Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Jtoaps and rfacts. The telegraph announces the death of Dr. Ives, formerly Bishop of North Carolina. ? An THinftia editor has seen a corn field of seventy-five acres in that State, in which the stalks averaged thirteen feet and a half in height ?- The TfoigKflh champion swimmer has swam 1,000 yards in seventeen minutes. This is said to be the fhstasfc time on reoord. ??A student, or doctor's assistant, in St Thomas' Hospital, London, actually dined off a , corpse reoentfy. The. case was investigated, and the cannibal dismissed in disgraoe. An organ grinder at Norwich, Conn., displays on the sides of his instrument neatly framed, a divorce from his wife, a letter of dismissal from a church, and a recommendation of character. A census of the State of Iowa has been taken lately, which reports the population to be 898,104?an increase of more than 145,006 in tec years, or fully 20 per cent ; Ail middle Florida is under water?bridges, wharves and causeways washed away, crop* ' drowned, and general nnn staring many piancen in the face. It is a somewhat curious fact that the author of the Bankrupt bill, the Hon. Thos. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, was one of the first applicants fbi its benefit in that State. The failure is disastrous and said to be heavy. ??Hon. John A. Logan made a speech al Cleveland, Ohio, recently, in which he favoured the election of coloured men to Congress, and intimated that a coloured President would not be muci amiss 1 An irreverent rascal publishes the following atrocious conundrum: What is the difference bo tween a maiden of sixteen and a maiden of sixty' One is careless and happy, and the other hairless and cappy. ??~ A wefl known minister repudiates the re oeived theory that they have mosic in heaven. He declares that his choir has given him so mucli trouble on earth, that the idea of music in the world to come is wholly repugnant to his idea ol eternal peaoe and rest One of the best illustrations of avarice we ever heard of, is that contained in a caricature which represents Old Nick carrying an individual down to nis regions, and while on the way thithei the man is malang propositions to supply aim with - coal! * " 1 1 KTAWlmmnMn \T*goA/>hn. A KWHjllNlli III ilwiumiij/wiij setts, having been called from home by telegrams from distant points, which would require an all night's absence from home, has been unable to find his correspondent on such occasions. Receiving a similar telegram one day last week, he pretended to go, but unexpectedly returned at night, - and fimndnis wife enjoying the society of a neighboring business maB. A negro was so convinced of the lowliness of his race that he was indifferent as to a future state, believing that "dev'll make niggers work eben in Heaben!" A clergyman tried to argue him out of his opinion by representing this not to he the oase, as there was no work for him or any one else to do. His answer was: "You go 'way, massa; I know better. If dere's no oder work for culled persons up dar, dey'll make um shub de clouds along I" The Sumter Newt says the Harmony Presbytery met ou Tuesday, the 8th instant, at the Presbyterian Church in that town, and organized by electing the Rev J. B. Mack, Moderator, and the Rev/W. A. Gregg, Stated Clerk. Rev. D. E. Frierson preached the opening sermon, and on Wednesday evening, Rev. Dr. Plumer delivered a discourse. Up to that time, we are informed, no business of general interest had been transacted. The Unionville Times says the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for that District commenced on Monday last, Judge Munro, presiding. The Grand and Petit Jurors were discharged oy his Honor, who stated that in compli anoe with orders from General Canby, it would be neoessaly to draw new Juries. All Jury cases were, therefore, postponed. Two freedmen, indicted for murder, were released from prison on bail. A villainous Yankee has been going about secretly among the negroes in Central blonda selling them, in fours, at fifty cents e~ch, wooden stakes painted red, white and Jjlue, ornamented with a small streamer, telling them that whenever - they planted those stakes ai the four corners of a A l??. J waiiD t fliairu wlipn liTSOl Ui iouu, uiu iauu nvum uowuiv v?v??w ? .?v.? the expected confiscation came. It is rumored that he has disposed of a cargo of these sticks, and has returned to the North to get another supply. The recent issue of the General Order from military headquarters suspending the collection of certain taxes, seems to have suspended the collection of all, and greenbacks in the State Treasury are as scarce as hen's teeth. With upwards of $130,000 due the State by the taxpayere, much of which is in the hands of the Sheriffs, it is peculiarly unfortunate that this order should have been issued without sijecific instructions as to the manner of its operation and the scope of application. So says the Columbia Chronicle. Not so very long ago, in one of the Western States, there was a certain Baptist church, whose members were not exactly a unit on the subject of immersion. At a meeting of church officers, on one occasion, a certain person not remarkable for purity of life, sent in a request for admission to their fold. One of the committee, a rather rough man, on hearing the name of the individual, exclaimed: "That man! Well, if that man is to be admitted to the Church, he ought to soak ovei night" -?The Arlington estate, the property of the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee and her children, left to them by the will of the late G. W. P. Oustis, was sold by the United States tax commisuoners Hawxhurst and Watson, on the 11th of June. 1864, for non-payment of the direct war tax, $93.67, with 50 per cent penalty and 10 per cent, interest, and was bid in for the United States Government, the officers of which hold it still as a freed men's village, farm, school-houses, cemetery, &c. Alexandria Gazette. The Savannah News and Herald says: "The steamer Dictator, from Florida, has left in this city, for exhibition for a time, a manatee, or sea cow, which was lately captured at the mouth of the St. Lucie River, hloriaa, for the Zoological Gardens at London. Without going too minutely into particulars, let it suffice to say that the sea cow is neither oow nor fish, but parukes of the character of both. It is an inhabitant of the mouths of a few Southern rivers, and is found in the Amazon, Or noco and Oyapoo Rivers. The manatee now hen; is the only one on exhibition in the world." The Charleston Courier furnishes the following as an "effectual cure for the ear-ache:" j'ake a small piece of cotton batting or cotton vnvl, making a depression in the centre with the end of a finger, and fill it with as much ground pepper as will jest on a five cent piece, gather it into a ball and tie it up, dip the ball into sweet, ii and insert it into the ear, covering the latter with cotton wool, and use a jandage or cap to retain it in its place. Almost instant relief will be experienced, and the application is so gentle that an infant will not be injured