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A4'vertisemeits #ot having the niumber of insertions marked bn them, wijl-bn continued gullil otdered out and charged accordingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. JOSEP1 ABNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. W ILL be round. in his ouice at Edgefiefd Court House, adjoining Bryan's Brick Store, on Saturdays. Saltdays, and C ourt, weeks. He will attend promptly and strictly to bdsi ness in his lrofessions. January 10. tr 51 DR- E. F- TEAGUE R ESPECTFULLY offers his arofessioial aLser ices inflhe practice of Medicine. Sur. gery, and Obstetrics, to the Citizens of Edge field Village and vicinity.- Office in the Drug Store of Drs. Bland. Teague & Co. lay 9, tf 16 A'* Card. R .G. G. BIRD, respectfully offers his * pofessional s-rvices to the Citizens of Edgefeld antd its vicinity. Office opposit' Coupty's Hotel. May 9, if 16 A. ANDATES. R ISHERI FF. BODIEF.sqr, t O.fice of nnunc a It. OULWAR E, as a Can if, at the encuiig election 'friends of Col. THUS. W. I.AN linonce him as a candidate fur the In ofaheuitTat the next election. iThe frienide of Col. JOHN HILL an.. nouincd hit as a bandidate fr Sheriff of Edg fieldl District at the ntici election. E1 We are autnorized to anninuce T. J. WHITAKER. ns a candidate for the Office of Sheriff, at the ensning election. 0'>The Fiiendr of ALFRED MAY, annotince him as a Candidate for Sheriff, at the ensuing election. FOR TAX COLLECTOR. O7 We are arthorized to anuounce Capt. T. DEAN. as a Candidate for Tax Collector, at the ensuing election. foj We are authorized to announce LITTLETON A. BROOKS. as a Can didate fur Tax Collector, at the ensuing election, 0'N We are authorized to announce ROBERT CLOY, as a Cardidate for Tax Collector. at the ensuing eleiinn.. The Friends of Maj. ISAAC BOL ES, announce him as a Candidate for the office of Tax Collector, at the ensuing election. We are anthorized to announce Capt. B. F. GOUEDY, as a candidate for the Office of Tax Collector, at the ensuing eletion. Jan. 2 The Friends of Maij. F. WV. BURT. an nounce him as a candlidate for Tax Collec tor, at the ensuimg election. -The friends of Cr4.-J-QUATTLE3UMi, announce him as a candidate fur Tax Col lecior, at the ensuing election. Se are authorized to announce WM. L. PA RKS as a Candidate for Tai Collec tor, at the next election. FOR ORDINARY. The Friends of VIRGIL M. WH ITE. - announce huim as a Candidate for the office of Ordinary at the ensuing electioni.* We are authorized to announce EDWARD PR ESLEY, ats a Candidate for the Office of Ordinary at the ensning election. We are authorized to announce Col. WILLIAM H. MOSS, as a Candidate for the office of Ordinary at the ensuing electint. IEr The friends of H ENR Y T. W RIG HIT Esqr., annoussie hinm as a candidate for the of 6ce of Ordinary of this District, at thre ensuimg election. We are authorized to announco Maj. WV. L. COLEMAN, as a cnndidate fur Ordinary at the ensuing election. The friends of HUG H A. NIXON, Esq., respectfully announce him as a Candidate for the office of Ordinary, at the next Election. FOR CLERK. 07 We are authorised to announce WMd. M. JOHNSON, Esq., a candlidate for Clerk of the D~istrict Court of Edgehield at the ensuing election. g7 The friends of PETER QUATTLE BUM, Es9:.. announce him as a candidate for the Office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of this DistriCt, at the ensnting election -We are authorized to announce THOS. G. BA CON, a candidate for re-election as Clerk of the Court. for Edgefield .District. The frioends of E. PENN, announce %. him as a Candidate for the Office of Clerk FIVE PAGES A DAY. To all whom it may concern. Be ware of undertaking lob much. There cannot be a greater fault in the business of life. Knowledge is--pguired-wealth gained-(il that .knowildge is worth having, or that wealth to be reckoned upon witlr safety,)'by little -and little. High prizes 'nevor .oide a man rich. Vast and sudden* acquisitions by the memory never made a man wise. Be palieni, hopeful, persevering. Be satis fied with very little at first. Be not discouraged, even though, for long years, you may not be sensible of gteat pro gress in iour pursuit. Be fiithful to yourself, and your reward is certain. Five pages a day read- carefully, apid thought