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Straps & Jfads. ( The shortness of life is very often owing to the irregularities of the liver. In the manufacture of rum, New York takes precedence, producing $4,690,000 worth of grog each year. The Port Gibson Reveille speaks of a stalk of cotton, fully matured, as having been a found iu that vicinity some days ago, the lint a and seed of which are both entirely green. v Popkins says, a few days ago, while o ' -- :i 3 i._: ?_j u riding lu au uajuiuua, auu uctug semcu uc- u tween two ladies, he felt like a stave in a t hogshead of molasses, surrounded by hoops, a The Washington correspondent of the 0 New York Herald says that the Hon. John 1 E. Ward, of SaVannah, will probably be offered the mission to China, whioh is now vacant. e A home without a girl in it, is only half bleat; it is an orchard without blossoms, and a spring Without a song. A house full of sons is lik its cedars; but daughters by t the fireside are like the roses in Sharon. t A lady in Mississippi recently sued a ; young man for breach of marriage, laying t her damages at $1,000 but the jury, being i married men, returned a verdict for only $10. . "In Egypt I saw Cleopatra's needle," 1 said a young lady to her friends on her re- ' turn from her school in England to her home in India, "but I thought very little of it, I assure you, after having seen the sewing i machine in London." < The heaviest blow the Militia system 1 of Virginia has yet received is recorded by a country newspaper, whioh states that a traveller going through the town mistook , the militia, drawn up in line, for the chair. \ gang. \ rru_ vr? v?i, iUC HOW lUlft UApigco 06WU10 iv . j of opioion, that the only difference between j slavery in the two sections is, that in the , Sooth the master own the bodies of the ne- ( groes, and in the North politicans own the j voters, body aDd sonl both. , An exquisite young lady wriggled into a linen draper's, and with the most etoruciating drawl she conld affect, inquired ( if they had any "snbdued mouse-colored { silk." "No," replied the draper, with a t snbded and impressive twii 1 of the yard-stick, { "bnt we have some enraged rat-color." t In a village school recently, when the a scholars were parsing, the word waif occur- i red in the sentence. The youngster who was up?a bright-eyed little fellow?puzzled over the word for a few minutes, and then, as c a bright idea struck him, he burst out with, " I can conjugate it?positive waif, comparative wafer, superlative sealing wax." j The numerous friends, at home and abroad, of Dr. Palmer, the pastor of the \ First Presbyterian Church, of this city, will learn with pleasure that he is now convales cent, and will soon be able to enter again upon the discharge. of his pastoial duties.? 0 His family have nearly all passed the ordeal v of the fever in safety.?New Orleans Pica- 1 yu ne. e r* ? ft " Those seeking office within the gift of b /Legislature can obtain access to the Edge- 0 field Delegation, through the mail, by addressing them as follows :?Col. J. P. Carrol, Senator, and W. W. Adams Esq., at Edgefield C. H.; Cols. J. Hamden Brooks and t! John Qaattlebum at Dorn's Mills; Maj. A. 8 L. Dearing, at Oakland ; A. Jones at Lees- 0 ville, and Col. James Tompkins, at Park's b Store.?Edgefield Advertiser. n 1. L. Allen, of Albany, New York, ^ met with a singular and painful aicident on a Friday. He wears, or rather did wear, a most luxuriant pair of whiskers, afoot or less in length. While running a sugar mill, | which was worked by steam, the whiskers on v and under the left side of his face and neck, p was caught in the machinery and every hair n' of them torn out by the roots, it leaving the 11 skin as bare as the hand. A Mrs. Mott, of Rutland, Vermont, ci has just obtained a divorce from her husband, f the Rev. Mr. H , of that city. Among o! the vices of the clerical gentleman the following are enumerated : " He kept a bad \ school, edited a reckless paper, stole money, CI and charged the theft upon the servant girl; a got the office of deputy inspector, and got ai drunk on smuggled liquor; took one shirt, S: another man's wife, a bundle of manuscript w sermons, and ran away from his own wife, y< his paper, and a crowd of creditors." al The last solitary banquet of a "last A man's" club, took place in Cincinnati, last a< week. In the cholera season of 1832, seven gentlemen agreed to meet annually and dine 0< onoe together as long as they lived, a bottle !l( of wine to be sealed and drunk in memorium, P' by the last survivor. The first re-union, was held on the 0th October, 1832, and on the lo 6th October, 1858, Dr. Vattier, sole survivor w of the seven, drank from the bottle and pledged the six dead friends, whose empty chairs and empty plates were his only society at the last melancholy feast. or Col. Rudler, one of the staff of Gen. m Walker in his first expedition in Central A- ti< merica, left our city on yesterday, to join an m emigrating party, which is to sail from Mo- th bile in a few days for Nicaragua. We learn E: that the company will go out with all the a facilities necessary for the peaceful coloniza- jo tion of that country. We trust that no intermeddling commodores will intercept their p progress, and that they will succeed in set- n ting up the standard of civilization and good X Goverment in that rude and misruled coun try.?Augusta Dispatch. g, Mr. Gurely, Republican, elected to Congress in Cincinnati, was formerly a Universalist minister One of his opponents was A trying to persuade an old Methodist not to ** vote for him. ? Do you think you are fur- q thering the cause of religion," said he, "by I sc voting for a Universalist?one who does I a" not believe in a hell ?" "Yes," was the old ! ^ Methodist's reply; "if by the time Mr. Gurley has been in Congress a year he does not ai believe 'there is a hell, then I don't under- zi stand the present Administration. I shall vote for him." xi Long John Wentworth, the leading P1 Republican of Illinois, has lately been in New Hampshire; and being asked his opinion of j Douglas, let loose thus?says the Chicago '. Times: " My opinion, sir! my opinion of Douglas is, that he is a d d rascal; but j ^ he is a big one, too, and carries bis point pa against oposition that any other roan would w break down under. He has got courage, ! pi sir, and forces his way and the people will or follow him. He is a d d scoundrel, sir; d{ but he will be elected Senator?and you of Buchanan men down here will have to take him for President yet. D??? him! j be tyt?jjrfebillt ii(fittrfr.; kpitsd by f SAMli W. MELTOKT. i YORKVlLLEj S. C. n ?? ?? ?? o rHUBSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1858. i ? We are very desirous to give particular t tteution to the local department of our paper; t ud to this end, we would ask our friends in the arious portions of the District, Postmasters and , there, to give us reliable accounts of whatever j natters of general interest, that may transpire in | heir respective localities. Notices of Marriages t ,nd Deaths will be promptly inserted, when ac- j ompanied by a responsible name. Announce- < cents of religious r.nd temperance meetings will >e inserted with pleasure, and without charge. 