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Scraps Jfacts. No man will assume the character of another unless he is ashamed of his own. Thad. Stevens is for negro suffrage everywhere except in Pennsylvania. Government allows Ex-President Davis $20 per week for the purchase of rations. A Georgian has invented a process for compressing the resinous leaves of the Southern pine into bloobs for kindling wood. Ex-President Buchanan spends most of his time, in telling stories about his administration. The old gentlemen is evidently in his anec-dotage. A lawyer is something of a carpenter. He can file a bill, split a hair, make an. entry, get up a case, frame an indictment, empanel a jury, put them in a box, ail a witness, and bammer a judge. In a receDt speech, Horace Maynard dwelt fondly upon the happy state of society when the negro should intermarry with white women, a privilege he expected to see permitted in a few months. A set of resolutions asking for the release of Mr. Davis, has been introduced into the Legislature of Texas, by Major Ester, who served during the Mexican war in the regiment of Mississippi volunteers commanded by Col. Davis. A four year-old went to Church on Sunday, and when he got home, his grandmother asked him what the minister said. "Don't know," said he: "he didn't speak to me." A good many old people might answer in the same way. The household effects left at the Arlington Mansion by General Lee, or rather the fragments remaining of them, were recently delivered to the party authorized by General Lee to receive them. This was done, it is said, by order of the President. Gen. Butler wants to keep the South out of the Union until the Heavens melt with fervent heat. His idea is, probably, that such a "heat" would melt spoons into ingotSj and "the South" be unable to i dentify its property. It will be hotter than he wants it, one day or another, we are afraid. The official statement of the Public Debt to October 1st, shows it to be 82,573336,000 less the cash in the Treasury, which is 8128,213,000. Of this there is coin amounting to 886,250,000. A comparison of this with the statement of the Public Debt on the 1st of September, shows that the debt has been decreased during the month to the amount of 82,234,622,654. The New Orleans Picayune, alluding to the restiveness of the planting interests under the onerous and odious cotton tax, suggests that this may be effectually avoided, if the planters will associate together in each county and build a few factories and manufacture it themselves. They will not only save 815 a bale in tax, but double the value of the raw material. : The suggestion is souud. Mr. J. S. Keller, of Pennsylvania, who went to South Carolina at the request of a company intending to buy land for agricultural purposes, gives a favorable report of the fertility of the soil, and of the t disposition of the inhabitants toward emigrants. He says he finds the people kind- ' hearted and affable, affording a hearty welcome to all good citizens who come to settle among them. The New Orleans Crescent says, in reference to the commerce of that city: 1 "Instead of being large exporters of sugar and molasses, we are now heavy importers of these articles." We noticed, in a report of the New Orleans markets some days ago,-' that the receipts of molasses were but a^few , barrels, and those "sorghum." Thisis sad. The Federals, by destroying the lands and 1 freeing the negroes, have prostrated the in- 1 dustry of Louisiana. ] A lady of high standing in Beyseath, ( Bavaria, sent a large quantity of delicacies ( to the wounded men of a hospital, composed of both Prussians and Bavarians, with the request that they be given "only to Prus- ' sians." The noble Prussians returned her ] gift, saying that they and the Bavarians were all Germans together, and on the battlefield, though enemies, in the hospital, ' wounded, they were friends and brothers. 1 If any action can take anything from the I horrors of war it is noble conduct like this, j "Imagine," said Mr. Hoffman, of New York, in a recent speech at Buffalo, "imagine Thad. Stevens as President, Par- ' son Brownlow as Secretary of War, Ben. j Butler as Secretary of the Treasury, Henry i J. Raymond as Secretary of State, James Gordon Bennett as Minister to England, and the traveling troupe who are now perambulating the country as members of Con- 1 gress. With suoh rulers, what would your ' securities be worth? [Voice?Butler would | steal them all.] lTou hear what my friend , in the audience says. I make it a point never to contradict a sensible remark." 