsgnnents Of COTTON, FLOUR,
GRAIN. and other country produce for sale.
JAMESS. BOWIE and JOHN A. BOWIE,
will devote their entire time 10 the business.
Office on Crutral Wharf. !,
j. a. BOWIE,
l.. BOWIE.
Sept. 81, 1855 st 81
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Boot and Shoe Notice.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
EDGEFIELD DISTRICT, 5
IN COMMON PLEAS

rs. , F0retgn dtfGehnent.
John c. Thomas. ~
TUyIIE Plaintiff in the above stated case having
II. this day 6led HE Declarationiumy Office, and
the Defendant having neither wife MOI, Attorney.
known to reside within tho limits of this Stale On
whom copies Of said declaration with tu.esao plead
can be served, On motion Of Messrs. ,CarrolE:E
Bacon, Plaintiffs Attorneys. Ordered, That iaid
Defendant appear and plead to said Declaration
within year and day from the date hereof, OF
final and absolute judgement will be given against
Rn. TflOS, 6. BACON, ccr.
Clerks Office, Sept p, 1855, ly .3S
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NOTICE--All persons indebted to the Estate
~ of J. B. Talbert, deceased, are requested to
make payment ut an early date, and thuse having
demands against said Estate, will render them ia
properly attested for payment.
Is. Nj. TALBERT, Adm'or.
Sept 20, 1858 lam aS
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NOTICE is hereby given, that application
IN will be made to the Legislature at It's mex. ses-
siou for release OF al. the right and interest Of
the State in the Escheated Property of Charles
McGregor, deceased, to James s. Henderson and
Hugh McGregor.
July 90 1858 3nl 70
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NOTICE-All persons indebted TO the Estate
~ of David QUITS, decd, are requested 70 pay
the same without delay, and those having demands
against the same will render them in, properly ut.
tested, for payment. S4$S So s;::s.y.
sfsJ. Z. QUITS, 49,. 4.
L.BRoOKS. ~
Oct. 3, r1y rs 49,
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-15

PURE AIR.-The Eclectic Medical Journal,
of Philadelphia, in speaking on this subject,
very properly remarks that it is not only ne
cessary that men may have sufficient air to
breathe, but it is necessary to provide air for
the apartment itself in which they live, as well
as for the persons who inhale it. The infu-
ence of impure air is not only exercised upon
persons through their breathing organs, but
the surface of their bodies, their clothes, the
walls of their apartment-in short, the free
surfaces of everything in contact with the all
of the place becomes more and more impure
a harbor of foulness, 4 means of impregnating
every cubic foot of air with poison-unless the
whole apartment has its atmospheric contents
continuously changed, so that everything ami
mate and inanimate is freShened by constant
supply of pure air.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-15

WARNING TO THE Observation-Disclosures
Lamb tells his sad experience as warning to
young men, in the following language:
ssThe waters have gone over me. But out
of the black depths, could be heard, l would
cry out to all those who have set foot in the
perilouS food. Could the youth to whom the
flavor of the first wine is delicious as the
opening scenes of life, or the entering upon
some newly discovered paradise, look into my
desolation, and be made to understand what e
dreary thing it is when he shall feel himself
going down precipice with open eyes and q
passive will to see his destruction and have
no power to stop it, and yet feel it all the way
emanating from himself; to see all godlness
empted out of him, and yet not able to for
get time when it was otherwise, to bear a
bout the ptious spectacle of his own ruin
could he see my fevered eye, feverish with
the last nights drinking, and feverish looking
for to-night's repetition of the folly; could
he but feel the body of the death out of which
l cry, hourly with feebler outcry, to be deliv-
cred. it were enough to make him dash the
sparkling beverage to the earth, in all the
pride of Its mantling temptation.'
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-15