by it, but experience relief as well as adults. The Macon Telegraph says: "The attention of the public, and especially the planters, has been directed of late to a strange plant that has made its appearance since the close of the war. It apE to be a dwarf clover, and has spread rapia oughout this State, and, it is said, the entire lern States. It is very thick set, covering the earth, as it were, with a beautiful carpet of green. It is much relished by cattle, ana is a complete exterminator of Bermuda, nut sedge, auod other grasses. In Middle Georgia it is very abundant, and attracts much attention. It was * n ?i - i i . o not seen Deiore tne war, ana wnere it came irom is a subject of interesting inquiry among planters and botanists." The extraordinaiy phenomenon of a man marrying a man occurred in North Carolina a few days ago. A gentleman wooed and won the hand of a young lady?the day for the nuptials was appointed, and the groom came to time, as did, apparently, the bride. But it seems she had a juvenile brother resembling her so closely, that, when dressed in calico, none but the most practiced Se oould discover the difference between them, e presented himself, was saluted with a kiss, and an authorized prelate of the magisterial persuasion went througn the ceremony of making the twain one. Music and dancing filled the hour, and all went on charmingly until?the cat was uncloaked.?N. Y. Atlcu. The Boston jFbrt's Washington correspondent says: "Mr. Campbell, Senator elect from South Carolina, is here, and expresses his dissent from the views expressed by Governor Orr in his letter to General Sickles. He oontends that thfe Legislature of Soath Carolina would have passed a stay law had the people desired one, or had there y been the apprehensions of bloodshed of which i Governor Oir speaks. The explanation seems to be that General Sickles and Governor Orr had ar- ' ? ranged to have themselves elected United States i i Senators, which was supposed to be an easy thing, < as General Sickles could control the popular vote, i while Governor Orr secured the General's nomi- ] , nation with his own. Ik? ffltMl* taattof. j ' = I ' editors: . , . JA8. E. WILSON. J AS. P. HART. 1 1 ~ YORKV1LLE, S. C.i ' . THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 17,1867. ! . I i Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash, in advance. > X.?The paper will be discontinued on the expl- ' i ration of the time for whioh payment has been i made. A Subscriber finding a (X) cross-mark on 1 the wrapper or margin of his paper, will under- i stand that the time paid for has expired. , THE LATE ELECTIONS. j , The reports from the Northern elections forcibly | remind us,of those dread days when the news of a , t great battle was flashed over the wires to all parts ( I of the conntrv. First.comes the news of the bat- , tie; then the conflicting statements of the conten1 ding parties, both claiming the victory; and finally the full details of the struggle, the list of the losses ? and the grand result In like manner, the dispatches from the North told of Democratic gains and 5 triumphs, which were by turns contradicted and affirmed, till the reader ceased in disgust But as . the smoke rises from the battlefield, the defeat of ? the Radicals is more and more clearly to be seen, i It is almost certain that the great States of Penn> sylvania and Ohio are lost to the Radical party, while in the States of Indiana and Iowa, which are supposed still to belong to them, their majorities ! have been greatly reduced. We give the particuI lars so far as we are now able to glean them. In Pennsylvania, the election was for a Judge i of the Supreme Court, a member of Congress, one third of the State Senate, and the whole of the lower House of the Legislature. The Republican party entered the canvass, backed by a majority of 27,128 votes, polled at the election last year. At the latest accounts, both parties claimed to have carried the State by a small majority ; but the probability is that the Democrats have elected the most of their candidates. Geo. w.^w pop ward, Democrat, is elected to Congress, anaraHERSWOOD, i Democrat, is probably elected Judge of the Su- s preme Court Philadelphia has gone Democratic, f and in Lancaster, the home of Thad Stevens, the \ Democratic gain is 1,000 votes. 1 In Ohio, the election was for a Governor and c Legislature. Here the last Republican majority a ' was over 40,000: yet Thurman, Democrat, is I elected Governor over Hayes, Republican, and a the Legislature elect is Democratic by a small ma- c jority, in both Houses. This last result is partic- I ularly important, as it effectually defeats the re- c election of Ben Wade to the United States Sen- s ate. Wade, being the President of the Senate, is acting Vice-President of the United States, and c the successor of Mr. Johnson, in case the latter c is removed by death or impeachment. His time v for stepping into this high position is now limited a to the end of his term of office as Senator, at a which time there'is good.reason to hope that he o will retire to private life, to male way for Val- I landigham or some other Conservative states- 1 man. The negro suffrage amendment was defeat- d ed in Ohio by 50,000 votes; a result which shows r that many who still cling to the Republican party, t voted against it This class of voters thus ap- c prove of negro equality at the South, and, at the I same time, disapprove of it at home. t In Indiana and Iowa, the probabilities are in fa- f vor of Republican victories; but the majorities of 1 last year, respectively 29,833 and 35,412, are materially reduced. The Indiana election was for a c State Legislature and county officers; the Iowa j election was for the same offices, and also a Gov- t emor. , t Such are the results, as we get them from our s , exchanges. We believe the Democratic victory is much greater than it appears to be; but the present mail arrangements are such, that we will hard ly be able to present our readers with fuller details J * in this issue. The significance attached to these v elections at the North, is best exhibited in the fol- 4 lowing brief remarks of ex-President Pierce, made ? at Concord, N. H., to a crowd who had serenaded * him, when the news from the elections had reach- c ed that city: c "I warn you, my friends, to note the fact that c ' those triumphs whatever they may be? are no par- 1 ty triumphs. The people have risen in their roqjesty with a consciousness of their power, and dis- 1 carding party lines, and party aspirations, have > been silently considering what belongs to them, t their children and theircountry. I think the great , < battle has been fought and won. If the results are > significant in nothing else, they are in this, that f the white race, our race, the German, French, I- i , talian, Irish, Scotch, and Anglo Saxon people are i !; still to be the controling power on this continent." ( j Since the above was in type, the mails bring us i the news that a dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, j I of the 14th instant, says Hayes, Republican, is elected governor by 3,000 