Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, February 07, 1855, Image 2
From the THmbhurg Varlev Pioneer.
MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OP TEE-WA'
VANNAR VALLEY RAIROAD.
Pursuant to adtjosurniment, the Stockholders of
the Savannah Valley Railroad assembled at
Hamburg on Wednesday the 24th instant.
The meeting was called to order by the Chair.
man,;Johi. Brownlee, Esq., Messrs. J. J. Black
wood and H. A. Kenrick acting Secretaries.
The chairman ordered the list of stockhol.
ders to be called, pending which C. W. Styles,
Esq.1 announced to the meeting that his Honor
A. P. Robertson, Mayor of the City of Augusta,
was present, and moved that he be invited to
take a seat in the convention. The motion was
carried, and his Honor the Mayor- accepted the
invitation.
When the secretaries had concluded the call
of stockholders. C. W. Styles, Esq, announced
to the convention that a meeting of the citizens
of Augusta, was held the previous evening, for
the purpose of considering the expediency of
instructing the City Council of Augusta to sub
scribe for stock in the Savannah Valley Rrilroad
Company, at which proceedings were had high
ly important to the Company, and moved that
h-s Honor the Mayor be reques'ed to give the
convention such inform:tioi as he possessed in
relation thereto. The motion being carried, his
Honor tie a ayor, rose and stated that the citi
zens of Augrusta assembled en mase the evening
pr, vious, and that certain resolutions instructing
the City Council to subscribe for five thousand
shares of the stock in the Savannah Valley Rail.
road company, were passed by an overwhelming
majority. He further stated that the City Coun
cil had not had time to act upon these instrue
tions, ain!tLhat it was impossible for them to de
liberate and act upon a proposition of such vast
importance to the City in time to report to this
meeting, but thought that within three or four
weeks the Council would be able to report some
defini:e action. At the conclusion of his remarks
C. W. Styles, Esq., offeted the following.
Resolced, That this convention do now adjourn
to meet again at Calhoun's Mills, in Abbeville
district on Thursday the 22d of February next.
Upon this resolution an animated discussion
arose, as to the danger of delay, and the expedi
ency 41f gioing to work forthwith, Messrs. Styles,
Caml.oun and Banskett advocated the resolution,
urging the propriety of waiting on our friends
of Aus sta. and opposing precipitate action.
Mesr.Harrison and Sloan opposed the resolu
tion, and were in favor of proceeding at once to
work.
The resolution was carried and the conven
tion adjourned.
JOHN BROWNLEE, Chm'n.
H. A. KENRIcx, Sec'ry.
DESPERATE FIGHT-TMRE MEN ATTACKED BY
ROBBERS,
PLACERVILLE, Saturday, Dec. 23.
The Mountain Democrat Extra says: We
received the following startling intelligence, last
night, after our paper had been worked off.
Rocky Canon, the place of the tragedy, is a deep
and almoht inacce.ible tanon about forty miles
north of this place, near Todd's Valley, and un
inhabi:ed.
RocKy CANoN, 20, 1854.-No officer having
been wi-hin a convenient distance to attend to a
case tf emergency that has just happened near
our isolated camp here, the undersigned con,ti
tuted themiielves a coroner's jury, and held an
itquest over the deceased bodies of 12 men that
were killed within a mile of our camp, on the
18th inst., a full account of which we deem it
our duty to publish. Three of the undersigned
were eye-witnesses of the whole scene, though
too fir (it to - . d in any way, and the rest of
--.ch for their veracity. On
three men, who afterward
imes C. McDonald, of Ala.
- d, a Dr. Bolivar A. Sparks,
,apt. Jonathan R. Davis, of
re traveling on foot on a
if our camp, to prospect a
quartz some 20 or 30 miles
As they were passing the
three of the under,igned, be.
g expetiditioti on its side,
who were cocealed in the
spring up, atid commenced
McDonald had fallen dead.
* t before he was even aware
! .hs-partf had nothing
Caipt. Davis, who was the
ooting in defence of himself
tant after the first volley of
ill, unhurt kkpt tip an inces
ma with his revolvers, every
in to bite the dust, until all
arties seemed to have beeni
grobbers made a charged
biree with bowie knives and
ord r saber. Capt. Davis
"rounid until they rushed up
*hin about four steps. lie
2upon them with a very large
- - d off their blows as fast as
t himt gave three of them
-)roved fatal. Havinig woun.
*...e otner one very slightly, and di~armied
htimt by throwing his knife in the air in warding
off a blow, ais this laist man expressed in a tonte
of grati'ude be.fore his death, Capt. D. went to
work :at onice tearing up his own shrit and bind
ing up alhl the wounids of the living, of both his
friends and enemies.
On an exiaination of the persons of the do
ceased of' those that commenceed the attack (in
Capt. D. and his party, we discovered papers
carefully concealed in their pockets, purportinig
to he a copy of laws and by laws which they
were governted.
'Phbc last of tis band has just died. His
wountd he thought himself but slight, and seem
ed in a fair way of recovery until withi:, the
last hiur, and corroborated all the evidence
proved by the papers in his pockets. If Dr.
Sparks is well enough to travel, Dr. Davis speaks
of moving him down to his friends to-morrow.
-Sacramento Statesman.
THE SaoE BUsa5Ess.-This important branch
of the business of Massachusetts, the Boston
T1raveller says, is slowly revivinig, and signs of
animtatjin are visible in various quarters. 'The
stock of manufauctured shoes otn hand is said to
be untusually small, and the reception of orders
to any great extent would immediately set to
work a large number of hands. One firm in
Beverly last week received orders from the
South for eleven thousand dollars worth of
shoes, and doubtless similiar orders have been
received by other firms.
THE latest daites from Salt Lake and the
Plains, Jano. 12th, state that Mr. Babbitt, the
present actuary overnor of Utah, is very un
popular withI the Mormons from a belief, wheth
er 'vell founided or not, that he has abjured the
religion of the Latter Day Saints. They had
grown tired of him as Governor, atnd anxiottsly
awaited his removal. All the men belonging to
the Mormon Church who are able to bear arms,
are constantly drilled, and at short notice sev
eral unousarnd could be collected t oget tier. Col.
Steptue aind command are occupyiing quarters in
a centural part of Salt Latke City.
ONE of the novelties in Lotndon, as an exhi
bition, are a mani, woman, anid child, of the tribe
of Niam-Niaums, or taIled people, from Central
Africa. Dr. Sexton lectures on them betore
crowds of vi-itors. three times a day. Ladies
are not admitted.
FASI Maty. the absconding cashier of the
Farmers and Mechanics Batik of Indianapolis,
wrihes from Crestline, Ohio, to Col. May. his
uce. anid the owner of the batik, that, lie only
tuiok 87.000 and regrets his course extremely;
that lie did not contemplate leaving two hours
before lie departed, and has not the nerve to
return. As there is no law in Indiana for sucht
cases, we suppose that Mr. May will get off 1
scot free.
