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Scraps anb Jkts. The Charleston City Railway is rapidly approaohing completion. The New York Herald is pnzzled to know how it can "flop over" again. Nobody pays any attention to it. The Mississippi University has begun its annual session with 140 students. The Chinese punish robbers by putting the oulprits in a large mortar, and then firing them head foremost against a stone wall. Hearing a physician remark that a very small blow would break a nose, a rustic exclaimed: "Well, I dunDo 'bout that; I have blown my noso a great many times, and I have never broke it yet." Formerly, by hand, a pound of cotton was spread into a thread about 108 yards long, but since the application of steam, it will produce a thread 167 miles in length. Brigham Young's daughter, Fannie, is said to have consented to marry a wealthy friend, on condition that ehp shonld have as many husbands as her husband had wives. The suit wasn't pressed. The man who can make his own fire, black his own boots, carry his own wood, hoe his own garden, pay his own debts, and live without wine and tobacco, need ask no favor of him who rides in a coaoh and four. General Beauregard has addressed a letter to Gen. Grant, applying for the restitution of his personal property retained by the United States, against the terms of the surrender of the armies. A Liverpool journal has a story of a "Thieves College" existing in that town. There are men and women teachers of the art of Cartouche and the dodger, the pocket-handkerchief, the purse and the watchchain departments being presided over by different professors. Burglarly and the use of the garotte is taugbt by experts, and the accomplishment of begging-letters is a branoh in itself. At Lyons, France, a process has been adopted for photographing upon silk, linen, and other articles, and many persons have their portraits upon their linen instead of having it marked with their names or initials. In the silk shops various articles are exhibited photographed with names and fanciful devices. The artiolesare not at all injured by washing, and the process is easily and rapidly effected. The Alexandria Gazette says that the interest and attention formerly given to politics in Virginia, are now turned to other and at this time more important matters? railroads, agricultural subjects, the labor question, mechanical industry and commercial advantages. The railroad meetings take the place of party conventions?and the ablest men of the State discuss the questions before these meetings, instead of debating tbe policy of Government in its general administration of public affairs. Tbe Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says Stanton's (forthcoming) resignation has been precipitated by the discovery lately made that he has filled nearly all the vacancies in the regular army without the knowledge or assent of Mr. Johnson?a proceeding which, when discovered, made Mr. Johnson very angry. The same correspondent says that, " at the request of Gen. Grant, who desires the hearty co-operation of the war office in reorganizing the army, Sherman will act as Secretary of War." One Perrot, a Frenchman, has in vented three terribly destructive engines? the first, a three-barreled gun, firing 1,000 bullets a minute, the bullets dropping from a hopper without intermission into the gun; the second is similar, but mounted on wheels; aDd the third is a steam locomotive, discharging two pounds weight of projectiles per second, and capable of killing 172,800 men in twenty-four hours, if but o??; man was killed to every 100 shots discharg ed. General Sheridan has addressed a letter to Col. Sedgwick, commanding at Brownsville, instruotiug him to warn all adherents of any party or pretended government in Mexico, that they will not be permitted to violate the neutrality laws between the United States and the Republican Government of Juarez. These instructions will be enforced against all adherents of Imperial buccaneers representing the so-called Im- ! perial Government of Mexico, and also againsi the Ortega, Santa Anna, and other factions. We have information which leads us to believe that the Revenue Commission, appointed to make investigations into the j subject of revenue and to report thereon, [ will recommend a reduction or taking off j entirely the tax on manafaotur?9 and raw 1 articles, as well as a reduction of the in- i come tax, probably to three per cent on incomes over a thousand dollars, and cutting I it off all under that amount. It is believed, j too, that the Secretary of the Treasury will ; endorse this recommendation in his own rc- j port to Congress next December.?N. Y. \ Herald, 24th nit. The Louisville Journal corrects an erroneous impression that prevails in tho minds of many persons who speak and write as if the Congressional elections occuring this fall