Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-06-06

n9,wc understand (says the B0nstitutionali'')
that ,s'few days since. the oycrseston the planta-
ton of MIR. chevs, Gvc miles from abbcvillo, S.
c., was murdered by the negroes. The slave popu-
ls,ion in that vicinity is becsmingauite unruly.
zsy- It is reported that Ex-Gor. Lstcher, of
Virginia has been arrested. q
Na~ The Horall's Richmond correspondent
says that the rebel Secretary .as War, Seldom,
Aas hecuearrpsted and Imprisoned oh ts'pss',sh0at
in James River with Hunter and Campbell. II
ras believed that Gen. Leo woul'l also be in Gus
,ody, also Gov Smith.
.as- The Grssnvfllo and Coluuhia Railroad is
in opcr=tion from Hopes Station, thres miles
from Broad River, at Alstou, to Greensils.
ry The Galveston Ncua ssys that tho corn
crop in Toxas will be good. Sugar will be very
short.
sy Thcreis rumor that General Breckin-
ridge and several other gentlemen have made
their escape in vessel calling fr,n the coast Of
Florida.
ae Letters from Savannah state that some of
Capt. Travis ecch-loading cannon have been
ureprthed in Macon. The soldiers who found
them a.ked permission to send tAem as trophies
to Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
~ In o recent number Of Chariyar, John
Bull is represented in an attitude Of abject terror,
leaning against post inscribed "canada," and
staring alright st a hurly Yankee malefaotoT, who
Is tbrottling man on the ground. "When he is
done with him, he'll come and rob me-" is the
despairing cry of the holploss, fat, and timid
victim.
.na~ There is farmer in Yorkshire ubo has q
mile and u balf of children. His namo is Fur
long. and be has four boys and eight girls. Eight
furongs make IL mile.
sy Northern papers state that Forrest at the
battle Of Selma inhumanly tutchercd twelve
Federal officers and soldiers after they had sur;
rendered.
IS Tho door plute of Hon. Alexander II,
Stephens is being exhibited as trophy in Phila-
dclpbis.
ca-zIn China, if.a man is not married. by
rwepty, .heis drnmned out OF the town. And a
lady Of doubtful age, living in this vicinity, says
that ought to be tho LAW eyerywhcreJ and In oaF
opinion sue is plumb right.
ssg- The Cincinnati Gazette has letters from
farmers iu vsrieus parts Of Indiana and Ohio,
expressing serious druhts as To the possibility of
getting corn and late potatoc. planted III season.
Tho hsavy-rains have kept work back. aDdto.a
largo extent, the ground even is not yet prepared
For tho seed,
ns,- The notorious Dick McCanb, for whose
heed Gen. Resecrnns offered q, large reward, and
who gave thesUnion army moro trouble than any
other r1rtran ranger in Tennessee, delivered
.hiluself up lastiwcslr.at Chattanooga. lie has
ken the oath and vill'feturn to his home, few
miles from Nashville.
eg~ Persons ut Memphis rejoicing over the
death of President Lincoln, have been sentenced
to one years hard labor. ,yn
M, Tba released prisoners from Anderson
vile, Georgia, state that in and around the prison
pen at that place there are graros Of oyer nine
teon thousand national eolaicrs.
gc- The Melbourne (Ausiralin) Dispatch, of
March 2Sth, says tho pirate Shenandoah was
cruising off that coas,, but it dues not make men,
.tion of her .harins captured my Prizes.
lssSAll but four Of sbe forts about Washing
ton are to be immediately dismounted, theih gar
risons Withdrawn and dismissed, and everything
appertuining to this expensive branch of defen-
rivo warfare is lie DO put upon the general re-
trenchmont path.
sss,.. .ifsterrible s.ato'of impoverahrhontis rep
resented as existing in Virginia among thslSeO-
pie, and, unfortunately tho farmers generally are
without implements or seeds necessary TO produce
crops the coming season,