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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-06-22

hear about o place, or man; get far off. Il
| you lived here you would rarely hear of any
sickness.
3. This country is still q new country, but
rapidly filling up and improving.
4. In this communication I wished especi
ally to speak to poor men, who have no ne.
groes, and to small farmers. Many think o
white man cannotlabor in Florida, and Others
think, they ought to have a large force to;make
move here profitable.
5. 1t is infinite folly, and most sad mis-.
take to think white man cannot labor here
and enjoy health.
There are many examples in this very respect,
of families, who have not single slave. who
raise cotton, corn and sugar. They are the
HEALTHIEST people, just as they are the
world over. God made man to auorE-l0, 900
curses and woes are decreed to him that will
not work, and God made the world and East
Florida for man, aye white man to work in it
all lawful works. He who ploughs and hoes
all day in Florida, will be as healthy for doing
so here, as he that does so in Cobb. I have
hoed an entire day here and expect to do it
many day yet. I'wish Mr.. Editor you were
near enough that might send you,a sample
of my splendid Roses, and Strawberries. The
surest sign of an incorrigible fool, man or wo.
man is to think kwork, divine aoork and thatin the
Sun--glorious days God-under the magni6-
cent cope of heaven, will kill thep0
Let the poor man come and get him piece
of land and work it, and let his children work,
and he will have peace, plenty and health.
A poor man can dig more out the ground here
than in Cobb. Let me tell you. A man
living within three miles of Micanopy, who
now owns slauss and is rapily getting rich
started some years ago in this county.
Himself and wife Ia man, Mr.. Editor, ought
to have wife j. e. woman that can work
and will work. N. B. when man gets
preacher 10 marry him, he ought always to
pay him fee, as good as he can. married
several while I lived in Marietta who never
paid me. never knew man to do well who
did not pay me for marrying. I haze mar.
ried several in Florida, all have paid iuc, and
$40 is the least fee I have receiy d.
This man and his wife started, with no pro.
perty but themselves. That man ono year
sold cotton $500, corn and potatoes $500;
$500 he made by his own unaided labor, dug
it from the ground; can man do that in
Cobb saw that man this past winter on
his way to market; three four-horse wagons
were carrying a part of his cotton to Market
I could easily explain why you sometimes
hear accounts differing from mine. will
write again.
+. G.. Johnson,
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Selle(tt 4pttrg,
The Deserted Wife.

he comes not-I have watched the moon 60 down
And yet he comes not. Once it was not so,
He thinks not how the bitter tears do flow
The while he holds his riot in the town.
Yet he will come and chide, and shall weep.
And he will wake my infant from its sleep,
To blend its feeble wailing with my tears.
%! how love mothers watch to keep,
Over those sleeping eyes; that smile which cheers
My heart, though sunk in sorrow thick and deep;
Ihad husband once, who loved me-now
BE ever wears frown upon his brow.
And feeds his passion on q wanton'sli lip,
As bees from laurel flowers poison sip.
But yet cannot hate. o! there were hours
When could hang forever on his eye,
And Time, who stole with silent witness by,
Strewed, as he hurried on, his path with flowers
I loved him then-he loved me, too. Ny heart
Still finds its fondness kindle if he smile.
The memory of our loves will ne'er depart;
And though he often sting me with dart ..
Yenomed and barbed, and waste upon the vile ::
-Caresses which his babs and mine should share,
Though he should spurn me calmly bcar
His madness and should sickness come and lay
Its paralyxing hand upon him, then
I would with kindness all my wrongs repay,
Until the penitent should weep, and say
How iDjuredjand how faithful had been.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-06-22

A VENERABLE pEpEsTafAy.-Yestcrdsy
an old man fell down upon the pavement in
the upper part Of Broad street. Agentleman
passing by took him into a'house near, and
sent for q physician, supposing him to be
dying. Hesoon recovered, and being refresh
ed by cup of tea stated that his name Hiram
Shultz, brother of the late Henry Shultz, Of
Hamburg that he had walked fourteen miles
that morning, carrying his trunk, weighing
sixty FIVE pounds, and had been Frustrated by
heat and fatigue He stated that he belonged
in Kentucky, near Lexington, and had been
to Florida with an idea Of settling, but found
Florida too hot, and was on his way back to
Kentucky. He had been injured by rail
road accident few weeks since, and conse-
quently, preferred to walk rather than trust
mis- life in rail road car. He said that he
bad money enough, though looking SO old
felt young, and that he had a brother living
one hundred and four years old. The ap-
pearance of the old man was very respectable
and truthful.-Augusta Dispatch,
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Hard Luck.