1 [Great laughter.J 1 A n?? ir? W iconncin txtoq lfifnlrt I , bitten on the ankle by a rattlesnake, and as | ( soon as be conld be carried to a bouse drank half a pint of alcobol and camphor, then a quart of whisky, and then a quart of pure alcohol, feeling go symptoms of intoxication. The next morning he felt some numbness ; and pain in his limb, and drank another pint of alcohol, and then swallowed a quarter of a pound of fine-cut chewing tobacco, boiled in sweet milk. These doses, which !' it would be supposed would kill any body, i1 L had no injurious effects, and the fourth day 1 ^ after the bite be felt well enough, only a little soreness from the knee down ' The Attorney General, in response ' to an inquiry of the President on the sub- 1 ject, has given an opinion to the effect, that I the President cannot separate the Districts ( for the collection of the tax on cotton from ( Districts for the collection and assessment of the tax on other productions. This was j' RAinf wKinK fKfl ^olpcrfltinn nf Snnthprn . ( FU4U41 "44""4 & : I cotton factors and planters urged in their j memorial a few days since. The Secretary , of the Treasury has also denied applications ; to have the boundaries of Collection Dis- j triots changed, on tne ground that it would take longer for new appointees to qualify, I select and instruct their assistants, than it 1 would for the present officers to appoint a j sufficient number of assistants and deputies. A valuable statistical table, giving ' the rate of increase in population of the va- j' rious States of tho Union sinco the census I of 1860, is being prepared. The census of 1865 has been received by the Department from seven States, and the increase of population, even during the war, iu whioh the mortality was unusually great, is as follows: Minnesota, forty per cent; Illinois, twentysix per cent.; Wisconsin, twelve per cent.; Iowa, twelve per cent.; Michigan, seven and-a-balf per cent.; Rhode Island, four per cent.; Massachusetts, three per cent. Taking the general average of this increase, thirteen and-a-balf per cent, ib a lair representation of the rates of increase in the others. The Censn9 Bureau estimates the population of the United States and Territories has increased from 31,433,213, the umber found by the census of I860, to 35,500,000. A Philadelphia letter writer speaks as follows of Brownlow, of Tennessee :? "Governor Brownlow is but the wreck of a man. Never large, he is now so thin and stooping, and shrunken, that 1 am filled with awe, as seeing something that belongs to the grave every time I look at him. His eye has a dull and faded hue like the eyes of a dying man. His nervous system is so shattered with palsy that 1 do not see how he can even so much as write his name." The man is worn out and broken down. He is able to walk but a few steps, and sits up less than half the day. Will, unconquerable will, is all that keeps him from death, one would say. Hopelessly shattered in body, he is as stout and fieroe in mind as ever He attended the Convention constantly while in session?riding to the hall and lying for hours upon a seat on the platform. There his friends went to speak with him?occasionally he asked them to lift him and change his position." 3ft* fjMferill* YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, 11TH OCTOBEB, 1866. OUR TERMS?IN ADVANCE. 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IN "GREENBACKS." a CO PIES,...9 A 50 S 0 00 5 COPIES,... 8 75 114 50 10 COPIES,... 17 50 ?5 00 and an extra copy to the person making a club of ten. fi&*Witbin one month from the date a club is returned and the money paid, the person making the club, may add any number of names at the same rate. X. Subscribers who find a (X) cross mark on the wrapper or margin of their paper, will understand that the time paid for has expired. CASH ! We wish it distinctly understood ^hat^ our terms for subscription, advertising and job work are cash. COURT-WEEK. The usual Fall term of the Court of Sessions, convened here on Monday. Illness in the family of Judge Dawkins, prevented his attendance, and Judge Aldrich kindly consented to devote the few leisure lays afforded from his circuit, to holding the Court here. His Honor, upon the opening of Court, iddressed to the Grand Jury a charge appropriate to the occasion : He congratulated the jury and the people of South Carolina, upon every approxi nate stage towards a restoration of civil law, ;hat the State arrived at. It was his . privilege to state to them to-day, that an Drder had been recently issued by the Cominaudant of the State, restoring to the jurisdiction of the State, all matters coming under the cognizance of her Courts, with , one or two exceptions. The Vagrant Act, , ind the penalty of whipping for certain , offences, were not permitted to be enforced under this order. While he congratulated the jury upon this near approach of the State to the management of her own affairs ( once more, he must express the humilia- ( tion he felt that wc were under the control , of a power which could still address its edicts to the State pcrmissively as regarded , anna^T?Arif a f 1 r\ rrr ;i fr\t* ito rvrA?