Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-06-03

GZy- Among the four hundred and seventy-hye
students attending the current session of the Uni
versity of Virginia are Messrs. Charles Pinckney
Bull and N. Clelland Minor, Of Charleston; John
NJ Bettis and Richard G. Donham, of Edgefeld ;
Jessie A. Clifton and j. Preston Marion, of Ches-
tar; and John E. Lawton, Of Abbeville.
Ey The Nashville Gazette" pertinentlysays
"Just think of it eighty colored members in the
House of Representatives of South Carolina. I'm.
agino the effect on hoo day, (such MS South
Carolina often has,) with heated debate dnd
closed doors1
aB- A dispatch from Rome says that the Pope
has invited the Roman Catholic Bishops of the
United States to raise l060 volunteers for the
papal army, authorizing them to make such
terms with tho recuits as they may deem necessa-
ry and proper.
H PExpLEroy's friends are elated by the
fact that the Massachusetts Democratic State
Convention has adopted resolution in favor of
his nomination as the Presidential candidate of
the Democratic party.
Washington, letter to tho Louisville Jour
mol Says that when the Democratic National Con-
vention meets July 4, a resolution will be offered
by some Of the Northern delegates to- the effect
that the party pledges itself to resistthe counting
of any electoral yotes determined by ths. edmis-
sion Of negro States. that the attempt by the
Radicals to secure poTs. in that manner by de-
c.s:,, ;, ,oonIs Of their Inherent liberties in
- Il { sfsslasHt Yill Be resisted, resi-, il
tho solee,w. I'D thst TIP (ssf4ly
necessary, with armed force,
elected President Of the white race shall be in
augurated IL it requires even o million of bayo-
nets to install him ia the White House.
ns- The New Orleans Picayune is out in favor
of general amnesty proclamation by President
johnson. 1t says: Now is the time. Until the
ban of political vassalage is removed from thou
sands of her best citizens, prescribed by the e1-
coptions in the amnesty proclamation, there can
be no political reconstruction, nor no restoration
of the peace, good will, order and material pros
perity of society"
9ar Mr.. John Develin, says IN exchange, a
Brooklyn member of the whiskey ring, has been
sent to the Albany Penitentiary for dsfrauding
the Government out of various Gums Of money
amounting to upward of s5OO,OOo. He is the
richest man now in that institution, being worth
1000, 900. Last year he indulged in woodcock
and cushioned arm-chairs; this year he will de-
vote to shoemaking and corn meal, made tooth
some by long sweetning" Orleans mOlas-
sss. Grset efforts were made by his friends to
save him, but without avail.
gc Mayor Hoffman, of New York, has re-
received a letter from Rockingham, N. G., asking
assistance for the anticipated distress in that Sec
ton of country, and will receive contributions for
that purpose.
9a- More than half the people of New York
live in tenement houses, and more than, half the
tenement houses are not ct to live in.
~ ~ couple of persons in Scott county,
Iowa, have been divorced twice and re-narrisd
twice, and are now man and wife.
E Last week flock of wild pigeons, cover
ing space of twelve and half miles in longth,
and fifty feet in breadth, passed ovcr Welsvillc,
Tioga county.
ns- The Savannah papers chronicle the ar
rival in that city of a large body CT immigrants
from Germany, and the departure Of large party
of negroes for Libsria. Which is the best news
as- The Savannah Republican calls upon oil
honest and patriotic men of the North, who have
settled IN that city; retuee the lss tas ars
daily sent NORTH to ksep up hatred bstEssn tss
two sestions.; ys, -. ,.si..&4. - -
asrFhe Mayor and all..he Aldeitasn Of Co.
Iumbns, Co., have bssn rcnoysdby Gem hesds.
A Yankee Csphip bss bees eppointsd Asyor.