Col. May says, however, that the amount ta
ken certainly exceeds 87,000. and that the two- a
hours part of the story is faudse, as Frank gave e
orders the night before to be roused earlier than
usual, and, moreover, appears to have arranged
matters for this event some days beforehand.
a
THE Washington Star says, the British Min. I
ister has seat orders to the squadron in the Car.
ribean Sea not to allow the Kinney Expedition C
toan oAn an,, po,.,ion of C'entreal A merica. '
SOULH CAROLINA RAILPOAD.
The annual report of the President of the
3outh Carolina Rail Road Company, dated Jan
iary 25, 1855, has been laid before the Stock
iolders. It exhibits a very satisfactory condition
)f the Company, and of the operations of the
Road-for the past year.
We make thg following extracts:
*Statement A shows the income for
the year from passage, freight,
mails, &c., to be.............1,363,008,i8
And the expenses of management,
ordinary and extraordinary, equal
to 42 12-100 per cent ........574,146,13
The remainder............788,862.05
After providing for the interest on
the foreign and domestic debt, and
for claims for damages, &c., say. .206,234,26
And leaving as neu income.... ..582,627,79
Ras Afforded two semi-annual divi
dends of 4j per cent each amount
ing to.................. 330,837,00
And transfered a balance of........ 252,790,79
For the year to the credit of Surplus income,
being an excess of $99,298,18,100 over the bal.
ince carried from the legtimate business of the
year previous, wbich, upon reference, will be
een was $152,592,61,100.
* * * * * * *
The past year has been one full of causes cal.
:ulated to depress every business interest, and
to retard the general prosperity of the country.
lmmediately, thetjincome of the Company has
been much effected by the short crop of 1853,
nd the sudden appearance of the epidemie in
'his city about the opend.ng of our fall trade;
vet notwithstanding this unfavorable state of
ihings followed as it has been by the present
stringent condition of the monetary affiirs of
the commercial world, we have every reason to
be satisfied wi.h the income for the year, and to
:ongratulate ourselves upon havinag done as well
s we have under such adverse circumstances.
During the year, there has been added to the
improvement of the Road in the shape of turn
auts or doublo tracts, about rour miles; and
hirty miles of the road have been entirely re
built with new timber, chairs, and pikes; and
by the first of May, the bridge and trestle across
he Wateree swamp will be completed. All the
breaches in the Congaree embarkment but one,
iave been filled, and that is now being done.
The cost of this improvement, amounting to
ibout $75,000, it will be observed, has been
:harged as " Extraordiniary current expenses,'
md comes out of the income for the year.
The Trestling between Aiken and Graniteville,
.ve are now filling with earth, and the cost of
he work for the past year, amounting to
$18,477,06, has been charged to " Property in
road,' to which the original account for avoiding
the plane was previously carried. It 'will be
icessary to expend upon it this year about
D40,000, and the year following $22,000, mak .
*g the cost about $80,000, of putting that por.
on of the road in a permanent cundition.
During the present year it will be necessary
,o provide the line of Road with station houses,
lepots, wood sheds, additional turn outs, and to
mrove and enlarge at Charleston and Colunm.
ia especially, the accommodation for receivinag
Lad delivering freight, and for repairinug and pro
ecting our increased motive and car power.
L'e probable expense of which will be met by
ur surplus income without affecting the divi
lends or increasing the debt."
The following statement in reference to the
-esponsibility ot the Road, for daua:'ges and lost
~rtights, is of interest to our merchants, and t)
il who make use of that Road in the transpor
at ion of mereltandize.
"Our Western connections, we regret to say,
xre not as perlect as could be desired. The
ractice of receiving and forwarding goods, free
of charge, has caused %uch heavy losses as to
:ompel this Company to abandon it altogether.
Tue arrangement for the down freight is far
rom being sausfactory. For the p.st few years
he practice has been with this Company to pay
lor damaged and lost freight by the receipts oh
he other roads, but the heavy losses lately sus
ained by all the roads, in damages have deter
nined the connecting roads to terminate their
iability at Augusta-ai~which point the respon
ibility of this company commences. We are
oL however without hope that the interest of
he roads and oft the public, will iniduce a further
ffort to establish a more perfect and efficient
trrangement than has ever yet existed ; and no
:impany, and no portion of the public is prepar.
ed to sacrifice more for such a consuutmnation
han this Companiy.
MASUFACTURE OF RUrn.-Probab!y the only
manufacture in the Northern States which is~
sarried on profitably at the present time is that
a. rumn, itnd this was never before so profitable
is at the present tithe. Tue distilleries all
througha the country hamve orders for many wceeks
mtd months ahead, at, prices which yield thema a
'undred per cent profit. This state of thaings
as been occasioned by the prohibition of the
listillation bf grain in France and Belgium,
wich has caused hirge orders from those coon
ries for rum from the United 8tanes. Every
maket ship from New York for France and
3ermany now carries out all the rum which catn
me had iin the market as part of her cargo. The
rtile sells at 47 a 48 cents a gallon and the
roit may easily be calculated, whenct it is known:
tmt the moilasses cost but little mio:e than 20
ents a gallon, and oine hundred gallons of mo
asses wall make 95 galloats of ruin. A large
ortion of the molasses in the United Stateshs
ut been bouagtt uap on Frenach aco'uti. A t Port.
and, 3,000 lalds were purchased last, week, for
shipment to France.-Bioston Triveller.
The Traveller means, we suppose, that the
Dtnufacture o f rum "wtas nteeer so profiable'
,f late years. It does not design to incelude
hat period in our nation's history, when our New
Englanid brethren were so busily and profiably
uployed itt the Afie.m slave I r.idle. Thena they
niauactured rumn very profitably itndeed; for
ith it they purchased the negroes in Africa,
mid sold them in theo Soiuth for cash and molas
es, with which to manufacture more rumn to buy
nore A fricians. 'lThus their cargoes were, from
,e North, rum teo Africa, negroes to the South,
mrd molasses to New Eniglanad. Henace theo im
3ression that Yankees were so funad of molasses,
>eause of thre immense amo'unt conasumed in
,he manufacture of rum for African slave trade.
Phey were, therefore, not onaly guilty of all the
iquities which they ascribe to tae slave trade,
ut they were also guilty of the enormity of in
roducinag into Africa, rum, which conatributed
freatly to the debaesement of that poor,degraded
ace of people.
This was indeed a profitable period in the
ntnuacture of rum, anad if the inw prohuibitini
he slave trade was repealed to-morrow, New
England would soon send forth thiousanads in
he same businaess tagaina, and New isnglanad
ournals arid pcople would proclaim their profits
md success, as the sequents of their superior en
erprise.-Chroniele & Setintel.