would affect the character of the Congress that meets in December. The only influence these elections can have upon that body is a moral influence. The same members that composed the last session of Congress will constitute the next, except in those cases where vacancies have occurred and been filled by special elections. The persons elected this fall to Congress will not have scats in the present Couyrjss? with the exception just mentioned. The political complexion of the next session willfbe, therefore, the same as that of the last session. Blanton Duucan, an ex-Confederate -acwltnrr in Vim,la.,,} UUlUli 1 voiuiup, nil KJ UKJIUC ?350,000 of tbe CoDfederat? loan, writes to tbe LoDdoD Morning J'os(} that there is no prospect that the Confederate debt will ever be assumed by tbe United States, or paid by the Southern States. Its conditions make it payable "two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate Siates and tbe United States" i ?an event that can never occur?aod each* State has repudiated its own rebel debt, ! South Carolina excepted. He says further, "There is another fallacious idea that the South would in certain contingencies, make a renewed struggle for independence.? There can be no possibility of such an occurrence. The honor of every Southerner is now pledged to uphold the United States Government, and it will be faithfully performed." The New York Herald, of Friday last, thus summarizes Wendell Phillip's late speech: -"Mr. Wendell Phillips opened the vials of his wrath last evening at the Cooper Institute, and distributed the contents with a lavish hand over the President, the Cabinet officers, Gen. Grant, the Congress, the Republican party and Horace '-i 1:? iu. ureeiy, 001 even cxuepiiug tuc ibiuoio vi i the republic. Ho stigmatized the Constitution formed in 1789 as a swindle, the Constitutional Amendment proposed last session as a swindle, the Senators and Representatives who sustained it as swindlers, and Mr. Greely, as having sustained every bare-faced swindle for the last twenty years. He drew a most striking Cabinet picture, in which the Secretary of the Navy figures as one, who, if ho did one honest act during bis term of office, did it by accident. And as to General Grant, he characterized him as holding the most humiliating position of any maQ on the continent. The successor he would have for him is Ben Butler. He would have the President impeached and deposed, and, pending his trial, his office sequestered His comments on General Grant were met with general hisses, and his harangue was, on the whole, | very coldly received." YORKVILLE. S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, 1ST NOVEMBER, 1866. OUR TERMS?IN ADVANCE. THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; I TWO DOLLARS for six months; ONE DOLLAR for ttiree months?payable In "greenbacks." When payment Is made in specic.TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS per year; ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for six months; SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS for three months. Single copies, TEN CENTS. {fcT-Corn, Flour, Wheat, Bacon, Lard, Firewood, Ac., will be received for Subscription, Advcrtisingor Job-work, at market prices. (Kp-The paper will be discontinued on the expiration of the time for which payment has been made. 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Previous to the late war, when labor and capital were abundant everywhere in the South, many able and practical minds worked energetically to direct attention to the importance of home manufactures. The people of thu North, charge us with twenty years preparation for the Great Rebellion. If this be true, it was a singular, as well as fatal oversight that caused us to disregard these warnings, and blunder into a bloody war without any manufacturing resources at hand to sustain it. The close of the war found us bereft of capital and scarce of labor, but possessing a more accurate knowledge of the wants of our section. A stimulus has been given to manufacturing in some sections of this State, that we should be glad to see extended to every District and town in its borders. The citizens of Barnwell and Marion Districts especially, have taken this subjeot in hand, aud gone to work to raise the means and put into operation, a cotton faotory in in each. We doubt if there is any portion of the world better adapted to suoh enterprises than the upper districts of this State. They possess abundant water power, a sufficiency of labor, rail road and water transportation?and the raw material is produced on every farm. But the question will be asked, will such manufactories, if established, prove a profitable investment of capital ? The cotton factories in Massachusetts pay 100 per cent, per annum, and Ex-Secretary Welles, says the female operatives get ?1 00 per day for their