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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
Timely Warning.

The New York Nation, an ultra-radical paper,
warns the colored people Of the South, and espe-
cinly those of Virginia, against the suicidal poll
cy of banding themselves into patty exclusively
against tho whites, and suffering themselves "to
be kept in q constant fermcnt by few white
m On, who are using them for their own profit and
advantage. And it tells tham to remember that
whilst this gam. may ,uccced for year or twO'
it must in the end, rscoil upon those who arc
playing it, for, says the Nation, there is scarcely
a State. except South Carolina, which can be con-
trolled by tho colored vote alone for more than
two OF threo years. Certainly Virginia Is not one
Of that class The white voters will constitute
majority whenever they choose to act together; !;
and they will probably increase far more rapidly
than the othors Immigration will soon flow in
that direction and this, of course will bo e1ciu-
sivcly white, and in great part uniricndly TO tho
eolored people," This is the warning not Of
4" rebels" or sscesh," but Of warm, devoted
friond to the radical party, and the power OF the
colored race
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28


Non EMPLOYMENT OF oFRADIcALs.--The Mem
phis Avalanche recommends the policy of re-
fusiug all business dealings with Radicals,
both black and white. 1t says:
The Freedmen's Bureau is besieged by
crowds of able bodied black fellows VINO want
to be fed, Or to get the forty acres ofland that
were promised to them if they voted for
Brownlow. The bead of the Bureau has OF
dered that speedy settlements of the claims
of blacks so discharged shall be ordered. It
was feared by some employers that under
this regulation the Bureau might punish such
discharges by enforcing claims of blacks for
contract by the year, when no such contract
was ever made. No such enforcement can te
made By the Bureau in this State. All claims
have here to be adjudicated by the courts.
A colored man applied to Conservative
yesterday for work, saying; "Dey has betn
dischargin' US fo- votin' for Brownie, but I
guess you won't do SO, anyhow" "Indeed I
will, Bob; voting for Brownlow was voting
for that indemnify act which is TO put hum
dred and eighty dollars more taxes every year
oD me, and / don't intend to support anybody
who votes to have heavy taxes put on me-"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

IMPORTANT DECISION BY JUDGE BRYAs.-
The case of V. A. Ripley Us. r. Q. Gillian,
was an oction brought by the plaintiff, who
lives in North Carolina, against the defendant,
4 resident of this State, upon contract made
during the wrr. W. K. Eascly, defendants
attorney, moved the court on Wednesday, TO
stay the proceedings, on the ground that the
action was in conflict with :: provision in Or
der No. 10. of Genera! oicklcs. The motion
was resisted by Z. P. Jones, attorney Tor the
plaintiff The Judge granted the motion,
holding that the citizens of the States, p'ac-
ed by Congress under military law, were
bound by military orders, 80 that citizen of
North Carolina has no more right to sue u
citizen of South Carolina, within the prohibi-
led rules, than citizens ofthe same State have
to sue each other. There i, difference in
the rights of citizens Of New York or other
State that is not placed under disa oiity, or
that has forfeited no right by rebellion, and
the citizens of these Southern States; the
former can prosecute legal demands in the
United States Court, without respect to
military orders-not SO the latter.-Green-
vile Enterprise.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
An Ahnmination.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, of Boston, like
many other sensible people, has decided aver
sion to long dresses, and expresses his sentiments
in reference to this filthy fashon-to say the Least
Of it-in the following words:
But coufound tho make-beliere women we have
turned loose in our streets, where do they como
from? Not out of Boston parlors trust. Why,
there isn't beast OF bird that would drag its tail
through the dirt in the way these creatures do
their dresses. Because Queen or Duchess wears
long dresses on great occasions, maid of all
work or factory girl thinks she must make her
self nuisance by trailing through TIE streets,
picking up and carrying about with her--bah
that's what call getting vulgarity into your
bones and marrow.
Show over dirt is the attribute of vulgar people.
IF any man can walk behind one of these women,
and see what she rakes up as shc goes, and not
feel rqueamish, he has got tough stomach.
would not lot one Of them into my room without
serving thom az David did Saul at the cave in tho
wi!derness-cut off her skirts.
Don't tell me that true lady ever sacrltices
the duty of keeping all about hor sweet AMI clean,
to the wish of making vulgar show. don't
believe it of lady. There arc some things that
no fashion has any right to touch, and cleanliness
is one of these things. It is an insult to re-
spectacle laundress to carry such things into a
house for her to deal with.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

