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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
Read This, All Ye Who Are Ambitious
of Beautiful Feet.

OF course we mean feet with Shoe; on. The
bsautv of tho naked foot is matter of but little
consequence except perhaps to husband and
wife, who alono are permitted to look ut each
others feet uncaparisoned and unadorDed. But
that's neither hero nor there. We have only to
,av TO all who are ambitious of beautiful Shoes
and Boots, that they must patronize our gentle
manly young friend and townsman Mr. "u. hA-
xgy, whose Shop is in the triangle formed BY tho
Adrcrtiser Office and Mr. sullivans Store. Among
his workman are Berryman Kemp and Albert JON
nerson formerly Brooks,) two jousneymen whose
skill and experience are unsurpassed. For Ladies'
as we'll rs Gentlemen, Mr.. RAHs- .urns out the
most exquisite work.
And since seeing is believing, wo challenge any
one to produce more perfectly beautiful and
durable Shoes than those just presented us by
our generous young friend abore-namcd. We
shall consider it our duty to wear them rs sign
In fact we are so profoundly obliged, and SO full
of admiration, that we have notion of taking to
walking on our head, that Mr.. RANEY's handi-
work may be tho better seen.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
Colored Congressmen.

1t is altogether mistake to suppose that We in
dulge in bad joke when We advise tho negroe:
in the present condition of things to prefer theil
own color as Senator'S and Representatives in
Congress to imported scalawags or pale faced
renegades. We prefer them IN hundred to one
.nd VIC do not ,ce.wby the negroes should not dc
it. We prefer them, because, in the first place.
VIC can trust Southern black man when we can.
not trust white traitor or Yankee spcculstoi
in negro votes. If reconstrnctiOn"-so-called-
i, to be carried out on tho plan of the last supple
ment, the choice /, between the two classes we
b.y. named. and it is no Hohson's choice" eth
sr. Give US the Southern negro, every time, be-
fore either domestic or IN imported Radical
So says the Mobile Register, and ne very sincere
ly endorse every word Of it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
From Charleston.

CHARLESTON, July 81.
A large Republican mass meeting was held
here last night, thefreedmen largely predomi-
mating. DR.. Mackey, Collector of Customs,
presided. Among the Vice. Presidents were
L. A. Sawyer, Collector of Internal Revenue,
District Attorney Corbin and several colored
citizens. A motion to add the name of United
States Marshal Epping to the list of Vice
Presiden's was voted down by an overwhelm.
ing majority. After several speeches, resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted expressing
an unalterabie purpose to carry out in good
faith and without reservation the Congres
sional measures looking to restoration, endor.
sing the platform of the recent Republican
Convention in Columbia and declaring the
maintenance of that platform, without quail
fication, the only evidence in any candidate
for public favor-of devotion to the great
party through whose exertions alone theSouth
can look for restoration.
General Sickles has dismissed magistrate
Sealy, of Columbia from office for " releasing
on insufficient bail, and without due regard
for the public peace, on the gravity of the Of
fense committed" Radcliffe and Daley, the
two men arrested there, charged with assault
ing and beating j. @. Thompson, Northern
correspondent, and W. J. Armstrong, Of
Washington. The military have rearrested
the accused parties.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
Reported Wealth, Intelligence and
Prosperity of Southern Negroes.