majority. As the re- ? suit of the gubernatorial election could not be ? known there positively before the 15th, we doubt i the truth of this statement. The contest is very f close, and a few votes from counties not yet heard } from may change the result as hitherto ascertain- f ed. At all events, the Republican loss is heavy, \ * ' ' 1 1 ...X J tiieir majority, whatever it De, Deing cue aowu , from 40,000. Nothing further from the other ( States, or the Ohio election for Legislature, &c. j POLITICAL NEWS. ? The next National Republican Convention, j for the nomination of a President and Vice-President will be held at Chicago. - The members of the National Executive Committee have been corresponding on the subject, and a majority have expressed themselves in favor of Chicago. ?The Raleigh Progress learns from an official , source that sixty-four counties have been heard from, which shows the registration of 60,280 whites and 52,298 blacks?a majority of 7,982 for the former. i ?Gen. Ord has called the election in Mississip1 pi under the Reconstruction act. Commencing on the first Tuesday (5th) of November, the commissioners of election are to travel their circuits, opening a poll in each precinct at ten A. M. on consecutive days (if possible) until the circuit is completed. Then the returns are to be duly certified to headquarters. The number of delegates to a Convention is fixed at 100. ?The reported registration of Arkansas shows a majority of more than 18,000 white voters. ? The New Orleans Times gives the following figures of the Louisiana registry: ' 'There were in all registered 127,588, of which number 82,865, or nearly two-thirds, were colored. As all the negroes were registered, the colored population of the State must have decreased since 1860, for then the number of colored males over twenty-one years of age was 91,000. Be that asitmay, it is certain tlto* AAlnrn/1 rAforfl ViQfi ft. plpAP TTIJl buab IUV> W1V1 wu vu f vwt i; ? ?? ? ? jority of more than 40,000 over the Conservative ' whites who had been permitted to register, for the * 44,723 of registered whites embrace not only the ' Conservative whites, but the Radical whites as well, which would leave only about 40,000 Conser- * vatives in all." c ? Gen. Imboden, of Va. applied to be register- a ed, on the 11th instant His application was re- I fused; but he intends testing the force of the d President's amnesty proclamation, by applying to a the U. S. District Court for a writ of mandamus t to compel the registering officer to register his f name. If the Court fail to issue this writ, Gen. i: Imboden will appeal to the Supreme Court of the t United States. fc THE 80UTHERN HOME JOURNAL. ( We have received a specimen oopy of this new E veekly, which is to be published at Baltimore, 8 Md., by John Y. Slater & Co. at $3. (ourrency) t per annum. Its contents are choice, and its typo- ( graphical appearance "very handsome. Its list of o xmtributors includes some of the very foremost ] imters of the South. We believe it will be the best family paper published in the South, and j. perhaps in the United States. As such, fit will be | i weloome visitor at the firesides of those who de- r light in refined stories, poems, essays Ac, of the <; first class. The Southern Home Journal contains t sight pages of such reading, size 29x43 inches, { and in appearance is something like the New York t Ledger. Subscriptions will be received at this t oflfice; i AFRAID OF BUTTONS. 1 The Greensboro fhtriot gives some particulars J of a military show which took place during the * session of the Superior Court of itaudoipn uoun- * ty, North Carolina. A small force of the great 1 United States Army distinguished itself by captor- * ing a number of irreverent individuals who had * their coats adorned with old Confederate buttons, 1 and heroically cut them all off. This chivalrous 1 performance was accomplished without the loss of a single man, the wretched button-wearers having 1 been scattered at the first onset Many of them * who escaped the awful clutches of the devoted loy- c il aftny*?were so demoralized that the}' cut off c their buttons with their own hands, or took off their obnoxious garments and ooncealed them. The * sonsequenoe of this warlike action is that no Con- s federate button now offends the loyal eyes of the ] iwellers in those regions. With unpardonable neg- f ligence, the Patriot omits to mention the name of J the hero in command of the detachment, whose ' fame certainly deserves to be sung wherever the ' American eagle casts a shadow, whether with his e wings or his tail ] The richest part of this blood-stirring story re- i mains to be told. It seems that on this oocasion \ die buttons were wom principally by well-known 1 'loll Union" men. One man, in particular, had [ seen loudly boasting of his devotion to the Radical r party, just previous to his capture by the fiery t champions of freedom. It is significantly said of t his individual, after he had been deprived of his 1 reasonable buttons, that "'he sang low." This patriotic show was appreciated at its due value by ]< he good people of Randolph. We think some L riend of the hero of the day ought to furnish him vith an account of the elections in Ohio and Peno- e iylvania. ? ? ? n - MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE. The widow of the "late lamented" has recently a ihocked the sensibilities of New York, by offering or sale the stock of garments which she wore t 1 ' .v - i ^ wr,;fn I ? vnue presiding over me uuspiumtico v? n.ic ? Y louse. She has these precious relics of republi- r an royalty on exhibition at No. 609,. Broadway, e md crowds have gone there to gaze, but few to ? my, second-hand clothing being a rather unsale- g ible stock among the so-called aristocracy. Among t ither interesting souvenirs, is the dress which Mrs. m had on when her husband was killed, and the d ine she wore when he was inaugurated for the 0 econd time. But the time when Mrs. Lincoln's garments ould interest the public, has passed. The press j if New York, so far from assisting her, have uniersally condemned this sale of relics. They have c ilso unearthed many rumors prejudicial to hercharcter as a lady of refinement The full particulars } f the way in which she stripped the Piesident's v iousc when she retired to private life, are pub- b ished to the world. Stories of her having given * tinners, the bills for which were paid by the govern- jj oent, and her having bribed petitioners for office r o give her presents, by using her influence to se- a ure office for them, are told with terriffic accuracy, n Jut the "most unkindest cut of all" is the state- 1< nent that she sold eleven of the "lamented's" a inest shirts before his body was fairly cold, and ? rnricd him in his only remaining shirt. P These are touching incidents in the life of a Presi- d lent's widow, incidents which patriotism would r >refer to bury in oblivion. But patriotism is al- J nost extinct "Loyalty" has taken its place, and he taste of loyalty rather likes the publ ication of n uch disgraceful particulars. t t AGRICULTURAL NEW8. t ? A tremendous gale occurred