BURGLARY AND RoBBERY.-About three
'lock yesterday mnoranitig, a loud explosion was
eard by the immates of the houses in the vicini
y of Marx's store, on the cornaer of LDeatrborna
id Cotiistreets, but nao one arose to ascertarin
he cause of the disturbance. la the amoraning,
owever, the maystery was explained, for eon
peninag the store, the safe was found to have
een blown opetn and robbed of $510. The
ogues used powder from a keg in the store.
We hope the police may succeed as effectually
a breaking up thais burglar's associationa as they
id that oh the highway robbers some weeks
ine. TIhis is the fourth crime of a kinadred
ature that has been perpetrated within a week
'sat-Mobile Advertise-r, 1st in,t.
RAILROAD AccrD~r.-Yesterday a car of
he 1 o'clock traina for Camden was thrown off
he track about twelve miles below Columbia,
'y running over a cow, and now lies on the side
the road bottom upwards. One of the brake
aen had his leg brokenm, and others of thte pas
enges were slightly bruised, but with no seri
us damage.-South Carolintian 3d inst.
A Pawnee Emigrating League, composed
rincipally of buildinag mechanics, who design
ttling in Kansas territory, has been formed in
hiladlphia. The purpose is to reach Kansas
time for Spring operations. Quite a number
f emigrants from Faston are also going, though
ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR.
EDGEPIELD, S. C. -
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1855.
A Rule without Exceptions !
ALL Persons who fail to settle their indebtedness
to the" Advertiser Office," in a very short time
will be compelled to settle with one legally au
thorised. As a Co-partnership has been entered
into it is requisite that all out-standing debts should
be collected forthwith.
Ei Hon. P. S. Baooxs has our thanks fora paper
of interest.
gT' WE are requested to state that the Rev. Dr.
BOYD, will preach in the Methodist Church in this
Village, on Friday night, 9th instant.
Death of James Griffin.
IT- becomes our melancholy duty to record the de
mise of another old and valued citizen of Edgefield
District. Mr. JAMES GRIFFIN, Senior, departed this
life, at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. D. F. HOL:
LINGSWORTII, in the vicinity of Edgefield village, on
the 3d instant.
The fat hers of the Districtare all fast passing away.
Another decade, and perhaps every cotemporary of the
fine old gentleman, whose death we are now noticing,
will have been numbered among the millions underthe
sod. He himpelf had lived to a good old age, having
well nigh reached his three score years and ten. With
a frame slight by nature and apparently frail, he had,
by habits of prudence and moderation in all things, at
tained a period of life far beyond the great majority of
men. But the slight cord of existence (slight indeed
when we come to look at the thousand trials to which
it is constantly subjected !) must break at last, for the
careful as well as the indiscreet. And our worthy
old fellow-citizen has but shared the common fate.
Consolatory indeed must it be to his relatives and
friends to call to mind the truth that he has sunk to his
grave in peace after a long life of probity and useful
ness. '
In Mr. GRIFFIN's death, we have lost a most exem
plary citizen, one who had. the good of his District,
his State, his country warmly at heart. We hold up
his life, to those who are coming on to fill his place, as
a pattern worthy of imitation.
Death of Bishop Capers.
TuE papers annoutnce the death of this Christian
veteran, and most truly do they add that a " great
and good man has fallen in Israel." Nodivineofany
denominatian has ever commanded more universal
esteem in South Carolina. He was full of the milk
of human kindness, with an intellect of surprising
strength and an integrity that knew no warping.
GEOaE McDUFFIE once. said of him, that he was the
greatest pulpit orator of our country. And all con
ceded to him that purity and meekness which form
the distinguishing feature of a true disciple of Christ.
His brihit and intellectual eye spoke not more truly
of the mind within, than did his mildly-expressive face
reveal the true and trusting soul.
We first knew Bishop CAPERS in the South Caroli
na College, in 1835. He was propessor pro tem. just
previous to the re-organization of the College, which
took place in 1836. There was bin one feeling among
the young men in regard to him, a feeling of love and
reverential respect. We believe that such has-been
the experierce of every society or community into
which his lot has cast him. What more noble evi
dence of the " great and good man" can be aflorded
than this wide-spread array of heart-felt approbation!
There is one which it is not permitted to man to see.
It is the crown of immortal glory to be placed upon
his brow by the Great High Priest who sitteth upon
the right hand of Grid on high.
Browning & Leman.
Turs now famous Ctiarleston House offers to the
Southern trade the highest inducements in their line
of mercantile business. It is admitted to be the first
establishment of the kind in the Southern country.
For fullness and variety of assortments, fairness of
pricus &c., its proprietors have already established
their reputation upon a secure basis. All that is re
quired now to enable ur Charleston Merchants to af
ford a better market for Dry Goods than, New York it
self, is something like a general run of Southern cus
tom. The house of BRowNING & LEMAN, ranking,
as it undoubtedly does, best among the best, merits
especially the support of all good Southern Merchants.
And we commend their varied advertisement on an
other column to such of our readers as are interested
in mercantile matters.
Z'urman tiniversity.
WE observe that this Institution is now thoroughly
appointed ini every respect and ready for a large pa
tronage. Dr. CH A RLES S. GANTT, of Greenville, has
recently been elected to a professorship in place of
CustssiiNs, resigned. He is spoken of by the Rev.
JAxEs P. BorcE, in a letier to the Southern Baptist,
as a gentleman highly qnallified for the position. We
heard, in some way, that the College was not likely to
be so well filled thiis.year as it was in 1854. Our in
formiation was, in all probability, incorrect. At least
we hope so. From what we saw of the University
last Summer, we should say it was well-managed anid
worthy of a large support.
Z'rench Spoliations.
The Charleston M4ercury supplies a condensed ac
count of the claims now urged! before Congress, on the
score of these spoliations, which we adopt and copy
for the information of our readers:
"Ini the years 1798-9, the Uited States were in a
slate if qusi war with the iheni Republic of Fran~ce.
Privateers, cruised iand nade captures; natiri vessels
met anid fought on the high seas; and on land there
was the array of armies, in anticipation of a formida
ble war. T1hen came the revolution which placed
Bonaparte at the head of the French Government.
The United States urged upon France indemnity for
the confiscations of thet prei-ediing years. It was an.
swered that they were made under authority of a Go
vernmuenit that hadh passed away,* and like assignates
and cour inentat money, they had no more a vinte. In
short, the French Governmient refused in acknowledige
or satisfy these claims ; but as the urgency of them by
the United Siates was disagreeable, they had inserted
in the treaty, for the purchase of Louisiana, a provi
sion, that thiefuirthier prosecution of thiese clainms by our
Guverninetit should he discontinued.