services. Hundreds of women and girls in South Carolina would be glad to obtain employment at half this price. Under the laws of the United States there is a tax 1 of three cents pc pound imposed on raw cotton when shipped from the Col/ection District ichcrc produced. Suppose we choose not to ship this cotton, but carry it to a manufactory within the Collection Disftt.il ennn f Ko lev Thorn id Q nrnin nf 11 IV; I auu ruiM t Iiv iwa. A nvi V M pMiu V4 tlireo cents upon every pound of cotton manufactured in the district where produced, and with this advantage alone, we ought to eotuplce successfully with a whole world of manafacturers. If we undertake such enterprises, we accomplish one of the true end9 of political economy, by keeping so much capital at home, instead of expending it upon foreign purchases. I3y giving employment to the poor, it furnishes them the means of future wealth, distributes capital among them, which by the regular processes of trade, is retained in the country instead of being shipped elsewhere. But manufacturing cotton and woolen goods for home consumption, need not be the acme of our ambition. When we can command such facilities in the way of cheap labor, and water power, and a saving of three cents per pound on the raw material, might we not well aspire to clothe the world with our fabrics ? To accomplish these grand designs, that will throw wealth into our laps, feed the hungry, and afford employment totne cmia and the old mac as well as the robust, we need several things; among whioh are, first of all, capital; and secondly, the energy and enterprise to give it the proper direction. The first difficulty is not as serious as we are prone to imagine Let proposals be offered even now for a joint stook banking enterprise, and the shares are readily | taken. Why not by the same process, through Distriot meetings, get up joint capital in small shares sufficient for suoh an undertaking. With the capital once obtained, the other difficulties easily vanish. Skilled operatives to direct and carry on the work, can be obtained without difficulty. Will not some of our leading men consider the importance of such an enterprise for our District, and make the effort to secure its inception upon some one of the falls of the Broad or Catawba Rivers. He who starts the first print loom, we earnestly and candidly believe, will be the greatest benefactor of his neighbor ; as well as the surest candidate for future wealth. SOUTHERN PRES. REVIEW. We are in receipt of the September number of this ably conduoted quarterly review. In matter pertaining to religious interests, and in meohanical appearanoe, it has few competitors. The following is the table of contents in this number: "The Benefits of Infant Baptism"The study of Language as a training to the mind;" "Buckle's History of Civilization in England;" "Death, the Resurrection, and the intermediate State;" "Northern General Assembly of 1866;" "Critical Notices." The Review oontains 150 pages of reading matter, is published quarterly in Columbia S. C., and issued to subscribers at 83.00 per year. Communications should be addressed to Rev. James Woodrow, Columbia, S. C. DIFFICULTY IN BALTIMORE. The patriotic oity of Baltimore is passing though the same orucible of tribulation, that New Orleans and other places South, have experienced. The Radical Legislature of Maryland, at its last session, passed an Act conferring ex traordinary powers upon the Folice Commissioners of Baltimore, in supervising the ballot box. The Act further provides, that for any malfeasance in offioe, these Commissioners may be brought before the Legislature for trial and dismissal; or if that body be not in session, then before the Governor of the State. After the recent Mayor's election, allegations of fraud and corruption by the Com missioners, in the registry of voters, were made to Governor Swann. These allegations displayed an amount of corruption that required examination, and Governor Swann immediately summoned the Commissioners to appear before him to answer to the charges. This they declined to do. Thereupon the Governor is proceeding with the investigation which may result in their | dismissal. But this is not the real difficulty. Gov. Swann is a Johnson-Republican, and the Commissioners are all Radicals. The charges against, them supported by competent testimony, were that they bad excluded voters from the polls because of their conservative principles, and admitted the votes of a different order of polities. Henoe the violence manifested by the Commissioners, and the secret organizations of radicals in Maryland, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, to support them by an appeal to arms. TKa Av/titamanf in ttiatd nf fknon oinlnn t XU^ uavilv UU v LJ L j 1U I 4W TT VI kUVOV T1VIVUI proceedings, has become intense. Governor Swann threatens to "exhaust the State," rather