We scarcely ever pick up a Northern paper, es-
pecially one in the Radical interest, without
seeing in it the most oxtrsvagant and untruthful
statements respecting the enormou, number Of
negro schools in the Southern States and the
immense amount of money deposited by the freed
men in their own savings banks. These state
ments are made by Southern correspondents OF
Northern Radical journals. To US who live in
tho South and are to tho manner born," these
lattering accounts of tho mental, moral, physical
and pecuniary condition of the emancipated
blacks, nre no loss amusing than astoni.hing.
According to these wandering Munchauscn', the
freedmen have built and now support from their
own means, "six hundred schools" they have
hundreds of thousands of dollars in bank their
labor is in the greateIt demand; and wages rule
as high as sixteen dollars month, with board'
which ia quite as much az farm laborers can now
earn in the Western and Northern States or even
in New England. And, altogether, the frecdmen'
as class, are to-day the most pr@ 'perous people
in the South If tithe of these tales be true,
there is every reason f- r. once getting out an
Injunction upon the U sd States Treasurer 10
prevent him from i,suing single dollar to the
Freedmen, Bureau, which is clearly obtaining
money under the falls. pretcnue of clothing, feed
ing and protecting class Of people who are fair
ly implored to take the highest wages; who build
,eminarics of learning for their children; and
who have aouri.hing bank accounts.
Every taxpayer, ne we'll us every true philan-
thropst, will hail with satisfaction all indications
that look as if the freedmen wero likely speedily
to bo m entirely self-suppOrting population and
no longer burden upon the public treasury or,
worse yet, prctext for the payment of salaries
and fat fees to whole army Of political parasites
who are nominally protecting" something which
is generally supposed to bc their own individual
pockets. This millennium, however, is by no
means near enough, US yet, to have attracted tho
attention of even Dr. Cumming. Bnt the animus
which inspires the enthusiastic and extravagant
Radical accounts of the progress and general
prosperity of tho lately emancpated blacks is
obviously this to show that the negroes aro en-
tirely qualified to exercise tho elective franchise
and to dignity the mission of the army Of prowl-
ing and interested Radical orators now invading
tho South and to mako it appear that, at every
point in the South, these orators can preach Radi-
cal.m to largo audiences of highly intelligent
colored citizens, who have stately school houses
of their oNn building at their backs, and bank
books, with goody row of entries on the right
uido, in their brceches pockets.
But when one begins to urveil Radical lies,
when and where will his labou end?
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07

HYpocRlsY-The New York Tribune says
that when Wendell Phillips "has proved that
the colored people have greater natural fit
ness for public employment than any other
race, it will be time enough o ask US to vote
for them simply on the ground that they are
not white"
The Eibune's philosophy is like that of the
Georgia Radicals. The freedmen are good
enough to help the RAIDS into Office, bnt not to
share the honors (?) and divide the spois.
The colored citizens Should insist on fair
division of the offices, and we see no reason
why the Radicals should object If left to
our own choice, there are colored men in this
community whom we would vote for in pref
erenee to certain Afrcanized whites. Letthe
freedmen put the Radicals to the test, and
our word for it, there will be terrific how
among the white Leaguers. These men fra
ternize cheerfully with the freed people in the
dark. In the broad light of day, however
they find it convenient not to recognize theil
colored Leaguers of the previous night. bn,
give them either an indirect nod OF the cold
shoulder. Oh, ye bypccrites, how can ye hold
up Jour heads, when your actions belle your
professions ?-Chronicle K Sentinel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
Why Is 1t?

Here are some facts which the public ought
to consider:
lst. The public debt in May, 1865, wa was
GOO ,58I ;2S9. Two years of radical peac,
have increased the public debt. Why is it
ID. In May, 1865, American securities in
London were worth 73 l.2; now Il 1-2. Two
years of radical peace have lessened the credit
of the government. Why is it2
Sd. In May, 1865, gold in New York was
worth Isl now l.37. Two years Of radical
peace have deprecated the currency. Why
is it2
We car tell you why: Within one week
after the surrender of Lee it was obvious to
everybody that the North had won every:
thing it had professed to fight for; and that
peace, harmony and prosperity were all with
in our reach. Just about that time, few
leaders of the Republicon party conceived the
idea of keeping the South out of the Union
until lis political power could be controlled
for the benefit of the thieves in office. All
the wraugling, depression and expense which
have resulted, are due to this purpose alone.
A few villains and thieves in Congress arrest
the business of this great nation until they can
subjugate intelligent white men to the rule Of
barbarian blacks, who will permit them to
steal perretually.
There is no other reason in the world why
our debt IS not greatly reduced, our burdens
lesscned, our credit enhanced, and our cur
rency appreciated to nearly the value of gold.
We desire that our readers shall keep it per-
petually ia mind that, as war resulted from
wicked means to obtain power, so do the bur-
dens we lear now result from equally wicked
means 10 keep power. How long?-Union
Democrat.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
The Fifth Military District.

