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Couinumcations, post paid, wite pvonipt Yy and strictly attended to.. D. D.-TILLMAN - -ATORIVEY AT LAW IAND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY. . q WiCE next door to Mr. Coipty's Ho tel Edgefield C. H. anuary 24 1849, 3m - 1 0. C. s OR a'IG.WIVE. 1IL practise in the Courts of Law and Equity in the Districts of Edgefield an d Abbeville. 'Office, Edgefield C. I. Sept'20 Km . 35 joSEPl .ABNEY, - AT!GNEY AT LAW. . W LL be round in his oflice at Edgefleld Court House, adjoning Bryan's i-ick Stu b Saturday, Saledys,- and Court, week s* H ,ewil promptly and strictly to busi nessik his profe . Jn'ary 1'0.. R. ELBERT BLAND %06lly offers D his. Professional Services citi?ens if egfield village and vicinity. Office at Birt & Dohy loter 111C - 16 - - 6 It 'e friends orw c tY - O~~~r 1o- niosa hi1 ns a candidate for ihe Office of ,; ' - f'She itir DistrT' it fthe ensoung elecion. e are authorized to announce Capt. JUMylRE iY BOULWARE, asa Can didat'e .or Sheriff, at the ensuing election lITlle fbiid' of Col. THUS. W. LAN IHAM announce 1i1n -as a candidate for,the Soirc6 Shseriff at it'e hext election. - E rThe (riends tif Col. !OHN HILL an noutice him its a candidaet foi Slierift of Edg field District at the next eleciif. 07 We ari autliorized to announce T. J. WllTA KEI. ni a &andidate for the Office of Sherijf, at the eitsnin- reciidn. - 07"The Friends ol ALFRED..MAY, announce him as a Candi'date fur Sheriff, at thb eniiiiug erection.. FOR ORDINARY: We are anthorited to announce EDVAl,D PRESLEY, as a Canididthe for the Office of Ordinary at die ensuing election. We are authoized to .announce Col. WILLIA1M U. MOSS, as a Candidate for the office of Ordinary at the ensuiog election. . 7 The friends of II ENRY T. WRIG HT Esqr., announce him as a candidate for the of free of Ordiuary of this District, at the ensuinig election. We are authorized to announco Maj. W. L. COLEMAN, as a candidate fur Ordinary at the ensuing election. The friends of 11UG HI A. NIXON', Esqi., respectfolly announce him as a Candidate for the office of Ordiniary,,at the next SFdection. FOR CLERK. -g We are authonrised to announce WM. M. JOllNSON, Esq., a candidate for Clerk of the District Court of Edgelield at the ensuing election. gy The fricends-of PETER QUJATTLE - BUM; Esqi.. atnnounc thim as a canididate fot the Office of Clerk of the Cort of Cotiinoi Fleas, of this District, at the ensug etectiot We are authorized to announce TilOS. * . BACON, o candlidate for roeeection at Clerk of the Court. for Edage field D)istrict, Tho friends of E. PENN, annonc bim as a Candidate for t he Office of Cicria at the ensuing elecriun. -FOR~ TAX COLLECTOR. We are authorized to announce Capt, D. F. GOlEDY, as a candidate fur tht Omfce of Tax Collector, .at the ensuin; election. - Jan. 2 The Friends of Maj. F.W. BURT, an nouoce him as a cantdidate for Tax Colloc ior, at the ensuieg election. -The frends'of Col. J. QUATT LE BUM. anneance.him as a canditdate for Tax Col ector, at the ensuina election. We are authorized to announce WM. L. PA RKS, as a Candidato for Tax Collec -tor, at the next election. Last Notice. - L~L persons indetated to the Subscriber fur -i.the .year I8483, ci'her by No or Accout, are requested to mtake paymnet. befose Retutrn Dy, if they wish to save cost. l am coftipelled tpay my debts, and therefore murt hiavoznoney tode so., IAll who fail to comply must abid< the consequences. - ' - C. M. GRtRY. AMERICAN GENIUS. The great -peculiarity of the American character is, that its genius is inventive and always adequate to emeigencies. WherP others halt in the beaten, path way of pursuit or professionP the Ameri can suddenly strikes out a new goal, and drives on to fanic and fortunv. Who would have'thought of carrying clocks andreidy-made shirts to China for a market, or bringing Connecticut, With its shat p,faced soil, into cornpetion with the age fortified ianufact&es of Great II itain. No other man on the globe, with the siame amount of means and chanCes, will or can pet form as n-uch for himself and the