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NEWBERRY, S. C. Wednesday Morning, August 15, 1866. GOOD NEWS. We learn, and bpe it be true, that the railroad bridge over Broad river will be com pleted by the latter part of this month. We are indebted to the Publisher, Mr. De Fontaine, for a copy of the Burning of Co% lumbia, by Dr. D. H. Trezevant. It is a re view of Northern Assertions, and Southern Facts and is interesting not only for present reading but should be filed away for future record. Send orders to Carolinian office. Mr. R. M. Stokes of Columbia, will issue this week a Tabular list of the range of Gold in Confederate money, for every 15 days du ring the war. This table will be valuable in making settlements, or for reference, to all classes of citizens, and every one should pro cure a copy at once. We will be happy to receive all orders, either for single copies or otherwise; single copy 15 ets, 2 for 25 cts. or 10 for $1. We seriously think that the times and the -easons are inappropriate for so many barbe cues. In the first place it is too warm, and in view of the deficit of provender, we think It an unnecessary if not sinful waste. In the -merry month of May, when thg earth is mellow and verdant, skies clear, and the at mosphere transparent and balmy, and filled with perfumed zephyrs from the temple of Flora, and the melody of birds in the honey moon,it is delightful to enjoy amid enchant ed scenes, those festive, social gatherings; and when the pensive hues of autumn are apace, and requiems are whispered by the passing breeze;throngh grove and glade, in memoriam, it is pleasant to mingle ere the beauties of the dying year are gone,and kira le anew the hearty and exuberent pleasures that spring from friendly greetings. The South Carolina Baptist convcztion, assembled in Greenville ou Friday, July 27; the representation was very large. The fol lowing officers R ere elected : Rtev. E. T. Winklpr, D. D., President; Rev. J. 0. B. Dargan, Vice-President; Rev. B. Manly, Jr., D. D., Secretary; Prof. C. U. Judson, Treasurer. The Constitution was revised, and adjusted to the altered circumstances under whi> the work of the Convention was resumed. The three Boards formerly existing were swept away, and in their place an Executive Board appointed, invested with all the influence the Convention could impart, and charged es pecially with the work of State Missious. The new Board is located at Darling*on. under the f'ollowing officers: President, Rev. .R. Furman, D. D.; 'Vice-President, T. P. Lide, Esq ; Secretary, Colonel B. W. Ed, -watrds; Treasurer, E 3. Lide, Esq.; Auditor, J. L. Coker, Esq ; General Agent, Rev. J. 0. II. Dargan. This last officer will visit the vaiIous associations of the State. SUNTDAY SCKOOL AT GREENVILLE * Theo. Chairleston Conrier's correspondent fnruishes the following interesting notice of the Baptist Sunday School at Greenville, which is under the superintendence of C. J. Elt'ord, Esq., it is the largest in the Sonth, and one of the largest in the United States We attended the morning session, and ob rained from Mr. Julius C. Smith, Assistant Superintend ant, the following repor:s of the iumber of pupils: This school is divided into tsvo departments; that for lirger schol ar embrace 27 teachers and 281 pupils; the Infant Department embrace; 15 teachers and 153 pupils. Adding 6 managers. you have *a sctiool aggregating 42 In addition to the white school there is a colored aschool, con.. taining tibout 200 pupils, under the charge of Mlr. J. C. Smith. The aggregate of both schools thus ne'arly reaches '700. [he same energy in other towns and cities of the South would be attended by the same creditable and hopeful resulis. One half the interest and energy manifest 'ed in the Schools of our town would very soon show gratifying results. True, all our denominations together could not per haps bring together so great a number, but did parents aind teachers make the effort the different schools would soon be swelled to double their present size. Every shoulder to .the wheel then, reader, and let us see if we remain so very far behind the Greenville Sabbath School Hr Mz-There were thirteen men mar .rid the other day, in the same church atad &y the samte clergy man, at Alaseatine, Iowa, whose ayerage height was six feet tive inches --the tallest being six feet eight inches, and the shortest six feet three inches.1' - A young lady writes to us. indignantly, ss an exchange, to "knowy wheu we are