than surrender the privileges of the people to this alleged oorrupt body, and the President is in duty bound to afford him military aid to suppress riot and disorder at home, and resist invasion from other States. Thus hangs this inflammable issue, that a breath may exoite into an incontrollable conflagration. It may prove the beginning of the open rupture the radicals are seeking to force upon the administration. These trials are now progressing. If the Commissioners are found guilty, and dismissed ! from office, their friends threaten open rei sistance; and it is rumored that soveral ! thousands of men have been enlisted in i J neighboring States, to forcibly re-place i them in power. Gen. Canby, aoting un/]a? Snafmnfinnfl frnm fho War llnnortmnnf ' has issued an order commanding the peace, and supporting the civil authorities. Another reason why the radicals have | become so excited upon this question is, i that the State elections for Maryland, are to be held on Tuesday next, and the dismissal of these commissioners, might deprive the party of many suborned voters. A day or two more will decide this inter1 esting issue. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. I The Grand Jury of Pickens District, a in a recent presentment, recommended to the consideration of the Legislature the necessity for the passage of an instalment law for the collection of debts, and the holding of but one term of the oivil court during the year. Also, that the Insolvent Debtor's laws shoald be so enlarged and amended, that the poor debtor, upon the surrender of ; his estate, should be discharged by his r oreditors. . ' a T/tMAiknn \XT k kna kaan ro nlonK 1 U uuawuou TTUIUJj uao uoou iw vi^vved Governor of North Carolina by almost a unanimous vote. There was no organized opposition to him. General Dockery, was nominated as an opposition candidate by a caucus of mal-contents and disorganizes, styling themselves "unmistakable Union men," but Dookery declined the honor intended him. We see that one of the "unterrified," who seems not to be entirely reconstructed, voted "For Governor, Zebulon 6. Yance, of Buncombe, against the world, the flesh and the devil." Ex-Governor Vanoe, of North Carolina, possesses the gift of ottering beautiful thoughts, as well as acting heroic deeds.? While the people of the South will ever remember his energetio administration, as the last Governor of the Old North State, under the Confederate regime, they will equally appreciate such utterances as are oootained in the following extract from his recent address before the students of the University of his State: V'No moments of viotory are for us, no national jubilee can we celebrate, no songs of triumph can our maidens sing, or garlands of glory weave; there is no welcoming of returning conquerors, nor erecting of I triumphal arches for us, to console us for 1 our great suffering. We are alone with our - grtat defeat and that heavy sorrow whioh, c ' ever flitting, is still sitting in oar house- ? bold,' and all that we have left for our com fort is the sad yet tender light which plays around the memory of those who died to make it otherwise."^ On next Tuesday, 6th of November, elections will be held in twelve of the Northern States, as follows : Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin. -During the past three months the following accession of ministers from other denominations has been made to the Episcopal Churob in the United States : Methodist and Wesleyan, 33 ; Congregational and Presbyterian, 13 ; Unitarian, 4; Universalist, 1; Baptist, 4; Lutheran, 2 ; German Lutheran, 1; German Reformed, 3; Roman Catholic, 1 Total 62. We find the following in one our exchanges. The scrap may very properly be entitled, "A Dog Tale." "I once met a man who had nerve andbooe all healing salves j he was an enterprising sort of a fellow, so he thought he would experiment with it. He first cut off" a dog's tail, and applied some to the stump ?a new mil grew uui iiLiiijeuiateijr. ne then applied eome to the piece of tail which he cut off, aod a new dog grew out. He did not know which dog was which. The Pickens Courier, in an article on Court-week, in that District, says : "Monday aod Tuesday were occupied by unimportant matters, save that of a rule a gaiostthe Clerk for not docketing the civil cases. Col Norton insisted that the rule should be made absolute, and that the recent law of the Legislature on this subject was unconstitutional. Gen. Haskell spoke to the same point. Gen. McGowan defended the aotion of the Clerk. Judge Munro discharged the rale. The case will go to the Court of Errors." Wendell Phillips has made another speech, in which he tells the Radicals what ( the country expeots of them at the com- I ing session of Congress Here is a paragraph : I What, then, is to be done ? These men mast be sent back to Congress to enact a