1 Our friends, Clergymen, Postmasters and oth- < ire, can, and we trust will, aid us materially in pntributing interesting items, of this nature to , iur columns. t *** In order to encourage the efforts of all j ' vho aro favorable to our enterprise, we propose o send a copy of the E.vqcibee, gratis, to any one naking up a club of ten subscribers and sending 515, in advance. To clubs of six, the paper will i >? onnt for <510 AO. with an extra copy to the person naking the club. J@*Sam'i.G Brown, Esq., Mni. Mtler Smith, ' ind M. Jones, Esq., are authorized to act as a;ents for the Enquirer, receive money and give receipts for the office. "A BETHEL PRESBYTER." We return our best thanks to "A Bethel Presjyter" for the very interesting sketch of the proseedings of the Synod of the Presbyterian Cburch? vhich met at Sumter last week. SHERIFF'S ELECTION. Our readers will bear in inind that Monday lext, is the day appointed for the election of a ?beriff for this District. The polls will be open out one day. YELLOW FEVER. The Board of Health report twenty four deaths From Yellow Fever, in Charleston, for the week inding on Saturday last. The health officers deem 1 t imprudent for unacclimatized persons to visit :he city yet. REV. W. E. BOOSE. Many of our readers will learn with regret, j >f the death of the aboved named gentleman, of ^ he South Carolina Conference, at Aiken, on Frilay last, 20th instant, after a very short but painul illness. Mr. Boone, was stationed in our ' own Beveral year since, and his kindness of heart, aid proper Christian deportment, won lor him ( nany friends. SONS OF TEMPERANCE. < The following persons have been elected offilers of Beershcba Division, No. 3., Sons of Temper- j >noe, for the present quarter:? ] W. R. Davis, IF. P.; H. C. Thomasson, IF. A.; i F. E. Burns, II. 8.; J. R. McKnigbt, A. 11. S.; j {. J. Clinton, F. S.; A. Burns, T.; W. A. Burns, , W. M. Caldwell, A. C.; J. W. Parker, I. 8.; ? V. E. Dover, 0. S.; J. R. S.Meek, J. P. IF. P.; 1 j FATAL ACCIDENT. ' < We learn with regret of a fatal accident which ( ccured to Mr. I. Newton Sadler, near Guthries- t ille, on Wednesday of the last week. It appears | ( -- - ?t. u I . bat Mr. SADLEB, owning a vicious uurae, uppi u?i;u- ( d him in an unwary manner, when lie received kick in the breast which broke two of his ribs, lesides inflicting internal injuries, from the effects f which he died on Sunday morning last. RELIGIOUS NOTICE. We have been requested by Rev. J. W. Kelly, he Presiding Elder of the Shelby District, to tate that the 4th Quarterly meeting of the Metlidist Church, for the Yorkville Station, will em- c race the Second Sunday in Novemher. The leeting will commence on the Friday morning * revious, at 11 o'clock. On the third Sunday in ^ Tovember, the Presiding Elder expects to preach * t Rock Hill. 1 2 sales-DAY. -j Monday last being sales-day, quite a number of ^ ersons were in town, considering the gloomy up- ^ earance of the weather. The Sheriff sold four t| egroes belonging to 8. L. Love, on a credit of ) months with interest, as follows: Boy, Andy, ? ;ed about 18 years, to Eli Meek, Esq., at $1,- ^ 30. A woman, aged about 40, and two small lildren, to Green Gordon, Esq., at $1,800.? hree mules were sold at low prices, for cash. The q :her property sold, brought Sheriff's sale prices. a, The Administrators of the estate of W. R. ?.( j.exandek, deceased, sold seven negroes, on a edit of twelve months, with interest, as follows : mzi, aged 27 years, to John S. Bratton, Esq., ; $1,100; Milly, aged 17 years, to J. Bolton MITH, at $1,017 ; Margaret, aged 14 years, to g( Ir. 8. A. McElwee, at $980; Ruff, aged 10 cj ;ars, to Mr. Hugh Tate, at $861; Eliza, aged fll jout 36, and a child, aged 9 months, to Mrs. tr lexandeb, at $300; Daniel, aged over 70 years, tr : the nominal price of $1, to Mrs Alexander. fti The Commissioner in Equity sold several tracts | ? ; land which brought short prices. The'McClure' jg )use and lot?sold to foreclose mortgage?was a irchased by Mr. Wm. McClcbe, at $1,020. Col. W. B. Wilson, Agent, sold the house and m t in thirplace belonging to A. J. Powel, which tj, as "knocked down" to B. P. Botd, Esq., at 1-250. D RUSSELL'S MAGAZINE. ei The November issue of this sterling monthly is i our table, and presents a variety of instructive 'n atter. From a hasty glance at the different ar- J S: ?les, we incline to the opinion, that the present j imber, in point of solid interest, is rather above J S; e average. On the return of the editor of the ! B s'quibeb, the work will probably be reviewed in P' manner commensurate to its merits. The subined is the table of contents :? ai What is Seen and What is Not Seen; Childhood; ^ arion?the Carolina Partisan; On seeing the j A ortrait of a Child; Quintin Messis ; Sonnet; aj otes on the Pino Trees of Lower Virginia and i orth Carolina; With Thee when Suns are Wa- j ? og; Anacreontic; A Meeting with De La Roche; | n Hour among Medals and Coins ; The Lover's j f0 ong; My Country Lodgings; The Parthenon; i amia; Sonnet; The Stastok Family ; Sonnet; i r( eart and Conscience. | e( Editobs' Table:?Essay8 and Remains of Rev. j lfred Yaugban; A Journey due North ; Sermons reached in Tiinity Chapel, by Rev. F. W. Rob- *1 tson; Courtship of Miles Staudish; Yernon ni rove, or Hearts as they are ; Carolina Art As ciation, Leutze's Painting; Ernestin; Blonde id Brunette; Legends and Lyrics, by A. A. | rocter; From New York to Delhi; Zerah, the i C elieving Jew. The price of the Magazine is Three Dollars per ! w inum, in advance. Address, "Russell's Maga- i c| ne," Charleston, S. C. 19 Query :?Will the editors of "Russell's Maga- I ne" inform us why they do not club with the ' K ess, on the same terms as other monthlies? j ^ newspaper files. i 01 The following paragraphs which wo find "float- " g on the sea of reading," credited to the Na6hlie News, we print for the purpose of calling at- r( ntion to the prevalent evil of destroying news- ai ipers, after a casual glance at their contents. ai e have in our possession, files of newspapers, 18 inted in Yorkville in twenty-one different years, ei dating from 1835, which would be unwilling to istroy for several hundreds of dollars. The one te the eldeBt date is really the most valuable. ^ A few days ago a gentleman came from a neigh* ? ring county, and hunted us up at the Fair, to i Pi lake inquiry concerning a publication which be ras advised was made in the newspaper printed j u that county when lie was quite a child, and of . rkich he had learned * e had a file. He stated j' hat the information he sought would be worth ' ive hundred dollars to 1 im, and that he could find < t no where else. We have a copy of the paper eferred to, running back to 1S32, and regard it , is the most valuable ar;icle of property that we 1 wn. Another case occurrel only a few weeks since. I Vn esteemed lady of on * acquaintance, residing in , i distant county, wrote to us for information conained within the volumes possessed alone by 1 ts, and for which she would freely have paid lib rally. The fact is very few persons are willing o take the trouble to file away and preserve their iewspnpers, preferring to rely upon some more jrory and laborious friend to do the work for | hem. Now what we desire to say upon this sub- j ect is, that the trouble of preserving a file of | 1 * * " M * - *? --t-1 k n a!? fnn r I lewspapers, couia not ran 10 ue pmu ??