gding to let hoops alone?" We assure our fair' correspondent that we never trouble our self about hoops unless there is a woman in them. A lady in Indima polis the other day comn menced tickling her~ daughter, a girl four teen years old. She continued this amuse ment'until the girl became completely ex, hansted. and finally, in struggling to free herself, burst a blood,vessel and died. A woman was burned to death in Ohio by her clohes taking fire from a pipe she was smoking. She was on horseback at the time, and the borse whirling rapidly arcund, set her all ia a blaze. Gen'. Hood was feted at Richmond. Texas. In a speech at that place "he endorsed per feet submission and a digrnified endurance of oil w: ongs " He advised people to build school houses, churches and railroads. Don't kill toads. Their claim on life, lib% e.rty and the pursuit of-begy has a value. Thev are wortaI a doflar andl fifty cnts a dozen in Great L:itain, a's destroyers of in,j sects. Tue summer socstsice rages in all its fury. We hear of nothing from our exchanges but battles, murder, heat drouth, pesti!cnce, apprehended fami~ne, coup de soleil, fires, rothbery, etc. Isn't it appaliing? Vo&taire said of M'lie de Livy-"She was so beautiful tha t I raised my long, thin body, suid stood before her li!;e a poin t' .2 1.I~ We regret to .notice from time to time the necessity which forces Southern journalists to appeal to their patrons. The expenses of publishing are very heavy, and unless pub. lishers are remunerated, it is impossible to propel the press. We can learn a wbolesome lesson from the North, in this particular-it bountifully sustains its literature. Northern people appreciate the true value of the "art preservative of all arts," and this is the rea, son why it is so far ahead of us in many re spects-it fosters literature, which develops all her resources. In letters, agricultural art, chemistry, science, mechanism, etc., see her wonderful fiejds. The South, too, can build up a golden age, under the blessings of God, if she improve her talents. We must develop OUR resources. And in order to do so, it is important that we read, digest and improve the latent powers of mind, thereby keeping up with the steady march of science and art. There are eventful changes in all depart' ments of the moral and physical worlds, and unless we keep pace with the times we may go beneath the turbid waves of its vast im, pulsion. The Northern people sustain their journals and periodical literature lavishly, hence the gigantic development of letters, commerce and trade. The world moves on to its grand consum mation. Let us not neglect the gifts that are within our reach. The privileges that are ours. While the North is too fast, the South is too slow.. If they are before the age in some particulars, we are behind it in others. We must grasp the fulcrum and lever that the mind's eye will point out and mount the summit. Our virgin resources are in myriads -let us then despise political sophistry, and vulgar literature, and seek a her.ltlhy re formation by liberally sustaining scientific, agricultural and literary journals that will reveal the hidden treasures of the South. There are changes in seasons, etc., that will enforce, of necessity, counter changes in labor and the modes of life. Let us then not continue apathetic, but leaving the issue to, and trusting in, a kind Providence, do our whole duty, in purifying, elevating, adorning, beautifying and strengthening our section; that amid her vales and slopes, her deltas, fields and ridges, verdure may clothe the year with its lovely tints, enriching the laborer and gladdening all animat3 creation. So that in the diversified walks of life new inspirations and labors may open up broader and higher avenues of cnnobled usefulness that lie buried in the uutravelled vista of fus turity. The above reflections came up in our mind yesterday, while reading the appended elo quent appeal from that gifted gentleman,Rer. Tihnan R. Gaines, editor of the "Baptist Church and Sunday School Messenger," published at Yorkville, in this State We recently read the valedictory of an editor whose abilities were very far above mediocre, who was forced to suspend because his of, fice expenses were greater than his income. Every now and again we witness the merg ing of two papers in one in order to make a decent support. .We hope for a better day. The following is Rtv. Mr. Gaines' appeal to his friends: To OUR SUBsCRIBERS.