\A?? ttt a i fn ha luy tuaviun-ui \jl iuna iu: no yivpwi nwnmoId relation to the act against vagrancy, the military authorities required that if upon indictment, the defendant offered proof that he had made reasonable effort to obtain employment and failed, that he should not be subjected to the penalties of conviction.? This, in effect, nullified a wholesome law. It would be easy enough for a bad man to prove that he had made application for employment. It was a well known fact that persons of notoriously bad character could not well procure employment, where others ;ould, and it was agaiost such persons that :he act was mainly intended to operate. UnW trrinp' oiroumstances of our con- ! """ "J--0 lition, he counseled patienoe. There was i higher degree of courage in submitting to what we could not avert, that in growing j restive under it. Iu relation to the freedmen thrown upon the protection of the laws of the State, he ; urged the Grand Jury to see that strict and 1 impartial justice be accorded them. In some communities, he regretted to say?and : he hoped not in this one?many acts of law- J lessness had been committed against these people, that called for prompt and deoisive punishment. His experience had been that this olass of persons (the freedmen) had exhibited a disposition in regard to the laws, that bad entitled them to their fullest protection, and he was unwilling to see a spirit of proscription manifested towards them.? The UBual suggestions in relation to the publio buildings, the various Boards in the District, &c., were made. A caso of much importance came before the Court for deoision on Tuesday. This AT "R Wrftnfti.B for armfchflr. wao a ujwd vi x?a. .v. ?- , vs. w. BoLETNandR. whitesides,involv. ing the question of Currenoy as a legal tender. A rale was issued against the Sheriff in this case, for refasing to accept the United States Legal tender notes in discharge of an execution against the defendants. Mr. J. Bolton Smith appeared for the rule?Mr. Geo. w. Williams, contra. The case was elaborately argued by counsel on eaoh side. His Honor decided, unhesitatingly, that the U. S. Treasury notes purporting to be a legal tender in payment of debts, are not a legal tender for debts, of any description, arising upon contracts made either previous to, or since the passage of the currency act by Congress. He conceived that the Constitution of the United States, as well as the laws of this State, forbade aoy such conclusion. Notice of appeal was given, and this important decision will go before the Court of Appeals at its next sitting, for a final hearing. After disDosinz of a few other oases of r w small importance, the Court adjourned the Session on Tuesday evening. The following panels of Grand and Petit Jurors, were drawn for the Spring Term of 1867? Grand Jurors.?Hugh Simpson, Reuben Cranford, Rev. R. Latham, R. C. MoCarter, Dr. A. Craven, S. J. H. Alexander, William Bridges, E. D. Thomson, Col. J. H. Barry, F. B. Thomasson, Jas. Ash, Benedict Kimbrell, Jas. McCollough, W. M. Ash, Morrison Russell, J. L. Moore, (N. F.) W. J. Bowen, Daniel Nichols, D. D. Moore, G. L. Riddle, J. F. Nivens, Jas. H. MoGill, J. B. Whitesides, Samuel McCarter. Petit Jurors.?S. M. Hanna, J. N. McElwee, Jr., Hugh Tate, M. L. Tate, Henry Watson, Dr. J. 8. Crosby, T. K. Bates, J. R. Faris, W. A. Bales, A. A. MoKenzie, G. A. Patrick, S. J. Kimbrell, J. L. Bennett, J. Ed. Jeffreys, J. M. Robinson, J. B. Patriok, Capt. J. J. Wilson, James Meek, Jas. B. Davidson, S. D. Carothers, J. H. Austell, Willis Moss, A W. Whisonant, R. R. Strait, W. G. Steele, H. J. Allison, J. H Abernathy, W. A. Barrett, Jno. Burris, Jr., Robt. A. Steele, Dr. R. T. Allison, Henderson Whisonant, R. T. Latham, A. S. Wallace, J. R. Steele, Col. W. B. Allison, N. A. Steele, J. W. Steele, W. B. Steele, J. K. Carothers, Richard Ingram, Joseph Parks, Calvin Whisonant, Smith Patterson, D. T. Pegram, L. P. Sadler, J. D. Wylie, Moses Alexander. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. James Mason, S. Y. D.?Ordinary's Sale.?Land of R. F. Montgomery, deceased, to be sold for partition among the helrs-at-law. James Mason, S. Y. D.?Ordinary's Sale?Land of Martha P. liigham, deceased, to be sold for Partition among the heirs-at law. James Mason, S. Y. D.?Ordinary's Sale?Land of Epbratm Haftier, deceased, to be sold for Partition among the heira-at-law. James Mason, S. Y. D.?Ordinary's Sale?Land of Sam'l T. B. Patrick, deceased, to be sold for Partition among the helrs-at law. James Mason, S. Y. D.?Ordinary's Sale?Land of Jane Story, deceased, to be sold for Partition among the heirs-at-law. F. C. Harris, O. Y. D.?Notice to the absent heirs-at-law of William Anderson, deceased. W. B. Metis, O. E. Y. D.?Sale of a house and lot?Geo. Steele rs. J. P. Aycock?to Foreclose Mortgage. Lewis R. Gibbes?College of Charleston. M. H. Bhyric:?400 Bushels of Corn, lor Stile J. F. Wallace, Clerk?Notice of the election of Sheritf. W. B. Metts,C. E. Y. D.?Sale of Land in the case of R. G. H. Caldwell,?. R. A. Ross, Executor. James Mason, S. Y. D.?Sheriff's Sales?Sale of land and personal properly of R. B. Alexander, at the suit of T. . A. Moore, S. R. Moore, and W. A. Moore, survivors, and others. Sale of a black mare belonging to Jobn Cashion, at the suit of John F. Llndsey, and others.? Land and personal property of