Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Prom Mexico. NEW CHILEANS, LA., November IG.-The Brownsville Mexican Republican, of the 7th instant, announces the capture of Monte? rey by the Liberals. It also says that no re? inforcements hare arrived at Brownsville The Liberals claim that they can take Mata moras when they please. The Galveston Bulletin says that Captain Sinclair, of the Liberal service, formerly a Lieutenant of the privateer Alabama, cap? tured an Imperial transport North of the Bio Grande, brought her to Brownsville and turned her over to the Federal autho? rities. Merchants who left Matamoras on the 7th, say that there aro no fears of the place being captured. Later from Kingston. NEW YOUK, November 17.-The steamer Montezuma, from Kingston, Jamrica, on tho 6th, has arrived. Maj. Gen. O'Connor had command of the British troops and vo? lunteers, by request of the Governor. Seve? ral arrests have been made at Kingston. Advices from Port Morant, of the 20th, report several rebels condemned to death., including Gordon, the leader, aud thc com? plete crushing of the rebellion The entire line of thc road from Long Bar to Mon chioncal Bay-a distance of eight roi les-is so strewn with dead bodies as to render the road impassable. Two Spanish war-steam? ers arrived on thc 21st from Havana, and wore placed at thc disposal of the autho? rities. \ Tile Fenian Excitement in Canada. BUEF.VLO, November 15.-An order was received at Toron ti >, on Saturday, by Col. Dennison, from the Adjutant-General', to select from Ids battalion a captain, two subalterns, and a company ofsixty-fiVe men, for service on the frontier. A similar order was received at Hamilton on Monday. It is understood that nine full companies will ba sent to different points on the frontier. TORONTO, November IC.-The Fenian campaign i's opened. Intense excitement prevailed yesterday. The Government placed troops at the disposal of the Mayor, and informed him of a probable carly at? tack on the city, with instructions to take as many prisoners as possible. On Tues? day night. Col. Lowrey s house waVpelted with brickbats. The Toronto Reader, of to-day, states that on the previous evening not less than one hundred and fifty men, belonging to the 47th Regimen*., were placed under arms and iu full marching trim. A patrol of twenty men was detailed for duty on the streets of thc city. The military police force was also doubled and the horses of the Royal Artillery were actually harnessed and held in readiness for the first warning blast of the trumpet. Thc whole of the police force was also ordered on duty, in expectation of an unusual disturbance of some kind or other. A large number of the hanks and other public and private buildings were guarded, anil almost everything wore a warlike ap? pearance. The attack is nightly looked for. Many discharged American soldiers arc in thc city. ENGLISH IMPERTINENCE-REP TBLICAN CONGRESSMEN'S CAUCUS IN NEW YORK. Her Majesty's Government had bet? ter instruct her detectives to be u lit? tle more cautious in their arrests of American citizens, on the arrival of the New York steamers, on charges of Fenianism, else it will get into trou? ble sooner than it anticipates. The City of Washington, from Liverpool to-day. on her last trip out, was sub? jected to annoyances of the most un? justifiable character, and snell of the passengers as felt themselves aggriev? ed at the rough "right of search" to which they were subjected, lost no time in representing the case to the United States Consul at Liverpool, who, in tura, acquainted the Ameri? can Minister with the facts. What action Mr. Adams deemed it judicious to pursue in the premises, of course, is not yet known ; but the rumor is, to-day, that a bearer of important despatches from him, to Washington, came on in the steamer, and will pro? ceed to the scut of Government this evening. The Fenians, to-day, are nniking much of these facts und sur? mises, eui the principle that every new complication between the two countries is just so much added to their capital stock. Tlie result of the informal caucus of the Republican Congressmen und politicians at the Astor House on Saturday night, is not even so much as hinted at in the journals ; und there? fore it is news to state that all hands, after much discussion, pledged them? selves to the policy of excluding every Southern applicant for a seat in Con? gress that cannot take the test oath in such eases made and provided. Go? vernor Fenton is said to have suggest? ed, as a solution of the difficulty, that Congress organize without the South? ern members, then, if deemed expe? dient, proceed at once to so modify the test oath as to enable the appli? cants to take their seats with a clear conscience ; but the meeting clearly was rot prepared > go that length, rather preferring for the present to back up Clerk McPherson in omitting Dixie from the roll call, and trusting to subsequent events for their admis? sion on conditions that will be accept? able.