at Galveston, o Texas, oh the 3rd instant The damage done to I vharves, shipping, goods and buildings, is estimaed at $1,000,000. Several vessels were sunk, and ( ;ome were wrecked. Telegraphs, railroads and j, >ridges were much injured. The waters rose highir than they have been since October, 1837, the t iity and country being covered with water to the t lepth of a foot The storm was very severe at the ? nouth of the Mississippi river, also. ( ? The Savannah (Gu.) Ifeics says: "Captain a Ferguson, of the schooner AUnc B., which arri- r red here from the Saltilla yesterday, reports a dis- c istrous freshet on that river. The rioe fields are t looded, and the grain which has been cut and J itacked in the fields, is floating over the fields and ( n the river. This news is exceedingly unfortu- c late, and it is to be hoped that the injury to the 1 na Kn?4 ao fLn nortfoin rnnn?do " Q /iup Will nut' ptUVU OO UUU UO IUU vopvuiu IVj/UI VU? V ? The wheat crop in California amounts to fifteen nillion bushels. j ? On some of the plantations in Louisiana the f grinding of sugar commenced about the 12th in- r itant. The crops in St. Bernard Parish are very v )romising. The total crop of twenty-four parish- r is in the State before the war (1861-2), was 459,410 t logsheads, or about 18,000 to a parish. The crop t "or the year 1864-65, one of the worst seasons t mown in Louisiana, was 6,668. The New Orleans n Commercial Bulletin remarks that parti<? capable v )f judging, estimate the crop of the coming year a is high as 110,000 hogsheads. C EDITORIAL INKLINGS. ^ Davidson College. ? We are pleased to learn, through the North f Carolina papers, that this Institution has double c be number of students it had last session. Un- & ler the administration of its able President and c faculty, it is rapidly regaining its old prosperity. e There are many friends of this College among our p eaders, to whom this will be good news. tj The Convention. A Charleston dispatch of the 13th, states c hat General Canby was to meet Governors Orr P md Worth at Columbia, on the next day. The g )resumed object of the meeting was to consult with 0 efercnce to the order for Conventions in North <j md South Carolina. It is probable the order will c >e issued soon after General Canby's return to J; Charleston. js important Geological Discovery. ^ The Charleston Mercury states that Profes- ii or Kerr, State Geologist of North Carolina, and J )r. N. A. Pratt, of Charleston, have lately been * nvestigating the diluvial deposit in the neighbor- " lood of Charleston, known as the Ashley beds.? t| \.mong the remains of extinct animals, which t ived and died previous to the present geological o ormation of the earth, they found the fossil thigh 0 )one and part of a fossil leg bone of a man. This a liscovery, if there is no mistake about it, will j urnish a nut for geologists to crack, as it argues j( he existence of man long previous to the time of I lis creation, according to the present interpreta- t! ion of Bible chronology. ' to Trial of Mr. Davis. o The trial of Hon. Jefferson Davis, which v vas appointed to take place in November, is being u liscussed by newspaper correspondents. It is a aid that Mr. Davis is anxious for the trial; that 8 lis case will certainly come up on the fourth Mon- * [ay in November; that the defence will rely on but . few witnesses, admitting the facts and defending tl he prisoner on the ground that his allejjiance was fa trimarily due to the State of which he was a citi- e Ken. In view of this trial, double the usual num- a er of petit jurors have been ordered for the fall t< erm of the Federal Court at Richmond. Mr. j( Jhase cannot preside long at this court, though he li nay open it, as tie Supreme Court will be in ses- 3 ion soon afterwards. If a desire to postpone the c rial is shown, it is said that the oounsel for the c Jovernment will enter a nolle prosequi, which will 3 >t once and forever quash' the indictment. e Paying the National Debt. Captain Ralph S. Fretz, late of California, 1 >y his will bequeathed the sum of $20,000 to the * Inited States, to be applied toward cancelling the ( lational debt In communicating this fact to the c Secretary of the Treasury, the executors hope that t his legacy may speedily be followed by similar 1 )atriotic legacies from other men. We cannot see jj he propriety of this hope. Attempts of this na- ( ure are like trying to fill up the ocean with peb- j )lea That $20,000 will not more than pay the \ iquor-bill of Congress for one week, and it wiD i oon be appropriated for that or some other equal- ( y patriotic purpose.' If a man has $20,000 to j hrow away, he can easily find better objects on ; vhich to lavish it than the national debt. The ru- , tinmiwi liot.n nn iila, nf atat nnvinff it and \ jpvnw?o uaic ??v ?*vw v? w?? r"V"*"0 ?1 ?? here is little use in private individuals trying to do ' t, especially with such little ''dabs" as $20,000. ' Aristocratic Laborers. f From the following list of working men a- j nong the nobility of England, it appears tha t he aristocracy of'that country do not share in the ^ lontempt for work which characterizes the noble * >rder of loafers in America : The late Prinoe Albert was not only a skilful irohitect, but ui't excellent wood-turner, and passible photographer. He learned these trades just is others learn them?by patient and industrious < abor; and he is said to have had a great fondness . or them. The .present Earl of Lovelace is the ' nost eminent architect in England. His son, the . ate Lord Oakham, had still more practical notions , bout the dignity of labor: for he dropped his j itle, took up the trade of a ship artisan, and work- , d as hard and as long as any of his fellow-laborers, [be Duke of Sutherland, Earl Grosvenor, and nany other titled men in London are acting raem ers of fire companies, and 'run with the machine,' t n fire hats and red shirte. These are only exam- / lies from a list that shows that some of the wealhiest and most notable of the English nobility are 1 iroud to say, that they can work?the', they love 1 abor and plaoe a true estimate upon their digni- i y" ' 1 rhad. Stevens on the President's Views. t Thad. Stevens recently wrote the following Btter, with the view, doubtless, of influencing the ate elections in Pennsylvania: Dear Sir:?In answer to your ihqniiy, "What fleet the success of the President's views will have J n the national securities," I am of opinion that * is effects would be injurious. , i The President contends that the body of men eting as Congress has. no constitutional powers, \ nd can do no valid acts in the absence of the ex- . luded States. The Congresses that authorized he war debt and laid the internal duties to pay it, T rere composed of precisely the same number of 1 epresentatives, from the same States as the pres- ] nt. If it should be decided that those Congress- ( a Viorl nn r?cnatitntlrtnnl ?TieMiu>A. t.hfi five-tWfin Lea, ten-forties, seven-thirties and the legal-tender reenbacks will have been issued without authorial and will be worthless. , Whether they would ever be redeemed would J lepend on what the