-When we began to receive subscriptions to the "Messenger," twelve months ago, we took them for only six months at $1, in specie, to be paid on the reception of the first Number. WVe got about two hundred names on .these terms. We commenced the "Mensenger" as early as possible. We have now sent out the fifth Numbe:-. Very few of our six months subscribers have paid us, This has greatly embarrassed us. Each Number of' the "Messenger" has added to our debt $50 in specie. Can our dear Baptist friends who subscribed willingly, thus deceive and ruin one who is laboring for the cause of Christ and the childr en ? Why do they not as they promised ? We have come to the de-libcrate conclusion tn suspend the publication of the Magazine until our sub.scribers pay up. We do love otber peoples children, but we can, not see our own come to starvation, while laboring for theirs. Every month plunges us deeper and deeper in debt. We hope, therefore, that our subscribers will send us the money forthwith, and prevent any fur ther difficulty. If adl our subscribers will renew their subscriptions and send us the money, we can go on successfully. As soon as we cnn he sufficiently encouragcd, we will continue the "Messenger." We expect to enlarge' and improve it ait an early dlay if our rospects wvill justify. We expect to collect our sub,criptions at once, by whatever means inl our power. We say to those noble ones who have paid, that if we do not resume the publica tion of the Messenger, we wvill refund. We do trust, that our dear tried friends. will make an earnest effort for nur success. Get up clubs and send them in at once, so that the September Number may come out in its proper time. Some of our subscribers say the messenger is worth $10 to their chiidren. We hope that all will come to our help. We love the work-we love the Baptist cause-we love ihe Sunday School-we love the children. We desire to Jive and labor for their good. MUIRDER 0OF A YOUNG LADY IN PHILA% DELPHIA-PHILADELPHIA, August ll.-An atrocious murder was committed yesterday. A well dressed man visited a house on Race street with ai young lady and after remaining ubout an hour the man dlepar:ed saving the ldy was asleep and he did not wish her to be disturbed. An hour or two later, the pro prietor of the house vrsited the room and found the girl with ber head ne arly severed from her body, with a sheet tightly tied round her. Subsequeutly by a picture found in the girls trunk, the murderer was ascer tined to be Newton Chamnpioa exAssistant Engineer in the Navy, lie was arrested. The woman's name was Mary Corney and he had attempted to strangle her a few weeks 1reviouis. Euhae *ae ofOweo:. .. Seenhray Lapkis, ofenl O swed N. .two whipst in y Bloiptiss, reenl ud 2yep to becapse in wioudt his woon Sdyars ond wa ong hefould tr whe n theneighbors wisnterfor :an tresud then boy. Teihrs humamrprent raely thred boy. daTher humninr or ltel tsmrneds.~ t out of iJor~r~ for the same reason. LOCAL ITEMS. NEW COTTON.-The first open cotton we Tl have seen is from the plantation of Col. J. R. m Spearman, who tells us. that he has enough N open to warrant picking. N P] BARBER-OUS. - Messrs. Peterson and Werts, have opened their shop next door J N to Mr. Wm. G. Glenn's Springs, where m the tonsorial art is practiced in all the tv tv heights and depths of fashion. in Grierson's Soda Fountain never tires. It squirts ad libitum-gushes and rushes like sparkling billows! and glistens and scinti, ui lates with liquid pearl, diamonds, rainbows stars, blue-lights and rockets! p THE WEATHER, again has been extremely B hot, the thermometer reaching the height of C 101 degrees in the shade on last Thursday. 1N We are fast parching up from the scorching g sun and dry silocca like winds. Vegetation rt is suffering extremely. h RAPE.-A freedman was lodged In jail last week by Col. Louis of Lexington, charged with the committal of the above horrible I crime. The victim we are informed is a ff most respectable lady of Lexington District. Comment is nnnecessary. Mr H. D. Boozer of this district, exhibits l' the first sweet potatoes seen in the editorial '-patch." We are potatoists, though no s plantists this year, the last crop satisfied P us it would not do, they were small, mi:-er, able small, and early in the fall we ate them a tops and all. Other peoples potatoes claim our attention now, and have our best wishes t for early ;nd large yields. CorULD'T NIII LP IT.