/?. 'old, to nny person who has any desire to have a sorroot history of past events in his immediate ricinity. There are multitudes of events occurring in every county and neighborhood every week, i which it may bo of importance to know hereafter, ind which it is impossible to keep in the memory. The newspaper which catches up all these events ind records them, if put carefully away, and preserved, will at any future time bring these events to mind, and enable the most forgetful to establish facts which else it would be impossible to establish to their own satisfaction. meheoigxtion. The new Legislature of South Carolina, according to the compilation of the Charlestotf Courier, will be composed as follows : In the Senate there will be 17 new and 29 old members; in the House 74 new and 49 old members with one vacancy, so that in both houses there will be 78 old and 92 new members. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier nominates, W.m Greoo, Esq., of Edgefield, for the next Governor of this State. A coteraporary says it is just about as sensible to undertake to get married without courting as to do business without advertising. And this opinion is a very correct one. There was a decrease in the taxable property of San Francisco, for the present fiscal year, as compared with the last, of considerably more than $4,500,000. A piece of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, purchased from Messrs. Tiffany & Co., of New York City, has been submerged in the Ohio river, between Evansville, Indiana, and Henderson, Kentucky, and works admirably. The Pendleton Messenger nominates Hon. Jamf.s D. Trad wall, of Columbia, for the United 8tates Senate. Why is a minister like a locomotive ? We have to look out for him wh ?n the bell rings? The Supreme Court of Michigan has decided that the proprietors of a steamboat are not obliged to give i colored person a cnbio passage if such be their rule. Seven huadred tons of rails are to be manufactured at Paiucah, Ky., for the Mississippi, Ouachita nnd R?d River Rail Road Co., of Arkansas. Elections for members of Congress are held on the 1st of November in LonisianA ; on the 2nd in New York, Illinois, Michigan and Massachusetts; }n the 4th in Wiscons n, and on the 9th in Delaware. An Indiana paper refuses to publish eulojies gratis, but adds : "We will publish the simple announcement of the death of any of our friends with pleasure." The costume of the Spanish adiee has not changed for two hundred years.? They actually wear :he same style of dress as :heir great grandmothers did. A thief in Philadelphia has been stealing a quantity of Tesamenta and other re ligious worke. The May>r of Portsmouth, Vn., has takeu measures for the irrest of person, without regard to rank or coniition, found swearing on the public streets. Jxles L. Gaylord, of Norrinford, Conn., has raisid, this season, 231 bushels of ears of corn, from ittle more than an acre of ground. In view >f Gen. Walker's expedition, notice is given to dl persons landing in Nacaragua to be provided vith passports. Freeman's Journal of New fork and the last Catholic Miscellany of Charleson, both contradict the statement, which has gone he rounds of the press, that the Pope had forbidlen Catholic parents to give the name of Mary to heir children. The Journal Jes Debate states bat the specie in the banks of Europe exceeds ;160,060.000 sterling, more than one fourth of rhich is held by the Bank of France and the lank of England. The Indianapolis Citi en mentions a new fashioned appeal to chanty, 'hree children were recently born at a birth there, iome women friemls went round exhibiting a nguerreotype of them, soliciting donations for lie mother. It is staled that a child was repntly born in Canada weighing thirty pounds. Sylvester Mowrt, of San Francisco, has ecotne insane from fear of the comet. The lost valuable span of horses in the United States, lys an exchange paper, are said to be owned by ommodore Vandeubilt, of New York. They re matched horses. They cost him S6.000, and e has been offered $9,000 for them. For the Yorkville Enquirer. DOTTING8 ON THE SYNOD OP 8. C. Have you ever visited Sumter, the city of clarisd sand?noble-hearted, intelligent and refined tizens? If you have, you found a most, bcauti- c il town, extended over a large area of level coun- 8 y, with the Railroad cutting its Southern ex- s emity, and giving evidence that taste, energy | id skill, possess and actuate its citizens. It has s population of two thousand; has about ten Min- c ters, six Physiciats and fifteen lawyers. Quite h professional police 1 h It wiib in this town that a goodly number of the D embers of the-Synod of South Carolina met on j ie 26th ultimo, to engage in religious services, 1 revious to the regular meeting of that Body.? (j uring a large part of twenty four hours we were 0 igaged in devotional exercises?in the meantime p stening to a suggestive, practical and entertain- 3 g discourse upon '-Revivals" by Rev. Thomas c utthk, D. D., of Charleston. b On the 27th of October, at 7 o'clock, p. m., the n pnod was opened by a sermon from Rev. W. j. anks, the Moderator, who on this occasion, surisscd his best efforts. E Rev. T. L. McBryde, D. D., of Charleston, g id Rev. T. A. Horr were chosen, the nrst as r Moderator, and the second as temporary Clerk. c bout one hundred and twenty delegates were in c tendance, more than half of which were Cler- f pmen. t York District had seven Ministers there and c ur Elders; and Bethel Presbytery had a full v presentation of Clergy, and a commendable del- s 50tion of Laymen. h I propose to give you only a brief summary of '' ie proceedings of the Synod ; but before begin- ' !ng this, I will inform you that at nn adjourn- i5 1 meeting of Bethel Presbytery, the pastoral retion8 between F.ev. J. G. Richards and the ' hurch at Ebene;:er, and between Rev. W. J. I [oCormick and h.s Church in Fairfield District, t ere dissolved. Mr. Richards is going to Lib- 5 ty Hill, in Kerstaw District. Mr. McCormick d undecided us to his destination. ' Among the bus.uess transacted by Synod, we ' ^ iay mention the fact that arrangements were made | '> ir uniting the Syiodof Alabama with the Synods ! 