Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-08-08

@- a Mobile negro whose son elored withi'
white girl, and Is supposed 20 have besn lynchedt
is about to enter suit against the girls father Al
accessory to tho death Of his boy,
~ On Saturday Inst the family horse ofth'
late President Lincoln was sold at public auction
in Chicago. lie wac bid in by the owner Mt sos
| $50 being the highest sun offered. The anima
VAS eighteen yeara old:
What generous fellows the Bumpers are
in their dealings with their negro pets, giving the
freedmen Of the SOUTH so Of the public lands
and pro ibting the poor men OF the south from
settling on said lands at all. Vide Negro Home,
stead Pill recently passed in Congress.
~, Mrs. General r. Ransom intends estab-
fishing female seminary in Wilmington this fall
g- An old an committed suicide ut Patter-
son, New jersey, on hi, srst sifesgravo, because
he didn't like h,s second. a letter was found in
hi, pocket, containiag feoling allusion to his
recent troubles. and concluding with touching
roouest to be buried in the same grave with bis
dead wife.
nSr The Nashville Dipatch calls Ten. Sher-
man ga crazy son of devilish ambition" and
predicts thar in short time he will be as odiou'
at the North as he is now at tho South.
e ouilp says if the Bankrupt Law had been
for the benefit of citizens Of African descent, it
would have passed Congress long ago. And
ouilp is plumb right.
T VIM. Y. Leitch, late Surveyor of the Port
at Charleston, has retired from the position, being
unable to take the test on,h., His successor has
bson sworn into Office, and entered upon the duties.
Ey DR.. Rayne, ,.uho.was convicted of being q
Confederate spy, and condemned to death, but
whose sentence Was subsequently, cowmuted to
imprisonment for,life, was released from the Ohio
ponitentisry last wOek, under an oEder from the
War Department to discharge is of the military
prisoners confined az that place,
ss5- Commander Mauy, late Of the United
States,is about to be attached t. the Frsnchnavy
as chief of the meteorological department.
sss> The citizens Of aalveuton, Texas, gore o
concert on the 5thsinstant, for the benefit of the
family Of Albert Sidney Johnston, the object be-
ing to raise means to remove the family to that
State from California, where they now reside.
ms-. The Raleigh Sentinel says there are about
seventy -avc Confederate prisoners on Johnsons
Island, too sick to get away, and that they aFo'
without means of travelling to their homes, even
If we'll enough, and the Government no longer
furnishes transportation. ..,-
n8- Nj. John Bi1ler;' Of Ohio, recently died,
leaving a widow only twelve years old, and a
child nearly six months. She is the youngest
widow in, America-perhapsin the world.
mD DR.. Mary E Walker predicts feTals suf.
frsge and otaoe.hodipg In this country within tho
next ten ysa.s, and that the Southern sta:ss will
issd OF ia this great rsfsrm.,
w Wo go lts.atsd that llsr lunssl, Msr.
rIb who recently died ct South AahsFst &sSsa-
shasst!s, loft handsdns beauos.to tbs Thc0losi.
csi aomiuary at Ooiaabia, s.ci
Ey Tho Frssdmen's Bureau In Princes: 4: 4a.ssa go
county, Virginia, have decided that negro who
slolo gontlslaans breeding SOW and Kept her
aatil sis bad Pigs 10 eotitlsd to sao rass II he
spsslna fas eaR. Il