The Charleston Mercury IA responsible
journal) is responsible for the following &C
count of fishing excursion recently enjoyed
(?) by some of our Hamburg friends:-
FIsHING.-A party of gentlemen from Ham
burg projected fishing excursion to the Ed
isto river few days since. Lines, hooks, bait
c c., were duly provided and packed, with a
reasonable allowance of liquids to wet the
bait, in champagne basket The liquids
were in square bottles. Square bottles pack
snugly and champagne basket is precisely
the most conven ent receptacle for their de
post. Nothing had been forgotten and the
party looked forward with the most pleasurea.
Bile emotions to the excitement Of the excur-
sion, loads of Gsh and good time generally.
Without delay, they entrusted themselves to
the care Of Jim Meredith, the popular and
widely known conductor on the South Carolina
Railroad. Especial charge was given the
baggage master with reference to the basket
in which all their hopes and future fish were
stored. Meredith is model conductor none
more attentive, more polite and accommoda.
ting than he; and he took this party particu.
larly under his care. He attended to their
basket personally, placed it in the most Sc.
cure spot, and, being informed of their desti.
nation, made the trip of the most pleasant
character to the excursionists. The best seats
in the train were allotted them and the latest
brought Tor their entertainment
while the cars sped swiftly on.
At the depot nearest their destination, they
were hidden farewell with every wish for their
success. The precious basket was deposited
behind carriage in which the party had ia
ken passage to the river. The distance was
short, but they were none the less impatient,
for the heat of the day was approaching, and
hey longed to prepare for fishing by testing the
quality of their stores. The river was reached
md carefully the basket was unlashed from
The carriage, and clean, grassy spot, shaded
BY magnificent tree, selected for the birouac
The basket was opened, when steterNnt
;omae, ct cor taucibus hasit, no tackle was
here, no square bottles, none Of their treas
1res; but the cold and uninviting body of
lead baby, and negro baby at that In their
haste they had taken the wrong basket; had
seized, taken and carried away basket IN
ra,,situ for burial. They had added to the
yrief of disconsolate parents, and instead of
had increased the mourners' tears
Slowly and sadly they drove back to the
iepot, a heavy pail resting upon their spirits
o think that their fish were Gu route for Char
eston with their basket.
They despatched the basket in their posses.
ion to Charleston, and took the first west.
ward train; first ascerlaining that it Was not
IIeredith's train. Upon their return to Ham.
'urg, they told not the tale, but quietly separa.
ed, each to his several quarters. Nevert:e-
ess the story leaked out, and Las been told in
Charleston.
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Charleston Normal School.

