Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-11-07
"Haply for 1 am Black !.

Although it is two months before the end Of tho
year, still tho country is sswarming with idlo freed
men and frecdwomen-aimless and objectless-
slothful and dirty. And % they care neither
for aims nor objects, industry nor cleanliness
they aro perfectly contenfed. to live in this va
grant condition. And thus thoS arc alloOed to
live And many good people are already without
servants simply because these latter, as the year
draws to close, must needs be off, sauntering and
loaGug and Alching. In some respects, it is for
tunate, in these days, to be negro. For them
there seems to BIO neither obligation to obey laws
nor necessity t, work. Each one of them may
we'll exclaim with 0thello-" Haply for nm
black"
We respectfully invite the attention Of those
who have authority in the matter to this subj ject.
Something must be done, We shall soon be com
pletcly overrun.
All idle negroes should be put at once into o
chain gang-as has been done elsewhere with
good effect-and compelled to work. An institu-
ton of this kind, or somsthing which would oblige
tho hundreds Of vasrants along our roads and
about our streets, to work or clear out would 5u
great blessing to Edgefeld
Gs- The Washington correspondence Of the
Times says Sherman has accepted military and
diplomatic mission to Mexico and will accompu.
ny Col. Campbell, the now minister to that cOun-
try.
&s- 1t is stated that Napoleon informed Car
1okb, tbo IF 10 Mox Iiou
| to cede two of his Provinces to the United States
| in order to consolidate his rule in Mexico.
Ey Colonel Roberts has issued IN address to
the Fenians, cul.ins on them to work aud organ
ze into regiments. "Strangc events" he says,
"ase in tho near future, and you know not how
soon you may be called upon to strike for Ireland.
ty The Chicago Tribune says that Mrs, Mahr
o. Babcock's Grove, pupasc county H., is re-
ported to have become tho mother of two babies,
interval Cf three months, tho fret on the 18th
of June in the present ysar, and the second On
the 9Th ins:. Both babies arc remarkable efu-
sious of mother wit, the eldvst having now six
teeth, and the juvenile weighing ten pOapds.
srgr The Columbia Phinir says: 1--WE learn
TINT Thos. b. Leo, Etq of An lcrson, hns received
the appointment Of Superintendent Of tho Pcsi-
teRtiary, and is now On IL tour of inspection Of the
Northern prisons, to digest plans for erection o.
buildings"
GB- Gen. L. McLaws, Of Augusta, and Hon
G. A. Trenholm, of Charleston, have boon par
dopoi By the President.
@- The gang Of maraudcrs which were dc.
predating all along the American side of tho Riu
Grrndr, hnve been captured. shot or hung. Their
lcaler, Colonel Young, formerly chief Of scouts fol-
Sherman, was hung by R4ucheros.
&y- Sanford Conover alias Charles A. Dan.
han, was arrested in New York on the 1st, and
brought to Washington on Friday. He is charg.
ed on the affidavit of Wm. H. r bort', of having
fraudulontly procured Roberts to commit to mem.
ory and swe.r to false statement before ths
House mui'too or the Judiciary, us to matter.
impeaching Jefferson Davis in the murder Of Pres
ident Lincoln. Conover, il will bo recolected
gayo secret test nony before the military com
mission on the trial Of the assassination consp
rators.