COMMITTED TO JAIL.-A young man by the
name of John P. May was arrested and
lodged in jail at this place on Saturday last,
charged with having poisoned two Of his
.se.,ehi ildren-one about three and the other
rbout eleven years Of age. Suspicion was
excited by the two children dying suddenly,
and the date Of their death being near to
yether. and fcr other reasons. Accordingly, at
The instance Of the friends Of the deceased
children, their bodies were disinterred, and
their stomachs examined by q board Of phy.
s;cians, aud an inquest held. On examination
of ,ae stomachs OF the children, the physi-
clans Tere satisfied that they died from
strychnine and the coroner's jury, after hav-
ing examined 9 number of witnesses, COM
m:tted May to Jail to await his trial. Wheth-
er the strychnine was given the children by
the stepfather with the Intention Of poisoning
1he,n, or by mistake, is matter to be deter
mined hereafter, and lest we should prejudice
the pubic against the unfortunate prisoner,
we forbear further comment, preierring to
give him the benefit of the maxim in law
ihnt every man is presumed to be innocent,
until proved otherwise upon formal trial.
saurensgille (S C.) Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

GERMAN RADICAL PAPERS REGULATING
THE NEGRO SurFRAGE E PARTY.-Quitc large
number of the German papers recently de-
voted to building up the interests Of the Rae
cal party have repudiated the negro suffrage
and disunionism of that faction. In Boston,
Carl Meinzer, editor Of the most ultra Ger
man Radical paper in the North-the Pioneer
gives notice that he will no longer act
with the party of Stevens, Sumner & Co. The
Pittsburg Tolksblatt, an influential Radical
oaper, says that the German Republicans
must form an allianc, with the Democracy,
in order 10 defeat the puritanism which is
gradually taking hold oftbeir party.
The German Radical papers in Iowa make
similar declarations: Even Carl Schurz, in
he ST.. Louis Westliche Post, urges the Ger
nan Radicals TO vote for Democratic candi
,lates for legislative ard municipal Offices.
This list might be greatly extended /; but the
foregoing is sufficient to show that but few Of
our German fellow-citizens can any longer be
made the dupes Of the Radical demagogues
who would use them for their own selfish
purposes, and then kick them aside and per-
secutc them because they refuse to place
themselves on level with or below the ne
gro--Cleyeland (O.) Plaindealer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
From Richmond.

RICHMOND, August %, p. m.-Ex-Gov.
Wise delivered an addre to-day at Washing
ton and Henry Academy. he said we all now
owed natural allegiance to our country, and
any oath to support its Constitution or oath
of registration was in violation of that Con-
stitution. There is now being made an effort
to make the white freemen of the South SUBJ
iect to the domination of the black freedmen.
Against this we must appeal to the white
masses of the North, who will not permit
sacrifice of natures laws to political preJu-
dice. The whites of New England, the Mid
die States, and Europe must not be kept out
Of the South by black rule. This is the white
mans land, and must be kept open for the
white men. He said that 10 avoid the ua.
tional dshonor of reputation the interest on
the national bonds must be reduced TO four
and-a.ha!f per cent. That interest taxed and
the whole debt consolidated, the rich would
stop boarding bonds He urged his audience
to renew their allegiance to their country,
and never desert the Constitution to pre-.
serve the purity of their race and blood and
color increasingly to live in peace and plenty.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
False Bosom. and their Effects.