President would coasider a 3 onstitutional Congress, after the admission of the ebel representatives, when the condition of the ] ebts oflx)th belligerents would be considered. i Yours, truly, THADDEUS STEVENS. J in Invention for Fractions Horses. The Home Journal gives the following ac- r ount of a new and much needed invention: I "M. Ducreux, a Frenchman residing in New t fork, has invented and patented an article which , rill save many lives that would otherwise be lost, ? v horses becoming frightened and running away. ^ he article is an attachment to a carriage, buggy, r other vehicle, which, in a moment, releases the uimalor animals from the carriage, in case of their unning away or in any accident Like all great J nd useful inventions, it is simple enough when j nade known. It is merely an arrangement which . its free the traces attached to the bar or shafts of 1 , wagon. ' If your horses take fright and run away, ' nd there is a chance that your carriage (and your- t plf) will be dashed to pieces, you have only to a mil a small handle, conveniently placed near the river's seat, and the horses muy dash on, but you emain quiet and quite safe in the carriage. M. 1 )ucreux is indeed a benefactor of his race, and his ? ivention ought to be applied to every vehicle in i he world. Messrs. Adams and Cone, on the cor- { ier of Broad and Great Jones-street, have on ex- i libition one or two carriages with this novel at- I achment, and we advise the riding public to call , here ana examine it. The article, too, is quite i rnauientoi to any vehicle in which it is adopted." j langing the President. The Herald is very severe upon Speaker 1 Jolfax, because he threatened the President with c langing, in a public speech. It says: "It was generally supposed that the Speaker of ^ he House should be a gentleman. All the tradiions of Congress and the respectability of a con titution which creatflfrthe office^ presuppose that 1 act; but that the Speaker should threaten the / }hief Magistrate with the ingnominious death of \ , felon, only shows to what a terrible state of de- i uoralization the leading politicians of the Republi- i an nartv have sunk. It is but in accordance with < he instinct# of gentlemanly society that a man i ising such language would at once forfeit his staus and be expelled from all association with genlemen. We can only say that Mr. Colfax, by his iwn confession, has disgraced his character, and ias entitled himself to a denial of all the courteies of respectable society henceforth." While the indignation of the Herald is perfectly ust, there is no ground for its surprise at Mr. Colax's threats. Hanging, disfranchising, banish- < nent, &c., are the arguments of his party to those ?ho differ from them in opinion. As for gentle- i aanly instincts, the Heralds comments, though J hey might have applied to former times, are en- j irely out of place now. It is by no means essenial that Congress should be composed of gentle- i aen. If it were so, and if all who are not gentlemen t Fere expelled, Congress would soon be reduced to ' , very small assembly. Sen. Forrest Vindicated. "J A correspondent of the New York Times c laving recently revived the old slander about the 1 'Fort Pillow massacre," Gen. Forrest replies once 1 or-all to this malicious falsehood, invented and cir- ^ ulated by his enemies. It will be a gratification ^ o learn the facts in the case; for Gen. Forrest's ontemptuous silence hitherto has produoed a gen- c ml imnrpaoion that he actuallv did butcher his 1 irisoners on that occasion. The essential port of * he General's card-is as follows: r "The official report of the United States officer t omiuanding at Fort Pillow, and the testimony reiorted by the Congressional Investigating Commit- ? ee, of which Vice President Wade was chairman, o how that the garrison consisted of only about 580 8 fficers and men.'' Other proofs, whichJ[ can pro- 0 uce at any time, show that I captured and can ac- t ount for more than 390 of these?sixtv-five of r hem, who were badly wounded, having been de- f vered by me to the officer commanding a United itates gunboat in the vicinjty of the fort, and a- r out 250, (an official descriptive list of whom is now j, i\ this citv, in the possession of General Thomas j, ordan,) having been turned over by me to Gen. f 'oik, at Demopolis, Ala. Of these captured men jinety were negro soldiers. Nor were the rest of he garrison all killed; for many of them effected j heir escape, while others were drowned in the atsmpt. It will thus be seen that the proportion f killed was not greater than is usual in tne case f so severe a fight, accompanied by a desperate , ssault and defence. These facts are known to the Government of the f Jnited States, and acquit me, not only in the opin- A )n of the President, Mr. Stanton, and Judge i< lolt, but in that of Congress, of any violation of j he rules of civilized warfare. Otherxmsc I would iave been long ago arrested and tried upon that j; harge. For my own part, conscious of my inno- " enoe, and knowing perfectly well that I have al- o rays waged war with the strictest regard to the c sages of civilized nations, I have never shunned v ny investigation to which the Executive or Con- j( rcss might subject my military conduct. 'J Vas Paul Married f "j The opinion has always been prevalent that lj he Apostle Paul was never married. His doc- e rine of man's supremacy in the wedded state has 0 ver been a stumbling block to the gentler sex ; t nd some of the "strong-minded" have ventured I ) throw oontempt upon his teaehings on this sub- ^ ?t, by asserting that "he was a crusty old bache- ti 3r, from whom nothing better could be expected.'' ? Jut Dr. Kitto, in his Daily Bible llhutratione, has node a flank movement upon this strong position if the Amazonian phalanx. He suggests that r 5aul was a widower, and, in support of this idea, ays: "In referring to the affairs of this time at a later >eriod, he (Paul) says not only that he exercised his lowers by a commission from the high priest, but st J so that, when the followers of Christ were put to leath, he gave his vote against them. He could w >nlv have given his vote, as one of the Sanhedrim, ina it may reasonably be doubted whether the re# n mportant commission which he subsequently re- n seived, when he went to Damascus, would nave tl ieen intrusted to any one who was not a member p >f that body?his introduction into which might )e materially promoted by the fact that Gamaliel, vhose favorite pupil he seems to have been, was ts president Out of this arises the^ important I yinmrierAtinn that. in hr> a narcnt was a condition UUJIIUVfllitlOt A-Lnvxo muuii mm anm wiu The following are the consignees per K. M. R * load, from the 9th to the 15th of October, inclu- ^ ive: ' r J. W. Avery & Co., T. M. Dobson & Co., J. P. Lowry, Allison & Bratton, Jas. JefferyB, Dr. . lohn May, Kerr & Roach, J. & E. B. Stdtve, W. A. Joore & Co., Carroll, Clark & Co., A. R. Homesay, Darwin & Johnson, Miss B. Boyd, Mrs. E. I. Wallace, N. Y. Steam Engine Company, A. '. Otis, John Smith, J. U. Zureher, McCaffrey 'i Jones, Dr. W. M. Walker, M. M. niomasson, 