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slort one. The bls are wanting, and the %Wdobe idppose wiN be cuto 'itthe frost which a- And this moraisg. The gilanters with whomi have conversed in this neighborhood, ay that the clop will be shrt at Ist one. fparth td olle-third t what it was last Year." The @am paper states, that " by a gentle man wie arrived from Lexington District and St. Nathew'es Parish, we learn that there was a kiling frost on the night of the 14th instant. Cotton, Pas, and 1otatoe vines were killed." - -The same paper of the 19th inst., contains the following extracts from letters received in theatcity. the Art of a recent date from the up pe part of St. John's Berkley, and the othe' rom Black Oak, dated the 15th inst. "I regret to say that the picture of the Cot ton crop is more dark and dreary than any that has been presented to a St. John's beholder fos many years past. I have visited and examined most of the plantations in Upper St. John's fro'. the Eutaw Springs down, and have re. eived information of the remainder, as well as those in St. Stephen's; and my own opinion. supprled by almost every one wi'th whom I have conversed, is that the average of the growing black seed or long staple - top in Up per St.'John's and St. Stephen's. cannot ex. 4 ed5lb. per acre. One of the best fields of Cotton is a field which was timed some two or three years since. It is well podded and more advanced to matiarity than any other Cot tonI have seen. Corn crops are good-Peas have been rmined by rain; and potatoes much injured." - fInd myself with a crop, after a hard sum' 'mW's labor, inferior to any I have yet made. Alhough this is a correct statement of any crop, yet within the whole range of the Santee coun try of Cotton, I shall make as much, if not more, than any other planter per hand. Taking, the aggregate production of that Cotton. mot oss than eas tird Of the asmewS assady stat to aarket mis adethu Ayr. My extreshope, wnih killing frost sot before the first of No vemer, is from 70 to 75 weight per acre. I have planted more than the last year and -n bener ltgd, and yet I shall make one fourth les than the crop ot last year. From all of which ye ean draw conclusions of the utmost sot) loss ofcrops, and the consequent distress." For tih Adiertir. The Union Bible Society of Edgefield and Abbevil.e, held its annual meeting on Tuesday the 18th of July last, at Beulah Church in Abbeville District. The President, J. M. Chiles, twok the chair: Prayer was offered by bro. Gaines. 1. 'he following Churches as cousti tuent members were represented by their Delegates. viz: Bethay.-J. M. Chiles, A. Perrin,t J. Anderso.f Mount .Vorink.-W. P. Hill, and L B. Watson. Beah.--J. D. Adams, J. V. Reynolds. Bufalo,-No Delegate present. Daasess.-E. Lake. A. Stalworth.t &ore.-W. S. Harris, W. P. Sullivan. providence.-G. Appleton, C. Smith f ' Vabnst Greoe.-J. Right, V. Young.f Sister Spring.-J. W. Coleman, R. C. Griffi.{ Feltueehip.-R. Cbild,t J. W. Child.t T. C. Cheathem.t 2arkey Creek-E. Razor. RI. Gathes. 2. The brethren W. Holmes. and WV. Brooks, presented themselves at Delegates from the P'eniel Church. preying admission into the.Society. Thbey were cordially re ceived. 3. The annual report of th~e Execu'.ive Committee was read by the Chairman, Rev. WV. P. Hill; received and concurred so. 4. The Society adjourned to hear thme Annual Address, which was delivered by Rev. W. P. Hill, fromexix Psalm v. 130, " The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanading to tge simple." 5. At 1 o'clock P. M., the Society met *A Committee consisting of 0. A ppleton and E. Razor, was appuifited to audit the Treasurer's report. 6. On motion, Resotued, That this 8o ciety appoius two Delegates,- to meet the Baptist State Convention, at Flat Rock Church, Kershaw District, [n Decemaber, to take into consideration the propriety of an efiort to organize a State gihbe Speio sy, auxiliary to she A. F. B. S. Elder W. P. Hill, ad W. Holmes, were appoigd. 7. The anditing tommittee presented their seport: "The Committee appointed to sadi the Treasurer's account,-report, that they bave examined the same and find it correctly cast mad well rouched. "0. Amsnton, Chairamn. The report received and concurred in. 8. The Treasurer read his report, which was received, and from which it appears there are in his bands, for the current ye r 313P 47, at the disposal of the Soeiety.f| 95 Elected Rev. J. M. Chiles, Pre't.; Rev. W-. P. Hill, 1st V. Pres't"; Rev. J. W. fineman, 28 V. Pre't.; WV. S. H~ar risSee'ry., and Is. Rt. Watson, Treasurer. 