The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-21
AFFAIRS IN EDGEFIELD.
Early Cotton P1cki g-Lamentable
Failure OF the Corn Crop-What the
Investigating Committee is Doing
Educational Topics+Trade Matters
Meeting OF the Baptist Association, Sc.
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FROM oUR own CORRESPONDENCE
EDGEFIELD, September 17.-Cotton picking is
now in full blast. All hands and the cook are
in the field early and late. The crop is open
ing very fast and is much earlier this year than
usual There is little to open except the July
crop, and nearly or quite one half OF this will
be gathered by the first Of October. The
weather is cool, clear and very propitious for
the husbandmap. The planters have hereto
fore been 'hurrying the crop to market as fast
as they could get it ready. The decline in
price will doubtless put check to the rush,
and if it gets much lower, only those will sell
who are in absolute need OF money. The corn
crop is q general failure-the worst that has
been experienced for years. gentleman OF
intelligence and close observer, from the
Saluda side, thinks that the failure is gre lter
than any since 1S45. The drought on the Salu-
da and in the western side of the county was
protracted and severe.
The Investigating Committee, raised by joint
resolution Of the Legislature at its last sitting,
to look into the outrages alleged to have been
perpetrated in this section at the last general
election, is here, engaged in its work. This
committee gave no notice of It's coming, nor
did it announce it's arrival. And since 1t has
been here, if 1t has taken any testimony at all,
it has done so in such manner and at such
time that the names Of the witnesses and the
character Of their testimony is not known to
the whites Of the community, whose good
name and orderly disposition is here put on
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the members OF the committee 60 quietly TO
and fro and as yet there has been no grand
political demonstration in honor of their pres
enee. Perhaps something OF the kind may
take place on Saturday next, but these pro-
ceedings are seldom announced, except by the
influx of the dusky cohorts on the demonstra-
ton day.
Our schools have just commenced the fall
session. The male academy is under the charge
and conduct of Mr.. R. O. Sans, formerly pro-
fessor in the Military Academy of this State.
Miss Sallie Butler has engaged the commo-
dious hall Of the Female College, now the resi-
dence of Mr.. ]. L. Addison, where she has
good school already, and is daily receiving ac-
cessions to her numbers. She was educated
for her profession at the Normal School in
Charleston, has had considerable experience in
teaching, and enjoys the entire respect and
confidence of the community.
Miss Mary Ann Buie, the soldiers friend,
known to fame throughout the whole South
for her efforts in behalf Of sick and wounded
Confederate soldiers during the war, is also
here laboring in the cause of education. Dur
ing the past session her school numbered from
sixty to eighty pupils, many of whom were
Confederate orphans, and educated without
charge.
Several OF cur merchants have just left for
New York to lay in their fall stock Of goods.
They will return just in time to meet the float
ing greenbacks brought in by the sales of
cotton.
The Edgefield Baptist Association held its
annual meeting in the Bethany Church, at
Liberty Hill, last week. This association num-
bers about fifty churches, and these were re-
presented pretty generally by full delegations.
The Rev. John Trspp was chosen moderator,
and we understand that the proceedings were
characterized By harmony and good feeling.
Msny Of the churches reported very important
religious revivals, which resulted in the access
sion OF several hundred converts to the church.
SEMERs.