1 f South Carolina and Georgia, iu the control of | * ie Theological Seminary at Columbia. This c eminary is now in a very prosperous condition, * iporting about firty students. With such men i Drs. Thornwe:.j,, IIowe, Adger and Leland, j r id Mr Cohen, filling i ;s Professional chairs, it r obliged to command the patronage of the South- 7 n Church. | 3 Dr. Adder was inducted by the Board of Trus- , 8 es at this meeting of 8ynod, with the Professor- a tip of "Church History and Polity." Rev. P. E. j " rsHOP gave the charge to the Professor, and the c rofessor himself delivered an Inaugural Address. I The Synod of South Carolina has also a control in the University of Georgia (Oglethorpe.) This Institution has been doing an extensive work for Lhe Presbyterian Church, having sent more students to the Seminary nt Columbia, thunany other ingle College. It now numbers about one hundred students. Under the Presidency of Rev. Dr. Talmapce, assisted by nn able corps of Profes ors, nothing but a career of brightening hope ind increasing usefulness, can be marked out for ihis College. Measures for a complete system of Colportugo, (/. c., distribution of religious bookfi, published under the supervision of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church) are about to be initiated in the State of South Carolina, and Rev. W. J. Keith, of Georgia, is to be the General Agent.? The power of the press is felt by the Church, and she wishes to make it subservient to the canse of religion and her Divine Master. Much time was spent by Synod in giving attention to Foreign Missions. The Annual Report on this subject was read by Rev. Dr. Smythe, who for a great number of years, has presented a similar Report, he being the Chairman of the Synodical Committee. From that Report we learned that all the ChuroheB in the Synod had paid for the pur pose of sending the Gospel to the Heathen, more than six-thousand dollars, being an increase of four hundred dollars over the amount paid last year.? In connection with the Report, many interesting, touching, and instructive facts, were elicited. Rev. J. L. Wrtsoif, D. D., who is Secretary o" the ' Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions,' and also a member of this'Synod, was present; and addressed a large congregation upon the aspects and prospects of the Heathen world. Mr. Wil8ox was for about twenty years a Missionary to Africa, but in the Providence of God, is detained in this country to do an official work to which no other man is so competent. Dr. McBrtdb, the Moderntor of Synod, also spent some years as a Missionary in China, from which field he was forced to retire by declining health. He preached the Annual Sermon before the Synod, in which he detailed many facts that were of thrilling interest, and possessed a double force because they were portrayed as realitieti in bis own experience. It is interesting aluo to know that Dr. Adger, (a Professor in the Seminary at Columbia,) spent many years of Missionary labor in 8yria. He left his Mission because of a Providential dispensation disqualifying him for doing the required service. This Synod has now bnto ae Muaionnry, and he is among the Western tribes of Indians. The cause of Domestic Missions claimed also a part of the time of Synod. A Report was read by Rev. GiRARiiRAtr, detailing the operations within the boundii of the four Presbyteries. This cause lies very near the heart of the Synod, and we were gratified to learn that seven churches had been organized during the past year, and oth?r promising fields opening. But one of our Ministers has pnssed away from earth during the year, and he, the Rev. Dr. Post, fell a victim to the Yellow Fever. The Synod has aoom ninety-six Ministers; six Licentiates; sixteen Candidates, and one hundred and thirty-six Churches. The negotiations touching the Union of the Presbyterians and the Seceders, which have been in process for some years, were at this meeting brought to an end, at least for the present. The late action of Synod of the Associate Reformed Church at Due West, S. C-. left no alternative for us but to discharge our Committee, and thus cease our efforts to accomplish an object so desirable as the union of the sister branches of the great Presbyterian Family. A very pleasant hour was spent by the Synod, in listening to an address by Rev. Girardeau, in behalf of the Society for the relief of superanuated Ministers, and the widows and orphans of indigent Minieters. As the address is to be published, I forbear giving any notice of some of its excellencies. Would that it could be read by every Presbyterian in South Carolina! After adopting resolutions upon sundry other matters, which the length of this communication will not allow me to detail, the Synod adjourned Saturday evening, 30th of October, to met in norf rPflP. Eight members of Synod, viz: Messrs. Howe, Bishop, Adoee, Hott, Girardeau, Adams. James and Wills, occupied the pulpits in the Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist Churches on Sabbath, and in this way, we hope the people of Sumter received some recompense for their unbounded hospitality to us, whilst sojourning amongst them. IVe left the town with hearts swelling with joy ind gratitude, that Synod had met where so many lokens of genuine hospitality were lavished upon is, and I doubt not, that it was the cordial language of eaoli departing member?Sumter and ler people shall ever be a "green spot in memo y's page." This I know, was the feeling of A BETHEL PRESBYTER. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. New York, October 22, 1858. Fashion and folly is in the fullest tide of suc:ess. From morning to night, without intermision, the McFlimset tribe cruize, with all sails et, up and down the "shady side" of Broadway n search ot "circulars," "crimson ducks," "gauze kirts," or that latest of all agonies and fittest :ompany for "hoopadiddles," the patent paper ind-rider. The backwood's belles may not have ieard of the last named article of female "fixins," lay, they will not believe it; bat, nevertheless, t is an "institution" of expansive dimensions rhich has been kept so secretly in the back ;round that your informant lives in constant dread f being set upon and smothered with old newsaptrs and broom strings attached to the unreaonablepart of the fashionable world. The merhnnts are reaping a golden harvest. At no time as there been such a demand for female "flumlery" of the most expensive description; a high rice will sell almost anything. The first appearance of Madmoiselle i'lccoiomiii in this country, adds no little to the extrava;anco of the times. This celebrated cantatrice nade her debut, on Wednesday evening, in the pera of "La Traviata," to an enthusiastic house rowded from "pit to dome." The opera chosen or the occasion is not such as to try the qualiies that go to make np a first rate artiste, and j onsequently the furort of expectation was some- j rhat cooled by the end of the play. The critics | ay that she is "small, pretty and accomplished," | iut that she commits "grave errors" in singing, j rbile her acting is fine. She will sing at the J Lcademy of Musio twelve nights, after which her j irst engagements ends ; it is said that she then | akes a tour South and West. The "fancy" who have been living on the exlectatiou of the great combat, fist and skull, beween Ueenan, alias Benicia Boy, Irishman ; and lorisBey, American; have at last had their brutal esires gratified in the solution of the prjblem of rhat they call the championship of America.? 