R. H. McConnell, deceased, at the suit of Moore & Burris, and others. Personal property of TIios. Roach, at the suit of G. R. Roach. Land of G. F. Ferguson, at the suit of W. F. J. Miller, Guardian, and others. J. W. Avery & Co.?Stewart's C and A, and Brown Sugar. " " " ?Prime Coffee. " " " ?100 Sacks of Salt. " " " ?Bagging, Rope and Twine. Houesley & Aslier?Clothing on Consignment. DISTRICT COURTS. The Courts of Appeals recently held a call session in Colombia, and established the times ot holding the District Courts, and a code of rules for practice therein. As will be seen by the programme elsewhere published, the first Court will sit on the 3d Monday in January, for this District. Under the Act organizing this Court, it has exclusive jurisdiction in all cases of bastardy and misdemeanors under the grade of felonies; and concurrent jurisdiction to the amount of ?100 in civil suits. These Courts will relieve the Cirouit Judges of a heavy amount of business, and go far to seoure the administration of justice. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. General elections were held on Tuesday last, 9th instant, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. A full State tirtlrof mill ho trnforl fnr in Pwrmutj'cnnio Vint J. the Governors in the other States, who are all Radicals, will hold over until next year. Twentv-four fioneressmen are to be elected J O ? in Pennsylvania, nineteen in Ohio, eleven in Indiana, and six in Iowa. In the present Congress, Pennsylvania, has eight Democrats, Ohio two, Indiana three, and Iowa is unanimously Republican. We hope to be able to give tbe result in our next issue. The excitement in each State is very great, and the prospect for a conservative success is not encouraging. We are informed by the Chester Standard, of last week, that Dr. J. MoF. Gaston's work on Brazil is now in press, and will shortly be issued from the offioe of the Columbia Phcenix. The book is to be a 12mo. and will contain three hundred pages. If fifty or more sabsoribers can be | obtained in one locality, the price will be 81.33J currency, per copy. The title of the book is to be "Hunting a Home in Brazil." A very proper title, we imagine, especially, the "hunting" part. A report having been industriously circulated in the Northern States, that owing to the result of the eleotions in Maine and Vermont, the President had determined to abandon his polioy of reconstruction, he gives it an "emphatio denial." He also authorizes the statement that, he has in no way modified his policy or signified his approval of the "constitutional amendment" lately adopted by Congress. He holds that amendment to be grossly violative of the fifth article of the Constitution, whioh says that "no State shall be deprived, withont its consent, of its equal suffrage in the Senate." The President j contends that when this amendment was ! under consideration in Congress, eleven , States were in vain asking for admission, and were practically denied, without their consent, "equal saffrage in the Senate." This, he oontends, invalidates the whole proceeding. Under the caption of "Honorable," we find the subjoined paragraph in the Chester Standard of last week. Chester is brim-full of the milk of human kindness, and there is no District in the State where the people are more disposed to act upon the precept, "live and let live." We know whereof we speak. Here is the paragraph : "Several of our lawyers have informed as that even had not the Legislature postponed the Fall Session of the Court of Common Pleas, the docket would have presented a beggarly array of suits. We are proud to record this evidenoe of the good feeling prevailing among the oitizens of this Dietriot. An instance has very recently been brought to our attention, where a gentleman declined to accept specie ! in payment of a debt contracted before the war, declaring he would only receive currency. We have heard several merchants express their willingness to compromise with their debtors upon the most.liberal terms. Saoh indications of humanity and sympathy, amid the demoralizing tendencies of the times, are most creditable and praiseworthy, and deserve the highest commendation." It will probably be remembered by some of our readers, that a short time since we mentioned the murder at San Lais Potosi, Mexico, of Col. James C. Monroe, at one time a Cadet at the "Kings Moantain Military School," in this place. In the Pine-Bluff Arkansas Dispatch, which, by the way, is temporarily under the editorial management of our old friend Joseph H. Black, Esq., we find the following tribute to Col. Monroe: ,.r\e -it .u- i ?lj: ?. e .l i "V/i ail iuc uiiivc Duiuicio aunt iunu vy Arkansas to uphold the now "Conquered Banner," none were more gallant, none more obivalrio and none more completely wrapped up his soldiership and devotion to -ibe cause of the South. In response to the first call for troops from this State he raised a company in Clark County and repaired to little Rock, where be was chosen Lt Colonel of the First Arkansas