over, will do more towards stre.gthening the upper faculties of MAN, than three hundred pages a day, read as three hundred pages must be read, though one were to do nothing else. At the end of five years, he who has read five octavo pages a day, regularly, every day, ,and nEither more nor less, under anygjemptation, has read 9,125 pages-equal to tirty volumes octavo of 300 pages each. Now, thirty volumes octavo, of well chosen, well.understood, and well-di gested science, would be worth more than a collegia(e education, to ninety, nine persotis out of a hundred. Is there any mnn,or any boy, so busy, that lie cannot find time to read five octavo pages ? One volume of 300 pages in two months? Or six volumes in a year' Many are they, amnng women and git Is, and men, more foolish than eitler, who average a volume a day, year after year, of x hat is called miscellaneous reading novels, newspapers and maga zines. And what is their reward? At the end of a long life, what are they good for? Wh'tt do they know? What are they able tocommnticate to others? To their companions for life ? To their children? To their fidlow-nien I What do they leave behind them to be . re Suppose they had been satisfied with reading ive pages a day-and only ive pages a day-suppose the average read ing life to be fifty years-and that all began to read with advantage at five. Instead of thoustands or tens of thous ands of books hurried through and for gotten, leaving no more impression upon the understanding than the di ifting clouds leave upon the suniner sea-in no way exercising, cleat ing up, or stretigtiheting the judgment--they would have read, or studied, thought over and remembered, but so as to be always ready to apply their knowledge to the every day con cerns of hunian life, only two hundred and seventy-three volumes, octavo. But if these two hundred and seventy three volumes were properly chosen. and well adapted in every case to the phrenological character of the individual -he would bo master of more facts; lie would be familiar with more science; lie would be richer in the knowledge that is gained by books, than pet haps any other living man of equal capacity. In other words, lie would know more. And yet he would meet with persons every day who had managed to read in the course of theit fifty yeats ten or twelve thous arnd vo!umes-of nobody kntows whiat. Sutppose a young man about bourning a trade. Hie is already acquainted with reading, writing, and arithmuetic. He has had a common school education, and nothing more. Hie has been brought up to believe that learning is a sort of lux ury-only to be had in colleges: that trio leatned professors, as they are called are the anointed rulers of the multitude. At any rate, he sees thtat such is the fact, understand it as lie may. it never enters his head, poor fellow ! that lie can educate himself without the help of mortal man-wvithout his living help, that is. Hie wants to take a high place among the sons of God-but feels discourageed and ashamed. He is poor -and his bread must bo earned by a life of hardship, drudgerv and self de nial; and it' never for a monmetnt passes throtigh his miind that Books are Teach ers-that lie wants no other help than lie may find in any one of a thousand libaries, open to all the wvorld. Still less, that if lie can save time to read five pages a day, lie mtay make himself any thinig he pleases in time. Is lie a printer, a ship-builder, a black smith, or an apothecary t is he a mer chant or a manufacturer? a tanner and currier, a mason, a shoemaker; or any one of a hundred classes in life, he may make himself thoroughly master not only ofrtll that concerns his own particu lar busiuness-immediately or remotely --its history, progress, rind changes but of almost every collateral branch of human science, before ho gets through with a regular apprenticeship. In seven years he would have mastered-not mnrly re.a but mastered--about fifty volumes octavo, of 300 pages a piece. And he would have acquired habits that would he worth a fortune-labits fur life-habits of quiet, determined perso verance. Five such 'volumes would give a young man all that he would require to know of geometry, drawing, perspecti've and archiitecture.