A Wedding ceremony was rather singularly
spoiled, in New York, last Tuesday. The
bride was decked for the bridal, the wedding
guests assembled, the clergyman present, but
no bridegroom appeared. 1t was discovered
next evening that when Mr. Luyster, (the
groom, went to get his wedding suit, he STOP
ped at a place on Fulton street, and drank a
glass of soda. He made the acquaintance OF
two strangers. and shortly aftcrward expert
enced peculiar sensation, arising. as he sup
posed, from drugs put into the liquor. He
went from the saloon where he met those men.
and hardly recollected anything until next
morning, when he found himself in Fourth av-
enue, with light summer suit on, instead o.
the black suit which he wore when he left
Brooklyn. He had two gold watches and two
hundred and fifty dollars in money, which had
disappeared with his clothes. He had no de-
finite recollection of any occurrence after he
had imbibed the soda water.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-15
VOL. 5.---NO. 3.
Pekin as Seem by an American.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia lnqui-
rer was at Pekin, the capital Of China, short
time ago, and what he saw of it, hoIs IL inn
pressed him, he thus describes -
son arriving at the capital of the Chinese
empire we find a city containing about two
millions of inhabitants. Such is the estimate,
but doubtless the calculation is made in the
usual spirit of Eastern exaggeration. Be that
as it may. the walls are fourteen miles in cir
cumference, twenty-eight feet high, twenty
four feet thick at the base, and twelve at the
top. There are spacious towers all around, at
seventy feet distance from each other, and at
the gates are lookout barracks, nine stories IN
height, for the soldiers. The metropolis is d.
vided into two parts, one inhabited by TartaIs
and the other by the Chinese. In each there
is a street four miles long and one hundred and
twenty feet wide, and the Emperor's palaces
and gardens occupy two-thirds of the Tartar
city and all this besides the suburbs, which
nearly populous the city proper.
''Pekin is located sixty miles south of the
famous Chinese wall, and therefore much ex-
posed to northern and hostile neighbors; yet
its Notifications are strong, and until the vast
machinery of modern artillery was invented,
the brother of the sun and moon was perfect
ly secure in his palatial halls. the walls, bas-
tions, and towers being impregnable in ancient
times. Although the country about Pekin is
sandy and unfertile, yet provisions abound, be-
ing brought by canals from all the great riS-
ers; and also with its commerce, the mer-
chants being paid in money, as the capital is
the chief recipient OF the revenues OF all Chi
ma. 1t has ever been regarded as a very ex-
elusive place, the presence of no foreigner be-
ing permitted within its walls; but now the
soutside barbarians' are in a fair way of over
leaping the sacred boundaries; and il is prob
able that this act, together with the opening Of
Japan, may prove an important step towards
the Inauguration of Christianity among tho
millions who are now benighted in Pagan idol
airy and superstition.''
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Wonder, Of the Created Universe.

What mere assertion will make any oae be-
Iieye that in one second of time, in one beat
of the pendulum of clock, a ray OF Hghl
travels over one hundred and ninety-two thou
sand miles, and would therefore perform the
tour of the world in about the same time that
it requires to wink with our eyelids, and IN
much less than a swift runner occupies in tax
ing a single stride What mortal can be
made to believe, without demonstration, that
the sun is almost million times larger than
the earth and that, although so remote from
us that cannon ball shot directly towards 1t,
and maintaining its full speed, would be TWEEN
ty years in reaching it, yet it effects the earth
by its attraction in an inappreciable instant OF
time Who would not ask for demonstration,
when told that gnat's wing, in its ordinary
flight, beats many hundred times in second :
or that there exist animated and regularly orga-
nized beings many thousands of whose bodies,
laid close together, would not extend an inch
But what are these to the astonishing truths
which modern optical inquiries have disclosed,
which teach us that every point of medium
through which a ray of light passes, is affec-
ted with a succession of periodical movements,
recurring at equal intervals, no less than nve
hundred million of millions of times in sin
gle second That it is by such movements
communicated to the nerves of our eye, that
we see nay, more, that it is the difference IN
the frequency of their recurrence which al
fects us with the sense OF the diversity OF
color. That, for instance, in acquiring the
sensation of redness, our eyes are affected
four hundred. and eighty-two million of mil
lions of times of yellowness, FIVE hundred
and forty-two millions of millions of times
and of violet seven hundred and seven millions
of millions of times per second +! Do not
such things sound more like the rawlings OF
madness than the sober conclusions of people
In their waking senses They are, neycrthe-
less conclusions to which any one may most
certainly arrive, who will only be at the trou-
| BILE of examining the chain OF reasoning by
which they have been obtained.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-15