Regiment, with Gen. Fagan as Colonel. On i.u . : t! .v, ? i. : t v. _ lue ru-utguui?auuu ui tuai ii'^uuuut uc came west with Gen. Fagan and reported to Gen. Hindman, then in command of this department He was soon in command of a regiment of Cavalry, afterwards known as Monroe's Regiment of Cabell's Brigade. The course of this regiment is too well known to require an extended notice at our hands. The regiment was popularly called "The Rawhides." At Backbone Mountain, Poison Springs, Mark's Mill and Pilot Knob, the gallant "Rawhides" were conspicuous for their daring, and their brave Colonel for his dashing and headlong courage. His old comrades will shed a tear over toe announcement or nis aeatn in a strange land, and at the bands of a cutthroat band of Mexicans. To his friends in Carolina, while they must mourn bis loss, it will be a proud reflection, that he drew his sword with the first, and laid it down with the last of the sons of the south?that as a soldier and a gentleman his reputation was spotless? and that his name and his fame will live in the pages of history, when the bloody annals of the long and glorious struggle for Southern nationality are written." "P. W. A.," otherwise, P. W Alexander, Esq., who was well known, during the late war, as a correspondent of the Savanah Republican, writes the subjoined hopeful paragraph from New York, to a Georgia paper. We have great confidence in his opinions, yet from the "signs of the times" viewed from our standpoint, we are apprehensive that in this instance, his judgment is at fault. We are not over-hopeful of ihe future. He says: It is hoped and believed that the conservatives will make larce eains in the in tereat of the South at the approachiog Congressional elections, in spite of Northern radicals and Southern critics. The tide is now setting strongly in that direction. The meohanics and laboring classes, who claim Mr. Johnson as one of their own fraternity, no less than the solid men of the country, arc gathering around the President with a spirit of determination that is full of encouragement. If the South will only be patient and silent for a season, all will yet go well. Andrew Johnson is a great power in this land. There is no man in the United States wbo possesses a tune or nis popuiaruy, even in the North. The whole Democratic party, including war Democrats as well as copperheads, "so-called," with that large, intelligent and wealthy wing of the party which elected Mr. Linooln, known as the moderate Republicans, now stand at his back, and are doing battle under bis lead for our rights. In this State, and, indeed, throughout the North, the followers of Mr. Seward are wheeling into line in the most gratifying manner. In speaking of the matter of pecuniary relief, Governor Orr in his Message to the late extra session of the Legislature of this State, says: "It is proper here to remark, that if a Stay Law could be passed which could be free from all constitutional objection, it would not protect debtors from suit in the Federal Courts. A oreditor residing in the State who had determined to enforce the _ _ _ i _ * i* 5 I * t 5 im_ i payment or ms aeoi, couia reaauy iransier it to a non-resident, and if the sum exceeds five hundred dollars, -such non-resident oould at once institute suit in the United States Supreme Court, reoover judgment, issue execution and sell the debtor's property, notwithstanding the existence of a Stay Law. Such a law would uot be reoognized or eoforced in a Federal Court." In reference to this the Charleston Newt makes the point that a suit on this sort of consignment would.not lie, and quotes, as its authority, from the eleventh seotion of the Judiciary act of 1789, thus: "No District or Circuit Court shall have cognizance of any suit to reoover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been proseouted in such court to recover the said contents, if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange." It follows from the above that no assigned monetary obligation can be sued on as against a citizen in a Federal oourt, unless original suit thereon might have been brought in such oourt?saving the case of a foreign bill of exchange. The following statement in reference to the labor system at the North, and the immense amount of work performed there by machinery, contains hints of vital importance to the South, and suggests the meaDS by which the prosperity and greatness of this section may be secured. It is an extraot from a letter of the Hod. John Forsyth to the Mobile Register, and he is speaking of Pennsylvania: The wealth of this country cannot be justly measured by its population. The improvements in machinery, especially as applied to agriculture, almost dispense with human bands and the sweat of the brow. They plough, sow and reap with machines, and man's only occupation is to superintend them Hence, you ride over a country dotted with farms, in a high state of culture and groaning under crops, and are surprised at the lack of laborers, and wonder who does all this