The New York Times says: On last Satur-
day afternoon very fine looking lady, young
and we'll dressed, called on Justice Dodge, at
the Jefferson Market Police Court, and in
most bland and smiling manner stated that
she had been defrauded in singular manner
by q fashionable dress maker on Sixth Ave-
nue., between Eleventh and Twelfth streets,
named Madame Latour.
Miss Flora Sinclair, the lady in question, is
inclined to be fashionable in every respect.
Large and full breasted, without any orna-
mental padiings, she was duly measuIe ed for
the dress, the material for which she says she
gave Madame Latour.
When she came-to ut the garment on, how
ever, she wore pair of false bosoms, which
could not be reduced to sufficient space to al.
low the dress to work over them.
1t was long enough in the skirt, had trail
enough for Long Branch, Newport, or Sarato
%, but ah I! the bosom that could not be
made to join, and Miss Sinclair's charms
were visible to the vulgar gaze of the outer
world. She did not want this, rs she said
herself it would not look we'll to wear such
dress in company.
This Miss Flora Sinclair blushingly and
smilingly declared she did not desire, and in
sisted that the madame should pay her for tue
material wasted in the dress. Madame La
tour, in her broken English, begged to say to
bis Honor that she was not responsible for
the mistake in the size of the dress, if any
had occurred she measured Miss Sinclair
carefully, and made the dress accordingly /;
and if the latter saw fit to add to her own
charms by wearing false bosoms over her nat
ural endowments, already large, she Madame
Latsur) could not be held responsible. His
Honor the Judge said he knew little about the
mysteries of dress-makiug, but he would re-
fer the whole subject to competent person,
to examine the facts and report to him the
testimony. He according referred the dis.
putarts to Mrs. Robinson, well known dress
maker on Sixth Avenue, to adjudieate upon,
but this lady has not yet made her report.
Meantime Miss Sinclair is obliged to so
without her new garment, which at one time
promised to add somuch to her charms. The
clerk and attaches of the court are an1iously
awaiting the Judges decision on the subject,
as it is generally believed that it will contain
. long disquisition on the evil effects of false
bosoms."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
Fun for the Multitude.

On Thursday night, tho 10Th, oar Amaturo
Minstrels will give another of their inimitablo
cutcrtainments at which it is confidently expected
everybody will be in attendance. As will be seen
hy the Programme in another column the entire
performance consists of New Songs, Now Plays
New Burlesqucs; in fact, the whole 'eanc- will
be one of Norelty aud Originality, and an exu-
bcrance of mirth- provoking laughter. 1t will be
in truth, really splendid evenings entertain
ment. Let none fail to be present. Those who
do will most aasuredy' regret it. The object OF
these young men is praiseworthy, and indepen-
dent of their merit as musicians and comedians,
which is highly creditable, NIL who are charitably
inclined, and havo the good Of the community at
heart, should encourage them with their presence
and smiles on Thursday evening.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
Redistribution.

The people of this vicinity will bear in mind
that Wednesday and Thursday, the 2sth and goth,
the Board of Registers will be in this place. Turn
OUT, and register, all ye who have the privilege.
We have not been ablo rs yet to get the result
of Registration at any of the precincts in this
District. We hope the Chaitmen Of the different
Bonrds will give the returns in their respective
Regiments in time for our next Issue.
On tho subject of registration, We beg to call
attention to tho following from tho Yorkyills
Enquirer:
Why Nor REGIsrER?-If any white man, hav-
ing the right to register, has one solitary reason.
better than fools reason, why he should not
register, should be glad to hear it, or to hear
of it.
If you wish to carry out Mr.. Pcrry's policy, or
to oppose it, equally, you must register. If you
are conscrvative-dc,nocr tic-radcal-negro-
dog-or devil-in order to carry out your policy,
you must first register.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