world, as an American. Not to in-' di%idualize, but take him in t.he national aggregate. Quick,- fertile, aud ever teady, he needs but a sugges:ion; the details which others must investigate be fbie they date to make the experiment, he lets follow and illustrate the experi ment, as the -sparks of .fire flow in the trail of the locomotive al night. Who ever he Ard of an American being confounded by the intricady or magni tude o'f the eierprize ? In tle arts.of peace and'war alike the same prodigal flow of invention, the same sagacity, pruden~ce n*d da'fing, 'blended in a sort. of huitntnc-heroic fresco, 'mark the acts. and aptitudes of the Americanm. His in-: stincts are fresh where others weary; and tracing his develpments industrial, in ventive; and. philosophicj as displayed in the short life of the.reAublic, it niust be admitted he transends aft otier speci men of the gcnus hoino. It is the result of many causes.-His position, physical, niental, rnoral and social, is favorable to activity dnd decision of character; and his politichl euality di self-satisfying, conviction that he is equal to the best of men on earth, as a man, gives him inde-. pendence in action that is everywhere a dividing-line between hidm and other men Talk of cfoiining An :American vith a difficulty or dtnge- in enterprize, - a or. land-in art, scienceathe mati Oble of -eii 'i buhdle of, hav4seena laeo a geography, but he will find, Vith a Nantucket schoa6ner, any port on the globe, by a siort!r cut than is lai'd down in the charts; and if he finds hi*nself in the West Indies with.a.cargo of bed warming pans, he will have the wit to strip off the covers, and sell them for sugar ladles, at an advance of expected prof5t. The tactics of the American are not laid down in books. In peace or war, his ingenuity frames the plan of opera tion on the instant, from the nature of the circumstances, and-if he is defeated it must be by sheer force. To him tht Oillar of'[ercles. would have boen less han to the Macedoniun; he would have guessed instanter the riddle of Sphynx, and untied betweers his teeth aud finger a double Gordian knot. A writer in Black%wood has well said, that if a su&i, cient Orize were olTered for the best treatise upon any subject in any lan guage, thte A merican would get it, even if lie had to leirn' the language, study th'e subject, and write the work within three rmonths. This universal energy, enduratnce invention, and power to adapt himself to any and.every end, give thie American Ihis wide-world prestige of stper iority as a man.-N. Y. Sun. OLD TIM E WINTEIRS. . in 1664 the cold was so intenso that the rfThames was covered with ice 61. inches thick. Almos.t all thte birds perished. In 1691 the cold was so excessive that the famished wolves entered Vienna and anuncked beasts and even men. Many people in Getmany wveto frozen to dleath in 1695, and the winters of 1697 and 1699 wvere nearly as b:ad. In 1709 occurred that famous wvinter, calld, by distinction, the cold winter. All the rivers and hakes were frozen, and even thte sea for several miles fronm the shore. The~ ground wais frozen nine feet deep. Ilirds and beatsts..ere~ struck dead inl the fields, and mren perished by thousands in their houtses,. In 1729, in Scotland, multitudes of cattle and s?ecep wvere buried in the snow. In 1740 thre winter was scarcely infe rior to that of 1709. T.he snowv lay ten feet deed in Spain and Portugal. The Zuyder Zoo was frozen over, and thtou sands of people wecnt over it. And the lakes of England-froze. In 17414 the winter was very .cold! Snow fell inis Portmgal to the depth of 23 feet on a level. In '1754 and 1755 thro winters were very severe and cold. In England the strongest ale, exposed to the air in- a glass, was covered in 15 nminutes with ien o.nu.gt of an inch thick. In 1771 the Elb was froze e bottom. Ia 1776 the Danjbe bore ice 'fee deep below Vienna. Vast nap. ers the.feather and finny tribes per'- , .''he winter of 1784 and-Tf$~vere uncommonly severe. Tie. Little Beli was frozen over. - From 1800 to 1812 als'd, the wifter; were remarkably cold,- particularly lj1 latter, in Russia, wilich-proved so disas trous to the French army, WHAT IS A BABY? 