The Washington correspondent Of tho Baltimore
Sun says: at mny bc como days yet before the
,.neru1 onrr,u.n Of s5e communa
Of tho Fifth Military District is issued. Ihe
President has not yet determined what officer
shall bc assigned to succeed General Sheridan.
Tho successor will doubtless be either General
Meade or General Hancock"
A lato dispatch from Washington says; The
order for the removal of Sheridan has not yet
beon prepared. 1t is said in circles usually well
informed on public affairs, that Gen. Thomas Will
supercedo Sheridan that Hancock will take tho
ros;,;on now occupied by Thomas; that Sheridan
will be ordered to 1t Gen. Sherman.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
The Mean HCritters."

Every farmer knows that there are always
pne or two "mean critters on every farm.
They vii! hook. kick, jump fences and cut up
all sorts of outrageous capers Wise farmers
sell such animuls IS soon as possible for what
they can get, for fear they will teach their
meanneSs to all their companions. Political
parties are afflicted in the same way. The
Democratic party has been terribly injured In
Zines past by these "mean critters" but for
tunately, the war has relieved it Of good
many, if not all oc this breed. They could
find better pasturage in the shoddy party du-
ring the past few years than at the cribs where
they formerly fed. The result is, a good rid
dance to bad rubbish. Perhaps the meanest
one OF all these "mean critters" who have
left is John A. Logan, of Illinois. When the
war broke out, Logan, it is reported, sided
with Davis, and talked of raising con- pany
in lower Illinois to join the South. At all
events, his sympathies were said to have been
so decidedly southern that members OF his
family, if not himself, publicly cheered for
JEFF. Davis. No sooner, however, did Logan
discover that the wind was not blowing in
tia. direction, than he turned squarely about
and is now out-Heroding Herod." The
Mongrels, in pay for his subservlency, last fall
elected him to Congress, and in q speech the
other day in that dclectable body, he an
nounced that if he, the great and mighty Lo-
gan, if he had caught jeff. Davis, no one
would have been troubled with trying him !
he would have murdered him just as that
"big Iniin" Juare;, did Maxim:lian. Yes, he
would. That's what he would.
"What dangerous little MAJ" Fierce as
Camanche and terrible as sausage machine !!
How much stolen property from the South
has Logan got2 How many horses did he
capture out of private stables? There must
be something be fears he will be detected in,
or else he would not try to kick up such dust
in which to hide himself! Hoaeyer, We wish
the Mongrel party joy in their possession of
Logan, and all such mean critters" They
are useful in their present places. They will
serve the good purpose of making the Mon
grels still more odious, and we trust when
they are buried in "the last ditch, all the
mean critters' may be buried with them
New York Day Book.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
AnuNpANcE OF MoSEY-Tha nIethnra o

ABUNDANCE OF MoSEY.-The plethora of
money, like that of breadstuffs, aeems to be
world. wide. The grain c,opsin all parts of
the United States are reported good, and
from the grain producing regions of Europe,
the news is of the same favorable tenor. The
papers in the commercial centres this coun.
try report money abundant and cheap, and
the London Morning Herald OF the 18th of
July says: "Such is the abundance of morey
that 81 100000 was offered on the security
OF consols yesterday, at II per cent, but the
parties to whom the proposals was made were
SO full that they refused to take it." While
most people estsem'a cheap money market
desirable, the more rejecting know that it is
n sign of depression and lack of enterprise.
That for which there IS the least demand is
always cheap, and that which is most in de-
mand, is usually dear. There is always the
most demand for money when there is the
most business.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
An Institution Deserving Much Patron
nge from Edgefeld District.

The Medical College of Georgia, that pridc and
ornament Of our fair neighbor, Augusta. This
old and rell-tred Institution, undoubtedly Of the
very rst class in every respect stands, as 1t were,
at our very door. Citizens of our parts who over
look or ignore this fact by sending their sons to
far distant schools of Medicine, assnredly fall far
short of their duty to their own section and their
own people.
Tho session of the Medical College of Georgia
for ls67-6S will commence on Monday, 4th No.
vember 1867 and end on Saturday 3rd March,
1868. Tho faculty embraces the well-known
names of Campbel::Evo, Ford, Geddings, Rain',
Dusas, Doughty, 6c.,-all of them distinguished
physicians, polished gentlemen, men Of profound
science-most of them eminent writer's and lee
turcrs.
Than the Medical College of Georgia, no In
s,itusion offers q more systematic, more thorough
moro practical, and at tho Same time more popu-
lar method of Medical Education.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
A Universal Exhortation.