SHOCKING GcCuRREScE.-On Sunday
morning last, short time before daylight,
very melancholy affair occurred near Leavens.
WORTH in Darlington District, the particulars
of which are as follows,
Mr.. Peter McIver, who lives in the Leavens.
worth neighborhood, had been for some time
past troubled with rogues depredating among.
his poultry, and on the night in question it
seems Mr.. and Mrs. McIver were both wake
full and apprehensve of harm. Mrs. Mclver,
unknown to the family, had gotten up and
gone into the yard, no ore knew why or
wherefore, and Mr.. McIver, hearing some
noise out there, awokc his son-a young man
nearly grown-aud told him some one was
out IN the yard. The son took his gun and
went to the yard, and Seeing some strange
object near where the fowls were, shot at
random in that direction and saw the object
fall. He then won't in The house and told his
father lie had shot some person down, and
about the same time the cook woman came
in and said some one was hurt near the fowl
house. Upon going there tie dreadful truth
burst upon the aroused household that Mrs.
Mcl7er was shot in vital part of her body
by her own son. Ono shot penetrated the
brain, but she was able to speak, though not
fully conscious of her situation, as she labored
under the impression that somebody had
struck her blow upon hehead. Physicians
we're promptly sent for, who pronounced the
case hopeless. Mrs. McIver lived about three
hours after receiving the wound.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

PoLlTIcs AND THE CoLosED PEOPLE IN
OuIo.-An intelligent correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette, writing from Columbus,
Ohio, furnishes the following observations on
politics and the colored race in that State.
He says:
An amendment to tho State constitution,
permitting negroes to vote, and excluding
& rebels" is to be voted upon in Ohio in Oc.
-tober. Now, as there are but about 10000
admit male negroes in the State, their ad-
mission 10 the ballot box cannot be at all
dangerous, and is more matter OF taste; but
so prejudced against the negro are many of
these wise and just radicals, who have just
forced into our political arena almost if not
quite majority of wholly uneducated men,
that it is universally conceded that the amend.
mcnt will be rejected, and that the few ed
ucated and we'll conducted colored people
who reside here will be thus continued, by
their special friends, in the inferior position
they now occupy. Charity dontseem to be-
gin at home out here. have watched, par
ticularly, since have been here, what degle
of association there was between the white
and colorei people; aud | can truly say that
there is less than there has always been with
US. There was procession of colored people
in Urbana whilst was there, and saw boys
picking up pebbles tu throw at them as they
passed-an act whi;h, had it occurred with
us, would have been cL:i.o::.iicied in the North
crn papers as evidence of the most intense
disloyalty.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
COMMANDER OF THE FIFTH MILITARY DIS

COMMANDER OF The FIFTH MILITARY OlS-
rRlcr.-The Washington Republic, in an.
nouncipg. that the President, through General
Graut, had issued an order relieving General
Sheridan as commander of the fifth military
district headquarters at New Orleans, and
assigning General George II. Thomas, COM
mander of the Department of the Cumber-
land, to succeed him, remarks:
General. Thomas having had experience in
the work of reconstruction under the congress
sional act, and having given general satisfac-
tion. was deemed by the President and Gen.
eral Grant the best man to assume the duty
OF finishing the work required by Congress
ir the fifth district. This order was pronul-
gated yesterday, and will take effect at once.
The name OF Gen. Thomas is sufficient
guarantee that the laws will be executed,
without regard to politics, in the spirit of
fairness, for the greatest good of the greatest
number. Much of the bitter feeling that has
been engendered by the announcement that
General Sheridan would be removed will be
allayed by the fact that he is to be succeeded
by such man as General Thomas, in whom
the loyal people all over the country have
confidence.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
Hard on.Ring John.

Tho Louisville Courier takes lick at King
John, of the Third Kingdom, and talks Z" thusly <
Gen. John Popo has made his appearance in
politics He kaows less about that than he does
about war, and knows little about either: II no
viii keen bis mouth shut but few people would
find out how silly he is. His present expedition
into the realms or craftsmanship is about as great
n failure as his trip from Washington towards
Richmond Then he thought it would add to bis
comfort and security to get out of the South, and
he mado rapid time; now ho thinks that the pro-
cess of reconstruction would bc facilitated by
nut,ing other people out of the country. We i'm
ar;nc that his Craftsmanship will be regarded as
weak as his tactics and that the one will make as
little impression upon the cpuhtry ap the other
tactics did upon tho Confcdcrato5.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