'ihe following is ayostscript of a let. ter to the editor of th6 Knickerbocker: P. S.--Whoop! hWrrah! light upon the world again! ' Where are you my fino'editor? Did I'ever talk to dust and ashes? Oh! sir, I died multitudi nouslV. Every zerve',hat didn't try to struggle ine in that utterance, lied. No, sir, let Eme tefl.you thit it's a great world thifan't be beat. Talk of the stars at d -better world; b6t don't invite nie theidyet. Oh, no, this iorning is quite too beautiful to leave, and bdsides, I had rather stay, If only to thank God a little longer for this glorious light, idre air, that can echo back my loudest herah. And,ihen, my boy-but hav'nt 'old you ? Why, sir, I've got a boy !-g boy !-ha, 'Ia, I sho6t it to you-d boy, fourteen ponnds, and the mother'agFeat deal bettei- than cai be e*pected. And I say. 'Mr. Editor, it's mine !-hurp and hallelujah, forever!. Oh, s' such legs, such arms and iuch a .eadi and oh, lie has his mticr's lips. I could kiss then forever, aid then, sir, look at is feet, his hands, his chin, his eyes, lis everylhinr; in. fact-so "perfectly 0. K." hive joy, sir, you need'nt either, 'm full now-I run over, and they all my that-I run ov'er several, half killing the mother, pulling the doctor by the 36se,.and upset a 'pothecary's shop. in he corner; and then didn't I -ing the tea bell? Didn'tI. blow the horn? Didn' [dance, sh6tit, laugh and.cry, akogetherl [can' lieetlit6 tiii.sdto ng:46 4 hour 60lien he h s aliebbIa Fou should haveAheard isngs, a Itrs . 1 8 - not pain-ecess,f Joy "sir fro6l great'sensatoni-ili 'r lIatli wai...Ao' sudden, yoi know. Tink.of all thi's e6tiful macli,er6, staring 6ff at full motion, all his thousand outiide feelers answering to the touch of the cool air, the fl,-itter and crash at the air-and tilat curious'contrivance of ths1 eye; lookind.out wonderedly and beIvil deredly upon the great %vord, s gIlori,ous and dazling to his unknown perceptions -his net work of nerves, his wheels and pulleys, his air pumps and valves, his engines and reservoir, and all within that beautiful foulitain, vith its jets and running strearis, dashing ind codraing through the length and breadthi, without a stint or Pause, making altogether sir, fourteen poinds, I aIni this day niultiipiied with toio. .1 am a duplicate. I am one of an indefi. nite series, and there is my continuation. And you observe, it is not a block or a blockhead, ndr i painting; ior a bust, nor a fragment of anythiing however ber.utiful but a conbintition of 'all the arts and sciences in one-painiting, nie. chanics, (see him kick) geograjibiy, and the use of the globes, (see hinm nurse] and withal lie,. is a perpetdal motion, time-piece thaut iiever-ruins down. And who vounid it up1 But wvords, sir, words AMERIcAN FtmES-Many thou sanp farmers in New England rear larg famiilies pay alt their debts dnd taxes proniptly, live indepeu'dently, very wel clothed -add comfortably housed and providled for on farms of frfty acres. 'Te idea is thi these peopile laboir se. verely. This is a great mistake. The2 .ave miuch hecause thdy waste no time With them there is "a place for every thing, and every thing in its place.' Their horses, catdle tools and imple menis, are attended to' with clock-liki regularity. Nothing -ir'isut off till to morrow that can be-done to-day. E con omiy is wealth and system afTords ease These men are seldom ina hurry, ex cept in harvest time. And i long win ter evenings or severe weather, whlicl forbid emiployment out doo-rinne make: corn brooms, anoth'er shoes, a third is carpenter, cooper, ot tailor, .and omi woman spins, another weaves, and third plaits "Leghorn bonnets." An< the families thtus occupied are aimong th most healthy in the world. It is eas with thtem.to reduce their means, if con venient. or prudent, and to extend thiei means to their wishues.--Genlesee Far Major Charles Stevens, Appraiser c Customs fo,r Savannah, (Ga.) died at. the place oin Ttiesday last. M~aj. Sa was a uliecr of thm U. S. Army during the lat war with Great Dritain. . The 'Ne -has goC ( iyherein' e sertion-hat not beft' which 3: n not be6 r 'rem arki.