Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-05-27
General News Items.

General News Items.
All sbsentecs from Con. Evans Brigade
arc ordered {, meet Capt. McCreedy, OF the lloi-
comb, Legion, in Columbia. S. c.. on Saturday
tho 10th Nay. a full pardon for their absence
withnu, leave viii be granted to all who comply
with this order. Those who fail to comply, VIII
o, pursued, arrested and punished as descrters.
re- Con. McGowan, wounded at the baltic Of
Oh ,ncellorville, arrived ut his homo in Aeosvhl''
las, weak, AID is doing we'll.
~ A Washington dispatch states that there
will ia no IN ,.ensnt On the Potomac tor 'omo
time to cons. Hooker has been loft to folio" MS
own plsss.
es5- General Duff Greer and his son have 70
tired from the Atlanta Commonwealth.
NE Tho New York papers have accounts Of a
MY enrinu. cas.- of .nicide that occurred at the
| metropolitan Hotel in that city. A foreigner
named Edmund Barron committed suicide by
poison, leaving On his table a letter bequssth'ns
his body to a friend, with directions to hare the
skeleton nuns up in his..(doctor's) oiace as a me-
nento.
KS From a letter to the Ab5eville Press, fr-m
a member Of the 10th s. c. v, dated shelbyville,
Tenn. VIC extract tho annexed items
Private George W. Wise, a member of Capt.
Horne's company, from Edgefcld, met With o So
r;ous accident ON Thursday morning Of last week,
which resulted in the loss of his left hand. The
niybt previous threatened rain, and lie to preserve
his Rifle dry laid it by his side on his pallet, aud
about day light the Riffs was accidentally dis
charged, the hall passing through his wrist. Or.
Lynch, the skilful Surgeon Of our Regiment
deemed amputation nscess Try. Wise was put un-
der tho influence of chloroiorm and DR.. Lynch
mar f,rmed the operation in II cred tab:e manner IN
a short time. Surgeon Terry, assistant! Surgeon
Jennings, DIR. G.. V. Barnes, DR.. j. D.. Neal ana
others or the medical fraternity were present.
"Csvt. f. ". Horne is quite sick, of Dysentery.
Yesterday he was taken to the hospital Vt Shein!-
vil!o. We trust that he msy soon recover ma
wo,ted hesl,h, aud that he nsy seon return to his
command
ag-Gov. shortor, of Alabama. ha, demanded
delivers to him OF all citizens or residents oil Ala
hama captured With Yankee raiders in any South
ern sta,e.- Le, other Governors follow the exam
pie. 1t will be worse than mOckery to allow 70
such recreants and miscreants the usual exchange
zss- There is ia Lynchburg, Va, on tho prem
ises Of F. B. Deans, ESQ.,, n willow grown from a
hip that was brought from the tomb Of Napoleon
at St. Helena; and from this willow Mrs. Deane
made a wreath and adorned it with flower, to lay
on tho bier of the lamentei Jackson when borne
through that city.
re- solt is selling at the Clarke county woFks'
ia Alabsua, a. from ter 70 fifteen dollars per
bushel.
S- Fernando Wood denie, that he Is in favor
Of unconditional peace. Like Vallandigham he
is . rscors,rnrtionist vs.. have got no use FOR
such men.
ns- A company of SO cavalry, and . list of
1879 infantry volunteers. besides two companies Of
governmental plpyees have been enrolled in CO.
lnmbus, to meet any emergency that may arise in
tho protection of that city from Yankee marau-
ders.
- Tho Houston Telegraph" lcarns that
whom Gen. II. P. Boo WIS called on by the Next
can authorities TO deliver up Judge f.. j. Davis,
he declined, saying that their application should
bs made to President Lincoln, whose was the only
authority they recognized over Texas. He, Gen.
eral Bee, had no Official knowledge Of Mexico
nor Mexico of him. 1t was certainly . good an
swer, whether given or not.
zs> Tho Federal authorities have again COM
mcnccd a war on papers opposed to thcn-forbid-
ding their circulation-they do not like to have
their deeds. shswn up. Like the owl one, they
prefer darkness to light.
~ As an instance OF the bad state of morals
in Castle Thunder, Richmond, it is said that tho
pockets Of a minister Of tbs gospel were picked
while engaged in prayer for the inmates.
@- At Charleston, on Wednesday wore sold
fourteen negroes for s. 1850, making an average
Of s2.2ss % each and also n family of six, In
GLIDING a woman es 40 years, three children Of s,
& and 3 years, for sll7e each.
rs The small steamer Fox, recently captured
from the Yankees, was sold e: Mobile on the 10th
by order of tho Confederate Court, for tho enor-
NOUS Gum of $3.50, 900.
~ ks alum mine, II is said, has been discov-
cred on the lands n ~. 9. spratt, 10 York Dis
tric., S. C. The extent of t. Is not yr: known.
k'o There is a report in Montgomery, deemed
reliable, from Mississippi, that Gen. Johnston had
t,ssu from Con. Psmbcrtop his sword, and placed
him under ayrost.