3. T. Wheeler, E. M. Law, A. 0. Floyd, J. M. Iherer, H. F. Adickes, W. E. Rose, L. Smith. COUET OP COMMON PLEAS. This Court for York District, was opened on Honday morning by the Sheriff. Judge Munro . laving signified his intention not to hold any Court, n the present confused aspect of the jury law, the Plerk, Sheriff, and Magistrate Enloe, proceeded ^ o draw new Jurors for the Spring Term; and then idjourned the Court The following is a list of the Grand and Petit ^ Furors: . . Grand Jurors?Wm. Cowan, W. D. Parks, . T. W. Stunjis, T. L. Carroll, H. B. Miskelly, J. A Glenn, Jiio. Z. Allen, D. F. Carroll, Rev. J. n J. Cline, Joel Sprouse, W. A. Robinson, W. 0. ci luddock, W. E. McKnight, Sr., S. C. Sadler, T iVm. Thomasson, R. F. BoycffUwen Matthews, kelson Quinn, (p. c.), J. D. Hotchkiss, James Plack, Dr. A. P. Campbell, F. J. Miller, G. W. ' lurris. . Petit Jurors?Ephraim D. Thomson, W. L. k Jopson, R. A. Caldwell, W. B. Hill. R. C. Cav- o iny, J. M. Manning, Wm. Black, Lewis Green, j. L Pearson, J. W. Brakefield, J. E. McLean, n ?. A. Erwin, H. L. Burton, J. C. Beamguard, J. ? >V. Howerton, R N. McLean, D. C. Williams, 2 iV. Childers, I. N. Davis, J. L. Jackson, (C. S.) * Fames Pool, P. R. Collins, Rufus McGill, (p. c.) tl r. C. P. Jones, S. W. Wallace, Charles Bessair, a p. c.), W. G. Finley, Jr., Ed. Kearsey, W. E. Mcknight, Jr., J. C. Campbell, W. S. Wood, J. 8j I. Castles, Wm. Black, James Boatwright, Sam'l .. Xirkpatrick, Spain Meachain, (p. a), J. M. 3herer, A. E. Carroll, R J. Allison, D. M. Camp- 81 >cll, D. M. Sarratt, Jno W. Brandon, James Tur- \ ler, J. B. Whitesides, S. M. Feeinster, Leroy u iimbrell, Wm. Bradford, M. H. Williams. f( mnr rr a v adi\??d 11 X Z1U A ? The following explanatory circular has been isued: * Headquarters, 2d Military District, ^ Charleston, S. C., Oct. 9, 1867. * Circular. u The following instructions are published for the ti nformation ana guidance of the Commanding Oficere of Poets in carrying out the requirements of ,. xeneral Orders No. 92, current series, from these . leadquarters: *. " In any case embraced within the first subdivis- tl on of paragraph I. of said order, the ratio of taxa- h ion fixed by luw, and prevailing at the time 4he n ransaction was made and completed or the proprty, or right, was varied mth, which is the sudect of taxation, shall constitute the basis for cor- 8< ection of such excessive taxation ; and upon being tl onformed thereto, such tax shall be valid ana h uncling?it being the design of that part of said A jaragraph I. to protect persons making business ^ iperations. from unforeseen imposition of taxes in , ixcess of the rates prevailing when such operations cere consummated. ?; In any case arising under the second subdivision ci if paragraph I. of said order, the rate of taxation a! mposed on the property or person of a resident of tl he State shall be the basis for correcting such j ax, as affecting the property or person of a nonesident; and upon being conformed thereto, such ax shall, be valid and binding. S In all cases where collection of any tax is suspen- gi led under the first or second subdivisions of para- it japh I. of said order, the order suspending the tl ame 3hall be limited to preventing the collection f any excess of such tax over ana above, the aaount properly taxable in accordance vH?h the irovisions of said order as explained by this circu- ff ir. . cl Commanding Officers of Posts are authorized to T nake such orders as may be requisite for carrying ^ nto operation the clauses of saia order in conform- , rig with the foregoing provisions, and all civil of- *? icers at the respective posts are required to com- dl ilytherewith. cr By command of Brevet Major-General, Edward <x i. s. Canby : 0 1( mElilEi'lUJCin A H. H. Hickman, Esq., of Augusta, Go., has ^ een elected President of the Graniteville Manuacturing Company. Ex-Senator Hunter, of Virginia, has been pardoned by the President It T! 3 thought that Alexander H. Stephens, ex-Vice ^ 'resident of the late Confederate States, will be zj lardoned in a short time. Commissioner Pol- ]jt ns has written a letter stating, by law, affidavits R f all kinds are relieved from stamp duty. A le: itizen of Connecticut has invented a printing press, G rhich he claims will strike off four thousand cop- J? js of the New Testament per diem, or four hun- ^ red copies of a newspaper per minute. In ^ 'exas there is a "sour lake" whose water tastes fo ke lemonade without sugar. """ The Montgom- wi ry Mail says that at the election there, numbers f negroes called for "forty acres and a mule," af- ^ 2r they had "put the thing in the box." 'A g, 'rench lady, who held in her hand a glass of cool w rater, said: "Oh, if it were only wicked to drink 01 his, how nioe it would bei" di >f admission to that assembly, because those whose learts were softened by paternal relations were rapposed to be more humane, more inclined to ri neroy than others. Besides, among the Jews it p v&a araminted M&raelv renntable for a man to re uain unmarried, and not the father of a family. But if so, it would seem that his wife and child, or ihildren, did not long-survive; for Otherwise it is scarcely possible but some allusion to them would )e found in the subsequent narrative, in the Epis- u les; and it is clear that, if ever he had a wife, she ti vas not living when he wrote the First Epistle to a ;he Corinthians." d LOCAL ITEMS. HEW ADVEBTISEMEHTS. il 5. W. Curtis & Co.?Stovos. g f\_ R. Homealey?Grocery Opened Again, r. W. Clawson, Messenger?Notice in Bankruptcy?Guatavus A. Drennan. n Et. H. Glenn, S. Y. D.-Sheriff's Sale. g P. M. Dobson?Cotton Ties. a Or. John May?The Attention of Physicians. 1. R. Hoinesley?New Goods at Low Prices. THE DISTRICT COURT. Judge Beatty will hold the quarterly term of ti he District Court next week as usual; the jury b or this Court having been drawn in accordance I vith Gen. Sickles' jury order, and there being o lotbing in the reoent order of Gen. Canby, to a naterially affect the jury as at present drawn.? Parties having suits in this Court will do well to ii ittend. >- r' * e TEMPERAHCE ELECTION, At a regular meeting of Rock Hill Council, No. 13, "Of Reform," held at their Hall 27th Sept, tl .867, at 8 o'clock P. M., the following officers were b manimously elected and confirmed, to serve for the ti lext six months, ending 31st March 1868: h Dr. R. H. Hope, W. A. D.; Miss Mary White, tl j.R; A. E. Hutchison, D.; Miss Maria Rut- ? and, P. J.; J. G. Alston, G. C.; Miss Alice Cald- ii veil, L. C.; T. J. Hope, G. U.; Miss Laura Frew, ti m U.; Rev. J. C. Burge, C; E. M. Kirkpatrick, tl S.; Wm. Marks, F. S. ; J. J. Walters, T.; J. b J. Sadler, G. C.; D. Hutchison, G. R. VTV/iia VAmiminrDITT "DA ATI IHESTER CONTRIBirrQKEAL. C BY TOt. H. BBAWLEY.' . CHESTER, 8. C., 0CTOBER1W, 1867. 5 LOCAL IEV8. P It is hard to make bricks Without straw; harder ill to make a column of local news in a oommuni- ol j so quiet, orderly and monotonous as ours. Not- n ithstanding the disorganization of society, the oi raddle of our- laws, and the insudkneney of-degal fit jmedies, we doubt, if in any part of the world, tl lere is as little crime and disorder, as in the up- ec er part of South Carolina, to-day. tl RETTJBH WEEL V ? There were about eighty Writs issued in Chester ** Kstrict last week. -1 ' 2! ? T OHAHGE OF SCHEDULE OH 0. * 8. 