10. Rsaoted, That fitly dollars be ap propriated to the payment of the last in stalment of the Life Directorship of the Rev. W. P. Bill, in the A. F. II. Society. 11. JRisolved, That fifty dollars be laid out in the purchase of-Books, 12. On- motion, Resolred. That the first Arilile of the Constitution'of the Society he altered, so as to read, the name of this Soeiety shall be the Union Bible Society of Abbeville and Edgefield Districts. 33. Besolued, That the Presldent and .$ ef thuthve was received from Broad Rev. W. P. Hill, be appointed Agents for the Society, to visit tge Churches in Ab beville and Edgefield Districts, during the ensuing year, to present before then the objects or the S.-ciety. 14. Resolved. That the Secretary pre pare a minute of the proceeding of this meeting of the Societyi to be forwarded to the editors of the Edgeield Advertiser, nod Southern Baptist Advocate, for publication in their papers. The Society then adjourned to meet on the Tuesday after the Third Lord's Day in July next. J. At. CHILES, Presdent. W. S. AKIuS. Secretary. ExEcUTIVE CnOX:ITT-t. -:After the ad journment of the Society, the Executive Committee roet. Ordered, That the Trea surer pay over to W. '. Hill dhe fifty for Life Directorahip, and the fifty for the purchase of Bioks, to lie forwarded to New York. The Coujitittee then ad journed. 7" The Southern Baptist Advocate nill please copy, Latest from Tampico.-The schaonner Pequot arrived last eveiing from Tatpi. co. She left on the 3.1 instant. Capinin Lewis presented us with a file of .lexican papers, they are barren of news. The elections, so far as held, have reslted adversely to the interests of Santa Aona. Yellow fever prevailled to a coasiderallle extent, particularly amiing the soldiers at Tampico. John Cadmus of the Pennot, died of it there. Capailt J. C. WVilson, one of the Texan prisoners, who was cap tured at lier, and 9%ho escaped from the prison of Tucabaya ou the 3d ufJuly last. came a passenger with Capt. Lewiy. fi bas writtcn fur us a brief but interestit:: narrative of his escape from prison. and heairbreadth 'scapes afterwards, which we will publish to mnorruw.-[.. 0. Pit oyvne, lith inst. From the laburg Journal. THsE DIvIsIoN or TUE DISTRICT Mr. Edilor:-We have been mucih in terested in pet using the pages of your val uable Journal ; but more especially. since you have hoisted the banner in favor of a division of the District. We have felt that peculiar ard inheres. ling sensation, which is better imagined than described. With the aid and co-op eration of the public journals, we nill move forward in anticipation of better tines.-Let me assure you Old Saluda is yet alive, aid is moving onward with n "killing pace." as the jockirs say. In this matter, we have petitions from one end of the Regiment to the other; in which the "Ball," Sir, is in motion, anti we hope before many years,-yes! ie. fore one year, a division of :le District will be eiected. The citizens of the Sa luda Regiment are too well aware of the great disadvantages tnany of the inhabi tants Inhor under, in transacting business at the Court House; besides going. (many of them from twenty-five to forty mil es.) they are detained, or at least necessarily absent from home, some three or frtr Jays upon heavy expenses. in tratioariinE even the most ordinary business of life besides. the two weeks they are compel. led to attend Court-the fall terma, either as jurymen or witnesses. Our own imprression. ii. Mr. Editor, that whenever business accumulates to such an extent, as to be obliged to hbitI two we-: ks court, either spring or fall, the Distrit shtould I-e divided. We hope our Memabers so the [begislature, in wrho:n we have much confidence, wvill look well itnto this matter at the next sitting of the Leg. islature, and use their influence in remae dying the evil of which a large atrd res peitable portion of the the-ir cutnsicnts loudly complain. SA LUD)A Ana imnpression has gone ahroad, that thse Jouarmil itill stop after a while. We know th'it many. not oanhy ina townt hut