-.V. T.\Cor. Phil Ledger, Utk. Lieut. Gen. (bant has reduced the volunteer strength of the army, until it docs not now number 60,000 men. The regular army is nominally over 40,000 strong. Synod ot South Carolina. STTMTJO?, S. C., November 12.-The Synod of South Carolina mfet on 'We???twjft'V l?*it, a* tho "Brick Chiyroh. Salem, Sumter District, and after a most interesting and harmonious ses? sion, adjourned yes* /day afternoon. Rev. J. L. Girardeau, of your city, presid-ed, and, as Moderator, gave great satisfaction; Rev. Mr. Long, of this District, was the clerk. There is perhaps no ecclesiastical body in the State more distinguished for learning, pic and influence. lue Theological Seminary at Co? lumbia was the creation of the Synods of South Carolina and Georgia, but is now under the control of the South? ern Assembly. It is an institution greatly endeared to the Presbyterian Church, consecrated as it has been by the noble labors of such men as Drs. Leland, Thornwcll, Howe. Palmer and others, and having eighty-four of its graduates laboring in this State, and numbers of others scattered every where. The war has thrown a dark shadow over its sacred halls, divesting it of its endowment and leaving noth? ing but the buildings, library and an indomitable corps of professors. Its interests were represented on tho floor of Synod by Rev. Dr. HOAVO, whose name must live intertwined in proud associations with every page of its past history. His avowal that the professors were at their posts and ready to go em with their work irre? spective of salary, asking only food and raiment, met with a sympathetic response from the entire Synod, and it was determined that the institution should be sustained, and committees were appointed of two members in each Presbytery to bring the matter jefore the churches. Committee for Harmony Presbytery, Rev. Messrs. McQueen and Long. A plan was adopted for obtaining an immediate supply of suitable Sun? day School and other r?digions litera? ture for thc various congregations and schools under the care o? Synod. A paper was unanimously adopted in favor of continuing and preserving the integrity of the Southern Church and General Assembly as at present constituted. This document is ably written, and when published will be found to be remarkable for thc mild? ness of its tone and firmness of its decision. The General Assembly meets in Macon, Ga., on the 14th of next month, and will decide this whole matter. By the way, thc suggestion was made on the cars by some mem? ber of Synod, that the Southern Church adopt hereafter the name ol "the Free Church," (a la the Free Church of Scotland ?) and thc propo? sition met with the hearty approval ol all present, as affording a platform or which ninny of their conservative, Norther.! brethren could stand. Previous to the President's appoint ment of the 7th December as a day o: thanksgiving, several of thc Presb? tcries had fixed upon the 8th Decent ber as a day of fasting, humiliatioi and prayer. The Synod wisely con sidered that it would not be in goo( taste to allow this arrangement t< continue, and accordingly appointe* the loth of December as the day t< be observ?e, by the Presbyterian throughout the State as a fast day. Arrangements have been made fo the re-appearance ' of the utlicr, Presbyterian early next month. I will be published in Columbia am edited by Professor Woodrow, assist ed by a number of able contributors The Presbyterian Review will also b shortly resumed. Rev. Dr. Thomas Smyth, of you city, was by no means the least note? or notable member of the Synod pri sent. Venerable in years and ripe i Christian experience, he stands upo the scene like another Elijah, wnos saered mission is well nigh accon plished, and who waits for the mt ment to cast off mantle and