- Five morn' wouIrd make a good chemist-so far as famili arity with the science or Chemistry is concetned. And so with every other branch of study. But why confine the spirit 'or inqniry to five pages a Aay-? Why not say ten, twfuty, fifty or.a iundred? - - Simply becauseve pages a day, every day, will do more towards enriching and .strengthening his mind, than a hundred pages a day, ivith intervals. Let him say to himself, thus much I will do every day of my life-rain or shine-before I sleep; and then let him, if he will, read the newspapets and niagazines, the nov els and poetry of the age; for all these, if read as they ought to be read, with in terruptions and moderately, will be a help to him through life, by keeping him acquainted with the doings of his fellow-mon. Beware of undertaking too much. Begin with five pages a day, as a regu, lar daily task, and never go to six, till you are absolutely sure of Ecing able to read six every day; and so on, front year to year, till you-averiage what yoti are capable of tinderstandiig, digesting, and remembering-and then stop. Nothing is more- common-r-nothing more fatal, than trying by over study to make up for past omissions.-N. Y. Star. NEGRoESvFoR CALIFORNIA.-An rx change 'paper states that Mr. John Routh, of' Louisiana, is ahout leaving for California with twenty-five selected negroes to dig gold, and that several others front that.section are taking ser vants along with them. The plan, die believe, is entirely prac tibl., if sufficjent care he exerci.sed in ireds of servanis in our inimediate vi, c'nity who Pre strongly attached to their masters and to their own wives and children. They wou!d voluntarily re turn to thpir lons, whenever perm is sion should be given tihen, from any point to which they mig.it be taken. In view of such inducemni-rts as their own ersimight very well afford to offer then, they wo'jld unquestionably wrrk well in California, and conie back again wiit out hesitation.--Knoz. (Tents.) Regis tcr. THe FAnsrum.-le is a public bene factor, who, by the prudent .md skillful outlay of his time and money shall make a single field yield petr manently a double crop; mta lie that does this adds a square mile to tho national ter itor%; nay, lie does more; he doubles tb his extent the territorial resour ces of the countiy, with out giving the stato any larger territory to defend. All hail, then, to the im provers of the soil! Health and long life to their fortyne ! May their hearts be light and their purses heavy; may their dreams be few and pleasanti, and their sleep the sweet robes of the wear)! May they see the fruits of their own la bor, and may their sons rear still heavi er harvests! SNAK?. Hos-r:No.--The St. Francis ville (La.b Chrontical says: --For about a week past. some few or our citizens have enjoyed themselves in shooting sniakes, in the back water near our town. They seem to seek refuge in the trees, 'vlhere it is supposed, they resort to hask in the sun. They have succeeded in dest roying'up w ards'or one thousand, and they still exist in abundlance. T1hey',have beetn knownt to take lodgings in some of the houses in flayon Sara, when the on cupants of the d wellings are occasionally great frightened by discovering them snug y enconseid in the beds prepared for their own comfort~and convenience. WVe have nout yet participated in the sport, but have been informed that it is rare fun." -Charleston M'ercury. MA-ratczro.-On the 28th tilt, a man named Newkirk, living ahout fifteen miles from Louisville, shut his own mother, nearly a hunidred years old. After the prepetrationt of the deetd he reloaded. his gun, and. with fierce threats, ordered a little negro boy about twelve years old to shoot him. The hoy fired the gun, but purposely missed him. Newkirk whipp ed the boy terribly and then sent for a neighbor to wvhom he remarked-"1 have shot my mother-do --w think they wil hang me'?" He s00 -.erwvards disap peared and, at the last accounts, all the efforts of thbe oflicers of justice to find him had been unsuccessful. His neighbors generallythink that he is insane. "Censcience !" said Mrs. H opkins, in dignantly, "do you supposed nobiody has got any conuei-ence but your self? My cnscienice is .as good as yours-ay, and better too-for is has never been used in the course or my life-while yours must be, nerl worn out !" ' STORY OF THE HiGiiWAY.