elsewherf. would rejoice if such should be the fate of our paper. Buat wre are hap py to lnf'ortxl those persons, that sucha will not be the atE, sinless dleath or fire slhouldl overtake us. '1'hbe Juourntal is ntow estath lished as strong as thte rock of Gibralter, if we ogty he 4llowed the expressiont antd we tell our peculiar friends to haut in their horns. If our acquintances wi-ah to patronize us thtey need not be alatrmed, for we are ihre with a pocket full of rocks,and intend slpel: those who deserves a stone. The time was when we were batiging between life and death, no one to asbist; but thanks to our friends in the country antd ste few we have here; anad to or own perseverance and go ahadm distposi tion, we are now safe-out of the w~oods and will hallo as loud and as often as we please. And for the careful pierus-al of' our peculiar friends, we inform them, that theJ Journtal is prospering daily. and find ing its way to ste fireside, of ste citizens of our own State,-and to many others rof the diff'erent States. WVe do niot brag over a new subscriber, but insert his name and "push alonag, keepa moving.'-Ham burg Juernal. The present Cotteon erop.-W e have read a great many accountts frome the Snash and the Wesi reptresenting the present crop as heinag shaore in sonme sectionsea third attd in others one half. We have also cornver sed with some of the respectale planters of the Pee Dee country, and hatd letters froma others, andl we are now satisGed that the exports of Georgetown of the crop now being gathered, will be more than.a a third less than the former crop.- We are up to the present day short in our re ceipts more than-1500 balea.-Gorgen Observer. We onderstatd that a murder was com mitted a few day since, in what is called the Fork, (between Seaeka and Tngalo tivers,) on the person of a man by the ntame of Dover. le was shtot by a pistoal containing two balls by a man named Bradberry, wrho htas fled. We have not learned the particulars of the nt'air.-Pen dietons Messenger Sauel Thompson. the founder or thte Thompsonian system of Medicine, died in Boston on the 4th inst. in the 75th year of his man: The Grippe.-During the past week v ten days, the Grippe, or lufluenza, ha been more prevaleut in our town and vi cinity. than e ever before witnessed an] disease. At one time there could not bW lesis than one hundred persons laboring un tier a severe attack of that complaint it our Villae, many of iliem being conliniet to their beds. There have been but tw< or three deaths from this cause. and the moss of those first attacked have nearl3 recovered. During the present week %t have heard of new cases every day. ant .nay reasonably calculate that the epidem i:: will not abate until our citizens have al been gripped. or a change of weather. Greenville Mountainrer, 20th inst. Heary Frosts.-Sincc issuing the las No. of the Mountalneer, we have been vis itcd with a succession of :illing frots arit some ice, wsich has caused the face of an ture ti assume a "dark and yellow hue.' The w intry visitor hmas likewise matle hi, appearance in Charleston, and the inter teditle country. We are at this time sulTering under thie ellects of a drought ofseveral veeki dura tior, inl Consequence of which the farmers fintI it difficult to sow their wheat. but have an admirable time lor gathering their cot ton ::nd cora.-lbid. [ Fronm The N. (). Picarium.1 E-scapr fron: the Prison of Tucuabaya. The ftllun intt i- the arrative of Capt. Wilon, ine f thei lTexan ll ifirners. detail iung the escapte tit' hiself nti, itn others hm ie of the Mexican dungeous in n hieh they %%ere inarcerated e. efl'erted our emeape from the pri san (if Tucahbay, near the re-ientce of Sunta Aena, on tihe night of the 3.:11 of July. It was attended nith considerable dificulty, as we had to elmAb over the wall in view of two setti,ele, and the niilit was ly no means so dairk ai we unkt heave wisched it. Ve lei ourselves doUwns by ImCauns of our blinket<. ni ichc were torn in strips attd twitted iulni th11e Form of a rope. We hia I tl keep v.ry much on the alert in pawsing' t-hrough illhe ity of Mexico, in order to avoid the sctti tiels it o are postel in frot If th natme mous quastel in every part of tite city. viy inorning we had got six leagues from lexio, and as it was unsafe ti travel in :he day. we left