Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-03-24

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of the Sd of February report the sale or SAT-
dull at eight cents per bushel. The Royal
Gazette states that 2l,000 bushels had been
shipped away during week, and that of last
wears crop there remained on hand several
| hundred thousand bushels, which could be lad
at very low prices. The salt pans at lnagua
are said to be in Il promising state. \ large
quantity was on hand there but no sale for it
Only three calgoes were disposed Of in all the
month of January.
The wind it blew, the SNOW it flew, and rails,
ed particular thunder-with skirts and hoops
and chicken coops-and all such kind Of plum
der.
SALE OF NEGROES IN MlssIssIPpI-Tle OK
ford Mercury mentions two sales Of slaves which
recently took place in Lafayette, at which one
man brought ST., $50, aud four women with four
children, SIS 800. At the second sale, one nc
gro, carpenter, brought 81, ,IO5. These arc
| high prices.
Were all the United States as densely inhabi-
ted as Massachusetts,, it would have a popula-
ton of 446,OO0, 600 souls, Of which Texas would
have 5O,0000O0,
WHAT NEyr.-The bogs of Ireland are be-
ine made to furnish candles of as pure parattne
F, as our American coal. There are no less than
100000 acres Of this peat land in Ireland
and tie yield is as good as so much coal would
he expected to give. The peat is from twelve
to forty feet thick. The candles arc found now
in this country, and are said to be as good as
wax.
Dutchman-Coot moryer, Patrick, how you
tuz?
Irishman-Good mornin' till ye, Mike-think
ye, will we git my rain?
Dutchlnan-I guess not; we never has much
rain in ferry try dime.
lrishman-An' ye're right there and thin
whinver it gifts in the way OF raining not bit
o. dhry wther will We git as long Us the wet
spell howlds.
John Mitchell, in letter to his paper, the
Southern Citizen, written from Vicksburg, Miss.
in the following paragraph shows the impression
which the great Southwest has made upon him
How deeply and urgently this nation need;
a good rattling war! a war with some nation
that is fairly its match-to occupy its mind and
give career to its craving and impassioneo
Youth. | tell YOU it is like Carleton'S tailor
sbue moulded for want of a JaWin;' it vii
blow up, like any other high pressure steam
boiler; and it is not insured"
ACuR1ous BusINEss.-A Philadelphia letter
of the 23d ult. says:
The following placard is conspicuously dis
played in a show case, on Second street, not fa
from Che:nut: "Good imitation Of gold coin
always keeps its color-for sale cheap" W.
took peep into the case and there beheld
tempting array of two-and-a-halyes, fves ant
twenties all well calculated to deceive unsus
pecting individuals, especially at night. Rathe
q curious business to be pursued SO openly.
A Rich MANA few weeks since Monsieu
Grefulhe, of Paris, deceased. He owns a Who'll
street there, which he built, and called Rn
Greffulhe, after himself. He is said to posses
more gold and silver, on special deposits at tn
Bank Of France, than any other banker in Paris
1t is not known what is the present amount {
coin at his credit, but when the revolution {
February occurred, he had SS,OOO,OOO in gold an
silver in the Bank of France, His mania is
have his specie deposit in coin, while the Roth
childs and other bankers keep their deposits
gold or silver bars or coin.
Ms- The young gentleman who was once heard
exclam, "that he would consider it disgrace to q
sociate with mechanics" is now acting clerk to q M
nuro wagon-and VIC might add hardly fit for that,