-Not tm.3 years ago, an Irishman, whose fin cies did not keep pace with the de.. ma . s made on his pocket, and whose scorR of honest labor was immensely un, favgrable to their being legitimately filled borpwcd in old pisiol one day, when po~erty had driven himt to an extremity, anttiok to the highway, determined to rob ihe first man he could conveniently qieeV.vlho was likely to have a heavy purse. ojlly old farmer came jogging alofig and Pat put hime down instantly as a'party who possessed those requisites he.stood so much in need of himself. Presenting the pistol, he orderied the agrlmilturist to '%land and deliver !' The poor old fellow forked over some filtyldollars; but finding Pat something of aigreen horn, begged a five to take him-fomre-a distance of about half a mile, by the way. The request was complied with, accompanied with a pa, troning air. Old Acres and Rods was a knowing one. Eveing the pistol, he asked Pat if he would sell it. "s.it sell my pistol ; sowl an' its that samo.thing I'll be after doing. What will je be afther giving for it I 'll.iive you this five dollar bill for it.' 'hlone ! and done and done's enough between two gentlemen. Down wid the dnstgAnd het e's the tool for yer.' Thtibargain was made by immediate transer. The moment th fdrmer got the petronel, lie ordered Pat to shell out; and pointing the pistol, threatened to blow his brains out if I-o refused. Pat 16eked at him with a comical leer, and bottoning his breeches pockets, sung out ; '10-w away ould boy! d- I take the bit.of powdher's in it.' WeLbelieve the old man never told the hst part of the story, only once, and that ias by the purest- accident. Pat nmde oo and "once away for ever away," has since been his motto. JJcK ON THE RIGGER.-"You will weil,-a wh lted us through 'his schoofihe othier dy, "tihat the boys are required" to display the mtimost attention to quiet ness and discipline, and it a short time become even divested of that most an noyitg disposition to tease eachother; in short, they soon settle down in all the gravity of niature sears, tinder the whole sonic systen I have introduced." We at this moment arrived in front of several boys who were standing around a bucket of water, and one had just charged his :nothi with the contents of a tin cup, while the old gentlentan was stooping to recover his pen frot the foor when another passing along behind, snapped his fingers quickly beneath the drinkei's ear, and caused him by a sudden start to eject the contents of his mouth over the pedagogue's bald pate. Starting upright, with his hair and face dripping, the master shouted "Who done tha 1" The party unamiously cried out -"Jim Gun, sir." -'Jim Gun, you rascal, what did you do that for " Jim, appalled at the mischief lie had done, muttered out tha' it was not his fatilt, but that Tom Owens had snapt him. This changed the direction of old Lanmbwell's wrath, an.] shaking his arm portentously over Owen's head, lie ask ed. -Did you snap Gnu 1" The culprit, trepmbling with fear, mur niured-. "Yes, sir, I snapi Gun, but I didns't know he was goaded!" Ta1CtNO IT COOLLtY ON A BRIDAL NIG!tT.--The greatest case of a bridal night that we ever read of wats that of Prince Galiazin, of Russia, in tho last century. The Prince having turned Cathtolic, the Czarina Anne, among other ways of punishing him for what sIe considered a postacy, condem ned him to marry a wotman from among the lowest class of the people, took the happy couiple, to the liamous Ice Ph~ice, near -the Neva, and compelled them to pass5 the night ina bed composed whol ly of ice. A cotton factor~y is about to be erectedl in Mobile by John1 Bloodgood! Esq. one of the most.enterprising capitolists of that pleasant city. The Herald says that the buildintg-will be 36 reet by 100, and three stories high. The machinery will consist of 1000 to 1500 spindles. looms and all the necessary fixtures for apinning nnd weav ing coarse cotton fabrice.