the road, and, secreting iurselveg in the mountain, passed tihe day in alternate repose and watchia"--two of is sleeping wtLile one kept watcht. About iunset "e were discovered by two Mexi aus, who happened to vi,it that part of he mountain for the ptrpcose of gathering the juice of a plant colled the mn':y, frof"1 whirh a kind of fermented ligeotor. called pulkty, is made. They attempred r take us to a village at about the di-tahnce of a learue ; but by giving them to understand hat we were determined to resis, tlel that if it were necessary. we w5onb1i kill the:mi rather than be takein, anl giving lhetm what money we had, amontna tel little mvore than a dollar, w5e lersuaded them to allow us to proceed. 'That nigiht we made a march of about ten Ieaes, and spent the next day as we had doc the previous one; but, nt withstanding our vigilaucc, we did not escape observation. atnd4 when we were preparing to restent uur journey. Yix men, armed with laices. itirroutndedlh the little thicket where we were concealed, and. pointing their linces at our breants, ordered us to aceompany them. RIesistauce wouM have heen war tIan vain; so we were itaken before the Alcalde, who committed us to prison, with the pleasing informatioin ha4t Ve 'htould be Sent to Mexico next morning. But ne could not wait so long;. Fi uling~ that thse placed no guarud 0n the prison dorr, we set to work, trn1 by digine itp the pIave. ment near the door, we suceceeed in get. ting out a kind of metal cup. in which the lower heinae of the door turned, andI with a platk andit a piece of 011k than wve felurcd itt tho pr'isn, we leorcedl the decor frotm itr post sullicienitly wide l'o allow a mutn to 1pass ont. and in less thtan an hlour ande a half after oucr confinemettt we were agair upoen the road. That night I sutf-'redl so verely, as f was very unwell; ina fact. I hadl a seVere attack of pleurisy when left Alexico, and by this time I had he. comae sto week that it was with the utmost ditliculty I could get along' witht the assis tancce oh my comtraides. -Fra day nad night we tmet with no p~erson whou was dispo'sedl to mtolest u.; uni on the secotnd ni;;ht after our escape fromt thte rillage prisoln we were againt arrested by a party of moutnted rreichercs, who( tried to take us back to a towtn about thret leagues distant. This we flatly refused, and itey accompanied us to a rac which lay on the side of the road we wer going. I told the fellow wiho semed it have thte command of the party, that I had a pansapor , and forthiwitht plrduced half sheet of paper. upon which tine (If my fel low-priseners bad written somte ballad os song1. U(coiurse it was writtonr intEn lish, and thte man could tntr read it, hul orddted me translate it. I thlen prten~f dedl to read from tile paper something pur poirting to lie a transmttioin of muy plassport mnd the fello~w thinakitng it seas all rigtc einough, suffered us to depart itn peace. We had left tho prison nithout an (Ither prolvi.,iotns thtan five smiall, coar. beiscuite, which iwe ate durin:: the first dav and tot the remaining time (five clays athi nights) we had no other stibtenance thai a few prickly pears which we lurrd in the mountain. By the time we reachtee Real del .lonte my illness had increaset to such a degree that I coould not go elm hundred yards without lying down. M' own respirations sounded itn my ears that I could not hear anythinig else ; ami hadist not been for the kcindelmss I experi enced from the English residentsi thtere and the skilful treatment eof an excellene phlysicin, Iitust have died. As it was was itn no sit nation to travel for six wece during which time I expIerieunced the mtas upremiittiug care unid kitndress from tn generous entertainers. liero I oIbtainlede passport, a goold horse. an~d sullicien money so defray mhy expetnses to the coasi 3. C. WILSON. And lic'n I too wvill lay me doren ana die .'"'