'he parties having eluded the vigilance of tha poice, who did not care to catch them, repaired to be selected spot on the Canada side, end there j rent to the work of "milling" in right grod earn- ! st. They fought, eleven tremendous rounds in wcnty-two minutes. Heenan had the advantage for the first five ; ounds, after which he began to fag until the last 1 ound, when, he was "knocked out of time" and ielded Morissey the viotory. The victor wins ; 15,000 from the conquered. Large 6ums were takod on the fight and several hundred thousands : re supposed to have changed hands. They who travel on muscle" came from all parts of the : ountry to witness the brutal battle. Hope Hose and Engine Company from Philadel a phia have been on a visit to the firemen of this j city, both enjoying their hospitality and "surpris- | ing the natives" with the sight and working of a | steam fire-engine. Hitherto, the firemen of New | ! York have been opposed to the innovation on | the old style engine ; but the play of the Philadel- ; | phia engine was so admirable that'quite a change j j has come over their notions.* Steam can be raised ' , in a few minutes, in the time usually taken to rnn j i to a fire, at full speed. The water is thrown from j ; the nozzle in a continuous stream, and on the trial j made, it reached the perpendicular height of about i oue hundred and sixty feet. The N. Y. Fire De' pnrtment has ordered a similar engine to be made i in order to test their practical utility. They will j supersede the old fashioned man killers. The Medical Colleges have commenced tli? Winter Course of Lectures with very full' classes.? \ Professor Post delivered the opening lecture in the University College, nnd Professor Doremus that of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Hon. Jeff. Davis of Miss, addressed theDemocj racy, on Monday night, in favor of Judge Parker, Democratic candidate for Governor of the State, in n forced speech without much point. lie is j stronger with the sword than with the tongue. SETH. Nkw York, Oct. lit*. If an observer looked at tho extravagant expansions of fashion nnd folly alone, he would conclude that the results of the financial crisis of 1857 had disappeared with that crash in the monetary world. But such is not the case. Underneath this desperate effort to appear favorod of fortune there runs an undercurrent of painful appreciation of half filled and empty coffers. In spite of all assertions to the contrary, the commercial interests of the Metropolis of America, though regaining their former status, are but slowly recovering from the prostration of last year. The Venezuelan Commissioners, who came to , recall Gen. Paez to his native country, showed their appreciation of the kindness displayed toi wards the banished patriot by the citizens of this city, by giving a banquet to the Mayor and Com, mon Council. No doubt this event will prove tho means of a better understanding between this Government and those of some of the South Amcr ican Republics. , The Valorous, British, with Sir Ooro Ouseley, , British Minister to Nicaragua and Central America, I has sailed for her destination. It is asserted that he goes oat to oomplioate affairs in that quarter; and it is not improbable that the British and American GoTernmcnts will be drawn into proceedings of no very amicable nature. If oar Government does not adopt a comprehensive and de cided policy in the matters about to come up for decision, the fillibusters must do the work for them. The first annual session of the Law Department of the University of New York has opened under favorable circumstances. This institution, so well known in educational spheres, is now near the form of the University proper. Its sphere of usefulness is correspondingly enlarged. The numberless fortune-tellers, clairvoyants and spirtual media of fancy shades and colors who prey on their dupes without mercy, have had a showing at Inst?before the Mayor. The famous Sergeant Birney took the matter in hand and executed it with consummate skill. He dressed. himself in "greeny" style, had his fortune told again and again in the most ludicrous ways ; in a word, he "sold" the whole sisternity of fortunetellers and treasure-trovers, after the most approved fashion. They gave bail for better behavior in future, frankly acknowledging that wherever there were fools, fortune-tellers were in demand. A remarkable criminal case has just been in vestigated by one of the city coroners. A woman died on the 27th, Sept. 1857, aud was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Two of her neices, who were with her during her sickness and death, recently made known some circumstances connected with her death, leading to suspicion of poisoning by her husband. The authorities took the matter in hand and made an investigation into the facts. An inquest was held on the exhumed body, testimony of a criminating nature given, and the body was analyzed by the chemists. The body although buried a year, was in a remarkable state of preservation, very little decomposition havfhg taken place. After a most laborious analysis of the viscera and flesh of the whole body, the Chemists report having discovered Arsenic in sufficient quantity to produce death. So much for the triumph of science. The husband will be tried before the proper tribunal. Cancemi, the Italian who was convicted of the murder of a Policeman before a jury of his own choice consisting of eleven meu, has a new trial grauted him by the Supreme Court. The ground taken was that the trial by eleven men was irregular. The judges ruled in accordance with the plea. A most horrid tragedy ha3 just occurred in a respectable and wealthy family of the city. A young man named Oouldy, aged 19 years, of irregular habits, was remonstrated with by his father and reprimanded for keeping late hours with improper company. He came home one night about 10 o'clock when his father spoke to him about his conduct. He went to his room and returning with a hatchet, struck his father with it, felling him to the