law that will render it impossible for any ( Southern State to come back into CoDgress ( before 1869. Congress may go back and sit down in the Hoase of Representatives and govern this Republic, and exercise the / right which the war has invested in it, by , virtue of two-thirds of the votes of the ( North, and govern this Republio; and in > order to do that, the very first act of that House is to impeach the President of the ( United States. Away with questions of ( admitting that State or the other, the re- j jection or acceptance of this or the other j ( amendment; the object of the Congress of: ] the United States should be to govern this f Republic. And in order to do that, the * the first step is to impeach the President of ] the United States, and while the trial is , going on, remove him from his office. Im- j <. peachment is worth nothing without the ' f removal of the President until his innocence < is established. To have the head of the , * j _r ^ nation, Dy nia own avowal, toe neaa 01 a j j rebellion, in possession of the national , strength while he is tried, is a farce. It is , to be hoped this the people will never ex- , hibit in the face of Christendom. Let the , House of Representatives impeach the | President and place the President of the Senate in the office, and then we will "mn the machine." Mr. Or. W. Williams, well known as i a merchant of Charleston, has for several months been traveling in Europe. He is keeping the readers of the Charleston News 1 posted as to what he sees aod hears. The last letter from him is dated at Strasbourg, in Prance, in which be gives a very interesting description of the celebrated Cathedral and clock, in that city We extract ' the paragraph : !. We are now at Strasbourg. This was i formerly a German Free Imperial City.? joais XIV, seized it in time of peace and 1 nnexed it to France; but this unwarranta- e lie act did not make Frenchmen of the c leople of Strasbourg They look German, c Dd generally speak the German language, i French is taught in the schools. The great- . ist attraction in Strasbourg is the celebrated t Cathedral with its lofty spire, on which r ?usy mechanics have been at work for 600 c rears, and have not yet reached the height if the ambitious arohiteot The Cathedral | s one of the finest Gothio edifices in Eu-1 Ar?A ito arvi?A io f kn < n tit a fn/>vl li I v/pc J ll/O opuo to tUD UlgUCOli IU bUC TTUIIU) >eing thirty feet higher thaD the great Py'ritnid of Egypt, and 130 feet higher than 3 3t. Paul's, London This is one gf the c shurch steeples I did not have the courage i o climb, as I was informed that people oc- i sasionally dropped though the open work, ^ ailing a distance of some 500 feet 1 The Bishops have fouod it necessary to issue nany indulgences to procure money to build he Notre Dame or Cathedral of Strasbourg. 8 rhe church is decorated with some fine ] itatues, and numerous paintings. Its ex- ( reme height has made it a mark for the ( ightning; it has been struck more than a lozcn times. In 1854 the spire was cn- j irely demolished by lightning, but was 1 loon restored. In 1728 an earthquake same near shaking it to the ground. Its itained windows are beautiful; one of them s unusually large, being fifty feet in diam- ] iter. The rich painted glass was manufao- ? ;ured in the 15th century. In 1793?a j ?ear long to be remembered throughout France?the Cathedral fell into the hands 1 )f the Jacobins. They caused several hun- t ired statutes of Kings and Saints to be cast nto thestreets and river, and converted the , shurch into an arsenal and place for com- ^ nissary stores. The cut of the Jacobin labre is to be seen on many statues, paint- ^ ngs and church altars, not only in Stras- c )ourg, but in Paris and other cities.? In the ( Jatbedral is an astronomical clock, almost ( is celebrated as the tall spire. Three Gernan professors spent a lifetime in trying to * jerfect it, but did not complete their work. 1 [t is called the Clock of the Three Sages i rbis celebrated clock has raoked the brain E >f the German mathematicians for 500 years, md was finally perfected by Schwilgue, who ' s dow a resident of Strasbourg. It shows he hour, day of week, of the mouth, the rear, aod many church celebrations Presisely at twelve o'clock its full mechanism s set in motion. At that hour the crowd s generally so great it requires a Dumber if policemen to preserve order. The figure if Death i9 surrounded by four figures, repesentiDg the four ages of life. Childhood itrikes the first quarter, Youth the second, Manhood the third, and deorepid Old Age he fourth (on the Continent the clock al- ' ways strikes each quarter of the hour). As Death strikes the hour, Youth turns over he hour-glass that lie holds in his hands. (U noon the twelve Apostles pass, bowing lefore Christ. As they pass one at a time, ' )ur Saviour lifts his hand to bless