-Almost hourly ina the day we ben olf some instance of real distress. whichi suflicient to wring teats from a heart stone; where sonme poor, unfortunate beitn has lost by death all'that hound himun earth, and thte last tie which held their af foan are......c~. A day or two ince, the most nruit ren i ding iuattnce of affliction and calin despair - was told us, which we ever remember to r hive heard. It is ibis : Some two or three weeks since, a lady - of this city gave birth to a ch id, and % hile still on her bed of debility, she was taken I with the yellow fever. Her child died, and her husbatnd and mother were seized with the same disease. In a day or two after, a younger brother was inkeu down-and as all of the. family with the exception of one broither, was taken sick, the last one was carried to the house or a friend. In a I few days, the mother. who was first taken down, died-her husband followed her shortly after. The aged miother recovered go far as to be able to go and nurse her sick boy-and in the mean timoe the cider brother, the last or the family. was also seized % ith the fever. The mother a atch ed with a mother's solitude, the fast eblsing lire of her youngest boy, hIt was sink ig into datbs ensbrace.-Ere long to he died-and in a few moments when his bereaved parent saw her 103s, she obiserved in a certain tone which to) plainly told of despair. "Now that he is dead. I will go niome and nurse my last chil, and when lie is dead, I, too will lay me down and die!' Ohi, who can tell, %%hs cuts picture the agony of aim hereaved atd icart-broken Womsn ! Words- cannot do it. and :one hsit a parent cat feel fhat mother's mriserv. What ati awful chasis has been tade in lter bssom-i. never. never in this world to he tiled.-Mabdile ierald. To the .Mlinisters of the Gospel and all otherf ir ms of the Christian Sabbath in the State oj South Carolina. At a ptiubli meeting. Ield. in the Went worth-street Baptist Church, Ch:srleston. on Sundaly eveninig. Octulser tth. Johns Robinson. 1q , ir the iChair, ihe J lhow in:: lhicul utions were unai:nuusly adopt ed: .Is4rel, As the sen~e of this meeting. that it i, hiighly deirable, if practicable. 1hat a C-1tvenitiona fsf those itn this State who are friemlly to a united effort to sro fnoste, iy moral means, a better observance of th1e Lord'3 Day. be held at Columbia. in the first week of December nexti, for te purpose of deliberatir:g upon and a doping such neasures as may seem best adapted to aJvance the inpJant, object referred It. "Iesored, That the Excutive Boarn of this Society be requested to take into culs sideration tle alsove sulbject, and, ifdeem ci practicabfle. tsrthwiti to take measures for obitaining as general ant atentauce as possifile at the proposed Convention. "Ilesotecd. That the conductors of the secular, bum eqicially of the religious press, lbe rejspectfully sulicited to co operate in eItelin-t. u, )rimpnt ly and as widely as jposibly. thrui;;hou: lie State, the intelli genre ;of the asbi've proposal." 'lie meeting at which these Resolutions were a'opted was comrnpossed or ruemtbers (if diflerent denomiatitions,-and ithe gen. temen n% ho participated in the erciseif the evening tbeloiged respectively to the kaptit, the Prebyterian, the Metholis:. and the Episcopal Church. And we dout not that otlier branches of the Christian ldhl are prepared to unsite in this call of a Convention f4r the aforesaid piurpose. The cull for united niion ulpo this stsb ject arises fromn its-vast intrissic and rela ive ainourtance. and from the prevalence of ospiuions and practices conceived to ie at war with the obli;aions of the Saisbami cal law. Did is eo:usport with the object of this Circular, it could be shown that a day of rest was not oily an original enact menct of God, designed tos be uninterruptcd Iand permna:-ut, but that it is esnential to the welfaire of ttan. whethmer considered as Ia eJn picual. intellectlual, sociid, mo'ral, or r lisious being. The experiensce of ages att test thast i::norance, crimei, atnd msi~ery arc she conucoiniitantts of Sabsbatht desecration; atnd th~at religiont, wvith all it sasluutry in iluenices is ese ated or depressed, as the Satbbath is honsuored or profaned-while the I syousi Churcih, t!'re city of our Goud, is turn ed into moutrnitng at) I desolation wheJarever there is fosrgetfiulness or disregardl if the Sabbuatica institution. The appeal, th--n, tmny he conlidently mtade to every Chsris tuti. Patriot, or Phtilanthropist, tso g-tard,. bsy his hsdlnencce arnd exanuhile, tbis palla diamt of all t hat is psure antd elevated atnd heavenly int Chtristimanity -of all that i, lie nign andt endeasritiusad ten-der itt patrist iim-andi of aslI that is lovely anal noble, and etnlarged itt philanthropy. Fdr