A universal exhortation from all agricultural
papers and from all writers on agricultural topics,
is that Southern farmers and gardeners should
pay more attention to the culture Of TurDips.
Read the articles on this subject which a.e to be
found on the outside of our present issue. With
a new advertisement which will be found in
another column, Mr.. PEBBLE has sent US an in
fuite variety of rare Turnip Seeds, with instruc-
tions upon the papers as to time Of sowing. The
period runs from the 18th August to the 1st octo-
Der. Consequently there is no time to be lost.
Mr.. PEBBLES Seed Store is on Washington
Street, Augusta, Ga.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
An Insult to Peace and Prosperity.

The election for State officers in Tennessee,
which cauo off on the LIST inst, has result, in
the triumph Of the old hcll-hound, BRowsLow
and of the Radical faction generally. What an
Insult to peace and prosperity to continue in power
party that drives both from our land. Not the
uisho, of the people, however, have done this,
but tyranny and the bayonet. Surely this max
BRowsLow will yet learr something. Laws that
deprive nEe tentbs of the intelligent people of the
State of their dearest rights certainly cannot bo
enforced much longer. 70 believe it Reem, like
madness; and BRowsLow will learn it. At pres
ont thero is nothing in Tennessee bu: tyranny,
di.ccrd and hatred-all to end in blrod-in the
blood, let US hope, of this demon who should bu
bereft of the sympathy Of man and accur.o6 Sy
the Justice of Heaven.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
-au.yaI 1urpur1sm.

The National Mtelligerer says: The 7" do
main of politics" enlarges its circuit while
increasing the swiftness of its current as al
everuugmcnting whirlpool. threatening t
draw the whole social sea into its deliriou
vortex. Unfortunately, it is in the power o
one side to drag with Itself tie other into
whatever sphere it may choose to carry dis
cussion. If Radical enthusiasts should engage
in partizan expostulation against the use Of
tobacco, there is no doubt they could force
the practice into issue at the hustings. The
ology, polity, physical science, industrial art
domestic economy, ETC., are all distinct de-
partnents, naturally and nationally. But the
baletuI tendency is to swallow them all up in
an exaggerated, unnatural and degrading
prevalence, everywhere and in every matter
of political partizanship.
These reflections painfully strike US in
contemplating the shameful spectacle which
the vulgar weakness or the despicable obse-
quiousness of the coroner at Alexandria oc-
casioned at recent inquest in that city. The
omnipresence of Radical intolerance, the un-
feeling baseness which is known TO be the
practice Of that party in collecting capital,
and the unsparing severity with which its
followers are put to the bit.e:est tests and
sacrifices, compelled this poor coroner, on
pain of party dsfavor, to carry into the in
quest over suicide the disgusting pretences
and coarse affectations of the pro negro stamp.
A poor girl-innocent as light, young and
beautiful-tortured by some halucination,
cast herself into the Potomac. Her body is
laid on the. bank. Her weeping brothers
stand there, for the tenderness Of all humane
beings, and the sympathy oven of the most
brutal. AS they look upon the body of their
dead sister, in that public place, what must a
bystaudcr be who could reckon up partizan
considerations, count the votes which might
be carried out Of their anguish, or forecast
the mean reproach of the meanest of Radi-
Gals for omitting at such tire and place to
parade negro enfrancbisement A jury to
view the body of this white maiden was not
to consist of white men, even for so simple
and sad duty, but negroes must be brought
to exult in political fellowship over the body
of poor girl in the face of her brothers.
Were ever two ideas more remotely separa-
ted than suffrage of a class Of men and in
quest Of sucde2 Were ever such incor-
;ruous things associated before in the lowest
,ind ?
Sucn spirit is mcfe than disgusting. 1t
isoathsome. Barbarism must surely over
ia, society, however splendid and lumi
no its civilization shines, if such spcctacles
fallo evoke general aversion and rebuke.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
fostering ~ Kenuady.

