Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-05-24
News and miscellaneous Items.

News and Miscellaneous Items.
! Is Suspicious persons have reccntl
been discovered lurking in the vicinity o
Chief Justice Chase's residence-in Washing
ton, and guard has been placed around. tn
house. 49,,
paTThc Levant Herald says the Circas
sian slave trade has receired Of late amin
mense impetus. AtTrebizond. and TamS0ul
boys and girls go off in large number at low
prices. "Prime samples" bring about $lO(
each.
L. The resa.ts of..the court martha
which tried the alleged rebel conspirators
charged with tho heinous design Of destroying
Chicago by fire on the gdaysof the Presiden-
\ tials election last fall, were made public by
General Hooker on Saturday, sofar as relates
to. five Of them. Charles Walsh and r I
Semmes were found guilty, and sentenced to
hard labor in the penitentiary, the former for
| FIVE years and the latter for three. Buckner,
| Morris and Vincent Marmaduke have been
acquitted, and will be discharged on taking
the oath of ofallegiance. The decisions in the
cases of the two others accused-Grecnfell
and Daniels-have not yet been promulgated.
IL The military commission at Wash
ington-has begun the trial of the seven engra-
vers of Confederate notes and bonds Who
came from the South after the capture of
Columbia by Con-. Sherman. They are all
young Scotchmen, who entered the service of
the rebel Treasury Department from Scotland
in 1862: They were arrested.in Washington
Marchil5. They are defended on the ground
that they are entitled to. the amnesty terms
of the Presidents proclamation of March IL,
providing that all domiciled aliens who should
leave the South within twelve days thereaf-
ter should be free from prosecution.
EEeEdmund Burke said that a man had
not command of language unless he could
express. his thoughts without the use OF
italics!V - s e.,
sg-aMr. Smith, ,nsaid the counsel, "you
say you once oficiatea in a pulpit do you
mean that yon preached" No, ,sir; held
candle for a man who did, "Ah, the
cod11 understands you differently. They sup
posed that the discourse came from you"
"No sir, I only thro@ed o light,onit." ~
ga To do-thiugs on an immense scale is
amatter Of course in tho great West. Speak
ing Of the lumber business on the Upper Mis-
sissippi, a Minnesota paper records the move
ment Of a vast amount of logs, just after the
ice gave away. 1t says: The spectacle nov
presented is grand. .Itis estimated that there
are from.6lteen tc twenty million feet oflum-
ber piledin, every imaginablcway, in some
places towering up twenty or thirty feet, and
reaching to. the bottomof the river" |
A recent official report shows that al.0O0
c1loled men have been enlisted in the army
in Kentucky: 1000 were drafted. 1000 ran
away and enlisted in fndisna, Tennessee and !
Ohio Eleven rev regiments are being crgau-
iz.., which, When completed, will make the !
quota of $4,000 colored men for kontucky.
Over one hundred negroes day are enlis
ting. 80
Gen. Haleck, now commanding; in Rich
mond, has issued an order designating one
particular locality in that. city at; which all
rebel officers and soldiers are to rendezvous,
and ordering all OF them stopping at the
Spottswood House to leaye that Motel. Ar
have also hcen pertccted-bY the
rational military authorities to furnish good
bread at very log price to TIE INDECENT
of the city, of whom therc are several thou
sands.
rsy- The income of the four Rotiischids,
of England, is estimated at 100000 year,
or thousaBd dollars an hour.
Es a young professor ct one of the col
leges married lady twenty years his senior.
This was said, by witty friend, to be a proof
Of his ambition, as he appeared deSirous Of
studying "the ancients."
sey- A gentleman at whist party, when !
be proposed gcing home, was urged to stay
little longer. "Wel!," ,"'he replied, "perhaps
l may Is we'll rny wife probably is already as
mad as she oan be-
nss- The career of the famous Rsd river
ram, Webb, has ended. A few
da since she passed New Orleans at broad
day at rapid rate, displaying the stars and
stripes. but after passing hoiSted the Hebel
Gag. When few miles above Fort st. Phil |
lip. her condcnsers got out CT order, and she
WIS deserted and blown up. As far as known
she had Inflicted no damage save cutting the
telegraph line. A portion Of her crew arrived
in New Orleans. The remainder left for parts
unknown.
e Several persons were severely lynch. !
cd in San Francisco, ior expressing gratlfica-
tion at the assassination Of President Lincoln,
and General Mcdowell issued al order for
the instant arrest Of any person. end suppress
sion of any journal, expressing appreciation
of the Same,
ns- A terrible accident recently occurred
in the Charlestown Navy Yard, near Boston.
Que of the workmen was engaged in drilling
out the fuse of an old Schenck $50 pound
she'll when it exploded, instantly killing
Timothy Lyons, John Murphy, Nathaniel
Burch and Daniel Drew. All the workmen
in the yard are more or less wounded, and
ton or twelve others, it is feared, fatally. The
explosion took place near the house Of the
Commandant. %
.ssy Brig. Gen. Gideon j. Pillow of Ten
nossee is said to have requested permission TO
be allowed to return to his home at Cplum
bia, and offers to take the amnesty oath and
give bonds for his future good conduct Gen.
Pilow has, or had, q large plantation near
CoIunibia, and was joint owner with his ss
ter. Mrs. Governor Aaron V. Brown. in anoth-
er still more extensive zone near Helena,
Arkansas. He has lost over seven hundred