-A blind individual was brought to town last week charged with stealing a pair of horses. The facts are that p he had hired them to go a short distance, ti but it being discovered that he had put a good long days journey between him and the owner of the animals, pursuit was made and he and the horses stopped, or rather b tuined in another direction. The manbeing blind, we are disposed to attach all the blame to the horses, who carried him off, against t his will. Poor man. ' o Business Noticee. C Louis Harri.s-Milinery, Fancy Goods, .&c. Lengnic & Sell-Charleston house-Mil linerv and Fancy Goods. Gtovesteen &~Co.-New York-Pianos. Howe's Improved Cotton Picker -New York. Duffle &~ Chapman-A gents for New Books J1. J. A mick-Notice to Debtors. Geo. D. Siih-Notice to Debtors. S. C. R~. R .-Freight Notice. FoRt THE H ERALD. Mr. Editor: Permit mue a few reflections in 6 your paper. To me, it seems that drouth * is a fixed fact in these days. For several years past it has been a regular visitor. I W hat can be the cause ? Is it not true that d the love of wealth of late years possesseg the hearts of too many of us, to the exclu' sion of better impulses. The good Loidp sought during the war to break our covetous r grip and snatched away our wealthi. "It is wreng for Christians to myirmur, or h try to get back their former wealthb. To do so k wdi bring a heavier curse on us and our chidren." J "God has sunk our abundant wealth in the j dead se. and pol-oned its waters with a a curse. He that (lives into this sea to raise I up his sunken riches, will peri,h with them e under the curse of God. We fear~ that many 3 professed Christians, are preparing their diving tells and gathering in vast multi, tudes onl the coast of this accu!sed sea,d' termined to make the faital dive "' de Can it be thait he will try us further? With scourge and famine. Let us turn to tirn d while it is yet time; acknowledge our sins, forget our anixiety to get rich if we can subsist. And whether we sow or reap or toil do so in His name and for His glory. We dare not labor, forgetful of Ilim, that we may consume our fruits upon our lust.. For He will send us blight and mildew. In sack cloth and ashes let us implore Him to send the early and the latter rain, health and peace and plenty to our languishing secrion. A SUFFERER. A SCREW LoosE SO3tEWHnERE.-On Fri day night last, there was a general Jail De livery in Edgefield. One or two white men I and ten or a dozen negroes quietly walked out of the calaboos. anid betook hemselves whither they would. Fonr of them have since been apprehended and retrurned to jail. Three or four mon'ths back, something of the . same sort occurred ; if we are not mistaken,r four men escaped at tha: time. a When we say there is a screw loose some, where, we hint at no dark thing, no mystery, no secrer; but on the contrary, at lack of vigilance, lack of wvatchfulness, lack of sys- a In these days of vile disorder and lawless-S ness, when women and children are not safe t in their beds at night, it will never do to be0 mptying the jails.-Edgefield Advertiser. 1 A VICT.IM OF CHOLERA.-A Paris letter of the 29th ult., sas F' Geveral eases of cholera have recently oc,-5 curred in Paris. One awful instunee L.as b greatly afflicted Amnericanl residenjts. Mdi,s b Harh:ek, a young l:dy trom New York, who, 0 on Wednesday evening, was riding in the os de Bou'ogne, full of health and spirs, wis seized with cholera in the course of th;e night, at the Hotel WVagran, in the Rue de Rivli. Drs Trousseau amd lloylard were t eaed in, but in spite of their efforts the pas tieznt died ini twent y-four hours. She was en gaged to be marrie'd to a Mr. Lockwood, who iT is now in St. P)etersburgh*alnd can only know F his lobs by telegraph. d t Many heartrending scenes occurred during P th late severe fresbet in Kentucky. OneS case was that of a mother with two children,b aged one and three years, who clung to a' plank for four hour-, but were finally washed off and drowned, just as davlight was breaIks S1 ing and help was niear. Others were over- s whelmed by the mad torren'; wi;hout a mo ment's nOtice, and carried off befde hlp 1 could reach them. A country editor says that many of hiso patrons would make good wheel-horses-they Ip old back ~o wrll. 0 European Inte311gen00:O. The treaty of peace Is said to be signed. ie King of Prussia is titled Emperor of Ger any. There will be two Confederacies. >rth Germany and South Germany. The 1 orthern Confederation is to be composed of iussia, Saxony, Hanover, Hesse, Cassel, the