As this Awe hope, destined to be fixed
and valuaEe institution, anything relative tc
it will be Interesting, at least to those who
may, if thsy so desire, be the recipients Of
its advantages and benefits.
The folBwing letter from its chief prop and
support w9s marked "private" by its distin'
guished, 4thor it contains information on
this impoHant subject, and hence we take the
liberty Of presenting it to our readers, trusting
that the a3thor will pardon the liberty, when
he remembers that it is taken in order that
the cause #of education, of which he is so
warm andEgenerous an advocate, may be ad.
We MAJ no further comment except to
advise eYaY one to careful perusal, for
which they will be amply repaid.-W WinnsbOro
Registers
a CHARLESTON, June, 1859.
My DER SIR: You are quite right in say
ing that We are engaged in On experiment of
very great interest to the community. For
your owninformation as friend of education,
I will write you some additional particulars
which maj interest. you.
For thsaast four years I have given myself
to the. .improYemen, of our State and city edu.
cation, asa Southern man, with all my inter.
ests and feelings with the State, desired to
see her people well educated. With great
difficulty we made fair start with Charles.
ton; but with great modification I found, aE
ter we procured the children and the money
to educate them, we could not procure the
teachers.s Our girls are so badly educated in
the middle walks of life, and our young men
all consider teaching mere employment by
the wsysth hat we were much embarrassed.
To remedy the difficulty, we opened school
to teach eur teachers on Saturday, while they
taught tRir pupils the rest Of the week. But
this was 10 slow that our pupils overlook their
teachers, Rnd it is singular fact that some of
our best fachers now are those who have
been traded in our own school, under two
ladies whom we brought from New York.
This led hs to perceive the absolute necessity
of rearitg teachers; and our Normal School
has beeHfounded for that purpose.
More than one.half the money which built
it, has bfn contributed by our citizens. Now
the question came up, how was tito be con-
Quoted IF we could have found a person in
the StatswilliDg and competent to take charge
Of it asfincipal, we would gladly have elected
himFBH Normal School is unknown among
needed some one acquainted with
it's mani cement. There being no one here,
| wenEG and canvassed every city from Rich
mond,. North, and found the man we wanted
in schPl in Boston-a man who has proved
himself Very way fitted for the situation.
Your correspondent seems not TO be aware
that Boa ton contains various sets of men,
some orwhom sympathize with US as much
---sSan who are born out Of the slave re-
.,,... r, whom we have selected |
:rL-i, :, ':.:orirtc nc |
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Ulli oStsinSs
OF public printing, for malteasanco i. -
The District Court has adjourned till DeccEn-
Der, and, meantime, 4 process will be Issued
for tile arrest Of the accused.
The contract for carrying the mail between
New Orleans and Key West, and u semi
monthly service, has been re-lct to the
Southern Steamship Company. They receive
sixty-nine thousand dollars per annnm, OF
eleven thousand dollars less than heretofore
The company agree TO extend the trip t.
Havana, the postage to be the only compcn,
sation.
The Post office Department regards the
story of the use Of fraudulent stamps as one
got up to create feeling in favor Of the Use
Of stamped envelopes. 1t is not believed thai
any fraudulent stamps have been imposed
upon the Department, or can be.
The Department is engaged in looping of
the worst cases of non-paying mail route:
but the partizan charge that certain Southern
States are exempted from the retrenchins
process, is denounced as unfounded.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-06-22

PRIVATE EUROPEAN ApvlcEs TO GERMAN
M.RcHASTs,-Itis is said that German mer-
chants Of the city Of New York are in pos
session of private advices which render it
certain that Prussia and Germany will inn
mediately Join Austria in her struggle with
France. These advices, it is asserted, are
from persons in the confidence of the govern
,uent, and are regarded as trustworthy.
Perhaps, says the New York Evening Post,
it is largely due TO Their traditional hatred OF
the Bonapartes that TIC armpathy OF tho
Germans of the city in h"ta!"f Austria seems
to be general and corui.,i. \ M instance,
one of them, q young and W. Say merchant
has already made arrangement, lug' by the
next steamer, and enlist in tue service. He
says his family were massccled by Napoleon
!, and he will have TeveNge upon hissueeessor.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-06-22

WHAT OUR FOREIGN MINISTERS TtINE.-
II is stated that dispatches have been receiv-
ed at the State Department, Washington,
brought. by the Asia from our ministers at
London, France and Spain.
Mr.. Dallas states that great activity pre-
walls in England throughout all the various
departments, and warlike preparations of i'm
mensc magnitude are being prosecuted with
vigor and urgency. Never, he says were such
preparations made by any power as are now
going on. Every thing that can float upon
water is now undergoing repair and will soon
be in readiness for active service. Unparal-
l.le,l activity prevails in all the British dock
Yards indeed, it is the opinion Of leading
statesmen that, should the war continue,
England will not long remain neutral. She
fears France, and looks upon the Emperor
with a jealous eye.
Mr.. Mason says that the Emperor hns q
stronger hold upon tho affections ot the peo-
pie Of France than be erer hsd before, and
they evince determination to stand by MIN
at all hazards, and prosecute the war to the
bitter end.
Mr.. Preston states that considerable feeling
was manifested at Madrid growing ont of the
belligerent aspect Of affairs throughout Eu-
rope. The sy sympathies Of the people are with
Sardinia, and the Elnperor's course meets
with the hearty approval of the people.
THE "AFR1cAN SUPPLY AssoclATIoS."-
In the course of some very wholesome re-
marks upon this new invention to disturb
the peace of the country, the New Orleans
Picayune very justly remarks:
"Perhaps it is wise in the present state of
Southern opinion and the unpropitious aspect
of Southern questions before Congress and
the country, to make new issue of this sort
among ourselves, to array conflicting opinions
against each other on a question which in
cIudcs SO many opposite interests among
Southern men, and which will array States
against States as well as classes against clas-
ses; but it is not generally thought to be so,
and the conflict to which we are invited by
these preparations to carry on crusade of
proselytisln and dctation, will not drive that
opinion out of the minds of the great body
Of rejecting men of the South. 1t is a fire
brand for domestic contention, thrown in
when we most need united public opinion
and consolidated front against the common
enemy."
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English Cotton Supply Association.