-'Ad t dergro'. d' .6 rusalen Qus sa , it aulhority,dse Llle4iveller and Illib of the d t 46bilieoeno follod aIlideI ongs4 been act true igentl n.Pgh.not p haps in the it it is 4 et -i question is'M tent surface-1,' n -pro bly may.-hae r or chiefly .s: 1 h aV1 ours pedict a there sh6uld or another that r #v but down ; the surtace is ie'.p tion dos not literallY fulfl rate, acconi. showing.t t a Ole destrog st to .tried i oth earth. 1ldse o'ftiat, f its ruin.- o th nip there suc4xpresi lly",_, inf Ierit%q.M so craju tior% litoran4 ~ m1 a -uins e4' Ore. o- esru surface *lle, ndn li r6i6s evn, * rovelsr seti is,.1" Ot 1. ~itio was no of erpe.aodst othcjrdic nso 'thI'e Bible. ?A~ FRANCISCO*' Seinral sippo sed.Jfavorably 0,ituated, either for corn mnerce, ot ffi) hb comfortable tesidenci of man. III daitmted UpDn. a narrov tontgue of , mid slopin ' mountah land, so exp *to the broadsies of thi ocean-that Ili ',in d--sweel)s in a gall over It atoall imn'sl itkinly and- efor necessary .o(eep jour footing. Tai air is, on atccnt, filled with fine sand The situatio, is analagou: to Fort [lain ilton, at (lie e4'ance of.the narow open ing into the eLior of New Yoi k. Ti best position or the commercial M Po rium of Cal orni6, judgiog fi-om th, maps, would bat theconfluence'61 th Sacramento nd tan joachini, if ther hisi tr ei, to lat asreitin ~iasn afnid tra Tqnsot. A (d-flt me i r ofmost cother redtheiba of Sinl Bible. cohia townrncto thu ienerhay cpp usn, vorab liesatted, eit and com thiecroscrhedcmotbe eiec All ma.oIts irdeted upon ah cliato [and iso mipdfe ro the oads.id h ocnthat iIrsopent wind hep ieasg rovrt tal iniehs; a ighe rangefo inecessar to@ ep oumr footing. Th aras, onte ntefiedwithie dysand The situatio is analgsne to mor a itn rach the inncerso of the w pe ig antu t e urpassf ed . Theo beto postenore throge comerly ei riume of Calrhnia,'juitog fromi th maprs,ould e atith, o wiuenco,xfrih Sa1cr ats,nto dstanc boacini, if erE hindesad ie groun Sktosapy ind th ale.f ansuse, whethic harive oupt itona the a.orthetrr mocal ae Paai this aly of San rpnc c, tthe nlera Tto mte ofnehy sumouto San i Frsajisc Tmeoed tha rsdslicoedco beti het best osifion; aer Ae ac o ts atgrere, andthe cit teismid;t? a fefrmus be felstude b a thpeatae a sJ renntwthdses Thenn thermte holsra hagoirrn iricint (N Y in summe,d in the fan; skyo ishbrighSad tii air bclay. A * 1-i du i dy ago winclnge rdi aa m fmiar conversa onetie Iema said :. r~ yoiihave-been retmarkably sac' Siyour qfssio fen haegied so mang cases, w you be ught communctelo me at bw thesecret ot,our wondtous sCIDs? 18,,rc.fo onng ond ti6 di~t1sfat y ou defraypnye* a la.gny say faifew..da at a0 o Do ea thecom nilcaton~< - 16n.ess d Ma tn-may -b dscoveegf n tbis ad'ice, sYure eaya pgoo witness for.every canvon desire tmecre yR UOII6thingoa- ois itber ianga5nt very eleLde(.yiin n otheis doyfnent presented,bga- fne Hotel. in sutbsiburials d wi feneshmejts, ve e.despatchied -.ia datnpnergiutgt ngt icamie t1 oinman Instpod o etheray.heilas and deaded thez especiyebills. sisuYereU-Jn y;of,awit .n-tot mo -wat resa a me 5;uum aRJiqn n ~.don'ted.inycoudn on me tcti Arot. ETI EioF.APPRETCsaiP. There is an imioira'nt feature in ihe reg ulaions' f a nistor-mechanic, which is frigh,tful to some kind parents' hearts; and thas the fie to seven ycars' ap pjenieship the boy who ean ms a trade must sunit to. Dat it is an excellent diilne . It takes the Iad at a critical period of life-when lie perhaps has a diasposition averse to steady emiployment when he is indined to roam at large, amid.the contaniinating iinfliences about -him-atnd puts him to a.steady roundI of duties-seven at first, but soon beconm ing' from habits, agreeable; and, when his minority expires, his steady htbits, and inidiustry. are established, and he comes forth a man, tf1e masterof a trade, 'of fixed p)rinciples and good habits; and Sblessing to liimself aind the commiun,ityi If parents wvoulth but look at it aright, Sthey would declare that; had they mainy