staff, an step into the chariot which bears tb faithful Prophet of the Cross to hi eternal reward. The next annual meeting of Syno will be held at the Ebenezer Churcl York District. The late meeting Wi an exceedingly pleasant one. TL Brick Church is in the bosom of most hospitable and refined neighbo hood, and long enjoyed the pastor labors of the noble and lamente Gregg. Its magnificent oaks ca their ample shade over tho graves < deported generations, who lived i happii 'X days. [Cor. Cliarleston Courier. A despatch to the Cincinnati G eetle, dated Springfield, 111., says th Judges Davies and Treat have filed decision in case of the United Stat vs. one thousand bales of cotto: claimed by parties in New Orlean Cincinnati and Havre, dismissing s the claims on tao ground of the inc pacity of the claimants to make pu chases in insurrectionary districts. McPherson, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, has now distinctly announced his" pnrpose not to enter upon the roll the name of any member from any of the States lately "in re? bellion," until the House organizes and admits them. The present indi? cations are clear, and, we fear, un? mistakable, that the House will sus? tain the clerk, not only in denying our Representatives any voice in their organization, but in excluding them from the floor of Congress during the entire session, and as much longer as they can. The propriety of such a policy, both as regards right and expediency, has already been thoroughly argued and discussed ; any further discussion of it now would be tiresome and vain. "We merely wish to wara our people to nerve themselves for more cruel trials of their fortitude than they have yet endured ; to school themselves in tho exercise of patience and discre? tion. They will have need of both. If there are any among us who do not appreciate the difficulties in the face of which the President inaugurated, and has partially developed Iiis wiso and patriotic policy, they will have their eyes opened when they get their first new of Congress. We do not promise that they will see a cloven 1 foot, or a barbed tail, or will smell brimstone ; but they viii see every tiling else. I All that wc can do is to look on. We are powerless, except to injure ourselves. This we can do in almost any way in which wc choose to set about it. Indeed, so numerous ?ire the ways and means on hand, that about the only way in which we can be secure against harming ourselves is to remain entirely passive. Wo aro certainly helpless, but we do not be? lieve our situation is hopeless. Our people1 need'not stand idle, however, while awaiting the issues of (-vents they cannot control. It becomes them to employ their energies in tho only direction in which they eau be mad< available-towards the development and organization of our imnien.se in? dustrial resources.-Richmond Times. HORRIBLE CASE OFDESXIXT*TIOS ANI. DEATH.-The New York papers relat* the following. We wonder wher( Messrs. Beecher, Ghapin, Phillips ant other professional philanthropists uri on such occasions: Coroner Barrett was yesterday no titled that n woman was lying dead ii the basement of 32 Richardson street E. D., and on repairing to the plac? was horrified at the spectacle it pre sented. In one corner of the cob and unfurnished apartment the ema ciuced figure of a woman was lyinj cold in death. In an opposite come her husband was lying in a dyinj condition, and huddled together ii the middle of the room were thei four little ch?dren, the eldest on!; five years of age, presenting an ap pearance of the most abject destitu tion and suffering. It appeared 01 the inquest that the name of th family is Rufel, and that the deceased Catharine Rufel, died from destitu tion. Her husband has been sick fo the past two months, and being stranger in the land, having arrive from Germany within a recent period he knew of none to offer his litt! family a helping hand. Mrs. Ruft died between eleven and twelve o'cloc on Sunday last, and there were non present to help lier in her lust oxtri mity. Coroner Barrett directed Mi Rufel to be sent to the hospital : Flatbush, and notified the Snperintei dent of the Poor to take care of th children. JOHN VAN BrrES ANO Gov. Sr.: Morn.