floor. He attacked his mother, two small brothers and two servant girls in succession. He attempted to attack his two sis| ters in like manner, but they locked the door.? He then went to his own room and there blew his brains out with a pistol, killing himself almost instantly. His father and one servant girl- are mortally wounded, and the chances for the others are very few. He is supposed to have been crazy when he perpetrated the unnatural deed. SETH. [communicated.] CHURCH MEMBERS AND TEMPERANCE. Why are the people of the world in advance of I the church in respect to temperance ? In examining the pledge-book of some of the Divisions of the Sons of Temperance, I find snch is the fact. Such things do not speak well for the church. It i is said of the christian, "ye are the light of the j world, let your light so shine before men, that | they may see your good works, and glorify your i Father which is in Heaven ?" To you who refuse to give up the use of ardent spirits as a beverage, I wish to suggest a few thoughts on the present occasion. And here permit me to ask the question ; Does not the Christian make a brilliant light when seen in a grogshop?when seen among the ; enemies of the church?for their is nothing more j at variance with the interest and well-being of the i church than a grog shop. It is the very opposite j of Heaven. It has been said by one whoso opin ion is worth something, that upon every grog-slop should be inscribed in capital letters : "The way | f to nell going down "to the chambers of death!" i Tho christian dram-shop! the christian dramseller !! or the christian dram-drinker! !! How i | does it sound in your ear ? Does it not appear j< full of contradiction? Tell mo not of the honest j 1 ! J thief, the prayerlcss christian or the christian ^ ( dram-seller. There is just as much consistency j in the one as the other. Such characters "are j doubtless choice gems in the phrase book of Sa- j tan." I am aware of the fact that there are : , many professed christians who argue that there is . no positive command in the scriptures of divine ' truth for a temperance organization. They say ; j where there is no law there is no transgression. ; ] Can the christian say that the time has not fully ' 1 come for united effort in behalf of temperance ? Can he say that he is free from the obligation to do good to hie fellow-men ? It is a notorious feet that many individuals ? have blasted all their fair prolpeets for happiness, both in this life and the next, by the use of ardent spirits as a beverage. Humanity, apart from Christianity, would require ns to use onr influence against intemperance. What suffers from the effects of intemperance? Not the body alone, but the soul is endangered. We are told that "No ; drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God." | The decree has gone forth that if you drink to | excess and continue to offer up your morning and j evening devotions to the God of Bacchus, your ! doom is settled. . ? * * * I Then I would ask, how shall we rid the world ! ! and the church of this crying evil ? gign the ! j pledge, and Hay to your brethren who are treading j ! tlio inoKri.itoa ruitli no Pitnl qaid tn thn Phillinnian I %..v ?MV/. ?vu -w - ?w rr I jailer, "Do thyself do barm," and what thon doest do qnickly?wait not until to-morrow; to^nor\ row may never come, and that individual whom ! you might have arrested by your example, is now j beyond your reach, and yon may hear him from the depths of despair charging you with being accessary to his doom. Then come one, come all, trJ throw the weight of your influence in the scale of virtue and temperance : "Dear fathers teach your sons to be Ashnm'd of rnins vile slavery ; | Be Sons yourselves, that no mistake Bo made as to the road you take. Then if your sons hy drink should fall, No blame can come to you at all; Come mothers, wives and sisters all Without your aid the cause must fall. Do all you can by word and deed, To help in such a time of need, And then the work will soon be done, The men he soher every one. Young men who think yourselves so strong The fate of others prove your wrong, The rook on which so many split, Is there with all its dangers yet The winds and waves with mighty power, Proclaim the coming fatal hour, 0 ! come-and seek for safety then, With these united temperance men." INDIAN LAND. Kentucky and Indiana Slave Troubles. We published a brief telegraphic account a few days since of the illegal arrest of Horace Bell, . ?f ? ail I - IT . CC | Rt INcw Aioany, maiann, oy some nciuucujr uuiI cent, who carried bim ioto Kentucky. The particulara of the affair, as given in the Louisville Journal, areas follows: "Last winter a negrb slave was run off from Brandenburg by a free negro who resides in Indiana. The latter had been engaged in this nefarious practice for some time, and circumstances I transpired whioh led to the discovery that a white { family named Bell, who liaTe a farm opposite Brandenburg, had been aiding and abetting it.? In March last, one of the sons of Bell wns caught In Brandenburg and arrested, and subsequently the father was, by stratagem, induced to go to the river one night, and he was then also arrested by a posse of Kentuckians and taken across. The two Bells were brought before the county Judge on a charge of running off negroes, and in default of giving bail each in $5,000 for their appearance at the Circuit Court, were committed to jail. The next Circuit Court held, the case was continued to a subsequent term. Last summer, Horace Bell, who, it is stated, bad been to Nicaragua, returned. In July last, while a barbecue was held at Garnettsril'.e, which was attended by the jailor and most of the citizens of Brandenburg, Horace, accompanied by two men, and armed to the teeth, crossed in a skiff to Brandenburg, proceeded to the jail, which had been left in charge of the jailor's wife and a young I man, and demanded the release of his father and ( brother. The young man tied at the appearance j of a six-shooter in Horace's band, and the jailor's j wife surrendered the keys. The party then reI leased the father and his son, and took thetn back I in their skiff to Indiana. rue citizens or urauI denburg thereupon offered a Teward of f5004fcr ] the delivery of Horace Hell to the jailor of that I county. These are the circumstances in brief | out of which grew the affair on Saturday. On Saturday, while Horace was walking on Main street, in New Albany, five men, who are reported to have been officers from this city, seized hold of him, and carried him to the ferry boat, which it is alleged was waiting to bring them across. He was lodged in the jail in this city, and a felony warrant sworn out against him by the chief of police. Horace Bell was subsequently removed to Brandenburg, and a steamboat had been chartered by the citizens of New Albany, to convey a posse of armed men to Brandenburg for his rescue. No account has yet been received of the result of the expedition. Gen. Walker* Movement*. The following circular is being very generally distributed by Gen. Walker: Morilk, Oct. 10, 1858. Sir: You are advised that on the 10th day of November next a vessel will leave this port for San Juan del Norte. She will take any passengers and freight that offer for Nicaragua. If you or any persons in your neighborhood desire to emigrate to Central America, please advise me of it as soon as possible, in order that passage may be secured for you and your companions.? It will be well for you to arrive here three or four days previous to your departure. Your obedient servant, William Walker. TKoud /.imulnm am nrinted in a neat form on ?""" ?