son, thiy should learn trades. Cn trast.the youth just alluded to with him who, having a horror of an appretice ship, is allo4ed to rn..at large. At the most ritical period of life fr formin-g habits, he is forming phoe that are the reversetof industr. He is not fitting himseh tobe a ian; but wearing away his boyhood in idleness. The partial sparent sees this, yet has not forticudc to avert i At twenty-one. years f age, when the first-named lad comes out a good amaziic, it is v)onderful if thie other hasnot fastiined habit upon hii that waill be his min, if he is not ruined dready. More than one excellent nan in our community can say with thank filess, that it turned out so that, to his nhalf dun years' apprenticeship, hd is indebted for the habits of industry and sob'riety h e has obtained, that, when le as put to a trade, hle was on a pivoi, as it were. Ha it not been far the firmness of his parents, lie likely would have been a ruined lad ele his n>inori ty expired. This was the 'turning point. 'CriRE FOR CHIOLER.-The Pltihid' s phia Ledger concludes a long article ou i thesubject of the choldra withithe renmaik. s "Our practice' would begin with the Sfirst symplton,'whethier chill, diorrhoea or snause;: and our inside doses would be s caniphof, red pepper and alcohol, and warm drinks of brandy and wvater and a jelly, and our outside doses wvarm -co nvering -and friction, in a wvarnm room. ~ We commend fiiction'ith flannel, and flour and mustard. If musiard be not accessible, red p)epper, or even -black, 0 can be -substituted. Butt no opium, nc ii- sugar of lead, no calomecl or any othet form.of Mercury." - - riti lii'n; Va or i - s0 r i~eor irdisW giil 'Wrgmaf ssrHC tci h rona 1-1ild. - s0urcQ oiniot si iri rBlhbutfoish T prouc of1 a rkst,aby: s lfW*-ltAN, wii dit 'afi' 'e -tie i a 6 c Fer mayy notb .1 aI tif .:; r, m s nents. pyfw-a coin bl e 1 draitI1,64W.Otmccah eta soa t 5 m ei I's mise n foiain - Dte&iiiAte s A r n orth" ne i its -contents. ietion ud tha OrleansJeatters and' ali. a -pl . atil mai Which it w here outeof ahe ble drafts though.noit diuch h ca - soon ds the mail wais Missed ifrtdatioii of the-fact was teiegraphied to N4ew 'der leans that Payment te asppers f iliA date iiight be.stoppid. A inistsryan over -tho maner in which the robbiery wa -eTctd It is stipposodtatt. mail was taken when thron "t ofr ol stige. at Opelika, by son moe niho adroily conenled it under his bak. The indeltinable AcGibbonl is onee tho trbjil and the Matter will be ferretcd OuLi if within the compass of possibility. -Mont gomnerg Junrn)al 25th instant. TEE UiBLE.* The Rev. Mr. Tu rnbql; in a receutdiscourse on he law or revolu insrcaysin The Biblu for more th thOsand years has gone band ior hand ith -l civiliz.ition, icience an d law. It s never- r biln 1pehinds true; freey, i.and aays4 nihore it, hik the ainsr oly firem Leor sra ind the ~ wisild ee.i.Itie - , rncibaes ofT odeert, tubmissinan free o -7'~~~ itr reenats. dertem haneea say Jr ingmrk,itige and awst. I loerCel far eighte ofli iht pnrosrs porehchrdescrie- - an, proises foue rond inawa- If12 wold eityha divine o Iand unt iers boheR l - hood, fwich the n.an Yongy dpret. aeword the Chrbicgas t R be."ato isth tyrgue st)daltoftearh th ia op,hre of rcem une anSates. wIt adlong reen illOrednertes Thered never snyk,stoord - bacon, tas ountin san.gf dry gord, inher t remn,o a , a lond so h)Sighly - eat cheapenecgd as rthd;a Dil"sh sad,v gelitoe oin . amop chereiag syru.' yon a,wo-a-og e behnto,'coundte sellng dtr. toods. you. a - lvyfi. 'Well,' whtispered theL lady,. blushing- * as -shet laid ain emuphiasis on the wvord,. 'I would not stay so long bargaining, if you wecre nut so dear,' To Cooc lhecs.-Siak ihe rice ih coldh salt water for-soven hours, then have ready; a slewpanai wiih boilingi.t ater, hirow in th-. rice and het it boji brishkly for tenl -mutes,. then ponr-it insa enilender, cover it up hote by the fire for a fewv mlintes,. and then,k serve. TIle grains are double the usuah 6ixe, and quite dittinCt fronm each otiter, - All that is said in the pIarlour, shaubli not be licard in the h di~