work. Capital and science have supplied the places of our large gaDgs of negroes, and the work goes on as if by magio. Thus Pennsylvania, ??t- i it r11: ? who ner mree uliuuuus ui {jupuiuuuu; cujoys productions equal to the labor of six millions. The same process would make tbe South a garden of fruitfulness, the abode of a great population, and tbe seat of power. Let us take lessons from our neighbors, and find compensation for tbe sudden destruction of our vast labor system. Within the last few months, there has been a great deal of speculation as to the political affinity of Gen. Grant. A communication purporting to be from Gen. Grant, addreesed to Gen. Hillyer, at Albany, N. Y., and dated "Head QaarterB, Armies of the U. S., Washington September 19,1866," says: I 8eo from the papers that you have been making a speech in which you pledge me to a political party. I am further in receipt of a letter from General Gresham, of Indiana, in wbioh he says that bis opponent for Congress had published an extract from a letter received from you, in which you pledge me to the support of President Johnson, aod as opposed to the election of any candidate who does not support his policy. You, nor any man living, is authorized to speak for me in political matters, and I ask you to desist in the future. I want every man to vote according to bi9 own judgment, without influence from me. Yours, etc., U. S. Grant. A letter published recently in the Philadelphia Transcript, and addressed to Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, cays: "You have been yourself (meaning Stevens) a practical miscegenist, with visible fruits of the practical operation of your doctrine ; and, not only so, but. have compound ed the legitimate claims of a sable rival to the objeot of your indulgence. This naturally accounts for your overwhelming zeal in your advocacy of negro suffrage." The pith of this is, that Stevens is living with the colored wife of a colored barfkof Kn lino hln/vlr.a an rnflnnn. uc, uuv. ..v. .^risibilities in consequence. An exchange assigns the following, as the cause for the recent advance of gold: "Gold has recently gone np to 148$.? The explanation of the rise is the fall of five-twenties abroad. These five-twenties have declined abroad not in consequence of the threatening aspect of political affairs io this country, as we of the South are rather prone to believe, but simply because the European market is temporarily glutted with these securities. The high prices they have been bringing caused American holders to send them over in vast quantities." 'Tbe New York Uxpress, reports ** _ t>_ j: i r\ iUr. JSingnam, a xvauicai uougresBinan from Ohio, as having said : "So help me God, I will neither give sleep to my eyes, nor slumber to my eyelids, until I shall have drawn bills of impeachment against Andrew Johnson." We clip from the Charleston News, the following paragraph about a new mode of packing cotton : We had the pleasure yesterday of seeing our friend, Mr. John W. Hutchinson, of Mobile Ala., who is the inventor of a new and practical mode of packing cotton in wood. The mode represents the packing of a pound of cotton in a pint measure, or five hundred pounds in a sixty gallon cask. It is simple, compaot and reliable, and, with the power necessary, will perform all that is represented, making cotton proof against damp or wet, and not subjeoted to ordinary waste or damage. The Richmond Times, of a late date, gives the following encouraging account of several of the eduoational institutions in Virginia: We rejoice to learn that nearly all of our leading Virginia Colleges have the promise of an unusually large number of students during their present sessions At Washington College and the Military Institute, there are already more than five hundred students, and they are still pouring into Lexington and Charlottesville from all sections of the United States. The fame of General Lee has attracted students even from Boston?a most hopeful sign that the Amerioan Sodom of godless heresies, isms and uncbaritableness and cant, may some day be saved by the three young Puritans who are being educated in Virginia. MERE-MENTION. The Spartanburg Spartan, of last week, announces the death in that District, of Mr. Matthew Skates, a soldier of the revolution of '76, aged 108 years. The Charleston papers announce the death of two well-known citizens?Mr. H. L. But terfield, of the Pavilion Hotel, and Mr. Andrew McDowell, an old merchant, and at the time of his death, Assistant United States Treasurer. Frederick W Seward, on account of the serious illness of his father, has been appointed Acting Secretary of State. Despatches by the Atlantio Cable are now called "Cablegrams." Postmaster-General Randall is in receipt of a letter from Nevada Territory, announcing the discovery of a mountain of pure Rock Salt, without any admixture, several thousand feet high. Capt. T. U. Tidmarsb, well-known as the avaunt-courier of various circus companies, died of heart-disease in Memphis, last week. He