Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-01-31

@-A Frankfort, KY, dispatch says General
Fisk is still arranging or trying to arrange, the
Freedmcn's Bureau affair. There is general
feeling of indignation at the attempt to force the
institution on us, and if Mr.. johnson wiahes to
increase the good opinions of the people of Ken
tucky, he will remove this nuisance.
Ms- There have been several lnutines and
emcutes Of late in the Third and Thirty-fourth
tew days ago, mutiny took place, and the COLO
nei Of tho regiment was shot. The would-be
murdcrers, however, six in all, have been tried by
military commission, found guilty and executed.
Ey Aaron A. Bradley, tho oolored preacher,
convicted by military commission at Savannah
for seditiOus language and melting the freedmen
to disorder, aud sentenced to years hard labor
at Fort Pulaski, has been released on parole by
order Of Secretary Stanton.
tY Formerly We sent $4,000 tons of rice to
Europe; but since the war, Europe sends heavily
to US. The crop was overy whore lighter than
usual last ye,r. North Carolina, whose annual
product used to exceed 200, 900 casks, raisod but
TOOO
.Gs- On tho 18th, tho House of Representa-
tives passed the suffrage bill for the District of
Columbia by o vote of 1l6 against 50. On tho
passage of tho bill extending suffrage unquali-
fodly in tho District of Columbia, the applause
from the galleries was almost deafoning.
Gs- Tboreis o child in Staunton seven weeks
old, which weighs only one pound and half.
When born it could be put in q sea-cup, and then
weighed only half pound. The little Liliputian
is doing we'll"
Gg- A Washington, dispatch says ex-Gover-
nor Aiken says tho negroes are doing nothing,
and new crops arc likely to bea failure unless
something is done to compel the negroes to work.
He has bOca appointed to lay the matter bOfOro-
tho President and General Grant, and see if some
means cannot bc devised te remedy the difficulty.
tI The Columbus (Ga) Sun states TINT ifis
generally understood that all the troops are to be
withdrawn from that post.
r The Philadelphia Inquirer says that
large number of Sleeping ears are being manufac-
turcd in that city for the Southern Transportation
Company, which are to DO placed on Southern
as soon as completed. They are fitted
up in elegant style and possess every convenience.
Two hayo already arrived in Richmond for the
Wilmington aud Weldon railroad.
sy A discharged negro soldier shot and killed
0 Mr.. Tillmau and severely wound ed Mr. Cohen,
it Colliorsvillo Tenn, recently The citizens be-
lamO SO enragod that the ncgre was immediately
hot and tho head of the wrstchod man severed I
tom hisbody. ~. =, =
&B- We learn from the National Intelligen-
Or" that tho Commissioner for the Department
d Agriculture is preparing seeds for the South,
which he is sending to members eloot; also, ag-
riultural reports. His actionis most excellent,
rs sardod IN. any light. -
vs. certain class OF papers in New England
ar,constanty suying that there exists in many
poions of tho South on intense hatred Of the
Noihern people. Are the Northern people, as Q
bod. doing any thing to remove hi,.antipathy, if
1t bSrue that it exists? 1ees ess i>aa
s' In the House of Representatives, on tho
1OthlMr. Kelly, Of Pennsylvania, quoted tho
ProsA Aent's message to show that he was in favor
Of nelo suffrage in Tennessee. He said, of course,
thorefc, ho was in favor of is,in the District of
Coluuia, and then added, that he was able also.
70 sped authoritatvcly OIL tho subject, because
the Prudent himself has told him so. - ar
rY Tho Freedmou's Bureau Of Of Mississippi
hds bse, ordered to assist the military in recon-
strucsnlthc Mississippi river lcvoes. y j .syJ
? iGy-. .bn. John Bell, in his letter which We al
ludsd to 70 other day, advances the reasonable
cdnjscturl that at an' ond Of tho next twQnty
years the bgro population of tho South will have
administration four million to half million, on
accounted |heir deprurity and 'ind0lqnoe. q Z
; Gs~ An hrmy chaplain relntOsthe following T
story lsesl a, dirty.faceds butternut urchin Of
fapesink kopt efn house, tho preacher stopped q
aud saidas9 your father.st homo ?" &" No; he's >
gone to ehdA "FyaIs your mother in f'" MOI: F.,
YES gonsstde e'n "Thonyou,rt dizzy yourself 9ef''
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