-Secretary Depew, of Xe York, wrote a lively report of a coi versation with John Yen Buren, i which the latter gentleman compl niented Horatio Seymour as a d fool. Mr. Yan Bun n has replied b letter. Speaking of Seymour, he say; "I will only add, that no perso understands better than Gov. Seymor the differences between him and nv self; but whatever they may luu been, they have never led me, 111 pul lie or private, to deny Iiis great inte ligence and Iiis singular personal an official purity." Among the powers which, besidi England and Turkey, have mai known their intention of taking pa in the conference for the purpose 1 studying means for preventing or r pressing the cholera, are Austri Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Ronu States, Bavaria. Saxony, Hanove Wurtemberg, the Hauseatic town Denmark. Sweden, Belgium, Hollnn Greece and Baden. Hogs have declined iii tile Wc: te portion of Indiana, on account of tl cheapness of corn, which eau 1 bought in fields, along,' the Waba Valley, at fifteen cents per basin-'.. Bishop Soiile, whose late appear? ance at a Methodist Episcopal Con? vention at Nashville excited so much interest, is the Senior Bishop of the Church South, und said to bc thc oldest Methodist Bishop in the world. He is a native of the little town of Avon, in Northern Maine, and a de? scendant from Puritan stock. His sympathies throughout the war have been on the side of the South. Bro? thers and sisters of the Bishop now reside in Maine. Late English newspapers bring us accounts of a new scheme for laying a wire across the Atlantic Ocean. The plan includes not only a new form of cable, but also a new direction for the line. It is proposed to lay first six hundred miles from London to Oporto, and if that works, to lay another line to the Western Islands, and a third from there to our continent. From Oporto to Azores, the line will be OOO sea miles long, and thence to Halifax 1,400 miles long. The English fashion of wearing the hair loose down the back has come into vogue in Broadway. Thc ladies also ornament the tops of the head with two gilt bands crossing over from ear to car. Heavy Balmoral skirts are worn everywhere. All the indies loop up their dresses for thc streets, be it rain or shine-a fashion which enables them to exhibit the high polished boots, adorned with tassels, which are getting to be the mode. Among the distinguished Southern men now in Washington are Albert Pike and Joseph Fagin, of Arkansas, late Brigadier ami Major-Generals in the C?ontoiler;ite service. Gen. Pike luis been pardoned. Gen. Fagin has been strongly recommended for } ar? don by Hie Union men of Arkansas, for Iiis humanity to Union prisoners and high toned conduct toward Union men while in the Confederate service. The agricultural report for Octobei is reported ns extremely favorable. The decrease in thc wheat crop is no1 so great, by fourteen millions o: bushels, as was estimated in August, Oats have increased 50,000,000 bush els, and hay more than 5,000,000 tons The yield of corn is also great greater than usual-since especially heavy crops of corn have been plant ed in the Southern States. The Jews, both in this country am Europe, have, for several years past been making great efforts to raisi subscriptions for the rebuilding of : temple at Jerusalem, permission ti that effect having been given by th Turkish Government. There is sublimity of purpose about the move meat which must claim the respec and sympathy of all Christendom. The Provost-General's Bureau die hard. A corporal's guard of clerk are engaged in settling up the affair of this once terrible branch of th Government. It is supposed tha Congress will abolish the bureau, am Gen. Fry will return to his rank a Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Ail jutant-GeneraL The amount of national currone issued to national banks Lust week wa something over three millions of dd lars, making the total amount now i circulation upward of two hundre and ten millions of dollars. This ii of course, independent of, as well ti additional to, the direct issues < paper currency by the Government. The Methodist Episcopal Churcl North, recently attempted to forcibl obtain possession of a Methodii Episcopal Church in Pike County Mo. The case came before a judge c that County, who decided in favor t the Northern party. An appeal wi taken to the Supreme Court of Mil souri, which reversed the decision. The Little Kock Gazette says tin receipts of cotton are liberal at th; place. About 2,000 bales were o hand and awaiting shipment oil tl: 25th ultimo. ''Howell