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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
Jim Bludso.
(oF THE PRAIRIE BELIEF

Wall, no I can't tell whar he lives,
Because he don't live, you see;
Least ways, he's got out of the habit
OF livin like you and me.
Whar have You been for the last three year
That you havn't heard folks tell
How Jimmy Bludso passed in his cheeks,
The night of the Prairie Belle!
He weren't no saint--them engineers~---- -
eIsallpretty much .alike--:- -. -. 7sz'-
One wife in Matches. .under.the:Hill 3d.
And another one here, in Pike.
A keerless man in his talk was Jim,
And an awkward man in row
But ne never funked,- and he never lied,
I reckon he never knowed how
And this was ali the religion he had
To treat his engine we'll;
Never be passed on the river;
To mind the Pilots bell; 80 - -
And if ever the Prairie Bell took fire.
thousand times he swore, -. .-@ =
He'd hold her NOZZLE agin the bank
Till the last soul got ashore.
Alllboats, has their day on, the Mississippi,
And her day come at last
The Movastar was better boat,
But the Belle she couldn't be passed.
And so she come tearin' along that night
The Oldest Grafton the line,
With, g nigger squat on her safety valve
AND her furnace crammed, rosin and pine,
The fire bust out as she cleared the bar,
And burnt hole in the night,
And quick as flash she turned, and made
-, For that wiler bar on the right.
There was running and cursing; bat Jim yelled
out
Over oil the internal roar,
"Tll hold her nozzle ngin the bank
Till the last galoots ashore
Through the hot, black breath of the burnin'
boat
Jim B,udso's voice was heard,
And they all had trust in his cuSsedncss,
And vowed he would keep his word
And sure's you're born, they all got of
AfUre the smokestacks fell
And Bludso's ghost went up alone
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.
He were MT no saint-but at Judgment
I'd run my chance with Jim,
Longside of some pious gentlemen
Thar wouldn't shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, dead sure thing
And went for it thar and then:
And Christ amt goin' to bec too hard
On O man that died for men.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
The New York Herald, which always
FLOWS rather than leads public senti-

The New York Herald, which always
FLOWS rather than leads public senti-
pent, says:
AFTER such four years war as that
f our late Southern rebellion, can it be
expected that the people subdued can
luietly adapt themselves in five years,
ZEN years or twenty years, to arevolution
which has torn up their political and So
cial system by the roots? Can it be ex-
pected that the Southern whites, ac-
customed to rule under the Constitution
as masters, and to look upon thein blacks
as an inferior race, and as slaves by
divine authority-can it be supposed
that because these whites have been
subdued in war, they will surrender
their convictions, prejudices and prin-
ciples, as conditions Of peace? No. In
spite of your emancipation DEGREES and
civil rig ghts bills, and constitutional
amendments establishingnegro civil and
political equality, the Southern whites
do not believe in this equality, and they
submit to it as the French submit To
the loss of their Rhine territories
from necessity-and with the hope of
hereafter. How is this diff
Guilty to he reached by Acts Of Congress,
when all these Southern
States have been restored as completely
to their local rights in the Union as
New York and New Jersey? What
more can Congress do with the Ku Klux
-throats of North Carolina than with
the roughs of New York city, now that
Southern reconstruction is fnished?'
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30

"ANY MORE WOULD Go FL1PrlrY-
F1orpIry. "A country girl once went
to the city to pay a visit to one OF her
old and best friends; this friend was
married to rich city merchant, and
was leader of fashion. In city etl-
quette, of course, the visitor was YER
dant, and made numerous mistakes.
Her friend wished to initiate her fully
into the mysteries and, as they were
going to large ball, gave her the fol-
lowing instructions, viz: Eat only
one small cake and one saucer OF ice
cream, and when your attendant presses
YOU to take more, answer that yon have
masticated asuffieier3y, and more would
be superAuity." Things went on smooth
ly until her attendant asked heH to
partake Of more refreshments, when, to
the horror Of her friend and amusement
of the company, she answered, in a
loud voice al have evaporated in
sufficiently any more wouldgo fiippity-
hoppity."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30

ABANK NoTE.-The Cincinnati En-
q,turr tells an incident in which the
late Wesley Smead, the well-known
banker and another well-known and
eccentric citizen, whose credit did Rot
stand very high in bank parlors, were
actors. Mr.. R. called on Mr.. Smead
fol loan. Certainly, Mf. R., shall
accommodate you with pleasure. F" But
MI. Smead, shall want it for long
tine" 80 much the better, Mr.. R. .
"And want $4,000 for ten years.
"Jould't be better, Mr.. R., that will
Just answer, said 'Smead. " I shall be
moderate with you, and charge you
bit 10 per cent. Z" That is generous,
responded r. .. | expected to be charged
ahigher rate. "The rule with bank
e,s, you know" confined Smead, is
t. take the interest in advance for the
tine the note has to run. will deduct
y per cent ior ten years from the ten
thousand dollars you ask, and let you
hive the proceeds of your note" The
Inquirer adds: 1t took Ridnour tc
tie day of his death to get that through
lis har.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
SheriR's Sale;
John W. Delaughter, - ~! ~ .r