abol isis the subhsath, and a certasin'result, nut mserely osne, lint all the inistit utionis of'reli gion, with uli their bearings upotn the wel lure of society and of thu world att large, will ifall withs it. Th'le B-ible will lbe fur gottens-the social Worship of Grud wiill ecase--relgius knowledge unid feeling nsill immniediately dectice -the reigni of ig norance, vice arnd barbarism will retortn and the mischievous efrect will be felt be man in all his social relationts, isn famtilies neightborhoouds, larg er communities and nattons. These are some of' the consideration: which hase psrompted us to itvite your co siperation in the o'sject propsosed. May we tnt ask, then, that you wuldl take the subiject inito s inus and psrayerful conside .ratistn, astd should it comtport with yosu views of Chiltittny expediency, wiill you tinotendecavor to have apposiuted fromt youl atneighborhtood otne ot tmore suitable IDele gastes to mueet in Convention, atColombilia I oni Thursday the 7th of Decemtber,to con h er on the best mtanner of promotintg, by , morai tmeanis, the due observance of the Lord's D~ay? The evil to bie remedied is ,tim appsarenit to need comment. It hsas avarice for its chief advocate, and apnlto gies withmout number ate made for thse to ,fractioni of the Divine law, by th~ose whi tare bsounds bsy religios profession to sustair it. We forbear entering itnto detaii-they are familiar toyau all. Msay we not thea ask the Ministers of the Gospel to lay thn subiject before their respective Cungraga tios, and contribsute their efforts towards : the promotiont of an objed whicir cat . scarcely fail to commend itself to the wist and the good of all Chriutiati denomihatioai JOHN ROBINSON, President, C EDMONSTON. 1 % r M.Tr.MENDENHIALL, a C. BURKMVIER, i ,f F.R.SHACKLEFORD, Da. CA ULIER, " W. H. BARN WELL L,or. See'ry A. C SMITH, Rec. Secretary. W M. ADnGER, Trea,,urer. B.recutive Commie.-J. Buchuau, D. P., T. Curtis, D. D., W. M. Wightman, T. Smyth. D. D., D. Gildersleeve, Dr. Davig, J. C. Burkmver. B. Lanneon. W. Lloyd. S. J. Wagncr, C. Al. Furman, A. 3lfitren. P. S.-The papers of the City and State are respectfully requested to give this Cir cular an insertion. Commercial. IlAMBURGo. October 17. Cooue.-Since our report on Tuesday, pri ces have gone den 1 full I c. per lb., and our lenyers do say that a farther reduction must take place before a level can be made. The last accounts frain Europe appear to be favor. aile, and the state of trade good, but as our parlces are lob high for those of Liverpool, ard the specutation in New York found out, t -inarke' 'roopse. and buyers must lose to ney. Nf. .dAttanding all this. dedlers meet the arrivain with activity. and purchase readily at goiaang picep. Our lnotations to-dav. are 6 to 74 cis. as extrewes--priacipal sales'64 to 7 cents. The market i4 well supplied with almost every article cas'ed for and let off at Charles. toil prices. Exchiange and Freights remain withont alter ation.-.Juurnat AeoU~ATA, October 18. Cotton.-The receipts have 1.6en modeti:te during the past week. (or the season, and the maztrket for two or three days lat very dull. .%iel of this chcck- in opseratioins. is to be attri lhatedl to the late low state of our river. The sales for the week have been. limited and at a 'lecline of from j to 4 cecilt. Pi ices idinege froi ; to 74 cents. accordinig to-quality. Groceries.-We quote scme slight alterations in prices froin our last weekly Lable. The tuar ket has been active duiring ilse past week, and .ales have been freely nade. The demand has been goosd anid general throughout. The stuck or B:am n, :aind is alutndant, and the sanes have hnewn heavy. S.alt. plentiful, and sales to a fair extnt. eI'le stuck of Bacean is limited. Ino Iron tie Wtcs:4- are heavvy. Fluor. (anal ocarce., aneal in, di.inud. Te! anypvly of .%I). laorg i alsou liimitesd. Sngar fand Codfee abun. danit, and fair sales.-Conssituiunalist. CtUM.Bita, Octeober 19. Corton.-This great staple coines in freely, and mneetst with realy sale, hut at a declin'e, sinice our lNot report. of about ish ofa cetet it priced. whtich now vary fromUt tit 7 cents, for saferor is, prine. while: a Planter's faney bra d woild probably couimand 7J. Tho elqnotations ofold Cotton are u,.-rely uoinal,-say 5 to63 centfs.