GENERAL PoPE's LAST" ULL."-The Gin
c;nuati Enquirer has the following remarks
on this topic:
Of thirteen daily papers in Georgia, only
four-nnd these are edited by renegade
Southerners-support the reconstruction pol
icy of Congress. In consequence of the re
fusal of the Georgia people to give them coun-
tcuance or support, they have hitherto main
tained precarious existence by passing the
hat around up North.
The telegraph this morning announces that
the order issued by General Pope, few days
ago, by which al official advertisements, or
ders (laws), ETC., are to be inserted in their
columns, where the people Of Georgia will
never see them, is now being carried out for
their benefit and foOthe relief Of the Radica!
pocket.
This reminds US of another old tvraut that
we have somewhere read Of who posted his
new laws so high that his subjects could not
read them and then punished thera for not
observing them.
But We suppose the Radicals will hardly
now have the face to howl so loud about ne
groes down South being discharged for sup
porting their ticket, when, ia the same region,
they are thus taking work away from white
men for not doing it, and expressing an en-
tire population besides.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28
Fron the Charleston Courier.

1t is with great regret that find myself
constrained to warn the public against Rev.
William Fuller, deaf mute, who claims to
be a Baptist minister, aud who, as such, has
imposed upon some Of our leading ministers
and most intelligent communities. His con-
duct in Charleston has been of such char
acter as to warrant the conviction that he is
neither minister nor Christian. BE car
ries with him testimonials bearing the sigma
turcs of Mcssrs. Gwaltuey, Sans, and Zealy:
In the name of these honered clergymen, l
respectfully request any person to whom ihese
credentials may be submitted, TO destroy
them, as having been secured under false
pretences. Mr.. Fuller is unchaste and In
temperate. 1,nn
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

NOBLE SEST1MENT.-The following is from
the August number oil The Land Ue Love
and was brought to memory, says the editor
by the name Of one of the Presidents bonds
men :.
A Northern man married in our naIise vii
lage Southern lady, and died soon after Il
marriage. The widow discovered, in looking
over her husbands papers, that he was in
debted to an Abolitionist, at the North, in
the sum of 4 thousand dollars. She told her
administrators that there must not be stain
upon the memory of her husband, and pre-
posed Selling her house and lot to pay the
debt He wrote to the creditor, stating the
destitute condition of the widow, and h:r hon
orable intentions. For an answer he received
letter enclosing the note Of the deceased
husband as present to the widow. The
name of this generous creditor was Gerri'
Smith, of New York. In private letter lc
ourselves he says. :" it is time for men to quiz
hating, and learn to love one another" a
truly noble sentiment, to which every true
soldier North or South, who did his duty in
the field, responds heartily, amen.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

A DESERTED IYrASr.-On Saturday last
white woman in Hamburg requested color
ed woman, the wife Of an old coored man In
the employ of the South Carolina Railroad,
to take care of an infant for her for few
hours stating that she wished togo down the
road and would return on the evening train.
Tho colored woman took the child and has
it vet, tho white woman having failed to re.
turn. The woman is described as "good
looking" and about twenty three or twenty
four years of age. The child isa fine boy
about four weeks old
Colonel James w. Meredith has the little
stranger in charge for the present. He thinks
the m5ther should come for her child or send
him some clothes, as the little fellow was
nearly naked when left in charge of the old
coIored uomaa-CcastitutionaliSt
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-28

The TERRIBLE FAMINE IN INDIA.-The
official reports Of the awful famine in India,
which has now lasted a year, and at latest ac
counts was increasing, tell truly heart-ren
ding story. The disaster has affected a pop.
ulation OF 2oOOO,O0O, and the deaths have
been as many as 100000. Certain dis
tricts, however, have suffered far more Sc
verely than the average, and in the Province
of Orissa at least one-fourtn of the inhabit-
ants have been swept away. The crowning
horror hunger has not been wanting. Starv
ing wretches have turned cannibals and eaten
their own children. A missionary Of Balla'
sore records case of mother and son WHO
were found devouring dead child. A Hin
doo is mentioned who, having found the bod,
of gu infant in the river. cooked and ate it.
Last year the government and private charity
expended for the relief of the sufferers over
$4,000, 900, and this year it is expected thu
government subsidy of at least 100000
will be required.-N. Y. Tribune.