was a Captain in the Confederate army, and was a prisoner of war on Johnson's Island for many months. A Paris letter asserts thatall French 4 ? ~ ~ ~ "-III Ua mitkJiiAmn fi?Am VfaVlOA /In. UUUJJ3 Will L/C rribuui anu nuui u u riDg the Fall. The New York Daily News says of the New York Times, that it has "gone back like the oaoioe quadruped to the rejected contents of his stomach, or the porcine female to her bath in fluid im purity." If you wish to know how an associate speaks of you to others, mark how he speaks of them to you. A new style of bonnet is called "Fly-up-theoreek." The London Spectator is predicting speedy civil war in this country The Directors of the Atlantic Cable propose, at an early day, to reduce the price charged for messages. On every suitable occasion, the President expresses his determination to stick fast to the principles which have heretofore guided his administration. The Fairfield News estimates the cotton crop in that District for this year, nt fi 000 hales, and sueerests that it will nut earl; as much mooey in circulation as the crop of I860, which amounted to 19,770 bales. The late extra session of tbe? Legislature of South Carolina cost the State thirty thousand dollars. Who has it benefitted ? Artemus Ward is in Eng land, and is oootributing a weekly article to thq London Punch. It has been widely circulated that there were six thousand | cases of "broke bone fever" in Charleston. A Charleston "local," in noticing the report, says that is not the worst of it; in addition there are now in that city ten thous and or more cases of "dead broke" fever. Gen. Pritchard, who captured exPresident Davis, is a candidate for Congress in Michigan. A Washington dispatoh to the Charleston Courier, says that "all of the officers of the Internal Revenue Department, South, have taken the oath of office, excepting one in Texas." Fernando Wood announces himself as a candidate for CoDgress from the Ninth Congressional District of New York. It is thought that his political conduct at the Philadelphia Convention, which brought him high praise from the Conservatives of both parties, will ensure his eleotion. Late Mexican advices report that Maximilian will pot himself at the head of his army to fight the Liberals, and that he considers his empire safe. The garrison at Chihuahua has pro ounced in favor of Ortega, having killed their Governor Ferrezas, and compelled Juarez to fly to El Paso. This news needs confirmation. GeD. Alfred Dookery who was recently nominated as a candidate for Governor of North Carolina, bv the "unmistakably loyal men" of that State, declines beiog a candidate. Sensible for Gen. Dockery. General Daniel E. Sickles has been appointed a Colonel in the regular army. The Republicans have carried the town elections in Connecticut, so far as heard from, by large majorities. Five hundred applications for patents, and sixty-eight caveats were filed in the Patent Offioe last week. Two hundred and twenty-two new patents were granted. Commodore Stockton died at Princeton New Jersey, on Sunday night last, 8th instant. Dr. A. G. Mackey, Collector of the Port, has been, for the present, appointed Asssistaut U. S. Treasurer, at Charleston, vice Mr. A. J McDowell, deceased. Ibe Charleston papers announce the opening of the "Planter's Hotel," to the traveling public. Day of Thanksgiving. Washington, October 8.?The President has issued a proclamation, ordering that Thursday, November 29th, be observed throughout the country as a Day of ? 1 ^ * a i? Xbaottsgiving ana ?'rayer 10 audikuijt vxua, who has been pleased to vouchsafe to us, as a people, another year of tbat national life which is an indispensable consideration of peace, security and progress. Tbat year has, moreover, been crowned with many peculiar blessings : The civil war tbat so recently closed among us, has not been any where re-opened : foreign intervention has ceased to excite alarm or apprehension ; intrusive pestilenoe has been benignly mitigated; domestic tranquility has improved; Renfimnnfs nf nnnoiliatinn havn lnrcalv nre vailed, and affections of loyalty and patriotism bave been renewed. Our fields have yielded quite abundantly; our mining industry has been richly rewarded, and we have been allowed to extend our railroad system far into the interior recesses of the country, while oar commerce has resumed its customary action in foreign seas. These great national blessings demand a national acknowledgment He reoommends, also, on this same solemn occasion, the people do humbly and devoutly implore God to grant to our natiooal counsels, and to our whole j people, that divine wisdom which alone can lead any nation into the ways of all ^ good. , | fafriktoral. BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA, S. C., 9TH OCTOBER 1888. The University, This State institution resumed its duties on Monday, the 1st instant During the first week there were sixteen students entered. These, added to the forty nine of lastsession, make a total of sixty-five. Numbers more are expected