Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-11-22
E@> The Court of Appeals Will meet in Colum-
bia on Tuesday, the 2Sth inst. =

bia on Tuesday, the 2Sth inst.
H, Gen. .Driscoe,l lately commanding a,
-Lynchburg, has been found guilty, by court mar
tial, of larceny. Ho is dishonorably dismissed
from the service, forfeiting all his pay and allow
ances.
rs man named Jameson, in Cincinnati,
wishing, to curtail household expenses, adopteda
novel mode to effect his object He eskissed the
servant girl one morning, when he knew Mrs. ],
would see him. Results, discharged servant girl
and $12 per month saved. .&
wT The Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, in Virginia, calls the attention of his agents
to their neglect Of duty in not enforcing uponthe
freedmen of their districts the necessity of enter
ing into and fulfilling contracts for labor With
planters and Others. who have employment for
them. He adds that where employmentis offered
on terms that,will proade subsistence, and keep
them from dependence On charity, they should be
treated as vagrants if they don't acceptit.
H Tie Now Orleans Crescent says: "Wc
understand that General Beauregard yesterday
formally took charge as, superintendent of the
Jackson railroad. We trust that this engagement
will prove all that it promises. The railroad can
scarcely fail be greatly advantasod by is'and
it is to be hoped that Con. Beauregard may have
every reason to be satisfied. with the position
aT The final negro ball took place in Nash
Vile, Tenn, last week, tho Mayor having pro-
hibited this amusement forthe future, the citizen
darkies" fourishiug pistols and knives too freely
on these occasions. "a
: Mg> The Austin papers state that the Texas
State Convention is to be called about the frat Of
February next. - - 49,. sea :
Lieut.. Gen. Grant has reduced the, volunteer
strength of the army, until it does not now num-
ber sixty thousand men. The regular army is
nominally over forty thousand strong
&9- The spectators in Western produce are
getting in tronbls. Tho harvests have proved
larger than supposed, and they find it daily more
difficult to carry and keep out of market, for tho
purpose of forcing up prices, the immense
amounts Of grain centsrng at the principal points
in the West. .5.-9 sa
~. General Dudley has arrested 'negresscs
who were leading dissolute lives at Memphis, and
bound them out to work on plantations. for tho
balance of this yenr and oil of next.
/; lS- League or Union has becn organized
among the freedmen of Montgomery for. tho pur-
pose of76xing the rate of wages. White labor is
being Introduced and the freedmen will soon find
themselves without employment. -.
rs The planters of Virginia are we'll pleased
with tho prospect of an carly supply. Of white la
bor. Various immigration schemes and agencies
havo been established in Richmond for the ac-
complishD,ent of this purpose, and labor is being
gradually introduced from abroad.
MD- Sumner has written letter to the New
York Independent insisting on equal rights to
all as tho condition of the new order of things
in the South. IfMr. Sumner docs not get his
rights in this world he is certain to got them in
tho next We remember, though, when. -ho did
got what he deserved, (and VIC hope he will be
paid off again shortly,) and that was good stout
eaning.-c -constitutionalist .'-
r 1t is statedthat General Thomas order
closing the Episcopal churches in Alabama, and
forbidding-tho clergy of that denomination to
exercise their functions, has boon countermAnded
by the President himsc {.
I'D The question of negro suffrage was sub
nitted to tho people of Wisconsin at the election
on the 7th inst, and rejected by majority of
about ten thousand. -
gg- Tho Times special says that since the close
of the war;. thirty five new National Banks haTO
been organized in tho Southern States, with an
aggregate capital of four million four hundred
and seventy -four thousand dollars. < -
es- The people of Colorado rejected negro
suffrage by about five votes to one. Are the peo-
pic of Colorado loyal z. w 60
ng- "YOu do wrong to fish on n Sunday"
said clergyman to boyhe saw SO doing. "Wcll,
sr,preplied the boy, "it can't be much harm, for
I amt cotchod nothin'."
IT