Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-04-22

THE AMBR0sIAI ASHLEY AGAIN.-Mr. asn-
ley, NJ. c., delivered another of his series OF
evolutionary thunder storms at the Citadel
Green yesterday. Unfortunately for himself,
there was an exceedingly uncomplmentary
attendance OF only one or two hundred col
ored men and boys. His sweetness, there
fore, was utterly wasted on the desert air.
Mr.. Ashley was hoarse, very boarse that he
could not be heard ten feet from the plat.
form. but be compensated for the deficiency
by pointing in tie most vigorous and miscel-
ancous manner at F." the aag," proclaiming, at
tie same time, with as much righteousness
as his pulmonary viscera would allow, that
I" without the flag and The party, the country
would 90 to tue devi" This was the sum
and substance of his speech. He ran his
hnnd through the tonsorial hair oil with as
much energy as at any time within the last
fifteen years, but he was like an empty bomb.
shell. Ashley is no longer immortal. They
laid him to rest in Washington some time
ago, and South Carolina negroes were per.
fectiy satisfied on Monday night that it would
be useless to resurrect him. So many better
speeches are made every day in the week by
intelligent men of their own race than those
of Impcacher Ashley, that be will depart
hence like shadow and leave no trace be-
hind."-Char. News.
ASHLEY AMONG THE GERMANS On Monday,
after the speech making ut the Club House,
Ashley and Mackey, finding that the mountain
(in the shape ofwhite mem would not come to
Mahomet, determined that Mahomet would 60
to the mountain. They accordingly made de-
scent upona party ofnur German citizens, who,
in the most private manner, were With their
wives and sweethearts" enjoying the pleas
ures of Terpsichore at select ball in ther
Turnverein Hall on King.street. Greatly astoi.
ished at this rude invasion, and perhaps per-
picked at the lack of courtesy which led q
party of men TO break unbidden into their
entertainment, one of the Germans inquired
what they wanted. Ashley said he wanted
to make speech on the political issues Of the
day and minated that be was very fond Of
Germans, and death on Bologna sausages.
One of the managers of the ball intimated
back that the ambrosial impeacher had evi
IDENTIFY got into the wrong hotel, and they
(" didn't want no sich." Mr.. Ashley was fur
ther informed that the Germans OF Charles
ton were white men, and not in the habit Of
OelOS luLTuueu upoi III tnCir Ptifatc cutct'
tainments by peregrinaling politicians. The
managers thcn turned their backs upon the
party and left them to their own reflections.
On receiving this very emphatic snub, 1t is
stated that the illustrious NJ. c. looked as if
he had been "bottled up" and wanted air,
which he speedily found by putting himself
vchementy down stairs.
Mr.. Ashley is truly unfortunate. A few
months ago he loomed up like q lighthouse.
The newspapers advertised him free Of charge
all over the country. Then the Washington
began to skin him alive, and
didn't leave enough of his corporosiy, politi
cally, to make respectable funeral. The
process began, and he was left
out in the cold. When the lovely Butler took
his place, Ashley took to the stump. He
turns up in South Carolina. The whites
won't hear him the colored people only ap-
plaud when he makes faces, and his audi.
ences grow small by degrees aad beautifully
less" He intrudes on German ball to
make speech, and is t,ld inferen,ially that
although he may be the immortal Jeems Mar.
shall Ashley, Virginian socalled, named af:
ter one Of our big rivers, q very polite sort oi
a member OF Congress and all that. they new
efthelesS prefer to select their company, and
in doing so invariably choose white man.
Char. News.