-Co. Telegraph. "Father,. what does the printer live on y' "Why, child 1" "Because, you said you hadn''t paid .him for two years-, and you still take the paper.' "Wife, put that child to bed; he's an aeverlasting talker." LATER FROM MEXICO. By the ship Tyrone, Capt. Golding, which left Vera Cruz on tih 26:h ull., we have received our files of Nlexicdn papers from the capital to the 21st uh. A call was made upon the Govern mont on the 18th ult. by Senor Florez, in the Senate, for informaitinnrelative to the alleged practice, by the Yucatan au thorities, of selling their Indian pris'oiners into slavery into Cuba, abd the means taken to suppress the evil. Arranguiz, the new Secretary of the Treasury, had given notice to the Alex ican Const Is in New Orleans, Havana, and New York, that all vessels clearing for the ports of Yucatan must conform to the regulations of the general tariff of October 4, 1835, otherwise the captains and vessels will be subjected to the pains and penalies therein preseibed. He states that the particular regulations made by Yucatan do not overrule the act of October 4, 1835. The cholera had penetrated as far as Zatcatecas on the 9th ulr. The Legislature of Guanajuato had under consideration the project of a law to confer extraordinary powets upon the Government in case the insurrection of Sier.a Gorda should not be suppressed. The authorities of Chihuahua declare that notwithstanding the weakh of the State, the public funds are exlausted, and that the inhabitants are incessantly harrassed by the incursions of the Apa che Indians, whom it is quite necessary to attack in their homes and strongholds. The Apache Indians were murdering and plundering the inhabitants of Sonora in various quartors, and the latter had sent two commissioners to ihe capital to seek assislance. On the 19th ult. the Commissioners to settle the boundary line between Me!L ico and the United States, under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, left the capital, escorted by a force of 250 cav alry. They expect to reach San Diego by the 31st May. The Monitor of the 20.h ult. positive had abondoned S:,n La.-p- .- "Ih. clares that the most active measures were taken to preserve order. The Monitor states that American continue to arrive at the capital, en route for the gold regions. Between the 26;h February and the 18th April, there were presented to the authorities of the Federal District, three hundred and thirty-t wo pass-ports. Numerous parties of Americans have recently passed through the citiri of Durungo and Monterey, jout neying to wards the Pacific. 'Ihe Monitor regrets that occasionally the inhabitants piovoke quarrels with these strangers by mock ing them. Daniel Boyden, an American, who has been for fifteen years stage driver, and enjoyed a good reputation, recently ran away with several thousand dollars entrusted to his cate. Santiago Lan had made a proposition to the authorities of Coahnila, to the effect that lie should be allowed to make war against the Indians on his own ac count, on the following conditions: that all the booty taken should belong to hitml; that he should be paid fifty dollars for each scalp of the enemy, and one hundred dollars for each Indian captuted al ive.-N. (O. Delta. Mnxzxwo.-Attack on a Diligence Death of an Amnerican.--We learn from Vera Cruz-that a diligence, on its way fronm that phiace to the city of Mexico was attacke~d neat Plan del Rio on the 16th ult. by a party of banditti. The occupants of the coach bein! Americans, inciuding Col. Ratmsay of Pennosylvarnit (of the I th regimteot), resisted, and beat off the robbers. We are sorry to say, however, that in the affray Mr. Charles M. Bugbee wans mortally wvoun - ded by a shot from one of the robbers, fronm the. effects of which lhe died shortly after. Mr. Bugbee was known to many of our citjizens as an active, enterprising man-having served in Mexico in a number of positions requtiriug coolness and tact, during the late,~war with that co untry.-N. Orleans- DaiIj ('resent. "To Ena is Hous:A."-A clergy man having indulged too freely in filling up his ginss, went one Sabbath into the pulpit and having given out a hymn to his congregationi, set down; the melody of the sacred song soon lulled hinm to sleep,' and' he cohiihtued for some titne to play a treble bass symphony with his nose." At length one of the deacons ascended to the sacred desk, and told hinm hymn was out. "Well," said lhe," fil it up again." Isn't it rather an odd fact in natural history that the softest stater is caught when it rains the hardest "You can't do that again," as the pig aidto en onhm thati cnt his tail off. THE' GERAN ExMtAe.