ro Mecklenburgs, Holstein, Oldenburg, assau, the two Anabalts, Brunswick, Bre" i en, Frankfort, Hamburg, Lubeck, Hesse omburg, Lichtenstein, the two Lippes, the ro Reuss', the four Saxon Duchies-Wel' ar. Altenburg, Coburg and Meiningen, the 'o Schw:rzburgs, and Waldeck. Square iles, 118 891. Population, 22,310.863. The Southern Confederacy. most probably der the leadership of the King of Bavaria, ill consist of Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Baden id Hesse Darmstadt. Square miles, 37,317; )pulation, 9,000,000. Austria relinquishesVenetia and Schleswig olstein, and withdraws from the Germanic oneder.:tion. Thus divested of costly out 'ing Territory.it'is believed she will develop eat internal strength. The future is fraught ith great interest. Napoleon is dissatisfied, s Czar anxious, and all the crowued ads looking, looking! Will peace be rmanent? LATEST. LONDON, August 11.-Napoleon demands om I'russia the rpetiention of t!ie French ontier by its extension to the Rhine is it as m::rked prior to its disturbance in 1814. e military and naval preparations which ,e being c:arried on iu France induce the be ci that the E:peror will make war if his tnands is not complied with. The demand as c.tusedl trreat excitemena in Berlin. Al mini-oflcial journal in Berlin recommends ru-sia to reconstruct Germany as far as )ssible on the basis of a preservation of the ital and constitutional rights of the States, e cach are to be annexed to her. Turkey has reduced her army of observa on on the Danube, rind it is thought the 1ltan approves the rule of Prince Charles of :oenzollrn as Hospodar in Romania. The armistice between Italy and Austria, I hich expired on Saturday last, has been newed tor four weeks. l'he official Berlin iper opposes the claim of France to the cxs .usion of frontier. The Philadcl phia Convention. PuILADELPHIA, August 12.-~he great igw.m for the National Convention will comp;;)leted by Tuesday. It it the largest ctue ever built for a poiiical gathering. hoge nutml)er of delegates have arrived. eve-dy Johnson, Montgomery Blair, Stock m, or New Jersey, Fernando Wooa, Cowan,, -' 'ennsyivania,and many other disuinguith I e'lsou- have arrived. The Executive .nmwittee have rooms at the Continental terel. . there was quite a stir, to-day, over a re rt, in the New York Herald, that Governor urin of P'eansylvan ia, had secretly called r 20 000 militia, for service during the time rte Convention, and that trouble will pro bly ensue. This is believed to be a canard. 'nere is no reason 1o suppose the Convention i be dis;urbe:l, nowthstanin'g the mle ievous articles of some of the radical res,. General Dix or George Ashburne, 0t ta'achunsetts. w Il preside. PrtLADE.PH1IA, August 13 -pwards of 0 delegates to ihe ConiventionI have arrived. mong t he mos t noticeal1e persous are 'hurlo w Weed, Dean Rieumond,Sertis inda il and Browning, Gen. Steed man, oreclius W endell, Fernia'do Wood, Vallan igham, Governors Orr, Sharkey and Perry, 0 . P. Nicholt'ou and Senator Guthrie. ~here is considerable (xcitemetnt about the imision or Valandlighiam. Wood and odher uceC Detnocr.ats. TIIe:C is no reaso)n, how vr to doabt that all wvill be adjusted to, ight. Fernado WVood will decline to go tro the Convenition, if nIecssairy to the armonty otf it. l'he programme is yet unls no~n, btno thirdJprty wvil be formed. he C-.mvention wil probably adopt a series f resolutions enidorsmng the policy of' the 'resident and den4ormeIing Congress, and an dress will be issueel to the country, wh!ch till embllody the prtinlciples set torth in the for the C.>ulveion. -R C \Vinthrop, of lascuents, or Dix will preside. NEW STTLE lIooPs-Our Fashion Coy spon!en t in Pais writing on the 20'h of lv, makes thte important anunncemenlt a a new style of crinoline h:i b'een deri' e upon in that city, and that airhoneh its u, shape and maike up were not genera lly nown, at date the article was being manu tetured ont a harge scatle, and would soon ppar. It is called coche traine to some urpose, andI, as its name indientes, is hiid en or impereptihle in front and on both ides, while a long gored train ending wi;h frill, afreting the shape of wha t gentlemcn ll "the ta'ils" of their drew coats, supports ad maintains the trains of the rohes behind, her, with the help of' a zstring', it raises ne's skirts tihove muddy pavements.. It lo prevents them from -falling in or twist round the carnlier's legs when they kind Svounteer to offer ladies an arm on trying easions. WHaOSE PRIR~ONERS?