Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-10-06
VOL. xxuI...No 80.
FEVER ABATING In CHARLESTON.
Tbe Mercurv of the 9th inst, says:

only eighty-one interments from yellow fever
for the past seven days. The cloud which has
been overshadowing our community for SO many
weeks is lifting, and will, We trust, speedily
disappear. With bereaved and sorrowed hearts,
our people, who have been so busily engaged
in aleviatng the distresses of the suffering, will
Look to the Source Of all consolation with thank.
fulness for their own preservation, and gratitude
/ for being enabled to adequately perform, the
sad and solemn services that have fallen to their
lot, and return to their usual avocations A |
have lost friends and cquaintances-many alas
too many, relatives and members OF their own
families. With the loosing Of the ties of this
world, We have been more strongly bound to
that which is to come.
The epidemic of the present year has been
marked with peculiar fatality few of its re-
cipients surviving. Though its ravages have
been most extensive among the foreign-born
and the unacclimated, yet the native and those
who deemed themselves entirely acclimated
have been stricken. 1t has been particularly
fatal among young children. Even our servants
have been attacked, some Of whom have fallen
among its victims. Throughout its prevalence
no panic has been perceptib1e among our citi-
zens. They Lave nobly met the exigencies Of
The occasion, and discharged the most harrow
ing and mournful duties devotedly and unhesi-
tatingly.
We are proud to chronicle the noble offerings
which have been transmitted to our Howard
Association, by other communities in our State.
We assure them, in return, their charities were
most timely, and have been appropriated in ac-
cordance with the generous desiresl Of the do
nors. Such deeds are among the most honora-
ble Of this life The remembrance of the readi-
, ness and fullueSs with which the country re-
sponded in tue honr of our affiiction, wil'be
none the more enduring, because we hope never
to be called upon to reciprocate.
MonE AFRICAN TEsrIMoNY.-A correspon-'
dent of the New Orleans Crescent, writes from
Cibolo Valley, Bexar county, Texas, on the 30th
August: l.gS.
Several years ago wealthy planter died in
Kentucky, leaving large number of negroes
emancipated, and sum of money to defray
their expenses to Liberia and to purchase home
there for each family. Tho Instructions OF the
deceased owner were carried out. The negroes
were sent to Liberia, and there comfortably set
tied. After an absence Of few years they all
returned to Kentucky and implored the brother
of their deceased master to take them: into his
service He complied with their request and
they entered gladly into bondage as his slaves.
With these negroes the brother moved to Texas,
and he has now one Of the finest plantations
and he!best, set of servants that have seen in
this State. That brother is Mr.. Weir, whose
hospitality am now the recipient OF.
When the fierce winds of adversely blow
over you, and your lifes summer lies buried
beneath frost and snow, do not linger inactive,
OF sink cowardly down by the way, or turn
aside from your course for momen,ary warmth
and shelter, but, with stout heart and firm step,
20 forward in Gods strength to vanguish trou-
Die and to bid defiance to disaster. If there is
ever time to be ambitious, it is not when am
bition is easy, but when it is hard. Fight in
darkness fight when you are down die hard,
and you won't die at all. That gelatinous man,
whose bones are not even muscles, and whose
muscles are pulp-that man is coward.
MUTUAL FoRBEARANcE-Tha house will be
kebt in turmoil where there is no toleration of
each others errors, no lenity shown to failings,
no meek submission To injuries, no soft answer
to turn away wrath If you lay single stick
of wood in the CRATE, and apply fire TO it, it
will 20 out; put on another, and they will
burn and half dozen, and you will have
blaze. There are other fires subject to the
same conditions. If one member Of q family
gets into passion, and is let alone, he will cool
down, and possibly be ashamed, and repent.
But oppose temper to temper, pile on the fuel,
draw in Others of the group, and let one harsh
answer he followed by another, and there will
soon be blaze, which will enwrap them all in
its burning Leat.
An EvEyrFUL HoSEYMooN.-A correspondent
of the Athens Banner, writing from Laurence
vile, Gwinnett Co., Sept. lSht, says:
Mr.. John Roper, one CT the South Carolina
chivalry, was married about two weeks ago came
to this county, and on last Monday stole negro
from Mr.. A. 6. Holmes, was arrested and brought
here yesterday to-day be plead guilty, and was
sentenced to the Penitentiary six years. An
eventlul honeymoon, our readers will say. he
SAYS he is from Pckens district, S. c., and claims
to be connected with one of the most respecta-
ble families Of Rabun county.
An ENGLISH "BREAcn OF PROMISE CASE
In England, lately, asuit for breach of promise
of marriage was brought by fshermans beau.
tiful daughter against y captain IN the English
army, fixing damages at $4,000. The love let
ters of the gallant captain were so numerous
that they were printed for the accommodation of
counsel, making in all q volume of 1913 pages.
The matter was finally compromised by the pay.
ment to the injured lady of the sum Of $4,000,
with the promise that the volume Of letters should
be burnt.
WAR UPON DooGER1Es At MoSrooNERY.--The
Mail gives an account of the recent doings OF
"Capt. JONES'" and his company or rather bat
talon, in Montgomery. For the purpose of get.
ting rid of the nigger doggeries. with which
Montgomery is infested, they last Monday night
visited nine or ten suspected places and destroy
ed all the liquor they found there, in some cases
those of the more notorious offenders, proba.
bly-demolishing furniture. They must have
busted twenty or more barrels of bust head. One
barrel of brandy was tn c only liquor they found
which would burn.
EE-aHow are you, Count 2" said wag to
spruce-looking specimen Of the genus snob.
aSir-r-r-rg' exclaimed the indignant swell,
"who are you, and why do you call me Count p
"Why, I saw you counting oysters in New
York last week, and l supposed you were OF
royal blood" said the wag.
Snob vamosed. y
An old lady of Massachusetts, cannot conceive
what necessity there is for uniting England and
the United States, when so much trouble was
taken, some years ago, to separate the TWO
countries.
@- The comet now visible will be Of most striking
brightness during the first week Of October, possibly
the largest of the century, and at that mn Will bs
aeen near Arcturus. seE.z.,;s,s 80,
ET sailor, looking serious In a Boston chapel