- .arolinian. O B I'fU A R Y, Died, of Friday the 13th inst.. at her resi dence in this Citrict. .lrs. Ei.rztanra GAR. sETr. nged 78 years. widow of the late Jo.:n C. Garrett. Site has left a numitbet o friends aid relatives -f mourn her loS. Died, on Tueiday morning the 17th inst, at his residence in thi-s District, 31r. RANDAL .\luanZEc.. in the Glt year of hi age. .Mr. Sltrrell was a tnative of-Virginia. but emigrated to this District abtlatfeeriy-five or fifty yeare ago. lie has raised a lauge and respectable fanily a. ruound hit. who, in connexion with his aged mother. iuirs hi. lus. lie was hviat might be tritely tertmed an hhc'ct 1mian1. Edgefield Beat Company, 4TTE.XTIOoVi: Alppear ont your Company Mnster Ground, on :Satutrdav the 1fit of November iftxt. fAr fiitruction and Drill. armed aid eqipped as the law directs. Act 3Elction will be held at the same timne ani place. for a Second I.ientenaitt. t01 till a vacarley occa. sioned by tue esignation of Lieut. Lieutenat C'ovar. -nd Sergeants Cohn and Gibbs. will act as 3lanag,:rs. fly order of Capet. (7. A. Mrc,s. IAsCoN, 0.s5. Oct. 25 :lt 39) I AID. ISurgeon Dentistry, Dil W. 11 . IRWVN. will open a Schtool of Chiregs aphly at li::eI'l.'d Ceocrt lioe.e cit Tuesday the 7the of Novombler text. nt 9J A. .., ire the Coutrt Roeeom. andi solicits the' ptnron-t ngerofhe Ladies andi G;entlemten of the Villacge, aced thce sucrroetndmit sectioen. A v.tr,-t cef hands~, e. ill be taught. TFuin en s~4tercn tifteeni lessous. Staite of Solit il &roillIa. ED(;EF~IELD D!STRICT. M2oses Iluchc:s, vs..Dunciel Ii. Clayton. II.L~j lHE NOLD, in the town of Xv lamsc burg, ice thce above statedl case. on Wedsceday the thc slay of November nuext, the flliowinug properly; viz. One Btereau. one Sieoard,. one Clock, and tether art icles of hlousehold Furniture. Terms Casih. .S. CIiISTIE, s. E. D. Oct. 24 (5i U6I) 2c 39 Stt of' South Carinah. EDGEFIELD) DISTRICT. B Y OLIVER TIOWLE~S, Esiqutre Ordimary of Edeleield District. Whtereas, Jactnes Murrell antd Benj'inin L. Murrell, l'ath applied to the for Le.iteru of Adlmintistration oiu ail and sngular the noods atnd chattels, rights andi credits oh Ranedal Mlurrell, iate of the Districl afore sidu dlecensed. Th'iese are, thecrefore, tc cite anid admon isht all andl sinanslar, thce kindred uand cred itars oef the staid deceased, up he and. uppr before mte, nt our next Ordipary's Court for the' said District to be htolden at Edge field Court ilouse on the 6th day of Novr, to show cause. if any. why the said Ad utinistration should tnot he granted. Given under mty hand and seal ibis 23d day of cietober, one thousand eight hun-* drod andrforty three. antdin thesixty-eight year of Autmerienn incdependence. 0. T OW LES, 0. r. D. Ocr. 2.5 [$2 12] b 39 Notice. Will sell, at mty residence, ocn thte 15th of U.November next, eighet hundred acre. of hand,* bceoging to the Estate of Robert Jen. TADITHA JENNINGS, itnegs decerrd.nu xcui. . 5Oct'7 6t * 37 *uust Opening, P ew Bales& Cassesuofline CARPETS tueky Jeans. Heavy Domestics for Servants' Dresses. anad over twe'nty d'df'erent styles of D rown Shirtinegs and Sheetsgs. &o - iuamburg. Oct. 7. 1E)37 STATE OP S. CAfOL1Ac4, EDGEFIELD DISTRICT. B Y OLIVER TOWLES. Esquire. Ordinary of Edgefield District. Whereas, Erasmts McDaniel, hath ap plied to nic for Letters of Administration on all and singual- the goods and chattels, rights, and credits of Eli Cartledge, lat of the District atursaid. deceased These are, therefure. to) cite and admon ish all and singular the liudred and credi tors of 1he said deceased, to be and appear before me. at our next Oidinary's Court for the said District to be holden at Edge field Court House on the 6th of Novenber next, to show cau4e, if any, wly the said Administration should nut be granted. Given under my hand and seal this 23rd day of Ocir, otie thousand eight hut dred and furty three, & in the sixty eighth year of Americau independence. 0. TOW LES o. E. D. Octr. 25. 1843. [$2 12] 2: 3'J Look at This! T H E Cheap, Cush Store sells Tlarfe Boxes of excellent MA TCH ES, for 12A Cents. J. COlIN &Co. Oct 17 2 38 . -sotice. A LL persons indebtted for work done at the Saw 3IMll.are requested to come fornard and settle their accon ntu for the year 1842, eith er by note or otheswise; and those having de mands. agaist the estate ofJesise Sweare'ngen, dec'd., are requested to hand in their accounts. properly attested. JAM3ES SWEARENGEN. October 18 f 33 Notice. W ILL he suld on Tuesdiay tihe Mst inst.nt, at her late residence, all the Personal F.tate? of M rs. Nnancy Lune, dec'ed., on a credit of twelve nonlts. t. T. 31M1 S, A drn'r. Oct 16. 