John W. Delaughter, ~. -
"0'. ys. ri Fa in
W. H. Heath and Assumpsit.
S. W.. Gardner, ~ VI;
EpY virtue OF Writ of Fl Fa to me directed in
ID tho above stated case, l will proceed to sell
1t Edgeicld C. H., on the first Monday in April
ext, the following property belonging to S. W.
Gardner, to wit: =
ONE TRACT OF LAND, containing Fifteen
Hundred Acres, more or less, adjoining lands of
rhos L. Shaw, John P. Mays, Elijah Horn and
others.
Terms Cash Titles and Stamps extra.
JOHN H. McDEVITT, SEC.
Mar. IL Ate ast 10
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
me- A surgeon had occasion, lately

w A surgeon had occasion, lately,
to prescribe a couple Of pills for an
Irishman, which were sent home in a
small box bearing the direction, "The
whole to be taken Immediately" On
visiting his patient afterward, the doc
tor expressed his surprise on learning
that the desired effect had not been
produced, and asked Pats better-hali
if she had really given him the medl-
cine, Faith, that l did sure, she
replied but may be, yer Honor, the
lid hast come off yeti The poor sick
man had been made to swallow not
only the pills, but the box as well,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
Sheriff s Sale.
4. s. A, Poole, late Sheriff Of

q. s. A. Poole, late Sheriff OF
spartanburg County, and others, Fl Fa.
VS..
w. D. Dorm.
RDY Virtue OF an Execution to me directed,
I'D in the above stated case, l will sell at
EJgeGeld c.. H.. on the 6rst Monday in April
next, the following property belonging to the De-
ONE TRACT OF LAND, containing Seven
y.fve Acres, more or less, adjoining lands Of
!. A, Talbert, Mrs. Adaline Blackwell and others.
Torms Cash. . Titles diSmmps extra. -
JOHN H.~McDEYITT, S. E. G.
Mar1l Ate IL
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
SheriT'S Sale.

VS.. FiFa.
Ephraim Andrews,
DY virtue of Writ of Fl Fa to me directed in
I'D the above stated case, will proceed to sell
at Edgefeld c. H., on the first Monday in April
next; the following Real Estate, levied upon as
belonging to the Defendant, to wit:
ONE TRACT OF LAND, containing Thirteen
Hundred Acres, moro or less, adjoining lands OF
E.'Devore, Seabron, Stslnaker and others.
Terms Cash. Titles and Stamps extra.
JOHN H. McDEVITT, SEC.
Mar II 1f7 Alto II
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30

A FUNNY M1srAKE.-A capital joke
says the "New Jersey Patriot" and
all the more palatable because it is
true, and can be .:'oo;,i,oihed, took place q
few Sundays since at one of the promi-
nent Fourth Street churches.
1t seems that worthy deacon had
been very industrious in selling a new
church book, costing seventy-fve cents.
At the service in question the minister,
just before disr,issing the congregation,
arose and said =
"All you who have children to bap-
tize will please present themselves
next Sabbath.
The deacon, by the way is little
deaf, and having an eye to selling books,
and supposing his pastor was alludlng
to them, jumped up and shouted
call you who haven't any can get as
many as you want by calling on me at
seventy-fvc cents each.
The preacher looked cross-eyed at
the brothers, the brothers looked at the
clergyman, the audience punched the
audience in the side, the bubble grew
larger, until it burst into loud gutfaw
Ladies colored up, crimsoned, and thank
ed the Lord for the low price of peo
pling the earth There was no benedic
ton that evening worth speaking Of.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30

BETTER HAMMER STONES IN THE
PEN1rENT1ARY. THE Charleston Daily
Republican, of Friday last, contains a
three column editorial on the subject OF
the existing state of affairs in South
Carolina. The article is calm and de-
liberate, and makes many admissions
fairly and squarely-in regard 10 the
character Of the men Of its party and
their official acts, which, as open con-
fessions are said to be, in this instance
especially we trust will prove to be,
good for the soul" Among these is
the declaration that "there are men
in Office who had better hammer stones
in the Peniteutiary," We must say
that the Republican has, for some time,
been telling the "plain truth in regard
to matters, and in this way is doing
sturdy service in the direction of reform.
Sumter Watchman.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30

Gates J, and you take the left hand road,
and keep that until you get into a
thicket, and when you get there, why
then-then-then-" What then ?"
"ThenI'll be darned ii you hahn t lost"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
Sherif's Sale.