still; and, as the annual session opens with the first of January, it is hoped that a large number will then be added. Health of Colombia. Our city Physician informs us that there A is a good deal of sickness prevailing in the city. The most common kinds of disease I are, Intermittent Fevers, Bilious Fevers, and Catarrhal Affections. Quinine is the rage; and bitters are in large demand The French praotioe of treating Intermittent fevers ? of stopping chills, at least?with Chloroform has been tried here with success. Spirit of Hartshorn also is used for the same purpose. There is not a case of Small Pox now in town; but it is to be expeoted that as the winter comes on, a few cases will creep out of the rubbish somewhere. It's a way it has. Distribution of the Negroes. A correspondent of the N. Y. Watchman, writing from Georgia, is opinion that Providence intends the Negroes to be scattered V equally over the whole United States. He says: "Why are there suoh abundant graincrops in the North and such scaroity in the South, just at the time of the freedom of the colored people? Is not this the hand of God ? Does be not direct these people to go to the North to get corn ? Is there aDy Joseph to welcome them to the abundance of the land ? It is too far for them to send; and moreover, tbey have neither "money" nor "camels " The inhabitants of the land must send for them and their "wives" and "little ones," ao l bid them a hearty welcome to their abundance." His conclusion is thus summarily reiterated : "I am wholly mistaken in the indications of Providence, if God does not intend, to a great extent, to distribute the oolored people among the Northern States." We have only to add our hope that God will urge on these Egyptians of the North who have corn, to send down South after their dear proteges, before the dear proteges shall have eaten out our slim crops of corn. Hurry up. Southern School Books. We are advised of quite a number of sohool text books in process of preparation i by southern soholars and teachers. Profes* i onr .Tnupnh T,pf!nnt?. nf the TTniversitw nf Sooth Carolina, has accepted ao engagement to prepare, and is now preparing, a text-book on Geology, and another on Chem* istry. Professor John Le Conte, of the same institution, is getting ready a work on Natural Philosophy. We perceive by public announcement that Professor Holmes, of the University of , Virginia, has just finished a series of seven . Southern Readers, commencing with the alphabet in No. 1, and comprising a complete ' set of text-books in this line. The same an chor has also ail English Grammar jast oat. Professor Scheie de Yere, of the same institution, has just prepared a French Grammar and two French Readers. Professor Venable, formerly of the South Carolina College, now of the University of.Virgioia, has gotton out a Series of text-books in Mathematics, comprising Arithmetic, Algebra, and^ Geometry. Professor Gildersleeve, of *< the University of Virginia, increases this j list with his Outlines of Latin Grammar, and a Progressive Latin Reader. Thus it appears that at length oar Soath- ^ ern people are waking up to the importance of helping themselves in this matter. Arm in arm again. In the October number of the Phrenolog-?7 T 7 1 ..I,., J ICCU uvurnui, appear i*ry aitivica, piaucu side by side in the spirit of harmonizing.? The first is a Portrait, cbaraoter, and Biography of Hon. James L. Orr,of Sooth Carolina; and the other is a Portrait, Character, and Biography of Hon. Charles Somner of Massachusetts. / Both likenesses are good; at least that of Governor Orr is, as we know personally, and we presume that of Sumner is equally good. Both characters are given with terms of high praise and respect. That of Governor Orr attributes to him great ezecutiveness, * dignity, decision, will-power, observation, memory, and practical faculties generally. He has large intuitive perception of the i < character of others, very ready langaage, strong sooial affections, and a high degree of firmness and self-esteem, with an active , sense of honor and thorough self-possession, self-reliance, and self-regulation. All bis \ mental qualities point him out as a man of mark god a born leader of the many. Mr. Scunner is represented as original, clear- JE minded, and executive; frank, scholarly, ? orderly, and firm ; having self-esteem large, n witlfc strong affections, dignity, manliness ^ and self-reliance ; has great hope and bat little mirth. The Biographical sketch of Governor Orr is brief but complimentary. It concludes with these words :?"Mr. Orr's reputation > as a soholar and an orator is inferior only to his fame as a statesman, and he has of- j ?-? 11,0/3 tinnn fn ^olioup APofirtnfl 1 kCLi UCUU uaiicu upvu w \4vit v w v*M?kvMu ?* . college commencements and similar ooca- j sions, and bas always acquitted himself with j great credit." | The sketch of Mr. Sumner is equally J complimentary, and giveD with apparently ^ a degree of fairness. It is somewhat fuller than that of Governor Orr; and contains J