0. KAIL EOAD. M By the new schedule; trains from Charlotte ar- jj, ive at Chester, at 5 A. M; from Colombia, at 6 '51 , fa MHITABY OBGABIZATIOH. ? 1 h We are informed that an organisation of freed- v< len, numbering seven or eight hundred men, has m Eiken place in the Western portion of Chester Diariot, and that rite Military authorities at this Post, ? Ithough the matter has been reported to them, le ecline to interfere. . .u. . ei . ^u.,., .. ' i.. * EELIGI0U8 8ESY10B8. . . di The Bey. Dr. Plainer, of the Theological Sem- P iaty, in Colombia, and one of the most distill- 'tii uished Divines of the Presbyterian Denomina- st ion, will assist Bev. J. E. .White in the Saoaaental servioes at the Presbyterian Church, on st trinday next There will be preaching on Friday * nd Saturday. al * ? p AMU8EMEST8, Bailey's Troupe, assisted by some members of ^ he Thespian Club of this plaoe, gave one of their est performances at the Court House .last week. jj n the*^Wept of the Wish-ton-Wish," the acting it f Mrs. Kirkland and of Mr. Connolly particularly, ^ ras very good and highly appreciated. e, The fine amateur band, of which Mr. Brenecker jj i the leader, added much to the pleasure of the ntertainment. -r PILL boUM." ' .' We are informed that Judge Monro, who is on bis Circuit, held a Court at Union last week, but as determined not to go to, the other Disricts on his Circuit. We presume his refusal to old any more Courts, arises from his conviction hat Juries organized under General Canby's order rill be illegal, and that verdicts thus obtained, istead of ending, would be a fruitful source of ftiire litigation. In this determination, we believe lat the members of the bar generally will agree ith liini. % JCASOHIO. , .1 r 1 _V* a% _ *JT L. There has been a great revival among toe ma- w 3ns of Chester, during the last week. "Frcaddtn w Chapter, No. 14, of Royal Arch Masons," was pc j-organiied October 10th, by Comp. B.' Rush lampbeD, M. E. Deputy G. H. P. of the State, ? nd die following Companions, were elected and t i8talled Officers of the Chapter: f ^ JOHN R. ALLEN, M. REP. ~ R. H. JORDAN, R K A. H. DAVEGAv R. S. : ? JOHN A. BRADLEY, Jr., C. of K & GEORGE W. CURTIS, PS. to W. H. ANDERSON, R. A C. ft ISAAC HEYMAN, G. M.ZdVeiL a CHAS. H. WACHTER, G. M. 2d VexL A W. SMITH, G. E 1st VeO. T JOHN L. AGUES, Treasurer. SAM'L LEARD, Secretary and Chaplain. Is JAMES H. CRAWFORD, SentmeL ft LUEBARTI It is strange that so little is known of the origin to nd history of the formula so universally known ei nd aceepted, throughout Christendom, as the A- ? ostle's creed; the common impression being that w t least the substance dates from a period border- & igon the Apostolic, if not the actual composition f the Apostles themselves. Indeed, there is a to adition?found in some of Saint Augustine's serions?which assigns each separate da use of the ? reed to one or other of the Apostles by name. ^ 'his vague view is unworthy of the importance of ^ hat ancient landmark, which, next to the scrip- ^ ires, embodies in a fixed and authentic shape, * hat rule and profession of the christian faith which 1 t accepted so universally by Christians as the head f their doctrine and belief. y The creed as we have it, was, at no time entirely ew, nor was it the compositioitof any one author _ r body of authors, nor men of any one period, t is the final development of a series of changes? a be expansion of a number of antecedent and in- ~ jmplete formulas. The common root of the whole was the profes- u ion of faith demanded of the neophyte in bap- Q am?the earliest and simplest type of which is applied by the case of the Ethiopian Eunooh. 1 7ith the growth of the church, the variety of sages and the diversity of the points of faith, pro- a jssions of greater precision would inevitably come ^ 3 to use. r The baptismal profession had in it always some- u hat of a secret formula, analagous to the pagan ^ ites of initiation. It was forbidden to put it in ? rriting. Out of the general accord in the baptisial formula, about the beginning of the third cen- ^ uy, sprang the Apostle's Creed. In the most a adimentaiy form we find it in Tertullian. "I beeve in the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost and * i the Sacred Church." In St Cyprian, we find ^ bat the form established in proconsular Africa, in & is time, had been enriched by the articles of "the a* emission of sins," and "the life everlasting through ^ ie holy church." Up to this time, what more ^ rikes us as common to all forms of the creed, is If - -1 aLa a?Aia1a aP aKa "/InoAAnf infn it ie &08CUUe ujl ulc oiuwc vi uuw uvomuv iuw ell," of which the earliest trace is in the creed of M iquileia, about the end of the 4th century. Un- ^ 1 the fifth or sixth century there were manifold ^ iscrepancies, not only in form' or in isolated terms P1 f expression, but in grave and fundamental prin- st pies between the creeds of the different churches t Jerusalem, Alexandria, Borne, Ac., evidence of 16 ie floating and plastic state of the christian faith. P* he history of these successive phases is, in truth, DC mtamount to a summary of the state and pro- M ress of dogmatic belief in the church, in the be- to inning of the sixth century. St Augustine gave 01 the shape which it bears at the present day, ev lough it received some final touches from those ho succeeded him in the African church. di The Apostles creed, as we have it, may be re- te irded as exclusively the formula of the Latin lurches. In the East, it never took much hold, th he forms in use at Jerusalem, Alexandria and ?f ntioch in the 3rd and 4thcenturies, were replaced Pl 7 the creed of Nicaea and Constantinople. Some ^ Dubt exists as to the time when the Apostles' eed became a part of the English ritual. It was & srtainly in common use at the time that Bishop g smund compiled the "use of Sarium" about M )85. ^ The most interesting work on this subject is one ^ eently published by Michel Nicholas. ^ General Grant the Radical Candidate.? th be intelligent add well-informed correspondent of A. ie Baltimore Gazette says: th "The newspapers at a distance have been pus- q] ed at the 'position' of General Grant I can re- ** ;ve that anxiety. He is novo substantially the adical candidate for the" next Presidency. Th6 ^ ciders of the partv which aigjs at usuiying the in oyernment, who nave in squads been visiting at de tervals the metropolis ever since the aitexfe of Pj :anton's removal, some time ago came to the ^ inclusion, in view of their probable defeat in the 7* ming elections, to keep Grant in the back ground r the present He was anxious to promulge a ritten adhesion to the dogmas of the Destructives tfc once. I have specific information that tins ht oliah is reserved to break the force of the defeat ? bich awaits the party, and that he baa promised v jhenck, Logan, Washborn, -EarnawortL. eta,' ho have been recently manipulating hi pi, to oome' 84 it with Ms "great name" upon the heel of their & scomflture." - sa OIiiTMBll CONTRIBHTORIAL BY.JAS. WOOD PAVIPBOy. )LPTtBLL SOUTtf OiLEOLHl, 1411 OOTOBEK, 18fl7 eath of Henry Tiarirod.' 