them. < During that time, a cock, which is perched ' )d the right, flaps his wiDgs, and crows ? ,hree times. Mr. Schwilgue has recently s idded an ecclesiastic compute, with all its < ndicatioDS, presenting also the revolutions ' ind eclipses of the sun and moon for an in- ' definite time. As an intricate and fine piece 1 )f workmanship, the old clock surpasses any 1 ;bing I have yet seen. Perhaps to the ma- 1 ority of Americans it looks like an unne ' jessary expenditure of time and labor. It { proves, howover, what skill and mechanism :an produce It is urged that the Radicals will ad- ( mit the Southern States to representation, ( provided they accept the proposed Consti- I tutional amendment. Upon this subject, 1 ;he New York Independent emphatically lays: < I We know personally every prominent . member of Congress, aod we know that the 1 eaders do not mean to admit the uDadmit:ed States on the mere adoption of the ameudment. Moreover, we koow personally ( :he leading Radicals of the Republican par- 1 ;y outside of Congress, and wo know they 1 bavc do intention of making the amendment 1 :he final measure of admission. ? MERE-MENTION. President Johnson has pardoned Hon. 1 Geo. A. Trenholm, formerly Secretary of ' the Treasury, of the Confederate States. I Also, Maj. Gen. LaFayette McLaws, of the late Confederate army The Medical Director, at Charleston, has issued an 1 nrder withdrawing the quarantine at that ' port Mr. John B. Moore, of Andermn, S. C., advertises in the Appeal, that the heirs of John Franks, of York District, \ soldier of the war of 1812, is entitled to 160 acres of land in the State of Missouri. | Those interested can obtain further infor- ' aoation by addressing Mr. Moore, at An- I lersoo Gov Orr has appointed i Thomas B. Lee, of Anderson, Superinten- < dent of the Penitentiary, to be erected in i this State. lie is now on a tour of inspec 1 tion throghout the Northern prisons, that I be may be enabled to digest a plan for the i jrection and completion of the necessary auildings. So says the Anderson lntelli/enrer. Austria has now a gun which < evil 1 put forty balls through an inch and a t naif plank at 200 paces in five minutes. 1 During the last few months, over i 500 uewspapers have made their appearmcc in different parts of the Union. ] The cholera has disappeared from San Anonio, Texas, after carrying off 400 of the , nhabitants. "What sort of sermon do ( j>ou like ?" said Dr. Rush to Robert Mor- j is, once. "1 like, sir," replied Mr. Mor- ( ris "that kind of preaching which drives a , man into the corner of a pew, and makes ( fkinlr f K n a o i! 1Q nffor Kim There are five schools for colored children in Richmond, each having from fifty to 400 pupils. The teachers are from New England. The people of Victoria, Vancouver's Islaud, have petitioned Queen Victoria to allow the colony to withdraw from the British and annex itself to I [ the United States Government As dispatch from Paris aunounces the serious | illness of Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France, and that his death may be hourly expected. GovernorOrr has authori t ted the South Carolinian to say he is ut- : terly and uuequivocally opposed to the constitutional amendment, and will not recommend its adoption by the Legislature of i* South Carolina. London contains ( .9,000 miles of gas pipes Em-. srson Etbridge is mentioned as a oandilate for governor of Tennessee, to sncieed Brownlow The recent election n West Virginia shows a Radical majority. The Richmond papers annoanoe he progress of interesting revivals of eligion io the Methodist and Baptist j iharches in that city. LOCAL MATTERS. ] NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. . E. Jefferof, J. A. Ratchford and W. B. WilUama, Mana- I gens?Election Notice, ames Jefferys, Assignee of John G. Enloe, Esq.?Notice I to the Creditors. ( Diaries 11. Molse, Charleston, 8. C Gunpowder at reduced prices. lomeslev k Asher?Now Is the time for Great Bargains. Application for the Re-Charter of Thorn's Ferry. I. F. Adlckes?Assessor's Notice. V. H. McCorkle?Auction 8ale. I . District Elections. , A S. Wallace Esq., one of the repre- , lentatives from this District, to the State i Legislature, having resigned, a writ of 1 ilection has been issued to fill the vacancy, 1 in the 13th day of November. On the lame day will be held the election for Sherff of York District. i i The Synod. i The South Carolina Synod in session at Ebenezer, adjourned sine die on Saturday tfternoon. The occasion is said to have leen one of much good feeling and highly nteresting as to the numbers and obarao;er of the ministerial and lay delegates. Several of the ministers in attendance visited our town on the Sabbath, and filled ;he pulpits 'here that day. The Rev. A. F. Dickson, so favorably known to the soliicry of Sooth Carolina, for his devotion to ;hem amid the perils of Battery