"It is upon this provision that these claims wholly
rest. It is maintained that thie United States received
a consideration for their relinquishment, and thereby
aims.po themselves the obligation of satisfying the
It is needless to remind the political reader thiatthese
claims have been urged upoii Congress again and
again with unfavorable results. At length, there is a
strong probability of their heing satisfied in part. A
bill appropriatingflve millions to appease thes vulture
like rapacity of these claimants, has passed the Senate
Iand may soon pass the House. The Washington cor
respondent of the Charleston Standard thinks it will
pass that body by some twenty-five majority. " The
outside prestire in behalf of the measure," says lie,
" is very great. Any number of lady claimants, un
der the bill, are beseeching members to vote for it
and the money influence in its behalf is also plainly
seen to be at work in the lobby." Ladies and money ;
Both at work for the measure ! The thing is fixed as
suredly. Anid, just or unjust, let them have it. Dotbt.
less they need it. A few of them perhaps deserve it.
At all events we shall hear no more of French spolia
tiotns. Uncle Sam's money has to be spent one way
or another anyhow. Cormoriints must bitten on it.
Cram them well-stuff them to the full. Honesty is
but a jackass, to stand there braying out lessons of
justice and right at such a tirhme as this. 0! Mores !
Not Bad. t
The Corner Stone (Columbus, Ga.) saysa good many
original things fremn time to time, occasionally spicing
his views with a tiouchm of humor. Speaking of the
great probability of Kansas becomiing a slave State,
he thus essays 1o poitnt out one of the prominent rea
sons for her becominitg such:
" If these were flush and speculative times the Yan
kees would be flocvkinag there, building up paper cities,
paper Banks and paper Railroads, and the Southern
people womuld be going North to show off their finery,
and to be insulted by the negroes at the watering places.
" But as it is the people of the North are in the con
ditiogs of the Irishman when the horse was. running
away with him, and somebody told him to inm pufE
' Faith and be jabers,' said Paddy, ' it is all that I can
do to stay where I am.' Those of them who have
nothing can't get away, and those who have can't
take it with them and they can't go-because if they
run away from their debts they will leave their prop.
erty."~
gg TuE Steamer Ehiza sunk in the Mississippi
below Memphis, last week, and it is feared that thirty
Give it to Him.
WE copy below, from the Evening News, a pretty
severe drubbing of ir. MORTIMER, present Proprietor
of the " Southern Quarterly Review." . This gentle
man, itseems, has thought good to tear away the
" Review" from her old, accustomod moorings in Char
leston, and to locate it anew in Baltimore. By the
way, has that $20,000 lottery ticket anything to do
with this business ? It look, a little queer that Mon.
TIMER should draw that ticket in Baltimore one week
and make known his inteition of removing the
"Southern Quarterly" to Baltimore the next. Of
course the " Review" ceased to be purely Southern,
and, for one, we are done With it. When we " go a
catting, we go a catting :" and, upon pretty much the
same principle, when we subscribe for a Southern
Review we want a Southern Review. But heed the
remarks of the Evening New.:
THE SoUTiERN QUARTEiLY REzvEw.-The Jan
uary. tumber of this periodical we have just received.
We observe, with surprise, that its publication has
been transferred to Baltimore. That swork so emi
nently Southern, begun in South Carolina, and sus
tained fur so many years by -the talent, learning, and
enthusiasm of the most eminent writers and politicians
of the State, should now be removed to the neutral
atmosphere of Mlaryland, is certainly to be deeply re
gretted. It was unfortunate that the'proprietorship of
the Review should have passed into the hands of a
man without capital, one, too, unidentified with us by
a single previous tie of interest or blood. It was still
further unfortunate that he should have undertaken a
business for which, it seems, he was no way qualified,
either by temper or experience. Unquestionably, his
management-or his want of management-has prov
ed most disastrous.
In nothing that we can discover have the interests
of the Review been advanced. Its pecuniary embar
rassments continue the same ; it has lost its distinctive
characteristic as an exponent of Southern sentiment,
ability, and influence, by being removed to an alien
soil on the very border.of the free States, and lastly,
Mr. Simms, the accomplished editor, whose signal
efrbot to sustain the work had won for him the highest
approbation of the public, has been compelled to aban
don his labors under circumstances di.creditable to
the judginentand good sense of the proprietor.
In consideration of all this, it cannot be expected
that we should notice the publication with favor. In
fact we look upon the Southern Review as dead.
The periodical that now goes under its name is a non
descript nurk, which we regard with distrust, and
shall not presume to commend to the patronage of the
people.
All Amongst the Leaves.
As a good many of our yoting friends have probably
heard SLOMAN sing his famous " Derry, derry, down,"
we give them below a set of words, admirably adapt
ed to the same air, which we find in our musical port
folio. Although different from those usually sung by
SLOMAN, they are by no means without merit as a
comic song. There is another English " Derry down,"
very different from this one. The spirit and sprighth
ness of the verses we give chime in very handsomely
with the bold and careless character of the air for
which thry are intended. Try it.
ALL AMONGST THE LEAVES SO GREEN, 0!
In the forest here hard by,
A bold rubber late was I,
With my blunderbuss in hand,
When I bid a trav'ler stand ;
Zoundis, deliver up your cash,
Or your nuddle I shall slash
All amongst the leaves so green, 0!
Damn me sir, If yon stir,
Sluice your veins, Blow your brains!*
Hey dovin, ho down, derry, derry ilown,
All amongeit the leaves so green, 0!
Soon I'll quit the toving trade
When a gentleman I'm made;
Tleen so spruce and dehonnair,
Gad! I'll court a tedy fair.
How I'll prattle, tatte, chat,
How I'll kiss her and all that,
All amnngst the leaves so green, 0!
How d'ye do? low tire you?
Why so coy? Let us toy;
Hey down, ho down &c.
But e'er old and gray my pate,
I'll scrape np a snug estate;
With my nimbleness of thumbs
I'll soon butter all my crumbs;
When I'm justice of the peace,
Then I'll master many a lease;
All amongst the leaves so green, Oh!
Wig profound, Belly round,
Sit at ease, Snatch the fees
Hey down, ho down,-derry, derry down,
All amongst the leaves so green, 0!
* Here (and at the same point in the other verses) the
singer can pause a moment and make just such quiical
remarks and motions as hisa taste suggests.
gg Mir. STEinEN PLEA'SANTON, fifth Auditcr of
the Treasury, and Senor EaurE MLi.NA, ltlinister
fur the Republics of Costa Rica and Guatemala, slied
in the city of Washington a few days sitice.
Foai THtE ADvEatTlsElt.
AJOTHER CHANCE FOR mISS ITTY 0.
I AM a word uof letters five,
Sly 5th, 3rd, 4th and 5th no lotnger live,
Sly 2nd, 3d and 5th express
The gaudly hue of shawl or dress;
.My 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th you take,
To ornatment your snowy neck.
Mly 5th, 3rd, 4th and 2nd express,
A feeling which pirompts a tender cares
Mly 3d, 4th and 2ntd comibined,.