With much pleasure we call attention to the
card in our advertising columns, headed ~. NJ
YousGpLooD with EAsrERLISG kESSADY." The
popular firm of R. c. & II. II. BAsrERLING h=f
become, by the retiring of one of the Eastcrling
brothers and the coming in Of Mr.. kESSApf,
q EAsrERLIyG KESSADY." This firm is so well
and widely known, not only in Augusta but
throughout Edgefcld District, that it needs M
word of appreciation from us to give it popularity
aud patronage. As for our universally esteemed
young fellow citizen, Mr.. JAMES NJ. YouSGDLooD,
The most prominent salesman at EAs7ERLIsd q
KEyyADr's, ho will most undoubtedly prove
pillar of success to any house which may secure
his services.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
Wonderful, Wonderful

We enroll among our exchanges tho Fre'tr
Inder, a semi-weckly paper published at Jles-
burg, in Nebraska, the present terminus % the
great Union Pacific Railroad. This is 900 aies
West of Chicago, and $50 miles West of tho lis
aouri River. Think of it, Nino hundred niles
of Railroad directly West Of Chicago! Andhis
distance N ado with but one change of cars. Viiy
there are but few people in the South who diam
that this greatest work Of tho nineteenth cenlry
tho Union Pacific Railroads. so far compiGd'
Two or three years more-say in l87o-andhe
cars will bear US from New York on The Atlanti to
San Francisco on the Pacihc-over mopnhn
desert, river, prairie. A great country this! VEIL
NAV the American Eagle be always Tapping is
wing, and making tremendous fuss in the uori !!
Judging from tho Frontier Inder, life in Juls-
burr must be somcwr-t exciting and unccrt'n
bus;r.as. And yr. ley seem to have there'l!
tho oru., OIL civilization and high enlightn-
ment-theatres, portable buildings, stores, dc &C.
But the wild Injuns swoop down upon themat
,nv time. and scalp them by tho dozons. Whit
new and delightful sensation it must be to 70
scalped!
Reud some of the paragraphs from the Jule-
burg index.
Jnle,burg is still growing as if by magic; thee
arc twelve new buildings going up since our, lat
observation.
ArrAcK.-A party of Indians attacked NJ
Hines train dny before yesterday near Mud
Savings. They were repused, with the loa Of
opo rnulo; only one man wounded. The stock
and men were saved by taking rofuge in CORA
n mile or two from the scene OF the first charge
souArrEns fifty persons started outfoi
Crow Creek on Wednesday to aieze lots in Chy'
enne City. They swear defiance to tho Nm
Comnany. Such conduct is child's play; foriI
the frat place Cheyenne is not positively locaea
and in the second place Uncle Sam is therat t
nro,ect the railroad town-site.
srcrpEns CoN1yG INA long train of 'eced':
from the Mormon church-the land OF Brigham
arrived in town yesterday. They are journeyihl
toynrds Illinois to join tho Josephites
Lrrr-A large Mormon train consisting, Q
eight mule tcams, loaded with merchandise' iei
Juesburg yesterday for Utah..
scout Just in from the Smoky Hill valley n rs
norris the number of whites in that country w
| Tndiony. 1870 Fight-as longns-lite oilers ponie
and pronotion for white soldiers scalp'.
NONE K1LLEp.-Only sixty three loud gBarroI
-, Erout street since our last Issue. No on
killed since the birth of tho city government
A whaling row in toun last night eighty sove
in tho Geht; fourteen woundod and six missing
the Xxi killed. not counted, Tho police are after 'h
ring leaders.
5.DAr.-The U. P. R. r. laid two mile
md three quarters of track yesterday. Hea
and Easement are showing ahcad
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Tennessee Elections.

The recent elections in Tennessee have gone
so 1000 majority for BRowSLow and his Radical
Republican party. All eight of the Congres'men en
viii. be Radical, and Radical will also bo elected
to succeed PATTERSON in the .. S. Senate. There
is great rejoicing in Yankeedom over this election.
A sslu.c was fred on the I'd in Harrisburg, Pa,
By order of the Governor in honor of the Tonnes
soc victory. But in any State where 5O,OOu OF
her best citizens see disfrarchsed, a.is the case
in Tennessee, Negro Republican majOritiss may
alYnYs be expected.