4 meeting of this body took place at Man
chester, on the 10th ult., Mr.. John Cheetham
President, in the chair. BE stated that thu
exports from India were not very encouraging
and he depended greatly on the supply from
the West Coast of Africa.
The executive committees report was tc
the following effect:
Upwards of two thousand communications
have been received, including correspondence
with various departments Of Her Majesty's
government, the Indian Council, Her Males
ty's consuls in foreign countries, the depart
ments of government in India, the chambers
OF commerce and the agricultural societies il
the three presidencies of India, the Kands
Agricultural Society in Ceylon, the Gold
Coast Agricultural Society, the President q;
Liberia, the government of Greece, and a
large number of persons either promoters OF
companies for the growth of cotton, or lander
proprietors in various countries, all of which
communications have been considered and
replied to.
Grants of cotton seed, from one bag to TIVE
hundred each, have been made and Forwarded
chiefly to Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Hydera,
had, Ahmedabed, and Malabar, in India
Ceylonr Singapore Sydney, In Australia
Savanila and Baranquila. in South America:
Sonsonate, Belize and San Miguel, in British.
Honduras Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica and
Hayti, in the West Indies Tunis Lagos.
Fernando Pc, Sierra Leone, Cape Coast Cas-
tie, Cameroons, Bnssessame, Monrovia am
Natal, in Africa; Macedonia, Aleppo, Jafa
Sidon, Kaifa, Broussa, Salonica, Series, Con
stantinaple and Messina and also to Attica.
Argolide, Messinie Laconta, Arcadi Achaia
Phthiotis, Eubaa, Cyclades, and the Agricul
tural School in Greece.
Grants Of cotton gins also have been made
and forwarded, chiefly to Bombay, Hyderabad
and Ahmedabad, in India !; Handy, in Ceylon
Batavia; Singapore Sydney, in Australia:
the South Sea Islands; Peru, in South Ameri
ca Sonsonate aud Belisle, in British Hondu
ras Tunis, Morocco, Abbeokuta, Lagos, Cape
Coast Castle, Cape Palmas, Sierra Leone am
Cameroous, in Africa; Dardanelles; Larnaca:
Broussa and Athens.
Cotton presses have also been sent to Cape
Coast Castle, and your committee are under
promise to furnish cotton gins, presses anu
to a considerable amount to Lagos,
Cape Coast Castle, and other places.
The Government of Liberia having taken
up the subject Of cotton cultivation, your COM
nittee have offered gold and silver medals
md prizes, amounting to E25 per annum, for
onr years, to the most successful cultivators
n thatrepublic, gold, silver and copper medals
nave also been provided, as grants to other
1t is gratifying to observe that the action of
his association has stimulated the formation
If companies for the growth Of cotton in diff
erent quartess of the world. Public CO.
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"THE OLD PRINTER.-We were guilty (

