Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-10-11

Tsught 5y Cupid siaee the fall,
But I know little widow s,.s-
Who could win and feel yen all. ~.
News and Miscellaneous Items.
IL A New Orleans letter informs us
that Mr. Short, the owner of the mansion oc,
cupied by Goyornof Hahn and General Banks,
10 about to commence proceedings for the
value OF the articles Of. furniture, &c, which
be finds missing on tho reounption of his
property. - @4a
EE Major Gensral 8. B. Howard, con.
missioner OF freedmen, has. authorised the
establishment of eeurt for the examination
into all difficulties arising between the freeS-
men and their employers. The assistan. su-
perintsndent of the bureau, with two citizens,
one to be elected by the white citizens and
the other by the freedmen, are to constitute
this court, the Jurisdiction ofwhich is limited
to the case indicated above. In furthernnca
of this plan Gen Howard has. been making
the tour Of Virginia. On the 10th ina:ant
DO had an interesting interview with thes fl
eisls of Portsmouth and Norfolk.
~ A correspondent Of the Tribune says,
that in fourteen Of the Southern counties in
Illinois, and in few in Indiana, cotton Is
everywhere to DO seen. Tens Of thousands
of refugees find constant employment.
E9 R.v. Dr.. Wilmer formerly Pastor
or ST. Marks Episcopal Church, in Philadel-
phia, who went South at tho beginning Of the
war, reappeared in Philadelphia, on the I'd, as
sisting in the communion service, creating an
intense sensation, many Of the congregation
leaving the church.
EE In cemetery in Sharon, Connect
cut, is family 10. in which are seven graves
arranged in circle. Six stones comnemo-
rate six deceased wives of one gentleman,
while the seventh and more stately slab beara
the simple bat affecting inscription, "OuF
HusbaDd.n
e@r A FrenchEan, who had nothing bet
ter to do, put three thousand aies into room,
VITA loaf of sugar pounded up, and at the
end of four days he found they Lad eaten it
all bat tablespoonful. Hel therefore cal
culates that at thirteen cents per pound, a
Ay in its little life eats the value of twenty
lve cents.
n@r The receipts at tho St. Louis Postofice
during the fiscal year ending June 80, 1861
amounted to S20l :35l ,717, while ths expenses
uereS47 ,l43,oa, leaviug clear profit to the
Governnen. of sl5s,Bos,75. The number
of letters mailed during tho year from the
aGice was four million soas hundred and sew
en.y.four thousand five, hundred and thirty,
aud tho revenue derived from bog rents sl,-
1915. ..s.,.4,..-. .e1s-.s -
A-p-As.-Caarlotssvil!e is fairly entitled
to be called the literary centre of tae South.
There. is. first, the University Of Yirginia,
with its learned professors on all sorts ofsub-
jects. Then We have two large female semi.
nariex. whese young ladies learn thirty or
forty things ending in ology. Then we have
some eshslf doGen ,Grst eiassacsdemiss for boys.
Then several select schools. Then number
of schools for the Bngiish branches. And
then the whole co!orod population Of all aexes
end ages is repeating from morning to night
:a-b--a-b, e,b-eb, i-b-ib, c-st-cat, dog
dog, cia.p-cup, &C., through all the varieties
of the FIRST lesson in orihogtaphy. There
aresone four orfse cclored tchools, and lit
sic negro chaps darken every door with
primers in thsir hands. five pass black.
smiths shop, We hear a.b-sb;; if the cook
goes out to suckIe her infant, it is a.b-ab;
ths, dining roem serysat washes up. his diahel
and plates, crying a-b-ab tho bostler cur
rieshhis horse, repeating 7a-b-ab5 Jerry
blacks your boots, saying. with rapid strokes
a-b--ab, a-b--ab; the whole air is resonanl
with ,arb--ab. Ths<iittle yellow boy who
slcsps in our chamber swoke u tie .olhel
night muttering in his dreams a-b-ab. Mt
Greely has stirred up thunder hore., If you
sesd a,little negro boy len an errand.. he il
spelling everything. .hs aaaieets in eae syllable
The iitsls white boys llaok & them soader
ingly, add .try 70 eqrk item. Ia month g
so We expect tosissue an evening edition Q
the CSroaicle in nonosylables, to increase
Dur eitcolatioa@perhsps pictorial, with tab
and spades, and ants and COWS, and owls ant
bats-liko the primer.-CharlDtiesritie (Va.
Chronicle. s.- 5s