WATEE.-Potatoes contain 75 per cent (by
weight,) and turnips no less than 30 per cent
of water. A beefsteak, though pressed be-
tween blotting paper, yields nearly four-ffths
of its weight of water. OF the human frame,
bones included, only about one-fourth is solid.
matter, (chiefly carbon and nitrogen.) the rest
is water. II a man weighing one hundred and
forty pounds was squeezed fat under hy-
draulic press, one hundred and five pounds of
wafer would run out, and only thirty five lbs.
of dry residue remain. A man is, therefore,
chemically speaking, forty five lbs. of carbon
and nitrogen diffused through six buckets OF
water. Berzelirs, indeed, in recording the
fact. justly remarks that the 'sliving organism
is to be regarded a mass diffused in water;"
and Dalton, by series of experiments tried
on his own person, found that of the food with
which we daily repair this water-built fabric,
fiye-siXthS are also water.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-09-15

ALONE IN LIFE.-Wh hat can be more discour-
aging than the feeling that in our struggle
through life, in our trials, and our disappoint-
ments, there are none to sympathize care
for US? No man can 60 very far with una
bated strength, courage and cheer, if he goes
alone. We are made to be rendered happier
and better by each others notice. appreciation.
help and praise; and the hearts that are de-
barred from these influences inevitably wither,
harden or break. Here and there are found
persons who. from pride, perverseness, or
from very sensitiveness, (Which they thus
seek to hide) affect to be altogether indepen-
dent of this notice and regard of their fellow
beings; but it is a very safe assertion to make,
that never yet was there one human heart that
did not, at some time, and in some tender and
yearning hour, long for the sympathy of 9TH
er hearts. And there is nobility in this feel
| ing.
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CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1853.

ssThe good child" said the old man unfold
ing Harry's letter. Margaret Maria could bear
no more and retired to her own room. Sadly
she took out the faded bouquet, pressing it to
her lips, murmered, ssAlas l married for
money! and as if demon had entered her
heart she exclaimed ,ssand MONEY I'll have land
not be cooped up here either.' The last that
was seen of her she was taking tour to Eu-
rope, and her husband was by her side talking
to her necessarily of SAW MILLS.
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Rather Curiously, the New York Evening
Post makes argument in favor of Free
Trade and Direct Taxation for National Gov
ermental purposes, upon the fact that the
New Workers submit to city taxation of
nearly one hunderd dollars per head for every
voter in the city. We can't see that because
they bear the burden complaining, as is evil
dent,) their backs and patience would not
not very probably break down under a still
heavier load. Don't try another feather, if
you are wise. Impost duties are not felt di-
rectly, however heavy; but eighty on a hun
dred millions of annual direct taxation, with
all the added expense of collection necessari-
ly accruing under any system, would be more
than any Administration could probably stand
under, though divided among the whole thir-
ty-two thirty. three States. Imagine the
cost and loss, through swindling and other
causes, which must almost inevitable occur,
in collecting one hundred millions of taxes
in thirty-two or thirty-three States. What
an army of hungry, peculating rascals and
their friends would be fed off the blood of the
people-become the supporters of a corrupt
Adhlinistration-ando override the popular will
if such system should be substituted for
a well arranged tariff, with such protection,
discriminatiye or incidental, as might be use
full or needful.