-Read the item of' relligence below. We presume the prisoners ~ferrd to are soldiers of the, late Conf'eder-~ te army. Should not the inquiry be mado, ud means be contributed from the South to ahle these poor fellows to return to their omes or friencl<? Tr is a pity they should be Inndn'ed by~ North and South. The R"leilh Sentinel snys there are about 2ventyfive prisoners on Johnson's Island >o sick to get away, and that they are with,. it means of traveling to their homes, even well enough, and the Government no long, furnishes transportation. The exparsive hoop.s of an. officer's wife recent - attiacted much nttention among the Indians Mini esota. Eveni the curiosity of the older -ve w'as excited,. which was finally relieved the whispe'red e'xplanation of a young sgnaw er wose Thou!der a lively papoose of some ne mo the was jeering. The men vamoosed, uttering low. eutteral grunnis, while the more triThtlv sqnaws tripped ofi'. chucking their no'ses undner the chin, with very significant ~inklx lurkinet in the depths of their dark lus... Ios eyes, which seemed to say, "*can't fool us." T-e Marion Star. of the 8th. says. We are formed that a little son of Mrs Wesley xworth, about twelve years of' age, accis mntally shot his Vnnd so badly that ampu ition 'was re orted to. Dr. E. B. Smith ~rformed the operation. This is another id warning to parents not to allow small ys to tulfle with guns. The recent reform riot in London was a arling affair. Englhmd is threatened with rios revulsions An nitompt was made h'ov tip the houses of Parliament. It is ec Libcrais against the Tories. Why will people persist in sleeping across -near railroad tracks. Scarcely a week tsses that we do not read of an eccident -eatb fram such c.anse. Tbe Laurenville Herald says: The energetid xd indefatigable lessee of the Laurens iaili 'oad is determined to put his road in good unniog order. from one end to the other, md hopes to do so now by the 1st of Octo. >er. He is pushing the work rapidly for. yard; but, we are sorry to know that there ire those who would throw obstructions. tnd impediments in his way. The train ,oming up the road, after dusk, on Tuesday ast, encouintered two rails thrown across :be road on the cattle,pit near Parks'. The Abbeville Press has 'the following: )ur enterprising townsman, Mr. H. W. Lawson, is expecting a supply of corn this week, which he is determined to sell at $1.75 Der bushel, and anticipates being able, to make further reductions on future purchases. We learn upon good authority that corn is selling in Florida at fifty cents pet= bushel; md that the crops of the Northwest have heen so abundant that the Governor of Georgia has been enabled to furnish the suffering poor of that State at a cost of $1. per bushel. A RscoNsT.aUOTED PB>ss Aossg-.-Onr for ner associate and sterling friend, Mr. P. Walsh of telegraphic fame, has committed matrimonyi We were present on the solemn occasion, and can testify to his being a free agent no more-. About two thousand friends, maTe and female, distinctly heard him surrender at discretion to Miss Belle McDonald, late ot South Carolina, but more recently of Augusta. The ceremony took place at St. I'atrick's Cathedral. We wish our friend, the "Head -Centre," and his fair lady every imaginable blessing.--Augusta Constita tionalist. The idea of having a car on passenger trains, next to the tender, so arranged- that it will carry sufficient water to sprinkIe the track from one water-tank to another, is being discussed by railroad men, and will probably cDme into general use before an other season. An editor in California lately received . long document which he was requested to insert gratis under his editorial head: He pr.eed it nuder his pillog that night, nud expressed his wilringue s to insert similar communicatious in the same way. and on similar terms. We see from our exchange papers, that large iurnbers of freedmen are goiug to the public lands in Florida. The Cholera h::a broken out -among the freed people near Braddock's Point, South Carolina. There have beeu twelve deaths. It is said tlat tha property of ExGov. Wise of Va., hs been ordered to e restored to him. Two rattlesnakes were killed last week one in the town of Greenville, the other on the outskirts of Anderson. NEW OrLEA R, August 13.