--There seems to beq tlie public niind of Ger many a fuid determination to hold to the Asseuibly and the 'new oituid Uion, and the questioni of th.e German Empire is nuw at a very caitical poilnt. Twentv -eight German Governinents have already declared iseir nnohdi;. tlo'ial acceit.ince of the constittion, and their readi'ness to acknowedge the King of Prussia as Emperor of the Germmnsa Bavaria, Hanover, Saxoziy, and WI' tenbuig have not yet given in their de finite- decision, and it is doubtfni if the three latter will. A correspondent of the Newark Adversiser,. writing from Frankfin t oh the 16th ult. says all par ties in the National Assemblv-are now united with the exception of the Aus trian members., Right aid left have embraced and resolved to stand or fall togoth:r. The most ulia Republicans have vowed faithful allegiance to the entie C6nsdttition, hereditary, Empera orship, dnd all, provided ihe Princes accept and carry it out; and the most conservative monarchists have in retara pledged thetmselves to stand by it as it - - has passed th, Assembly, demanding its unconditional acceptance by the gov ernment, with the. suspeirive veto, and universal suffrage,.even though it should be necessary to fall 6ack ulon the peoa pie, and call in tiie id of revolution Either the Princes; frudently yielding to the necessary of the ti.nes, will sub mit -inconditionally to the decisions o! the National Assembly; or, blind to th. requirements of the age, they will at tempt to oppose the inevitable progres' of events, and ihus seal their own doom -Public Ledger. - STATSTIcS or MONARCH.-$4he yea' 1848 lais witnessed more chsngos amon the Eurdpean sovereigns, tlhan even th: - year 1830. The aggregato of ,sovereigr has been reduced from 47 to 33. TheA is bIut one over 70 years of age. Kjn Ernest Augustus, offlanover. Six, monarchs have, eith'i .mad --cibi6 0 Cbruary; Louis* of Bavarie,'ir - 21st of March; Charles, Prince o flohenzollen Sigmaringen, on the 29t - - of April; Henri, LXII, Prince.of Reuss Lnbeustein Eberdiff, on the 1st ot Oc tober; Joseph, Duke of Sai Alten hourg, on the 30th of November, and Ferdinand 1, of Austria, on the 2d of - December. The. Dukei of Modena and Parnia ave beei forced to abdi cate by their subjects; but the first has recovered his power, and the Duchy of the setond Is gderhted li his name by the Austalans. Three reigning princes have died-Christiau Vi, of Denmark, on the 20th of Januaryf tbouis 1, Grand Duke of Hesse Daimstadt, on the 16th ofJune; and Gustavus, Landgrave of besse Hombeig, of the 8th of Septea4 ber. WAsHING CIOTHE.-A Washington paper, (Penn.) saysf "We publiek iva day, for thn bepeff.(.f the ladies, the greatest recipe for w4shing clothes ever yet published. By this process-one hand can do as much 's three on the old method, and do it much better. Be sure to keep this -recipe. If you file our paper, mat k. round :he recipe with a pten a'dd ink i if no't cut the recipe out, and pasie it up int your wash house. . R EcrPE.-Take good home-made sort soap, 4 lbs.; borax, refined, 4 oun ces; coimmon salt, 8 ounces; water, 7 pints. Boil slowly to cake soap, sepe, tate the top frprd tfhe sediment for the cake soap. The bottom or the sedi. ment will do, fur tlye commotn washing about a kitchen. . Pztocs.-1. W~er (he clothes thor ntughly.' 2. Rub the grease and dirty spots.with some of the soap. 3. Boil the clothes itr Strong soap suds of the above son-p for thirty minmes. 4t. Rins'e (lhe clothes three tims wvell im clean wvater. A MIORTY CoNTsTUTrhN.-'I~ram,. my boy," said a tender faith-r to his son, "you must be more careeful ofvyourself than you are. You- have not- tihe Con stitution of some.. "Don't b'lieve it, dad-don't believe a word on't-1've got thb constitution of a horse-Thtere 3inlt no break up or dowvn on me. Dang it, if!I don't b'lieve I've got the constitu tion of the United Statea!" To fu WVATRxnaWrSe -'-Dr. Foster, or Burges, well known-ns., meteorologist, declares that. by journale of the weather kept by his grandft-hber, fatiher and himself,, everueinee 1761:to the present time, when. ever the new moon has happened on a Saturday, the following twenty days have been wet and windy, in nineteen cases out, of twenty. in-youth, says Lord Bacon, womofrare our mistreises, at riper age, companlona,. in old age, our nurse.; and in all ages, ens friend..