Cobb & Janies Jacksoi attorneys at law, Athens, Georgia," a new firm not unknown to fain whose cards are in circulation i Washington city. Count Monthplon, the French M nister, denies that there is or has be? any unfriendliness between our G vernment and that which he repr seats. Advices by the steamer Belgian a nuance that the Bey of Tunis h granted a general amnesty to all pe sous implicated in the late revolutic in that country. In Eastern Florida, then; is a sen' ment favoring the dismemberment the State, und the annexation to tl Eastern and Southern portions (Georgia. The Wheeling Intelligencer says p iitical conspiracies are on fool b> coi passa re-union of Virginia and We Virginia. Mobile papers of the 11th instant report that the steamer Dnke -was burned on the Tombigbee River, -with 300 bales of cotton; also, that Gen. Duff Greer: cf Alabama died at Mo? bile on the 11th instant. The five per cent, one and two years' Treasury notes, falling due on and after the first prox., will be paid at the Treasury Department at matu? rity. James McHenry, of Liverpool, and Joshua Bates, of London, have do? nated $5,000 each to the United States Sanitary Commission. W. Drake Parsons, one of the founders of the New York Dnily^ News, and formerly a merchant in New Orleans, died on Monday. The mail earner between Raleigh and Fayetteville was murdered on Saturday, eight miles from the latter place, and the mail robbed. The Abolitionists of Kentucky are very indignant because the Px-esident declines to renew martial law in that State. Hon. Arthur F. Hopkins, a distin? guished jurist and public mon, of Alabama, died at Mobile, on the 0th instant. The Savannah (Ga.) papers an? nounce the Hon. Solomon Cohen, of that city, as a candidate for Congress from the Savannah district. The Audit i >r of Mississippi foots nj) I the probable iniebtedness of that State at $?/J79,32453rl00. Auction Sales. By A. E. Phillips. THIS (Tuesday) MORNING, a: ll o'clock, (weather peinnittiiig,) I will selb at my Auction Mart, iii Davis' Alley, near Hop son A Stitphen's saddlery store, ? extra prime beef Cattle and 1 prime young Stock Bull. Nov iii l By Darbee & Walter. WILL be sold, at our mari, THIS DAY. November 21, at 9h o'clock, Thc following articles:Bedsteads, Chairs. Tables, Benches. Clothing, Crockery, Cook? ing Utensils, Tools, Safe. Groceries, Fancy Articles, Ac. ALSO, 2 Grey Mari- Mules, who will work in sin? gle or doulile harness and under the saddle: 1 line Maro, 1 Wagon and Harness. 2 Horses. Nov 21 2 Furniture, Piano, Cotes awl Calces a>r< Mule. By A. R. Phillips. THIS (TUESDAY) MOANING, the 21st inst., at l!) o'clock, I will sell, at niv Auc? tion Mart, in Davis' Alley, near Hopson A Sntpheu's saddlery store, A varietv of Household and Kitchen FURNITURE, consisting of : Mahogany Sofas and Chairs. Cane and Wood Seat Chairs, Lounges, Tables, Bed? steads, Hat Back, Brussels Carpet, Feather Beds and Bolsters, lot Crockery and Glass? ware, and 70 volumes Books-among which are Barnes' Notes on the Epistles, 7 vols., and many other valuable works. ALSO, 1 Double-case Lever Watch. 1 6-octave Piano, in perfect order. 2 Cows and Calves, 1 Mule, 1 Sulkcy, &c. N. B.-Unlimited articles received" until 9 o'clock on the morn'rig of sale. Nov 21 Hams/Sides, i FLOCK, BUCKWHEAT 5BBLS. SUGAR-CURED II VMS. 1,000 lbs. CLEAR SIDES. 30 bbls. Extra FAMILY FLOUR. 10 boxes fresh BUCKWHEAT. For sale bv HAN YUAN A WARLEY, Nov 21 1 Washington street. STEAM SAW ILL T? i,u" prepared to execute with tlespat h J_ all orders sent for LUMBER; and w. call the attention ot the public to thc same, hud respectfully solicit their patronage. H AN Al IAN A WARLEY, Agents. NEW fHBSH "GOODS. FT1HE undersigned have just open -.; a I fresh assortment of GROCERIES, WINES, SEGARS, Ac. To which thev invite the attention of the public. ' PARKER ??? FRIPP, ('orner Camden and Main streets. Nov 21 _3* Catch the Thief! A NEGRO FEI.b()W, answering to tin J\_ name of MOSE, stole from thc under? signed, on the afternoon of the Kith inst., three head of ('ATTI.F., in complicity with another negro; the latter having been ar? rested, the undersigned will pay a libera; reward for the arrest of Mose. Mose i. about twenty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, with ?birk lips, and very black. Ile was making bis way. when I;.- : heard fri m. towards t olumbia, s. C. JOHN SIMONTON, Nov 21 2 Winnsboro. s. C.