z.W. Carwile, Adm'or., sa
VS.
Andrew Meyer, Fl Fa in Debt.
B. Il. Boatwright and
Samuel Posey.
IN pursuance of IN Execution, to me directed
4 in tho above stated case, IMill sell at Edge
isld C. H., on Monday, the 3rd April next, tho
pllowing described property belonging to the
Defendant, to wit:
ONE TRACT OF LAND containing Two Hun
fred and Forty Acres, more Or less, adjoining
l,nds of Jackson Holmes and JeSse Gomillion
lad others.
Terms Cash. Titles ard Stamps extra.
JOHN II. McDEYITT, S. E. C.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30

AN EXCELLENT GU1DEBoARD.-" Ca
you tell me the road to Greenville,
asked traveller of boy whom he M
on the road. "Yes sir, said the bo
Z" Do you see that ar barn down there
ayes" said he. Go to that. Abo5
three hundred yards beyond the bal
you will find lane. Take that lae
and follow along about mile anda
half. Then you will come to slippe
elm log-you be mighty keerful, strs-
ger, about goin on that log-and TIN
Y you go on till you get to the brow II
the hill, and there the road preva-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
North AND soUrH.-Aninc incompletely

NORTH AND SoUTH.-An incompletely
reconstructed Southerner moved to Yer
mont lately, and soon afterwards his
family was increased by the addition of
a native Vermonter. His eldest son, a
boy of four years. was at first delighted
with his little brother, but after week
began to tire of the crying, and got a
little jealous from fancied neglect.
One day he climbed up into his fathers
lap and asked him.
Papa, which do you like best, me or
the baby?"
The father, thinking to please the
little prattler, answered that he liked
him best. After serious thong Sht thd
shrewd youth said,
Pa, 1 know why you like me ting
best.
"Why ?" asked the father.
"Its because I'm southern man
and baby is a Yankee.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
{" The Beginning of the End"

Tile Missionary Record-the only
journali in the State edited by colored
man-aenounces the leaders of the
dominant party in this State: It says
"Ifthe signs of the times indicate
anything, it points clearly to the neces-
sity ofsa reorganization of the Repub-
lican party of this State. The depart
ure from the principles laid down in
the beginning of its organization has
left it shorn of it's effectiveness for
that great good which it designed
when it came into power. The gi-
gantic frauds and speculations which
has disgraced the party and tarnished
its honor, the profigacy with which the
leaders have spent the public funds,
and bartered away the peoples inter-
ests, calls loudly for Reorganization
and apurgation Of the-party. This de-
mand seems to be made in the North,
by the1eading Republican clubs, who
are calling for reorganization of the
party in view of the induction of SO
many unworthy persons into it. The
defraudings in custom houses, the rail-
road speculations which involve the
States credit, the various schemes of
public plunder which have brought
odium upon the Republican party anil
shaken,the confidence of the people in
its integrity, and question its effective
ness for future good, all these point to
the necessity of change. The class of
men who are now the leaders in the
politics are class who are so unscrupu-
lous that no man who values his repu-
tation' is willing to ally himself with
such characters. When set Of drunken
rowdies can rule the roost and put up
and elect their particular friends, ma
nipulating conventions and stufing
ballot-boxes, then there is no honor in
being, associated with that class Of men.
Reformation is now demanded in
the Republican ranks in such manner
as will warrant the security to The peo-
Pile as their interests demand, or there
will be an organization OF a party IN
opposition to the corruptionists who
now rule the politics Of our State.
Such Estate of affairs cannot last al
ways The time is coming when intel
ligence will not submit to be ruled by
ignorance and imbecility; when the
jewellers in public spoils and their ILL
gains, the result of their treache-
ry to the people, will meet their doom.
The time is not distant when this re-
orsan;,s4ion will begin in earnest, and
every honest man will ho found arrayed |
on the side of good government and a
purifcation in politics. "
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
Sherif's Sale.

Wilcox, Gibbs Co., Foreclosure of Lier on
VS. Crop and Mortgage on
John Gibson. Personal Property.
I'm pursuance of an execution to me directed, in
4 the pboye stated ease, will sell upon the
,remises of the Defendant, near Mount Willing,
IN Monday, The 9th OF MARCH inst, the
blowing property belonging to the Defendant,
to wit:
THREE MULES,
TWO HORSES,
FIFTEEN HEAD OF CATTLE,
Ny' Terms, Cash on day of sale,
JOHN Il. McDEVITT, S. E. c.
s-rAaetll -s--.--.Ask ~ 4ss - y
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
DR.. TUFTS Standard Preparations
Just Received,

