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

TW- IN 100 thcre Were ttS.3ofs ouicS W SDt-
tun shipped over the South Cor"liia Railr .*.i. snd
in 1862 only 9, 49, bales. There Ihust.bs guam
titles of old !" King Gotten some whore sin the
interior. 81 ~
~ DaH. S. warine, nd VIII srfasesas 4. om
cs:,rleston, celebrated their golden nssains the
kftirth year of thtis marrisg &c, atssuaimeryille
recently.
gs.- The p~eopleof the Confederate. States are
n Nv getting to rnis. almost everything they need.
They hive Acently. stnr'ed in the occupation of
rnising usckude', making o good beginning at
Galveston and Charleston.
asy- Colonel w. j.. Wright, OF Memphis, hns
been commissioned a Briyadier- General in the
/ Confederate States Army.
Ms- The Columbia South Carclinian says that
a-iriend who considered the contributions to the
gun-boat u sinking fund, insiste that his judgment
has. been endorsed by the recent action Of our
iron-clals.
. &ss- Jim Laue'a regiment Of negroes have been
received into the military, service of the United
States aud placed on the SHINE footing as white
hirelings who ara lighting to sublue and suhja-
gate the South.
~ When the men all take to trees in an en-
sagemout, what uort Of . fight may it be said
to be?
ET A bright woman asked o witty man in
Columbia the other day, what three names in
Briti,h literature characterized a hot blszing fife?
The. answer was: Dickens hosift Burnes.
aas- Flour sold In Atlanta on Saturday %last,-at
s35 per barrel.
2Ms- The reception of Mcclellan at the ros
mout Huuse in Boston, was very enthusiastic. The
leading business houses were closed, and the pro-
Frietors and employees joined in tho demonstrs-
iion.
NJ The number of Brigadier Generals now
in service In the Federal Army is about two hum
dred, 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 the latter
.,aS- The Roma So1thcrner Gays tho wheat
crop is very promising. An unusual quantity of
land has been sown, and unless it should be visit
ed by some calamity hereafter, the crop in this
region will be immense.
- Thadeus Stevens. last proposition, to en-
ploy $50, 900 negroes to supply the place of the
two years and nine months men in the Yankee
army, is evidently Lincoln's liant card. 1t is
tho 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.
zSy- General Bragg has presented to the State
of South Carolina n battery Of four guns captured
by the 10th and 10Th South Carolina regiments ut
Murfrecsboro'. The guns are TO be inscribed With
the names Of the four Of the highest South Caro-
linn officers who fell in that memorable Conflict.
tY' The n. T. World publishes the Federal
marine losses for December. 1t Gums up q total
Of forty three vessels, valued at four millions and
o half. Capt. senmes gets credit for capturing
and destroying ss4s, 300 of the amount.
sY- An old, unmarried farmer, named Abra-
ham Hershey of Lancaster county, PennS;sdied
lately, and after burial, ffty-three thousaaha d9l5,
lars in gold and silver were found in his house,
aa-sAboat twenty thousand dorars YqakAA, Of
goods, fresh from Lincolndoln, have beeu-seized
at Charlottesville, Va. They will probably be con-
fscated.
re- The best qualities Of sugar are selling mt
vicksburg ut from five to ten cents per pound.
No transportation can be had, however, to get it
away.
as- The Sumter Inns been sold ut Gibraltar to
an Englishman for $4,000. The right to her, il
is expected, will be disputed by the American
frigate thst has been watching her, but she will
claim the convoy of u British man-of.war.
rr The Courier il informed that n steamer
was promptly dispatched to Nassau from Charles
ton, conveying the announcement to tho Briti.ii
authorities that the blockade of that port had
been raised.
Eas- There is o little romance in the life Of
Mrs. q. Z. Mcclellan not generally known. II
appears that she was engaged some seven year.
ago to Gen. A. P. Hill, tho rebel: Her prexent
husband has rince had several engagements"
With the rebel General.
m0- It is said that G encral Joseph E.. Johnston
expresses himself as perfectly satisfied with the
condition of affairs in Mississippi, and be speaks
hopefully and chesrfuily of the cause everywhere.
Ns- John F.. 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 thousand dollars, besides making a benevolent
l..zo,sks,aS nr an oddttsnpo1 nunntifv Early in
the war no clothed and equipped q company.
IT, Among the French diplomatic correspon-
deuce just published was a letter from Napoleon,
in which he confessed that hia reason for invading
Mexico wns to prevent the United States from e1-
tending their authority further Southwark. ,sa; .
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