Wagner ind Sumter, preached at the Presbyterian Church in the forenoon Rev Wm E. Boaos, of Columbia, a gifted minister? lot yet out of his twenties?preached at the lame churoh in the afternoon Without iresuming to compliment one of his sacred jalliog, we cannot forbear expressing our idmiration of this effort Mr. Boggs bids 'air to beoome one of the most brilliant orlaments of the Ministry in this State. In he evening the Rev. J. N. Craig, of Lancaster, preached in the Methodist Church to a crowded congregation. His termoD was plain, practical and direct, and vent to the hearts and understandings of his learers. Correspondeoce of the Charleston Courier. From Washington. Washington, Oot. 25.?The New York ind New Jersey elections are near enough ;o occupy men's minds, even to the exclusion of busioess pursuits I have no hope jf any essential gain in the Congress representation for the Democrats. Io Western New York there are no Conservatives outside of the Democratic party. That party will, however, give its full vote Possibly the Democratic Governor will be chosen, or at least be defeated, only by a majority of three per cent, on the aggregate vote, as 1 in Pennsylvania. Both parties seem to be confident of succcbs. Some say that if the 1 President had not made his Western tour, \ Pennsylvania would have gone for the Conservatives. But the Democratic organization in New York, is without Republican allies. They contend, single banded, against the Radical orgacization, and also the moderate Republicans, who will do nothing that favors Johnson. Some very eminent Republican chiefs, who were, and still are Conservative, now" decline any support of Johnson, and are as much opposed to him as to the Democraoy. If New York should go for the Radicals, where will General Grant stand ? That question is seriously asked. Hitherto reticent and uncommitted, he may follow in the wake of political power. He has said, in reference to the Maryland trouble, that be should simply obey orders. If New York go deoidely for the Radicals, the President will be impeached and removed, and a Provisional President appointed.? General Grant will obey orders. He will go with the majority of Congress, and obey the commands of the Provisional President, who may be Senator Wade, or as Radicals say, Senator Yates. Io this case the towering popularity of General Grant will make him, whether he will it or oot, the next President. The absurd reports as to a treaty with Mexico are dispelled. The National Republican of this morning contradicts them j: upon authority Instructions must be given j >? : n i ii _u. i ' ;o luiuister v^aiupuen, wuu is Lie re wamug ^ for them. He is to hunt up the Juarez Grovemment. When he discloses his in- ' jtructions, iu the course of his negotiations, with that Chief, they will be found to be of tho humbug order, and calculated for the meridian of Buncomb. LEO. < S8?* A Confederate soldier's grave is in- ' jluded in the Federal cemetery, at the junc:ion of the Fort Harrison road with the ; Williamsburg turnpike. On the bead-board ] s the following inscription: "A. A. Moore, Co. K, 4th S. C. V., ' Killed October 7th, 1864." The ladies of the Memorial Association will, we understand, cause the remains of ' ;his dear soldier to be removed and buried n the Confederate cemetery under their jharge. It gives us much pleasure to state ' ,hat the officers of the United States burial ' :orps have made the most kind and gener- ' jus communications on the subjcot, and lave behaved with a courtesy and feeling 1 ;hat are warmly appreciated. "A touch of I . _ * 1 _ 11 _ !_ IJ .1 .? . i mure mattes us an ukiu, ana trie interihange of humane civilities over the graves if the dead, is eminently calculated to jring together the hearts of the living.? rbe Southern people are never slow to reipond to an amiable exhibition. Richmond Enquirer. ? - ? A call for the formation of "ConstiutioDal Guards" is published in the Washngton papers. They are "to be ready at ill times to aid the constitutional authorises " A recruiting rendezvous has been ipened in Washington. 1 Cflntnktorial. BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA. 8. C? 29TH OCT., 1888. The Garrison here. Oar garrison io Colombia is small ? a piece of a regiment, we believe,?under the command of Col. Moore There is do oomplaint of the official administration ; but the soldiers are sometimes noisy on the Btreets The Marion Star. This handsome weekly comes to us this week in an enlarged form, being six columns and a half larger than heretofore We take this as presumptive evidence that the Star is receiving that liberal support which it so jastlj deserves at the bands of i cultivated (and therefore appreciative) community. Out-door Hotels. The new state of society induced by emancipation has largely increased ? rather we should say, has inaugurated?the market stand and street