Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-11-13

pensions and the svi,i,so"oy'c. 49, .i!..->.,
the merchants of Walhalla seem to be
doing very fair business, buying cotton
andio her produce, and dlsposins of their
goods.
Our summer visitors have nearly al
left, and the few that still linger are pre-
pairing to depart Southwark totheir hines.
With health restored and constitutions
invigoratcd, we trust they will meet with
success in business during the winter,
and have pleasant times around their ma
tive hcarthstoncs away down South in
Dixie, and when the sweet flowers Of
June are in blow, we hope they will es-
cape from the heat and dust Of the city,
and the malaria of tho swamps, and find
health, quiet, and happiness in beauti-
full Walhalla, where the epestilence neither
walketh at night nor "wasteth Mt
noonday," and where the purest and best
of Ada:ns ale bubbles p.from unnum-
bered crystal springs and unfathomed
wells, and excellent lager flows from
never-failing fountain !i,rl go, a..
There is another thing which I am
highly pleased to chronicle to the credit
of Walhalla, and it is the. fact that the
Lutheran Synod, at their last annual
convention which met recently in Barn.
well County, fixed upon this town as the
permanent location of their College,
which was formerly located in Newber-
ry. This Institution has beon in opera
tion here for several years, and after
passing through the trials, and financial
embarrassmcnts to which most of the
Colleges in the South have been subject
ed since the late war, has at length been
placed upon a permanent basis. although
the attendance at presentsis is not. large,
the many Advantages of location, the
fact that the course. Of instruction is
thorough. and that the graduates of the
College compare favorablyl with those oil
any other institution Of the kind South
of the Potomac, arc circumstances which
will inevitably secure the future success
and increased prosperity of the College
at Walhalla. Wehave Several students
from Edgefeldc now5iin the institution,
and we hope soon to have some more of
the same sort from that section of the
State. Parents and guardians in the
middle and lower. parts Of South Caro-
llnaianfi Georgia cann6s ssefd stheir boys
to. a better place to he+edHcated. While
their minds are cultivated here their
health and constitutions ar, improved
and invigorated, and they grow and
thrive mentally and physically.
But I must not trespass too largely
upon your valuable spape, and i there
fore bid you and. yaun1Many, readers
adieu for this time. 2 - s4aii;;n' d.
In some districts Of North Carolina the
negroes seem to be sinking into q barbar-
ism as heathenish and degradedias that of
their African ancestors. 4 Near Brown
Marsh, a station on the Carolina Central
+ FFRailwdy, about forty miles from Whining
ton, lives aicolored woman named Tena,
who is worshipped the negroes of the
neighborhoodasiif shewsreld deitygpHer
sanctuary is rude log cabin! in s%hich
she sits il Turkish fsshiop, While Her fol:
| lovers ore aSt 'prostrate or the Goor,m 6cca-
sionallyy. she steps on the, wprsbippers in
order. to mash out their dsils, asShe in
! dulges, ,iinsveryi nngodlikee ngnage ! and
ismuch fearedl4sTeia is ian ordinary look.
ing woman about ffty.yeafs of age and
| was j formerly member Of a Methodist
! Church in Wilmington Iikettbeigod O
!, the Assygians, she is IsFp IssFppphed with food
BY her adorers. .liiiaa,a i