- r ? ? note paper, and have been sent to Gen Walker's special friends all over the country. It is not difficult to surmise the character of the freight and passenger's referred to by Walker. We see it stated however, that no correspondence has passed through the State Department, relativo to the reported recent movements of him or his adhernnts, towards making another descent on Nicaragua. The instructions formerly issued respcc- , ting filibuster expeditions about to leave this country, will, most likely, still hold good against bis oompany, or that of any other citizens of the | United States, in case they make themselves , amenable to law by carrying with them implements of war, &c., and it is probablo that the sen* , ding of further instructions to custom-house offi- , cers in various sections of the oountry is therefore j considered unnecessary. ( A dispatch dated Washington, Oct. 26th, says , that Walker's late movements and preparations | for an expedition to Nicaragua, are exciting attention there, especially in the diplomatic circles. ; It is known that he is and will be amply supplied j with men and money, and it is also known that | the cruisers of the British West India Squadron | have received positive orders to intercept all expeditions against Central America. It is therefore apprehended by some that the repulse or arrest of Walker by a British cruiser would lead to a serious question between the United States t and Great Britain.? Columbia Guardian. . The Cotton Crop. The New York Journal of Commere has the t following on the all-absorbing tcpic in commer- e cial circles: The beautiful weather in September, (which j month has been freer from storms of wind or rain < hfin an? similar neriod at the South for many ? years,) has not only matured the crop rapidly, but j has enabled the planters to make rapid progress a in picking. The rust has injured the growth in r many districts, and the overflow probably wiped j out 200,000 bales, but the remaining yield is now almost independent of the question of frost, and is set down generally at about 3,800,000 bales.? i j The picking is several weeks (say one month) ear- j lier than usual, and this will bring an increased , y quantity into the market at an early date. If any of our readers have not calculated for themselves j the value of this crop, a few figures in that con- ; nection will both interest and surprise them.-? ( If we take 3,300,000 bales as the probable crop, | A and 550 pounds as the average to the bale, and j (considering that the quality is said to be better than usual) if we assume 124 cents as the average price, we shall have as the total value of the new crop, in round numbers, two hundred and twentyseven million dollars! This is, to all intents and purposes, over and above tht consumption of the cotton-growing States, and is only that which they 0 will have to sell, or to exchange for other produoe ? and manufacture. If the price named be reckoned too much, we shall find that even at ten oents n per pound the total value would be $181,600,000, : t! and this is an article which will be certainly wan- ; C ted, and which commands a ready sale in all the j S principal markets of the world. 8 Chester Court. a The Court of Common Pleas and General 8es- a lions, for Chester District, is in session this weejc p ?His Honor D. L. Wardlaw, presiding. The a cusiness of the Term is not unusually large, there C being, perhaps, not a single stoutly litigated case ft )n the civil side of the Court On the Session! r Docket there are two cases of homicide to betrtal If >esides several other oases of smaller and more common grades of offence?the letter will generally be traversed. The charge of the Judge to the Grand Jury ot the opening of the Court woe plain/ practical and sensible?he did not travel out of the way as is very frequently the case with eorae of our Judges, to discnsa matters other than such as were fit and becoming the time, the place and the occasion, and snch and such only as should be considered and aoted npon by the Grand Inquest of the conntry. There are a goodly number of the brethren of the Bar present from the neighboring Districts. Union, York, Fairfield and Richland, are each well and pleasantly represented. From the indications of the present, the Court will be likely to continue to the last of the week ? Ghrttrr Standard 2$th vIt. The State Snrslwg Babies The moet gigantic specimen of a State- nnrse which the world pi esents at this time is Russia. The Government in that country is not only the most paternal, but the most maternal Government extant. At Moscow and St. Petersburg, there are hospitals or asylums, which now receive 30,000 babies every year. A part of th? se are bom in these asylums, and a part brought to them after tbey are born. The Moscow or mother establishment, has been in operation since 1792. At first the inmates were few, but in 1857 the new comers for the year reached the large number of 14,000. In St. Petersburg, the annual additions are still more numerous. Since the establishment of these institutions, over half a million of babies have been received to tbeir motherly embrace, and the yearly additions are rapidly increasing. " The hospital at Moscow is a building not less than 1,000 feetlong, and of dimensions three times that ot' tho capitol at Washington. The Governorship of this institution is only second in importance to that of tlie city itself, and 13 always conferred apon a nobleman of distinguished rank and attainments. The annnal expenses of the hospital amount to $5,000,000. A portion of the Government reeennes are set aside for this purpose, in addition to which successive Curs, at well as private individual, have richly endowed it. Tbo St. Petersburg hospital, though in the heart of the city, covers, with its dependencies, twentyeight acres of ground. Upwards of five hundred teachers are employed, many of them on very high salaries. The number of nurses, servants and other persons employed in the establishment, amounts to upwards of five thousand. The boys and girls, both here and in Moscow, are taught separately. The cost of