tables whereat meals may be had at all hours. Of course, the burden of patronage in this direotion comes from the negroes. All round the the market, and at various plaoes on the streets one may see Cuffee taking his meal? of humble material and oheap style, of course, but still in many cases, it is all be gets during the day ? and the pittance paid is all 'hat Cuffee can spare. Business. There is a good deal of selling off at cost among the merchants here; and this suggests the fact, that business is not, in every respect prosperous. It is true that, occasionally, unusual prosperity and briskness enables a merchant to Bell off an old stock, in order to refit and refill his establishment; but that can hardly be the case in Columbia. The other conclusion ? there are but two, we believe, ? is the one referred to above. ~ If the "good time ooming" is coming to us, we wish it woald hurry up, and save our impatience. Hard times and Firewood. Last winter, we of Columbia, were very much at the mercy of the few, who were engaged in supplying wood at retail to the city. But things are ohanged in our favor this year The closeness of the moneymarket, has driven a large number to the business of supplying wood; and the result is, that we get it muoh cheaper this winter than we did last. Good oak wood sells at four and a half ($4 50) a cord ; whereas we might, last winter have had to pay five, six, seven, or eight ? varying with the badweather, ? for the same. W n nrautima nmanov vv o piv>ouujLj uwnwTUij aiici anUUCj when the regular contractors having supplied the main demand and retire from the field, we shall be victimized again by the same cart drivers who skinned us in bad weuther last winter. We hope to see. O Liberty! We saw huddled up and bundled up, lying asleep upon the ground, in the middle of the street, a few evenings ago, a negro? a freedman?one from whose hands the shackles of slavery have been recently knocked off ? one wbo is in the enjoyment of the glorious boon of liberty ? and upon enquiry of those standing not far off we learned that the poor creature there was in the habit of so sleeping; that that was the party's usual mode of spending the night? without borne, or house, or shelter, or food, or friend ? without regular work, without industry, without a future and without hope. Madame Stowe, in God's name send down south to your friends. They need you They do not need any more Unole Tom's Cabin's on paper, but a hovel to sleep in They do not want any more of your liberty, but they want bread. They are too lazy to work; and must die, unless they are cared for. Send down, Madame; they are waiting for you to do so ? are depending upon you, and have deserted their former owners, feeling that help would come to them from their dear friends in New Eogland. The Watchman. This is the name of a literary newspaper, published weekly in New York. We take pleasure in calling attention of our readers to it, because in so doing we feel that we are serving a wortbv cause and doinz a fa vor to oar frieDds. It is edited by Dr. Deems of the Methodist Churoh, than whom there is hardly ao abler editor in the interest of the South, either here or in the North. The strong sympathies of the paper for all that is Southern should commend it to the regards of all oar people; while the earnest, bat never obtrusive piety of the editor should commend his paper, not 3nly to his fellow-methodi8ts, but also to the good and the literary of all denominations : We have no peouniary interest in the paper in any way, and we speak without being requested to do so ? speak from jur own impulse, and our own feeling of interest derived from reading the paper regularly for some months. Tbe address of the Watchman, is Box 5780, New York; and the price of it is 54 ; 82 for six months; and 81 for three months. Clergymen and Teachers get it it 83 a year. Cotton Transportation?Modified JEtegulations. Washington, October 23 ?The Treasury Department has just issued additional regulations concerning the transportation of jotton in bond, to the following effeot: i?Ti 1 : l A - J *i- - * 1_ ib uaviug ueen representee! boat muon hardship and inconvenience is entailed upon the smaller planters and farmers in the interior counties of the cotton produoiDg districts in consequence of the enforcement of recent regulations concerning the removal Df cotton in bond, and that additional and much needed facilities would be afforded by allowing bonds for securing payment of the taxes upon the deliveTy of the ootton at the point of destination to be taken by the collector of the receiving district instead of the collector of the district whence the cotton is shipped, as provided by regulations, series 2, No. 5, issued from this offioe under date of July 31st, 186fi, the following idditional regulations upon the subject have been adopted for scouring the payment of