Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-11-08
From tho Richmond, (va.,} Times.
= Exfravaeance RebuKed.

Extravagance 4Rebnked.
We fear the hardships endured and the
selfdenial practiced by our people during
the late war predisposed them. st its CON
clusipn, to an extravaganza which they
MAY repent too late. After long fast
3 feast is longed for aud enjoyed, but il
6ehooyes US strictly to look to it that we
do not unwissly consume, in present and
snperfuous qualification, what. may be
absolutely necessary to our future permsi
>nsnt happiness. There are many who are
living freely, in the belief that during the
last year of the war and iu the last nix
months, they sounded the depth Of hprd
times; that whatever Inay befall them
hereafter, they have gone through the
worst. ills a painful duty to set about
to dispsl SO pleasant q deiusion. We wish
we could feel that there was nothing but
prosperity beso1e7 the people Of Virginia,
andi that the day waa passed when the
severest economy Vas necessary But
capgie.ions are far Otherwise. We be;
IeVe tnas the real pinch has not Jet come,
end it is with serious appsehensions that
we observe 'aa. absence of preparation on
the part of our people TO meet it.
When in April last the war endri, and
tho Federal authority was re,es.ablished
over the Southern States, there was 8
considerable amount Of property, both
Ia town and country, for WHICH there was
Already market, and almost every indi-
yidus5 hsd more or less Federal currency
OF coin. Planters bad cotton or tobacco !;
the small farmers stock Of. some kind, and
lsteris the SEASON, their scsnty wheat
crops In the towns and citiesthoss who
had not boarded money had their little
ssoresof leaf and manufactured tobacco,
or sonic other afticle readily convertible
into.tsoney. Belisying that with the war
sH earthly trouble was over, and that
hsrasanes wontd come again no more,
al, hestened tofealize, and, We Ffear, to
squsnHer their money. The ladies were.
fadrss Fears behind the fashions, and had
long keehadapsiSed .of the thousand luxu-
ries tp which, .tiesers The war, they had
gtcf9GtuotOhAeu, at1o ulSECf- HdSJSflslfcQ
10 fefhstate thetn in their former. comfort
.aad7aplender The gentlemen, too threw
ssi1s Their homespun and Jared sumptu-
,ously every day at immense cost. The
'Snonsy yrthus put into circulation reached
the pposes classes, white and black, who
were saaslly estfaita tagaat in proportion to
their means. Ninety per eenium Of the
articles parebasedtsith this cash. capital
Of tie South the cotton, tobacco and
hoards of money, we're of Northern.pro-
duction or manufacture. Whence it fol-
le~slhat this capital has been transfesed
10 8herNorth, and. by just SO 1nuehlare
our: people poorer than they were list
summer. They may have the. where
withal to carry them through this winter,
hut no more. The. long months of next
spring and summer which mnst intervene
before the next crops come in is the period
toward which we look forward with the
greatest apprehension. by thsbeginning
IF that season all the produce. of this
State certainly, anda we fear Of '&opr
Scutbern sisters, will have been sold, and!
'he sole means Of the people viii taen be