Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-10-31
News and Miscellaneous Items.

tract Of fourteen acres of land, situated on the
Columbia Canal.
neP j. L. Westmoreland, Esq, has discov.
cred promising gold mine on his land in
Greenville District. Arrangements are ma
king to work for the rich deposits.
E To the eyes of a correspondent of
the London Times, Brownlow's attitude in
the carriage at Philadelphia was Ga most
startling picture of vulgar ease."
! II. Another Illinois parson has lately
eloped witL a widow, leaving his wife and
children desolate. During the war lie was
very "loyap-to 9 neighbours wife.
| IL The Richmond Times says it hears
every day the most distressing reports of pow
erty and suffering in Richmond, some Of
which are SO desperate as to be bordering on
starvation.
B9 The President has appointed Joshua
D. Giddings Assistant Treasurer of the
United States at Charleston.
( B6T In tbe second volume of his History
of the American Conflict" Mr.. Greeley owns
that until the battle of Gettysburg he was
! not " habitually confident of an auspicious
E immediate issue from our momentous strug.
gle."
e A plank has Just been brought to
New York from California which is believed
! to be the largest ever seen in the United
States. It measures twelve feet long, eight
feet four inches wide, and is three feet thick.
p~ The New CRop os>RIcE.-The Savan.
nah Ne,rs, of the 18th instant, says: About
\ three thousand five hundred bushels of rice
\ has been beaten ont at the Planters Rice Mill,
in this city, which is controlled by the ener.
\ getc and epterprising firm of W. NJ. Tunno
\ & Co.. The. rice beaten out is a very fair
quality, and il selling readily at remunerative
prices.
e. The Canton, Mississippi, Mail says
. that Northern cotton planter, about the
| only man in Madison county who rejoices in
! being classed as Radical, undertook, the
/ other day, to whip one of his freedmen, and
got soundly whipped himself. He says the
Civil Rights bill is an internal humbug.
@ Desperate gambling is not confined to
: recently at Baden, match at baccarat took
place between an English Duke and Rus
sian Prince, both good players and reck-
less gamblers. The latter won of the former
$4,000. which the Duke, being enormously
rich, was quite able to pay.
IL A new York paper says the splendid
temples of vice are almost as safe from intru-
sion as churches, and their tools of trade in
as little danger Of seizure as sacramental
plate. Why is this thus?
RaF A poor negro, in dying col Iition, was
carried through the streets of Chicago for
two hours, the other day, before place could
be found that would take him in. When the
asylum was reached the patient had expired.
e. The, Washington correspondent of
| the Charleston Courier says: It 10 woli
certained and settled that the majority of the
Republican members of Congress will not 60
with the Radicals in their extreme measures.
They have, however, taken their stand upon
,he constitutional amendment as proposed by
Congress, demanding nothing more, and con-
rent with nothing less. The Radicals will
maintain their extreme ground, in the expec-
ration that nothing will be done at present to
effect any accommodation between the North
ern States and the excluded States, or be-
between Congress and the President. If au.
other yesr or two shall pass without an ad
iustmens, the Radicals expect to carry out
! heir extreme programme.
- An innocent young girl of Roches.
,er, New York, after being accused and ar
-ested for stealing gold rings, and hauled
around for two weeks from the jail to the
oolice court, abused, treated as telon, and
condemned tc the society Of the degraded
and corrupt, has at last been saved from
life in the States prison by the confession of
another girl.
70 Artemus Ward tells a good story
concerning the production Of the Lady of
Lyons at the Salt Lake City theatre: 4" An
AGED Mormon arose and went out with his
twenty-four wives, angrly stating that he
wouldn't sit and sec play where man made
such cussed fuss over one woman"
ES"If there is any body under che
canister Of heaven that have in utter ex-
cresence,' says Mrs. Partington 81 it is the
slandercr, going about like bow constructor,
circulating his calopsel upon honest folks"
G- Some poor fellow who has been Tilted,
we should Judge, and brought to gref by
| some fair one, thus revenges his wrongs:
"Eve Die nosknow as much as her daughters
of the present day. Had they been in her
place, instead of being deceived, they would
have deceived the devi l."
sO-A negro woman passing the Stacey
House, at Nashville, with gstgh coffin on
I her head, was asked who it was for, replied
&c for my ole man." Why don't you get some
one to carry it for you? said a bystauder.
"Poor folks has to tote dere own cotiins desc
days." said the woman and hurried on.
EE IF man sells his watch for fifty
dollars, buys it back for forty dollars, then
sells it for forty five dollars how much Goes
he make in the transaction 1t looks as if
he made fifteen dollars, hut he didn't.
E@ A Washington telegram of Friday
last says: A detachment Of the Engineer
Corps were to-day engaged in surveying the
grounds on Fourteenth street, on which it is
proposed to erect the new Presidential man
sion. The location is said to be favored by
President johnson, The plan, as at present
projected, includes the laying out of park
of several hundred acres.
ag- The lady who did NO, think it respec-
table to bring up her children to work, has
lately heard from her two sons One of them
is bar keeper on fat boat, and the other
is 6 steward in brick yard.
"The Cavalry Bureau in the War
Department has been abolished" There are
other Bureaus in that department the absence
Of which would be greeted with applause.
BaP A Canadian newspaper contains the