On cornstalks or cattle you'll find.
hiy lnt, 3d, 4th and 2nd you'll meet,
In Lap!and snows, or Poland's sleet;
Sly 1st, 4th and 5th are understood,
To menir, averse te-ull that's good;
Mly 1st, 4th, 2nd and 5th will declare
Thatt fanme fur which you promise fair.
Mvy whole is a staff so needful to life,
That without it, you'll make a v:ery poor wvife.
If you'll (in verse) unriddle this,
1 protnise you-on sight-a-a-.
K * *
THE Dnbilin Freematn's Journatl rematrkt after
a review of all the facts of' the recent nuegotiat
tiontts in Vientna:
"It is probable that Prince Gorts-ebaktuff, aid
ed by Prussia, wtill demantd ain imtmed.iate sus
penion of hostilities. To carry ott war while
the negotiators are pursuing peace wvould be
cld-Uhooded, costly, and uncehris'tian! 'rThe sutg
gestion is platusible, anid herein the Western
lowers mtust proceed with extreme caution, for
the erisis is at hand. The neceptatnce of the
guarntee will not entitle the Czar to withdratw
the Allied armies from the forlress which hte
is so anxioua to save. To stay hostilities he
will be invited to afford the ulterior ftiuaranttees
which are itndispensable to the future security
of Europa.
THIE leading English journals et mphain bit
terly of the cost of the war. The London
Times gives the total expenises for twelve
months at eighty millionq of~ dollars. For the
preset year, the expenditure will be suill greater,
utless peace shatll be declatred. 'lThe catlculaition
is that at least one hundred millions will be
necessary, and with the be-st view of the sub
ject, at least fifty millions of dollars must be
raised annually, as long as the war maiy last,
either by an :ippeal to the motney market, or by
doubliig the rates upon the tax payers.
THE RusmN~ SEavtCE.-.Every recruit whto
is drafted itnto the Russiatn military service is
obliged to paiy two roubles, or about at dollar
and a hltfl towards a fund for retired soldiers
and invalids. This fund is distributed in grait
ities of from twenty to twenty-five rouble's
each to atid soldiers nnd invalids, upon their
withdrawal from service. Besides this, those
who by the exhatustation of their health duringd
military service ari rendered unable to provide
for their own subsisltnce, arc entitled to an an.
nual pension from government oh nine roubles
for the subalterns,ad six for the privates. To)
such of those disabled ones as with to s.et up im
business, the Statte allows by way of aid and
encouragement, gratuities of forty or fifty rou
bles, and they ares furntished by the "communes"
which they inhabit with land to cultivate and
wood to build a house with.~
"WoULD'-r SHAVE COLORED FoL's."-Fred
erick Douglass delivered one of his lectures
last week, in EiddefordrMe., and the morning
afterwards stepped, into the barber's shop of a
Mr. Bunker, an Ethiopean, with a slight Euro
pean alloy in his blood, who absolutely refused
to shave him as~ it was against thu rules of the
establishment to shave colored gentlemen. Fred,
left in a very wrathful mood.
ENGL AND, it is oficially stated, has one hun
dred and forty-t wo vessels of war, prnpel~e I by
steam power, nuoat and in commission ai.d one
hundred and four sailing ships-total, two hun.
red annd fortyx
THE TESTIMONY OF AN EMKY.
WE extract from the Kansas Herald the fol
lowing remarks of Mr. . H. Howe, the leader
of an emigrant aid band that left Cleveland for
Kansas on the 28d of October last. Although
his exploration of the country was made at arn
unpropitious season of the year, his observations
have extorted from him the following testimony
as to the peculiar adaptation of the territory to
slave labor. Such a confession is not without
its significance. It should induce a free emigra
tion of slaveholders from the Southern States,
for not only are their principles, as Southern
men, involved in the settlement of this question,
but their interests, as individual, as agriculturists,
as capitalists. are also dependent upon the intro
duction of slavery into Kansas. Let us hope
that these views of an opponent of slavery, and
of an agent, of the system of forced emigration,
will not be without their effect in producing such
a consummation. The letter from which the
following extract is taken, bears date " Steamer
on missouri Rivor, (down,) November 19th,
1854."
- I made a very thorough xploration of the
quntry. It is one of vast and almost unbroken
prairie, almost destitute of timber-but the soil
is of the richest character. Water abundant,
and plenty of stone, with some evidence of coal.
" Time and money will enable men of the right
stamp to possess these lands, subdue and cultisate
them, and concert the countryinto a very garden-a
farming paradise. Men without means can do
nothing there at present. THE COUNT S is EMi
NENTLY ADAPTED TO SLAVE LABOR. WEATHY
SLAVEHuLDERS CAN GO THERE wITH PLENTY OF
-HELP" AND MEANS. AND MAKE MONEY, SUBDUING
AND CULTIVATING THESE LANDS. .
- They will do so-and despite all efforts yet
miking or means yet adopted by the frce States
to prevent it, KANSAS 18 SURE TO BECOME A
SLAVE STATE!
.Emigrant ArD Companies (as they are term.
ed) are doing very little indeed to accomplish
their object. They have encouraged hundreds
of pour well-meaniing and honest people to leave
their homer and rush into the Territory without
means to sustain themselves there, who must
suffer everything but death, and many of them
that, if they remain-gr leave the country, and
go where they can provide for their fitmiles."
A DUEL ; THE QUAKER CITY.-On Thurs
day afterno n, one of those ridiculous exhibi
tions styled, satirically, "a hostile meeting,"
took place between two young men of this city,
one a boarder at Jooe,' Hotel, and the o.her a
sojiaurner at the United States. We suppress
the name out of pity for the parties. The two
young geitlemen had a quarrel on Thursday
m'n.ring, in the course of which one of the
parties ea.led the other a "coward." Hereupon
the gentleman to whom the epithet was applied
felt ca.led upon to scnd a chal:eng i to " pistol
and cuffee." The challenge was accepted, and a
meeting was arraiged to take place somewhere
inl the vicinity of Girard College. But this was
considered dangerous ground, and the scene was
chaiged to a grove near Camden.
The seconds had resolved to treat the affair
as a joke, and the pistok were loaded according
ly, without any missile that could create a call
for tlesurgevon. The belligerants were escort
ed to the ground before meitioned, and the or
dinary preparations made for the fight, In the
meap1jime, tle young gentiemen who had appli
ed the epithet of coward, began to think the
afluir had gtn... jiit -fr enough, and, Acres-like
w.1s indi.-posed to " face the music." He was
seized n ith a .,hiver, and his courage left hiu at
every p"re. But the tremendoius words " one,"
-'two," were spoken; " three" was about to be
pronoiunced; when our trembling friend dropped
the pistol aid took to his heels. He never
stopped until he was safe on board the ferry
boat, and under thei protectiotn of the captain.
Philadelphia North A merican, Jail. 27.
4i
CHICAcO, Jan. 31-ThA condition of the rail
roads souil anit west from this place ias become
quite desperate by reason of the snow. We
have had no cuttmunicati''n with St. Louis or
Springfield for eleven days. There are seven
teent locomotive., frozen inl or buried up heneath
the snow on the Chicago atid Mississippi Road.