ALMONDS, BRAZIL and PECAN NUTS,
RAISINS, CURRANTS, CITRON,
CANNED FRUITS,
PICKLES, sARDINEs, CRACKERS,
CHEESE, BUTTER,
Superior CHAMPAGNE.
Three Cases Superior WINES,
W. A. SANDERS,
Druggist and Grocer
MARI If 10
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30
WINCHESTER GRAHAM,
Cotton Factor
AND
CnNMISsIoN MERCHANT,

AUGUSTA, GA.
OFFICE at the Warehouse of Messrs WIIE-
LESS L CO., No. IA, Reynold Street. viii
devote his strict personal attention to the STU
RAGE and SALE OF COTTON and OTHER
PRODUCE on Commission only.
LIBERAL ADVANCES made on con'ign-
ments.
Consignmcnts collected. u,o
Also. Agent for the sale of the ATLANTIC
PHOSPHATE, a Fertilizer manufactured at
Charleston, S. c., under the direction and super
inteudencc Of DR.. ST. Julien Ravencl, and re-
commended rs n i-st-class article,
Cali or sond for pamphlet containing the analy-
.is of the Phosphate, price and tcrnls.
REPERENCES.-J.T T. Boutwell,, Esq, ii. Ii.
Hickman, President Savings Bank.
Augusta, Feb I'm
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-30

nc- Whisky, drinking never conducted wealth
into d mans pocket, happiness to his family, or
responsibility 10 his character; therefore whisky
is nan conductor, and consequently it is best to
LET IL nluue
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-12-09
Crimes in Dreams.

A writer in Macmillan's Magazine
has some highly interesting specula-
tions on the subject OF crimes which a
sleeper dreams he is committing, He
says: Two esteemed friends have as
sured me that their consciences are oc-
casionally awake in sleep; on the
other hand, great many more tell
me that their experience entirely cor
roborates my own observations. For
example, an admirable and most kind
hearted lady informs me that she
palmed off Il bad sixpenee on beggar,
and chuckled at the notion of his dis
appointment. A distinguished phil
anthropist, exercising for many years
high judicial functions, continually
commits forgery, and only regrets the
act when he learns that he is to be
hanged. A woman, whose life at the
time of her dream was devoted to the
instruction of pauper children, seeing
one of them make u face at her, doubled
him into the smallest compass, and
pOked him through the bars of a lions
cage One of the most benevolent of
men, who shared not at all in the mill
tary enthusiasm of his warlike brothers
1.-THE late Mr.. Richard Napier), ran
his best friend through the body, and
ever after recalled the extreme graft
fication he had experienced on seeing
the point of his sword come out through
the shoulders of his beloved conpan-
ion. Other crimes committed in dreams
need not be here recorded, but | am
persuaded that if we could but know
all the improper things done by the
most proper people in their sleep with
the utmost sanQtroid and completely
unblushing effrontery, the picture
would present a diverting contrast to
our knowledge of them in their cone
scious hours. If the moral sense be
not wholly suppressed in sleep, there
is certainly enough evidence to con
clude that it is only exceptionally ac-
tive, and $50 far as l yet learned) on
ly III the case of dreams assuming the
character of night mares, in which the
consciousness is far less perfectly dor
mant than in others.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-12-09
lonalosonbllle Gblef,
!. Don,d Won Hear. shonny : ;
BY ooFTY GooFT.

BY OOFIt GOtSFI.
Shonny, my son, come here by me
Ind say your lesson oud
Come dell me someding dot yon know
IND vot yQu1e peen aboud.
Bymeby you'm goin' to peen man,
Den YOU musd dake der blaze
Of your olt Farder-vear his shoes
Ven der ground is on his face.
You know, my son, We all mnsd die,
At sometime or ODER dead;
lind dill dot comes dots bedder We
Hafe knowledge in our head,
So Just come here, and dallt Inc now,
Something's so | can see
Sat you'm been learin' efery day
Come here, my son, by me.
Come, don'd you hear? Shon my son,
Did you heard me shheak jusd now?
Come quickness, Sh0nny-of you don'd
Der'es goin to peen row.
Loweesa, 90 und got dot Club
Dot hangs oud on der rack;
Tam Shonny's father, but
I'm 'hliged TO preak his back.
I'll show dot Teller dot he cantd
Pud on some airs init me
I'll bead his life mitin an inch,
I'll led der raskell see.
Oh no you'm comm now. All an
Wy didn'd you come pefore!
You didnd heard me? Veil, all righd
Go blay outside der door.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-12-09

news will probably be the suppression
of such radical journals as Mr.. Theirs
has spared for what they will say
about this catastrophe. Rossel was a
man of genius, of great military apti-
tudes, of decided literary culture and
capability. He gained great credit by
his good conduct at Metz and by his
searching criticisms of that campaign.
1t is not to be expected that his friends
will be especially temperate or re-
served in their comments on the fact
that Rossel the Republican is shot by
the authorities who spare de Failly
and Leb9uf the Imperialists.
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