Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-02-11
General News Items.

JEe III 1000 tneEe "tto t'''o ou'Ne VI WV
ton shipped over the South Cnr"liua Railroad. snd
in 1856. only q, ss2 bales. There p,u.t.bs qunn.
tiris, of old " King Gotten SONG shsFs sin tho
interior. - ~ ~ ~
~ Dish. S. wsrines. and Wiz refugee I. otn
CHARLESTON, celebrated lheis golden wsssaing rhe
krtirlh year of their marriage, Mt suaimfrville
recently.
g- The peopls.o Of The ceufederate's States are
Nv getting to rnis. aImost everything they nsel.
They hive tseentIy. started in the oceulnti"n of
rnising Il1ckadea, making o good beginning at
Galveston .nnd Charleston.
aas- Colonel W.. j. Wright, OF Memphis, has
been commissioned a Briyndier- General in the
Confederate States Army.
&- The ColumLia South Carcliuian say. that
g%un-bon, u sinking fund, insists that bis judgment
has been endorsed by the recent action Of orr
iron-clals.
(. TT Jim Lanes regiment Of negroes have been
received into the military, service of the United
States and placed on the same foafing a. white
6ireling. who ara lighting to subiuc and subja-
gate the South.
fsSr- When the men all take TO trees In an en-
gagemOut, what sort Of q fight may it be said
+, be? '.t'f -
If A bright woman askeda witty msn in
Columbia the other day, 'wha. three names in
Briti,h literature characterized a hot blszing 6ref
The. answer was Dickens ho,1in Burnes.
es- Flour sold in Atlanta on Saturday last,sat
s35 per barrcl. -,
as- The reception of Mcclellan at The Tres
mont House in Boston, was very enthusiastic. Tho
leading business houses were closed, and the pro-
Frietor6 and employees Joined in tho denonstrs-
tion.
|. @r The number of Brigudier Generals now
in service in the Federal Army is about two hum
drsd, and Of Major Generals, forty. Lincoln re-
Gently nominated to the Senate one hundred and
fifty -four additional Of the former grade, and six
tyiof tho latter
"aas- The Rome Sou,herner snys tho wheat
crop is very promising. An unusual quantity Of
land has been sown, and unless it should be visit
cd by some calamity hereafter, the crop in this
region will be immense.
IF Thadeus Stevens. last proposition, TO en-
ploy 100000 negroes to supply the place of the
Two years and nine months men in the Yankee
army, is evidently Lincoln's last card. 1t is
the ace Of spades.
~ A letter received in Mobile states that
General D. II. Hill, in consequence Of i'll health.
has resigned his command in the army of Virginia.
zc1s- General Bragg has presented to the State
of South Carolina q battery Of four guns captured
by the 10th and 10Th South Carolina regiments ut
Murfrecsboro'. The. guns are TO BIO inscribed with
the names of the four Of the highest South Caro-
lima officers who fell in that memorials conflict.
tT- The n. Z. World publishes the Federal
marine losses for December. 1t sums up o total
Of forty three vessels, valued at four millions and
u hulf. Capt. Semmes gets credit for capturing
and destroying $s4s,O0 Of the amount.
tS- An old, unmarried farmer, named Abra;
ham Hershey,.of Lancaster county, PennkS1ied
lately, and after burial, ffty-three thouss44f DOL
lars in gold and silver wore found in his hSuse.S
as>* About twenty thousand donsrh MQaSA Of
goods, fresh from LincolndOm, have becu-seized
at Charlottesville, Va. They will ~probsbly be con-
fscated.
tSe The best qualities Of sugar are selling nt
yicksburg ut '-"n five to ten cents per pound.
No transpo lion can be had, however, to get it
away.
as- he Sumter has been sold Mt Gibraltar to
an Englishman for sl9,O 600. The right to her, il
is expected, will be disputed by the American
fripate that has been watching her, but she will
claim the convoy of d British man%-of-war.
U The Courier il informed that n steamer
WAS promptly dispatched to Nassau from Charles
ton, conveying the announcement to tho Briti.h
| authorities that the blockade of that port had
been raised.
nS- There is q little romance in the life Of
Mrs. G.. p. Mcclellan not generally known. 1t
/ appears that she was engaged some seven year.
ugo to Gen. A. P. Hill, tho rebel: Her prssent
husband has rince had seversl engagement
vita the rebel General.
@o- 1t is said that General Joseph E. Johnston
expresses himself as perfectly satisfied with the
condition Of nffairs in Mississippi, and be speaks
hopefully and cheerfully of the cause everywhere.
rs John r.. Edmunds, ESQ, of Halifax, Va,
recently presented to the Court OF that county,
for distribution among the families of soldiers,
fifteen thousand pounds of bacon, worth some
ten thousunI dollars, besides making a benevolent
disposition. of IN additional quantity. Early in
the war he clothed and equipped q company.
IT, Among the French diplomatic correspon-
deucs just published was a letter from Napoleon,
in which he confessed that his reason for invading