--Cboler$ deaths for forty.eiglit hours ending this mocn ing, 50. In NeCw York, deaths for the week foot up S00. Three cases of cholera on the 11th. The Macon papers complain of the eitor tion of landlords for rents. The .ontributions for the Portlnd sufferers net $300,000. The Empress of the Mexican Empire has arrived in Paris and asks aidi for Maximilian. An Appeal tb my Fhrends--Will they sill me t According to the secounts of the coice, while I was P'ostmster, t here was due to the Post-omoe Department, at Washington city. the. sum of one thousand and ninety-four $1 91.0 ) dollais, . when mail communication was stopped with the State b" the Unitedi '8tates Government on the 1st of .June, i161. The Confederate States Gor enent took poesession of the mail arrange ments and post.offices in this State at that time, ard ordered me to pay over to the Post-office Department of the Conifaderate States,the money ou har d in the P?ost-ofalce, fit Newberrv,amonur ing to three hundired and ftfty-four f854.')!.dol ars. And to return the postage stamps and stamped envelo~pes on -hand in this offce amoJunlftin j- to seven hlUulrred an fortys-two 7420 do iars, to the Post-office Department at Wshington City. I.can prove by responsible and respectable persont., that I sent~ from the post-ofee at this pilece-and that evidence [ sent by afadavit to Wasin~rgton this spring-the postage stamps and, stamped en velopes, as above stted, to the Post-office Department at Wash ington City, but the Auditor at Washington Tity. states, in 1-is comunnication to me. of a 24, 1866, t.hat the fscts stated by me to them, 'do not present a case in which by law i credis can be given" me. the money in tile ofEice #t the time, 1861. three hu.d red and fifty-tour -334. 0 -dollurs, I paid over to t he P.0. Dept of the Confederate Sra-es, as directed abpve Under thzese circumstances I am caUled upon forthwith to pay the whole of the said anta of oe t hous:ind and ninety-four-1.94-olars, adc aTnunab)le to do so. It will tak a.l! my pro-. ptto pay it. anid then the demand.will nor-be liani.i ted. l therefcre make this appeal to my' frie:ds. and soiicit them to aid me as far as they may be able and are wiiling, to setfle upitbe oe mand of the .Un ited States agaiunst me as 1'Ost'. master at this place, as is above set fortb. I acteidI in good faith, and obeyed the instructious:I had from the powers iu authority over the. State. Any assistance rendered me in this matter, will ot only be thankfblly rxeceived, but jnost gratees faily rernenmbered. S.1P. IK[?A D, July 3 , 1668. Lada P. M., at 3ewberry. COMXERCIAL. Markets corrected weekly by Mayes and Mir-. tin-icrrency prices. Baggng, Gunny, per vard,....,.........-46. -' Dundee, M ...............610 Bale R ope, M1mnilla, per lb.,...........5 to 40c. " "Hemp.........................3 to 85e Plogh Steelper .,................... I8. H. S. Iron.:...............................-1tQ14 Sweede iron,.................................1 Nails,......................................1 Blue Stone..................................6 Cofee R10,....................................8 Sugar Brown,.......-...................-..-.-1 " Refined,.........................2.to 25 Rice,.....................................$ Salt, Liverpools. ...........................0 Cheese,....................................4.., Mackerel, kits,...........................00 Candles, Adanmantine,...................40. " Sperm,...........................'0. Moasse,8orgham,......................--.1-. " Cuba,................,...10 Corn,......................................... 2.10 Meal,.................................. 2.25 Gld,......................................----4S. Produce 3Market-Wagon Price. Butter, per pound,..................-----5. Beef, ....................1 to t Bcon, "..................................5to27 Eggs, per doz ,.............-------........2::C. Flour, per b.................--.------.-.6 Lard, per pound,............................25f. Peas, per bushel,..............-.--.---------15 Chickens...,....................---.,20 t,o 8 NEwBERPRY, Aug 14-Sales limited. - nd a de cline from former quotations to 18 a 25k. New York, Aug 18-Gold 149k, cotton quiet, sales of 12 0 baic middlin<r at 31 a 8 L IVE1RPooL, A U. 183-Cot ton market closed firm, sales to day 12 00 midd'ing uplands at 13&d McBU.E Aug 18-Cottod salesi to l50 bales low middling at 27 a 28. only the lower grades offer Qn OLEANS, Aung13-Cotton is easier, saIes of 00o bales low middling at 82 a 88. Gold 4). OBITU ARY. Died, on te 28th JTaly, at his residence on Pawlev Island, Waccamtaw, Dr. Andrew ?asll, in the 6el ro:r nf his. ae.