To-day was the d1ay fixed upon by tihe State
Legislature for the election of a United States
Setnator, but there was no quoruni present in
thme joint cotnventiomn of the two hottses. A great
effort will be made to-mborrow to secure a quo.
rum atnd wuake an election without tue absen
tees.
FIGHT BETWEEN A MlAN AND A FLoCK oF
LooNs.-''The other day a younig m.ai n m Del
ware county. Pa., seei..g a large flo.ck of' li'ons
in a marsh. struck otne with a stone antd so
wouttded it that, he caughtt it. The bird made
a screech, antd tall the Ilock camne Lu the re.,cne,
picked himw on the h.ee and other parts of~ the
bo~dy with their abarp bills to auci a degree a
ntearly to over power himt. 'He called lusily fo'r
help, attd after assistatice had arrived, the b~irds
were drivena otf.
H-os.--The Louisville Cottrier, of Tuesday
gives 280J,454 as the whole ntumber of ao'ys
killed durtig this beason, which comipared with
the tnumber killed last seasuon (407,i013) shows
a fallitng uhf of 126,556 htogs.
A CUious sect, of religiotnists h.-s arisen in
Englatnd called the Disciples. They believe
that Christ, will appear itt 1864; that the Ruta
sians wi triumph over the Turns. tand the Jews
will become a natiotn ini the holy land. A bra.
hamo, lsanie, Jacob and the rest of the righteous
Jews, of old, with the few elect amotng Chris
taitns, will rise fromt the dead and live forever in
Palestitne ; but the hcleate and the wicked Jews
and Christans will sleep eternally.
THE CASE OF LIEUT. tIUNTE.-It la said that
the Secretary of the Navy has dismissed Lieut.
Hunter, of Atvarado celebrity, for having left,
with :he Brig B~ainibridge, thle Brazil Sqttadroni,
withtout pertusion. It ap~pears that he was
anxious tu take a part, in tile qutarrel between
the President of Paraguay andt Coinsul Hlop
kilts. and his brother. T'o this, his comtmantd
ing otficer objected, whtereuon the Lieutenatt
hoisted sail and came hotue.
ContaoPoRE PER RY, it is said, will present to
Cotngresa a c laitm for diplomatic services in the
negoit:utiun of the treaty with Japan, and for ex
penditures itncurred in ime objects of the mission
abiout equal to the amotunt which would have
beeni paid to a full mtitilter for the time duritng
which lie tns beent employed.
FItnDA RALtaoADS.-Tlhe Florida Senttitnel,
speaking of the bill whicht lately passed the
General Assembly of that State for the con.
strucsiun of' railroaids, says that it looks very
wedl upont p. per, but that it is difficult to be
liete that they will ever be built. To which the
Advertiser assenlts.
SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.--An article in
the Galveston Contninereial, snows the Iicrease
in southyirn blantufactures. It appears that in
the douthern States the coanstumption of cotton
for the last fo~ur years, was as follows: 1851,
tid,000 b.dles ; 1802,'75,00; 1853, 90,000; 1854,
105,tiU0. Th'ie facts mu~t, be gratifyinig to eve
ry trienid to the prosperity and commercial inide
pendtence of the South.
FREIGHTS at New York still continue very de
pressed. Many of the finest vessels are lying
up waitinmg for better limes, the present rates,
beinig often pot mnore thant suiienit to pay the
aictual sailing expenses.
AN HONORABLE MERCHANT.-A gentlemen
(says the Albatny Register) who was four years
aigo extensively engaged in business in that, city
failed for about 8150,000. lis creditors unanti
mouSly agreed to compound with him for fifty
cents on a dollar, which they realized. He af
terwards Went to California and got into a profi
table business, atnd sincee that time has remitted
to his creditors $60,000 of the $75,000 he
owed them. He will no doubt soon pay the
$15.000 now due them, and then be "all right"
again.
Valentines!.
rp lIEg Subscriber has ordered and will receive in a
..few days, a large and varied assortment of Val
n tines. G. L. PENN, A gent.
Fhb7 tf 4
ABRIVAL O TmE AFUCA AT BOSTON.
FURTHER EUROPEAN INTELLIGE NCE.
- BOSTON, Feb. 1, 1855.
The British Mail Steamship " Africa" arrived
at this port to-day.
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.-Tfie London
Times gives an awful picture of the condition of
the English troops in the Crimea, and says that
only 14,000 infantry are fit forduy, ana that the
other troops are reduced in the same proportion.
It thinks that the army will be annihilated un
less an unexpected stroke of fortune intervene.
The French Riflemen had obtained possession
of an important post near Balaklava, having
driven the Russians back with heavy loss.
A dispatch from Odessa of the 6th ult. says
that, a frost fiad put the roads in a condition for
the transportation of Rushian reinforcements to
Perekop.
The wounded allies Were dyingso fast in the
Hospital at Scutari, that it was found necesisary
to transport the invalids to Malta or England.
The Boulogne Gazeute says tnat much doubt
is expressed in Berlin of the agreement of Rus.
sia and Austria relative to the freedom of the
Danube and the protectorate of the -Principali
ties.
The rumored changes In the English Cabinet
had been denied.
The Emperor of Austria had 'informed the
Hungarian Provinces that the Germanic army
had not been mobiliael, and that the death pen
alty hits been abolished in the army.
The Paris Bourse declined 2-3 on the receipt
of the latest advices from the East.
Advices from St. Peter-burg to the 11th ult.,
state that a pacific tone prevailed in political
circles.
Fnoii CHrNA.-Advices from Shanghia to the
25th of November, state that Sir John Bowring
had attempted to reach Pekin, but was preven
ted so doing by command of the Emperor.
In Canton, the trade in silks was brisk.
FRoM THE EAST IDIES.-Advices from Cal
cutta to the 13ta of December, state that the
army of Nepaulez was mariting across the Eng
lish territory, to attack the Grand Lama.
EANSAS MEE1ING.
According to previous no tice, a meeting of the
citizens of Ray county, 31o., was held at the C.
House on Monday, the Ist January, 1855, which,
on motion of Colonel Ewing. was organized by
the appointment of Judge 3r.anstetter as Chair
man, and H. J. Coier, as Secretary.
The objects of the meeting being made known,
a committee consisting of Dr. Chew, Colonel E.
B. Ewing, Colonel B. F. Smith, I aptain James
A]. Gant, John Stone E-q., Judge George W.
Dunn, and Judge Eli (:arter, was appointed to
present reaolutions for the consideration of the
meeing.
