Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-10-27
VOL. xxIII.-.NO 40.
From the Andersm, Gazette.
COL. JOHN D. ASDMORE.

COL. JOHN D. ASDN0RE.
The gentleman whose name heads this arli-
Gle has been chosen by the people of the Fifth
Congressional District to succeed our present
able and distinguished Representative, the Hon.
James L. Orr. And it is not for the purpose of
enlghtening our citizens, to whom he is most
fayorably known, but to give to the whole
country orr estimate of his character, TINT we
indite this article. We have taken no position
in our paper during the recent campaign for Col.
Ashmore, because We regarded the contest en-
tirely on the personal merits of the candidates,
and think that Editors, ut least, should keep
aloof from the public advocacy of men, when
Moreover his competitor, Maj. T. O: p. Vernon,
we regarded as an honorable and worthy gen.
tleman, entitled to the confidence of an ntclli-
gent constituency. if they saw proper to place
him in office. For these reasons, then, we did
not WELD our pen in behalf Of our fellow towns
man. Now, the people of our Congressional
resentative, and it is proper that we express nnr
qualification at the result, and accord to Col.
Ashmorc the just need of praise
Col. Ashmure, as the majority of our readers
know, was born in Greenville District, and
lived there until about the age of IA years,
when lie went to Pendleton, and became clerk,
we think, for firm still existing there. He
afterwards left this District, and locating in
Sumter District, pursued the study of law.
Soon after being admitted to the practice of
law, he married. At an early age, the citizens
of Sumter sent him to represent them in the
lower branch Of the Legislature, which positien
they repeatedly assigned linn, and which he
ll,,1 l.,,1 Il.
For several years, althoug ID young member, he
was Chairman Of Ways and Means, the nost
important Committee of the House. lnl853'
he was elected by the Legislature to the respon-
sible Office Of Comptroller General Of the State,
the duties of which he discharged with admra-
bic exactness anl correct understanding. In
1854 lie removed his family to our town, bought
lands a few miles in the country, and while
completing the ternrof his office, pursued at the
same time the vocation OF a farmer, in which,
we have heard his immediate neishbors s=cr Ii,
was most successful.
As politician lie has ever upheld the .;inci-
pies Of pure, consistent, Jeffersonian De- ,racy
In 1851 he was corporations nd dur, .e
recent canvass, he has repeated 80. u-
self States Rights Democlat, ai'i;rs 10
support the present organizatio = o.
cratic party, believing it to be IL, Y,I".h!o
party in the Union. In all re:, a. IS
we have heard his speeches, We 10 ':i,..'-
ence between his political cy,f, nGr 'rGI q!
our present Representative. 60. I. !, !"n ',.a>
in tho expression Of his views, rad: ,'ei.ae'
and possessed Of that energy a"c! t:.ae ,. ~;
acter which foreshadow the.work!ug arl ,.ri,i
member.
In person, Col. Ashmoreis lore -, tan
black piercing eyes-affible and 2,.',."s. =.
m,urers lie speedily wins the :,i,.s:s;c. .= !:t-
low-men, and their admirat;an Q; l;., six.
best known amounts to enthu-:,, 'a - . ~.
lie speaker, he Las gallant, tstj'cs ,'e ,,.:..
interests the hearer and asse : 'sa .e i !-,-
bued with the true graces of ~';.!y.
We predict for Col. Ashm ~ 10 ose' rI
rccr in the Federal Legislatu
BGoaDESr AT TIE Base s.,a.lr. n.o,!. o..
the first things you ought to c.nrtlr' :, auw =,
build up character. ALLOW .. T. til y;.: ~.
fact about it, which we hav. ''a:':' '.cih o'
scrvation. ltmust be built. awra III Il, be
firm and laSting-broad at '.>e- ,sD" ,..c
foundation m,lSt he good, at "a .'.rvgti,.
would crack and fall to picc.,. ..~ . :l.gta.-
lion from early buyhood, tor n,... 'i,..n.
industry, obedience to parer.-a i:.s .F- mi
above all, piety. BY and by % sill
he rs firm as pyramid; a aa.t G.s..s,,'4."rS
could not overthrow it. But ;r a.: cary
life is bad, to build cha"acir; "'i hs
ginning, would he almost a: !',': ~ 10 hni!..
and poise pyramid ON lis a.sX.
Az AnrrrL DonGga.-A late English paper
relates that one evening young man had just
fitted on II pair of new bouts in II shoe store,
when rorrshlnoking fellow stepped III and
struck him blow upon the head.
"Would YOU stand that?' said the customer
to the storekeeper, who, by the way, is known
to be fond Of sport.
"That wouldn't he replied.
The young man, thus encouraged, started
after his aSsaiant, and he must still be in full
chase, as neither he nor the boots have since
been recognized in Nottingham. 1t is needless
to say that the new boots were not paid for, and
b pair of old ones were left behind.
Tie latest novelty from Germany is musical
bed, which receives the weary body and immedi-
ately "laps it into Elysium." 1t il an invention
of mechanic in Bohemia and is so constructed
that by means of hidden mechanism, q pressure
npon the bed causes soft and gentle air of Au:
beer to be played which continues TO lull the
most wakeful to sleep. AT tic head is clock,
the hand Of which being placed at Il e hour the
the sleeper wishes to rise, when the time arrives
the bed plays march of Spontoni, with drums
snd cymbals, and, in short With noise enough to
to rouse the seven sleepers.
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"You have lost your baby, hear," said one
gentleman to another.
" Yea, poor little thing It was only five
months old. We dill all re Gould for it. We
had four doctors, hlissertd its head and feet,
put mustard puutlccs nil over it, gave it nine
calomrl powders, lsechcd its temples, had it
Jlcd and gave it all kinds of medicines, and
yet, after weeks illness, it died." za
E2sOur "Imp," seems somewhat pleased
with the following little paragraph; which he
says is an unconrovertable fact" andwe pub
lish it at his request:
Woman has found her true "sphere" at last.
1t is about q feet round and is made Of hoops.
aud crinoline. So ~. ~. 49, ~
AN Irishman fights before he reasons o
Scotchman reasons bcfhre he fights, an English
man is not particular as to the order Of prece-
dence, but will do either to accommodate his
Customers A modern general has said, that
the best troops would be rs follows: An Irish
man halCtlrunk, a Scotchman halfstarved, and
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