1-A3 2 38 Notice. A LL Person., haring any demands again.t the i'Estae of Mrs. Nancy Lowe. dec'ed'.. will present them properly attested, and thou indebted to the Esatc %%ill make payment to the subsctiber. ft. T. MIMS, 'A d'r. Oct 17, 1$43 if ;s Clerk of Councium Ofice, AUGUSTA, Septernber 4, 1h43. OTICE.-From an-d ufter thi d ae. all vagonas loaded with Produce. Prn isinata, and Wood. c('oamin to Aunata and the A'. gnsta mnrker. wall be allawed to pa.- the Bridge free oftull. The rate, ofri1!1 tar Dlrays crossing is re.tered too previaaus rate. viz. .74 and the toll for foot passte;rs redueed to 2 cent., agreeably to a resaawtioni adopted lby the City Cuatrd of Anu oz.ta ti.. day. D. D. 31.1CMUR PIl V. C~n."l; Anafmfa. Oct. 11 Iim 3S Notice. P Y order (if Olaver Towles. Ordinary of I P Edgetield Di-stt ict. will le sold, at tte latev icesidence of Suoaasaala C:wartie. dec'd.. on Wedneiday the 15th of No% ember next. all the estate ufrs:aid da ed. bthat real and peisonat, ceansnn0iaag ol a Amall Tract of Land, Sat aar'e aali Creek, Ingelber with FIVE NEGRO4EN; Stock of varos Lind.s. Corn odder. lIon se hold and Kitchen Furniture, &c. Ott a credit of twelve month111. JOSEPI GiLIFFIN, Ex'tr. Octaober 1 4t 3. Execetor's Sale. Y Order of the Ordinary. Will lee sold. at the late residence of D'aniel Roger,, deceaspel. asn the M-th a y af Navmber ncit, I I Likely Negroes, Crop of Corn. Fodder. Oats and When-: l10r ses, Cattle. llega and Sheep; Wagon Geer; ine lot ..f 1t Pot k : Platt.atioan Tools; H1 ouse. holid and Kitchen Fuarntutre. IAlso, the palatation anad tract of land will be Ioffered fr alek. all n eracdtoftwelve aonths. Rec Ut ies. RO lT. BRYAN. Senr. SIl~II,1.t. ATTA WAY, FELIX ItOGERS, Exeuutors. Octec IS S3 35 .rofire. T 11E Subscraiber wiahes~ to sell at private sale. hais crop oft Caarn. Fodder. &c., tor'-ther with hi,' .etock of 1logs :ande Cattre: his Farmaing U!tenasils, anda lluusehaold & Kitch. ena Fsraaittare. lie wtll rent his Piantaziaan, whtich cntt.ains .taout 'A00 acres oaf land, of which abaaut 75 or li00 acres are cleared, with a gaood udweihlng anad other oathones.-. lie wishla . obJitn -: situiationt as Over'seer, for the naext ve'ar. P~ers.ats w ishinga to pturcalae any of the arw ciaes I have to di.pa.,e of. or to renft the pL.ata- 4 tpaa coan appaly to mae. li inag in the Fork' of Edisto, anear Johno Lou's. ont the rnad to Aiken, J.AMES TEMiPLE. Octl'4 ?t 38 ALABAMIALAND. T lI E Subsacriber .atT.-rs fear salf a P~tnta tion in Barbtour coaunty. Alabama, abaout 8 tmiles fraaa thec Chattiahoc~iee. :tnd the same dlitne frrom irwintoa. a niarket town. The.re are 60'aeres of latad. said to he good quality, perha ps 150mace:es oaf loiw ground. with a fine Mill Seat: abaour 20tl acre. cleared tand under good fence:; comtaable frane Dsellin~g htous', centientt wtell of gaoad w.ater, tad hotues far 5tt a 70'naegroea. Ir isa aiid tobhe thae mst heal :1hy .ittnatiaon am that neighaborhood. Tlo ant apparecd purcaner almost any time will be psoen fur plymntt. r.o. P.\RIROTTr. !!amburg. Septr. 20 2amna 31 R~eceived thi. Week, SOM3 E Fine S:atam Statsped. richa Figured and Plain hblack Mouse De L~as. Alpacca.., Cha~nos. FEolines, Emaaasics. Ginghtamas, and richa SILKS. WM. ItETCIIAM & Co. Ilambaurg. Oct 7 10 37 (G Docis. Ready & Yar borough, will Practice Aledicine, in copartaership hereafter. Oct.3 4e 3 State of' Souith Car'Olina. ABEIEVILLE DISTRICT, IN EQUITY. W illiam C. Black, B ill for Accountand v. Martsig A4ssts, S. L. Pearson, & al . I N purasace afan Order, made in this case. -at Jiane term. 1843. requiring theecreditors of damtel Caldwell, to op pear befoare thec Com-. mtssionesr, anad prove t heir detmatnd against said estate, on, or before the first Monaaya in Noviember nea t. I hereby appaoint Sattr day thue 2th day of October next:. The creditor's oaid estate will therefore take Nerice to ap pear before me and prove their demands, on that day, at Abbeville Court House. II. A. JONES, c. i, a. D. Commissioner's Ojer. 20eA June, 1843. June 92 im 94.