Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1864-03-30


will return to Virginia and tako command CT
new brigade now being organized On ditthat,
Prof. HOLMES of Tic Charleston College, learn
ed gcologiEt new residing in Ed.eheld. vii i've
a series of lectures in eur public hall, during the
month of April, Tor the benefit of the soldiers
proceeds to be. devoted in sone manner to the
soldie.s. Also that the musical and histrisnic
ladies are getting up another Concert and Play
for tic :oidicrs OF course. Adieu. =
Work and Wait.
: When some one a.kcd an old minister, 9why
ao you contiLue to preach when you have con-
rertcs but one s;sner in tmenty ye-rs!" he re-
pficl, I" Have converted ons?' '.Yes," ".rlieu,"
said the good man, "here's for twenty years
more, and may convert two" How much there
isyin that reply How full lis Of patient uhbro-,
ken determination to rcrk, even through unpIom.
icing hours, in theyineyarl Of the LDrd: =.
RS Vim. .scrrmp, ESQ.,, of Richmond, has
been rendered tho appointment of Assistant SEQ
rctasy Of the TTeasury- By Mr.. Momninger, and
Las acccPleu tuc Pefitiou. st.- ....'--
4sza- II is feared that thu exchange of prison.
ess VII spon be stopped by Buffers forcing him
self into ihc arena again.
:cs-.A li;tlo boy, plOushing on tho outskirts Of
Columbus, Ga, a few days asO, tuEaad Up an old
iron box containing hfty dollars gold and silver.
! sy- At Inst accounts ,!,src. wcrc eight Federal
vessels lying off Fort Powell. aad nine off Fort
Morgan. Mebils harbor.
w The euintessenoe of "shrewdnsss"
ing poor clergyman, who lives from hard to
iaouth, his quarterly salary. in advance, to save
the difcolnsof s3i pes cent.
gs1 Tho Nashville. Union states that tho poor
Women and chil6fen in South western Mississippi
chsp wood ut sixty cents per cord.
EHe Everysign now indicates that there soon
will be exciting times in political circles in Lin.
colndSm. Wa havo tho consolation Of knowing
lhc alors exciting they arc, the better il will be
for US.
@-A Yankee officer OF tho army at Chstta-
uooga wrtos that the Federal army cannot long
remain in its present position, owing to the scnch
arising from an immspso numbcr.of dead horses
and pulos which have died from starvation durins g
the winter. The country around Chattanooga for
mary miles Is streMn With locnying carcase:, es-
timatcd to number nearly ifty thousand.
gay- The independent toRe of tho Chicago
Times the increasing defiance of Ben. Woods
New York News, tho late meeting of the working
men of New York city, the bold southssp aRssoh
of Cheuncy Burr, one sf the editors of the fe"s,
and the late withcrins article against Yankee lies
+ and Misrepresentation by tho Outspoken and
manly editor Of the Courier Francuis, Of New
Orleans, while even the chicken hearted, timid
Piceynne ventures subducd crow, all go to de-
.norstrats that Linoo!n's power is weakening in
the sSted land ofstyranny and oppression.
Mg- Sono gentlopOn residing near Columbus,
Gu., who had ridden fine horsesto that city, vixen
learning that tho roads werc all guarded BY the
impressins cfIcors, thereby preventing their
ecrcss, procured sCn,e broken down horses, went
to tho proyoat marshal, obtained tickets for man
nnd horse. to leave to wn mounted their fine seeds
aud wont on their way rejoicing. A shrowa trick.
nz- Twenty-six Confederate Generals were in
Richmond March 18th. This must mean some
thing
sY The Marquis DOria, notOd for her beauty,
diod lately in Italy,. from disease caused by con-
stanny having aomere iu bar FDaH's- Hrs gs
was twenty. :.
w A couple of Yankee officers, caught re-
cruiting in East TeIr:ssce, have disappeared
uysteriuusly, ncYe.to be heard from again, and
seventeen Others are in pickle. The Government
has j-ne its duty in this matter quietly.
za If, ius!ructins r child, you are vexed
with it fer want of adreitnesa, try, if you never
have before, to wrio with your lett hand, and Ec-
member that child is all left hand.
IT," The P.ince Of Wales is twenty-five years
old, prospective king, and present father Of an
exceeding lively baby.