their edncation, alone, is more than $1,000,000 annually. The entire property devoted to tbo support, raaintainanoe and education of foundlings in Russia, is uid to amount to the enormous sum of five hundred millions of dollars. AH parts of the vast building are most substantially and carefully constructed. The walls are of brick or stone, the floors are of marble or glazed tiles to the corridors, and the stair-cases aie of iron: The courts enclose garden plots, radiant with flowers. The arrangements for beating and ventilating are admirable. This description applies to both of the establishments. Of the children committed to the care of these noble charities, a very large portion of them are the offspring of poor married people, in all parts of the country. As the children may afterwards be reclaimed, on certain conditions, and are in any case assured of as fortunate a lot, at least, as wonld have been theirs at home, the parents are more easily led to take advantage of this charity. The child is taken without question, and therefore no reliable statistics of the public mortality can be obtained from this source. The office is kept open night and day, and no living child which is offered can be refused. The only question asked is, whether it has been baptised. If not, the ceremony is immediately performed in an adjoining room, by a priest connected with the institution, one of the oldest nurses generally acting as god-mother. Its name and nnmher arc then entered in the official book, a card containing them and the date of its arrival is attached to its neck, and another given to its mother, so that it may afterwards Be identified and reclaimed. Very frequently, the mother is allowed Jo become its nurse, in which case she receives pay like the other nurses. After six weeks or two months in the institution, it is sent to the country, where it remains until old enough to receive instruction. The regular nurses are paid $50 a year, in addition to their board and lodging. If the parents pay a sum equal to $25 on the deposition of the infant, they are entitled to*have it brought up exclusively within the walls of the institution, where it is more carefully attended to than elsewhere. The payment of $200 procures for it, if n boy, the rank of an officer. The pareots are allowed to see their children at stated times, and many of them take advantage of this permission. The greater part, however, live in the provinces, and virtually give up their children to the State ; though it is always possible, by consulting the hospital directory, to find where the latter are, and to recover them. in tbe lying-m Hospital, an women are received who apply. They are allowed to enter one month before their confinement, and to remain afterward until their health ifentirely restored. Those who wish to be unknown nre concealed by a curtain which falls across the middle of the bed, so that their faces are never seen. Besides this, no one is allowed to enter the hospital, ezoept those actually employed within it. The late Emperor, even, respected its privacy, and at once gave np his desire to enter, on the representations of the Governor. The arrangements are said to be so excellent that not only poor married women, but many wbo are qnite above the necessity of snch a charity, take advantage of it. In this oase, also, the number of ohildren brought forth is no evidence as to the proportion of Illegitimate births. It is not obligatory upon the mother to leave her child in the hospital; she may take it with her if she chooses, but it will of course be received, if offered. The superintendents and teachers are particularly required to watch the signs of any decided talents in the children, and where such appears, to develop it in the proper direction. Thus, excellent musicians, actors, painters, engineers and mechanics of various kinds, have been prodaced, and the poor and nameless children of Russia have risen to wealth and distinction. Besides the soldiers, common mechanics and factory girls, which the children of ordinary capacity become, the Government has, of late years, established many of them as fanners and colonists on the uncultivated crown lands. They are mated, married, and comfortably settled in villages, where, in addition to their agricultural labors, they frequently take charge of a young generation of foundlings. Bayard Taylor, the author of the account from which we derive the foregoing, has a good opinion of the moral effects of these institutions. They prevent abortions and infanticides, without, on the other hand, increasing licentiousness to a degree of evil that can be considered as at all a counter* oalance for the good they do. The destruction of human life in embryo and nfanoy in the United States is probably greater ;han anybody suspects. We hare little doubt :hat even among Amerioans morality would gain ay the establishment of foundling hospitals. St. Louie Herald. Complimentary. Wo had the pleasure, yesterday, of inspecting, it the Executive Office, the very handsome swords i'oted by the General Assembly to Maj. Hill and }apt. Anderson. They arc of the fine workmanihip of Ames & Co., at Chicopee, Massachusetts, ind are very beautiful. The grip is of silver, inrmounted by a miniature golden bust of Carolila's great statesman?the guard and scabbard ailrer, heavily gilt. On the shield below the guard s the Palmetto, with the motto of the State, 'Animis opibusqueparati." On the scabbard, is a riew of the United Slates Military Academy at Weet noint, a view up the Iludson, from that post?and \ representation of the siege of Vera Cruz in fine elief. They are similar in ail respects but in the ascriptions, which re as follows : South Carolina To Major Daniel H. Hill, ,ate of the U. S. A., now Prof, of Mathematics. A memorial of gallant conduct in service at lonterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Chapaltepec, Mexico. South Carolina To Capt Richard Henry Anderson, l memorial of gallant conduot in service at Vera Cruz, Churubusco, Molino del Key, > Mexico. Columbia Carolinian. 8. C. Conference. The session of the South Carolina Conference f the M. E. Church, South, will be held in this ity, beginning on Wednesday, 1st December. During this session, with other public and aniversary celebrations, there will be a meeting of t tie "Historical Society of the 8onth Carolina inference, wun an aaaress oy rroreesor A. M. hipp, of the North Car&lina University. The Corresponding Secretary is Re?. A. G. tacy, of Marion Court House, who will receive ny historical contributions or documents that lay be offered for the Society, whose aims are to reserve all records connected with the establishlent and progvees of the Methodist Episcopal huroh, in any part of the South Carolina Con irebce. ^ne Conference limits includes the State of 6uth Carolina and a portion of North Carolina. Charkiin Courier. J ^ i m