1 Tbe death of the nu?t gifted poet of South Carina is an event of no ordinary interest To Hteiture in general the loss^is great; for, at gie fge thirty-six, most meirare but entering uponxhe" ski of their uwMatw. ,7To the- whekrwentry us State is supreme; for he his left no poet eaal to him. The 1km to his circle of intimates is i -yond expression ; for the ties that brand him to inctiuu^ ;*the few words we' j. ,, " HemyTimrtd was born in Chariesi^brfteoem3r 1830. His father was a poet and litterateur in is day. " Thepoefooft wis edttfcted at the Unisfnty of Georgia (Athens); Hved always ha bis rtive State; was a teacher for many yean; an litordaring the war; and a resident of C<4umbia nee the war. He has written for most of.the ading Kterary journals in the Sooth, and fbr'sey-i -? ?j?till, u A. *>-- tr? Hi QI UM3 IDOH iwpwumn Ul I4|0 iivivu? uo as a fine Latin and French scholar; and, in the amain of belles lettere in general, he wasdistinaished" for his liberal coltnre, extensive atfcsinlefits,' and the catholic spixit irMf*wtech' He phrled every subject . '7 V He was not a man of the crowd ? not one to rike the faikyof a vulgar multitude; hut vras reared in manner, select in his choice of associates, ways shrinking from whatever was boisterous, opular and Vulgar. His was a poet-Hfe?given to books and naue?devoted to the sweet suggestions bf the lautiful world without, and often abborhedf !n i l The busy worid bf men around him' cfarimxl at Kttle of ids attention; and the manywho lobki upon him daily knew nothing ofthe rwd inner fe he was leading. Tears ago he wrote: "SOawwbete on UiU e*nh)y plaaer, to ttwdMtafffloaran tabe, }[ In the dew-drop, la tbe eoMfclaa. Stoepe a eolean day ft* a*. ' AtthtowtkaMfcoarofMlda%fc?' a5-r. t:rr. ?wki% r. 1 Thasagb the dartaeai~l>5t! Oh,Matl. - > *?t la riai end?Ij i>aaSiiii. -vfe Uirt'-J I aai braublag Ufa away; nuX Some one drain a cartaln aeffly; " And J watcli the broadening day. Aaitaaipte?ia<tti?aaaU>, / -?!, , T^tSV&SX!*, MiAnd a wMapar,.'JBaJta ppa.!.> That "solemn day" for our poet-friend pas londay, the 7th of October. It was just as the broadening day", was r**^TIT earth gloriously iaitiful ? as it was purpling in the seaitfa, as brightening on the lawn ? that the dreaming >ul of the. poet went beck to God. 1 Tliai soul was reeded there. Why, we on earth mnot aeej bot wekoow Jxw ye he Negroes. lo'-awtk tu'7 Ohio has just gone by a large majority against f 5gro suffrage. Our dear colored brottaeu, fe ik you in ell candor? are these Ohio radicals the iends that you ought to trust??that you oagbt i Lea#** together with, to eat the threats of ytter raer masters and the whites generally rftbe outh? Think a moment . it/K/V if ,?jC'd (iy 'he Uaivereity. ! i A f. b.u: At the end of the first week of the current scfcostic year, "we hare a few mere facts than we had st week. ;n * ! r: v ? ?. #*? There are present 95 students; and 15 more are oown to betm die point of returning, white seV al ?ten, may be ?new students are expected, o that a reasonable guees at the wholu number k ould be, a hundred and twenty-fire (125) -atta- % ants. trrrW-tevfifii} v .biJqvfibOf the maitieulat^ present for duty, there hare iken the sererel departments, as fbtiow#: ' ^? In the Academic School, these: Mathematics, 5 i Ancient Languages, 48; Chemistry (Pwfesaor oeeph Le Coofe), 4i; English and Rheu4?,35; fodern Languages, 33; History, 29; Natttol feUosophy, (Prof. Join Le Conte), 27'; Medal nd Moral Philosophy, W. . This, it will he obeenred, is a more equable di& ibution of the departments than bbteined last ear; and this is a feature favorable in its atfdicaoos. i In the Medicine School, there are about seven, he Lectures commence Monday, the 14th bst; od the School wiB go on regularly henceforth. In the Law School, tbgre are about four. This chool has already commenced; and will go onreglarly henceforth. Dr. Darby will be here ia a fertadghtor so. Dr. mjth fills Dir. Darby's chair ad rnfm's%|u literary. We have examined Queen Victoria's book with uveijr iuunv?j axiawg paruy uuu me mu oi ie royal author and partly from the character of be work. Wires hitherto hare written memords of their deceased husbands; but this book eals in matters rarely if ever made matter of rejrd in this way. . The fall title of the book is The Earty Ranof Kt Royal Highnm the Prince Contort; compiled aderthe direction of Her Majesty the Qoeen, j Lieutenant-General the Hon. G. Grey. ' It is handsome duodecimo, of 371 pages, published i Harper & Brothers. It is illustrated with two ie likene: jes of the Prince Consort, one at the ie of four, and the other at the age of twenty, be letter-press, consists of a'detailed narrative of Ibert's lineage, birth, education, nursery doings, A tters to his grandmama, baby-journals, and many tie things, the dwelling on which has no importtoe beyond its proving the affectionate interest of ie royal biographer in the subject of her memoir. . be narrative continues, covering the marriage id a few years of maried life. The novel caroomance of Victoria's offering her hand in marriage her cousin Albert, which was according to the qurements of oourt etiquette, j*4etai)ed with a irticularity that is refreshing. Although it was it leap-year, she wept about her job with a. vigor id directness that showed she was not going ba put out about it We like thait V Throughit the volume there are numerous letters from erybody to everybody else among that labyrinth cousins and grandmothers; and in the Appen* xes are orginals (German) of many of those writpr by Albert fR. "D f ! -jI i - ? xuo x reiauc promises Oiner VOlUmeS tO fOflOW is, continuing the Life through its many yean public and private usefulness. Barring the lei-ilities, the book is full of dignity and is vah*? ile in every respect Doffie & Chapman, in Columbia, have the work 1 r tale. The prioe is $2. I S"The foreign vote in N. York city is 80,000; the ' itire 5,2000.*** "Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has \ siiuied the Presidency of the Alabama A Tennese llivere Railroad, from Selma to Dalton. 'The reunville Mountaineer announces the death in at town, on Monday of last week, Of Mr. T. P. Den, well known before the as a member of e finn of Allen AMeCttter,' liook sellers, of tiarleston. 'A man named Tease married a iss Cross.. He teased her till she agreed she raldn't be crofas any man."'''""A. neat motirng fashion from Paris is & skirt ornamented with ath'* heads about the bottom. ^ ""General rice died of chronic diarrhoea, contracted in Mexi. ""1 ""The first Jewish Synagogue everereo d in North Carolina was consecrated at Wilmingnoa the~90th nlt"*"**"The Baptist denominam in the United States numbers 4,054,000. It ?12,000 churches. "Gen. Canby has retnod the Judges of the County Oourtof Cleveland, . Carolina, and appointed other civilians in their sad. ""The total emigration from Liverpool r August was twelve thousand against ten thound in 1866. ** E ?***