During the absence of the committee H. L
Routt Esq., of Liberty, was introducedr to the
meeting and addressed it, at length, presenting
forcibly and clearly the designs, and systematie
efflorts of abolitionists and their allies in reher
enee to slavery and slave properly inl the iTerri
tory of Kansas; their ulterior aim to affect and
overthrow it, in the slave holding States; how
the interests of Missouri were involved, and con
eluded by urging the adoption of all justifiable
measures, to counteract the aggressive move
ments of the northern fanatis.
\Vhen Mt r. Routt concluded, the following pre
amble and resolutions were submitted by the
committee, and unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, a spirit of hostility to the Southern
States, and especially to the institution of slave
ry as it exists in those States, has become so
pervading and intensified in many of the North
ern and Northeastern States as to threaten, if it
has not already caused, a disrupture of old party
organization. and to unite the opponents of sla
very of all classes and grades in a concentrated
effort throughout the non-slaveholding States to
organize in their stead a great Northern Aboli
tion party, under the captivating cognomen of
Republican, whose every principle is at war with
the constitutional rights and domestic institutions
of the Sonthern and slaveholding States; and,
whereas, inl thus abjuring all allegi-mtte to and
severing the ties which hitherto united them un
der other auspices, and reconstructing around
ratnk abolitionism as the nucleus, a great seltotn
al party, an exposition of whose creed is foun~d
itn its avowal to restore thte Alissouri restriction
to the T erritories of Kansas and Nebraska. the
atbrogation of the fugitive slave law, the restrie
tion of slavery by Congress, to the States in
which it exists, opptosition to the admission of
any more slave States; oppositi-n to 1he acqui
of any more territory, except upon the conuditionu
that slavery shall be forever prohtibited therein
we see an aggressive movemettt, which shtould
be met in a spirit, by citizens of'the slaveholdttmg
States overlooking all the minor obhtgatiots of
mere party tidelity ; antd, whereas, the e'natnmet
by Congress, at its last session, of laws for the
organization of the TIerrittories of Kantsas antd
Nebraska, etnbodyintg thte grea t principle of poptt
lar sovereignty and thte right tof self-governmtntt
-a prittciple enutteinttedl and maitained by our
fathters in their separation frotm Great Britain
defeated Ite purposes tuf Abtolitionism, as they
were soughtt to be accomplished by legislat ion;
atnd, whereas, a general and conceerted movemenet
has been, atnd is ni.w bei.,g made, by A bolitioni
ists and their alties,in tlte Northern and Northeast
ertt Statesi, by means of emigrating aid-societies
-rendered etfieient attd potet by money and all
the appliances that a fatnatical zeal ennt employ
to pervert antd thwart thte ttatural attd legitimate
operatittn of tite prittciples of the Kattsas law,
by shipping to that Territory hundreds and thton
sands of mercenaries, picked up from the purli
eus of Northterni cities to vote for the exclusion
of slavery froum the Territory, and thtts oiver
power by force of tutmbers ar, the ballot-box,
those who are attracted thither from altssouri
and other St .tes by the ordintary ttnd propter int
d uermuents to emnigrationt-thlerefore.
Resolcred, That we regard the course of Abo
litionists antd Freesoilers in reference to the Ter
ritory of Kansas as at lawless cru.eade against
the institution of slavery as it now exists ttere;
and that their ulterior object is to overturn the
instiltution of slavery itt all the shaveholding
States. We, therefore pledge ourselves to de
fetd the instittution of slavery, not ottly in Mlis
son, bttt in Kattsas, and everywhere else whtere
A bolitionists and their etutissaries are at work;
attd we will, by all lawful atnd proiper means, aid
nd assist the citizens of' Kansas in resisting all
A bolition ittfluences antd acts in the Territory.
Resolred, That the meeting approves of the
tall for a general conventtion to be held at Liber
ty tin the 8th instat, and that thte chtair appoit
ifty delegates to attend said convention.
DESTttUCTIvE FtRE AT GAISEsviI.E ALA.
The .LIittgstotn, Ala., Democrat of the g7dh inst.
says:
We regret, very mucha, to learn of thte des
truction of a large portiont of te town of Gaitn
esville by fire, Ott the 23d inst. We have only
verbal itntelligettce of~ this disaster up to) the
Lume of our gointg to press, atnd we wait, with
impatiece', tule arrival of the idependent n itt
ftal partteulars. We ntear that about thirty
buildntgs, ittcludittg huntdred balhes oh cotton.
Thew loss is estimated at, some S250),000.
CisctssATt, Jatnuary 30, 1655.
The river is hull oif ice attd navigation entirely
sspended. At Alount Pleasattt, itt tis court,,
aout titfty womett attacked a tavern and des
tryed a large quantity of liquor tsehttgmg to
tte keeper. After demoulishintg the ltquor, casks,
&., they drtagged tile ownter turough the tiqutr,
wicht stood six ittches ott thte floor. Warrents
were isaued against abtout twetnty of the parties,
but the officers retturned this alternooni and re
ported itability to serve the girucesses. '1Tey
o back to-ttight with re.inforcemtents.
"I he weather continues extrutmely cold.
NEW ENGLANPt RUM FOR SEBAsToroL.-The
iddlesex (Mass.) .Journal says:
" We learn from good authority that Trull
Brothers, distillers, are now engaged in fillitng
orders for this " ntative juice" to go to the Cri
teat. They get 45 eents per gallon, and htoast
of making twelve hundred dollars a week.
Think of that, in these hard times."
THE TIMtEs.-The London Times contitnues
its Serce attacks on the A berdeen ministry, and
it publishes an indignant article on the heartless
reeption given at Pot tsmouth to the wounded
solcters who have returtted fro6m the Crimea,
tee unfortutnate men h..ving beeni detained for
hours shivering in thte cold, while the custom
houo officrs were eramining their bagagne.
HYMENIAL.z
MARRIED, on Thursday the 1st Feb., by Wm. H.
Atkinson, Esq., Mr. Jonx G. Assorr, of Spartan
burg District, to Miss HAasniT, eldest daughter of
John J. McCullough, Esq., of this I illage.
W Spartanburg papers please Copy.
S1ialn', on the 24th Jan. by Rev. D. D. Brun
son, Dr. S. T. BRUNSoN and Miss NANCr, daughttr
of the late Evan Morgan, of this District. .
MARRIED, on Thursday rvening the 25th nIt., by
the Rev. Wesley Werts, Mr. Lorr Jansss and
Mrs. MART Dozara, daughtei of B. C. Matthews,
all of Edgefield District.
0 BIT U ARY.
Dom, in this District. on the29th January 1855,
CARRIE LUCIA, only daughter of Je* F. and
MARTHA R.TAL5ER1sT, aged oneyearand five mitms.
When mourning that death and the tomb,
lath taken our loved one ,away,
'Tio Hope that disperses oar gloom
And points to Eternity's day.