"THE OLD PR1NTER.-We were guilty OF
a grave omission; last week, which we regret
yery much-we omitted to mention that we
had been visited by that very eccentric and
singular old man, Mr.. Stephen I. Singletery,
one of the oldest printers in the United States,
and, perhaps, the most indefatigable pedes!-
trian in the world. As far as constant tray
cling is concerned, he is the "Old Mortality
of printers. he never stops longer than q
few days in one place-he will not stop lon
ger-and is the guest of the craft wherever
be soiourns. He has travelled through nearly
every State in the Union-perhaps all of
them-and mostly on foot. Hewas in Caha-
ba in 1872, and since then has lost an eye
in Indiana or Illinois. Heis native of South
Carolina, and is 81 years old. We believe
he has kept journal of his wanderings, and if
the old man should die before us. (aud long
may be live !! we would like to be his litera
ry executor. In 1886 OF '37, Professor Hen
ry Junius Mott, Of South Carolina, wrote and
published work called the Adventures of
Thomas singularity," of which Mr.. singletery
was the hero.
The sold man" left us last Monday week
for Selma.-Cahaba. [ Ala.) Gazette, 10th inst.
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the sound of knife falling on the hoor-t
convulsive struggle. Pull pull pull Mrs
Martin heard nothing-saw nothing but the
scarf passing over the head Of the bed between
her two naked feet. She had half thrown
herself back, and holding her scarf with both
her hands, pulled with desperate energy
for her life. The conflict had begun; and
one or the other must perish. The robber
was a powerful man, and made furious efforts
to get loose, but in vain. Not sound
escaped from his lips-not a sound from hers
The dreadful tragedy was acted in silence.
X X
swell, Mother Guerard," cried young
man, leaping out of a carriage that stopped
before the door of the au6ergs next morning
"what news have you for me? Has my
mother arrived ?n
"Is it your mother ?" replied the landlady,
who seemed quite good-humored after her
nights rest. s"There is lady up stairs
waiting for some friends; but she does not
speak French easily, and seemed unwilling to
talk. We could scarcely persuade her to 90
to bed"
"Show mo the room" cried Arthur, run
ming into the house.
They soon arrived before the door.
" "Mother mother" cried he, but received
no answer.
"The door is only latched, for we have no
robbers in this part of the country" said the
landlady.
But q formidable obstacle opposed their
entrance. They became alarmed, especially
when they heard the shrieks of the little girl,
and burst open the door.
The first object that presented itself was
the face of the robber, violently upturned
from beneath the bed, and with protruding
tongue and eyeballs; the next was the form
of Mrs. Martin, in the position in which we
had left her. She was still pulling with both
hands at the scarf and glaring wildly towards
the head of the bed. The child had thrown
its arms around her neck, and was crying;
but she paid no attention. The terror of that
dreadful night had driven her mad.
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.nn1. WoRsu1p IN CAL1roRN1A.-The s

IDOL WORSHIP IN CAL1FoRNIA.-The Su-
preme Court of California has decided that
idol-worship is not forbidden by the Consti-
tuition. The case was that of Eldridge Is.
The See Yup Company, wherein the plaintiff
attempted to get possession of the Asylum
erected by the Chinese Company. Among
the plaintiffs averiments was one that the
trusteeship under which the Company holds
was void, because the building was erected
for the purpose of being used partly for idol
worship. The Supreme Court SAYS: There
is no force in the objection, that trust, ere
ated for the purpose Of idol-worship, is void.
Under our Constitution, all men are permit
ted the free exercise of their religious opinion,
providedit does not involve the commission
of public offence; nor can any distinction
be made in law between the Christian or
Jew, Mahomedan or heather. The Courts
have no power to determine that this or that
form of religious or superstitious worship
unaceompanisd by acts prohibited by LAWS
agsinst puhiio policy @ morals. .
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Good Spirits are Abroad.

Good Spirits are Abroad.
Good spirits are abroad!
We can trace their shining wings
By the impress they have left
On all loving human things;
BY the rising against wrong,
Z And the struggle for the right,
And the !dawning of the day
That shall chase the Peoples night,
They are bearing mortals forward,
On progression's rapid stream;
They.are marshalling the brave ones,
And leaving drones to dream.
Good spirits ore abroad!
=. You may hear their muster roll
1t ringeth through the land,
Like Iarmn to the soul.
~ They are speaking in voice
= That grows stronger as they plead,
For the guilty and misled,
For the little children's need.
With bold and strong endearor
They are acting out each scheme,
They are marshalling the brave ones,
And leaving dones to dream.
caod...asa.SWvsso
They have still some holy task
For the humblest of tho land,
9 For the feet that cannot tread
The busy walks of life,
For the gentle hearts at home,
For tho daughter, for the wife.
Oh! each can help his neighbor
In the universal scheme;
Let US minsle with the brave ones, :
And leave the drones to dream.