J. F..T.
Din, in Ninety-Six, January 23M, 3855; at the
residence of her son.in-)aw, (N. W. Stewart,). of
Pneumonia, Mrs. M ARY JOHNSON, reliet of the
late JonDATIHAN .1ouuisoN, dee'd., in the 65th year of
her age. -She was a member of the Baptist Church.
at Siloam. The deceased was a native of Edgefield
Distriet,'until the year 1845, at which time she re
moved to Abbeville District, and remained there
until her death. J. W. F.
Subscription Receipts,
The following persons have paid up to the time
affixed to their names;
James M. Briggs, to ot Dee '.1'5.
Rev. S. P. Getzei, to 8th Feb'50.
G. C. Maysan, to 7th Oct '55.
John M. Norris. to 20th Nov '55,
Elbert Mandy. to 7th Aug '55.
James B. Griffin, to 8th l-eb.'55.
Jarrott Noble, to 8th Jan '56.
G. C. Noble. to 8th .lan 56.
Dr. W. B. Vallard, 6th Dec'55.
W. W. Perryman, to 6th Dec '55.
Benj. B. Omsts. to 15th Feb '55.
J. R. Hill, to 13th Dee '55.
Eugene Burt. to 28th Nov '55.
J. B. Newman, to 6th Feb'55. -
J. D. Tibbetts, to 1st Jan '55.
Sam. Singleton, to 1st May '55.
Capt. W. G. Coleman. to 21st Feb'55.
Mrs. S. 11. Gallman, to 26th Oct '55.
Mrs. M. A. Crafton. to 20th Feb '55.
Joshua Duncan, to Ist Sept '55.
Win. Culbreath. to 13th Mar '55.
A. T. Coleman, to 3d Nov '54.
J. T. Still, to 20th Dec '55.
J. B. Holmes, to 13th April'55.
Wm. Watkins, to 25th Aug '55.
Capt. H. Boulware, to 4th March ?55.
Rev. J. S Stoeldale, to 15th Jan '55.
J. E. Buckhalter, to 29th June '55.
Evan Roibertson, to 5th Feb. '57.
Wiley Culbreath. to 12th Oct '55.
Franklin Outs, to 27th Dee '55.
COl. John Qua:lebum, to 8th Feb '55.
Thomas Jones, to 3d Jan '56.
Alex. Sharpton, Sr., to January '56.
R. C. Martin. to 1st Oct '55.
Col. H. B. Elder, to 7th .tlay '55.
Dr. J E. Lewis, to 8th Feb '56.
W. & J. ill, to 27th Feb'55.
B. W. Chrivtiain. to 27th Dee '55.
.1.hn L. Griffin, to 20th Dec '55.'
Miss Mary F. Williams, to 6th Feb '55.
Win. Johnson, to Ist Jan '56.
T. J. llamilton. to 2.1 Jan '56.
.1. A. Houston. to 7th Feb '55.
5T. 11. Trent. to 20th July '55.
Sam. Clark, to 8th Feb '55.
John COlgan. to 1Oth March '55.
.ohn Coghurn. Esq , to 8th Aug '56.
Mrs. S. Richardson. to lit Aug '55.
David Richardson, to 19th Oct '55.
J. II. Hollingsworth, to 17th Jan '56.
J. L. Talbert, to 10th Jan '56.
Dr. 11. R. Cook, to 9th Oct '55.
J. C. Barrenton, to 18th March '55.
Slinick Mitcheli, to ist June '55.
Joseph Crafton, to 7th Nov '55.
Nathan Riley, to 25th D~ee '55.
A llen Little, to 17th Auog '55..
T11. A. Barnes, to 3d.Jan '56.
Chesley, A ttaway, to liee 20. '55..
.James A ttaway, to 5th Feb '56.
Col. .J. F. Talbert, to 16th Oct '55.
W. 13. Dorn, Euq., to 8th Feb '56.
Butler Williams, to 29th .lan '56.
C. Lowrey. to 1st Oct '55.
Rl. Walker, to 25th De-c '55.
laj. A . G. Nagle, to 27th Nov '54.
Jlas. Warren, to 27th .June '54.
Lewis Minor, to 30th Nov '55.
Religious Notice.
Tus next Ministera' attd Deacons' Conference of
the Second Division of the Edgefieldl Baptist Asso
eiation. will -neet at Goodhope Church, on Fri
day before the fifth Sabbath in A pril next, to meet
at 10 o'clock, A. M. Elder JAMEs F. Parasot to2
prea'-hithe Introductory Sermon. Elder Jouxn
TRAPr. AlIternate.
Subject for discussion.-Should those Members
who fail to c-ntribute anything towards the expen
ces of the Chmurch he subjects of discipline ?
Elder J. M. CunLKS to write an essay on the im
portance of Church, a meeting every Sabbath at the
the regular places of worship.'
Eld.-r Jlout TAIr to write an essay on the in
portance of Churches enforcin~g the discipline of the
New Testament.
The subject on the importance of Sunday Schools
in Churches, continued from last Conference.
J. W. COLEMAN, MODERATvO.
RloaT. BRAN, 2r., Clerk.
MR. EDIToa: Please announce Capt. H. JIOUL
W A RE, as a Candidate foar Ordinary of this District,
at the ensuing election, and oblige
MANY VOTERS.
February 7. 1855.
Masonic Notice,
A R EGUL AR Communication of
a No. 50, A . F M., will be held in
-"their Hall on Saturday etening, 17th
inst., at 71 o'clook.
By order of the W. hi.
A. G. TEAGUE, See'y.
Feb7 2t 4
Improved Cotton Gins.
MR. WYNEwill exhibit one of his Improved
PR~UM GINS. on the Public Square, at
Edgefield C. 1I., during Court week..
Feb 7 2: 4
Glenn Springs,
rPHIIE Subseri ber begs leave to inform the public
I that the above pleasant WATERING PLACE
will be re-opened for the reception or company on
the lst of A pril next, under the management of Mr.
J. C. .JANNEY, late of " Janey's THotel," Ce
umbia. S. C. The buildings are no'w in thorough
repair, and before A pril next they will also be hand
sonmely furnished.
The advantages of GLENN SPRINGS, as a
Watering Place, and the reputation of Mr. Janney,
as a Hotel keeper, are such as to require no further
nohice. T. S. ARTHUR, Proprietor.
Feb 7 3m -4
Sadille & Harness Manufactory
T H E Undersigned takes pieasure in announcing
to the citizens of 'Edgefield Village, and sur
rounding country, that he has secured the Room
recently known as the Post Office, for the purpose
of carrying on the SADDLE AND HARNESS
BUSINESS in all its various branches, and hopes,
by giving strict attention to all work entrusted to his
are, to receive a liberal share of patronage.
Saddles, Bridles, Trapping & Narness,
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
Will be made to order, in the latest and most im
proved styles, and out of the best material that can
be procured.
REPAIRING neatly and promptly executed.'
LT As my Terms are CASH, of course my
charges will he far more reasonable than customary
in this vicinity. Give me a trial, and satisfy your
selves.REUBEN G. GOLDING.
Fc 7 if 4