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Scraps aai Jacts. ; Virginia paid two million one hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars revenue on tobaooo \ for seven months ending September 1st. j The Petit Journal, of Paris, it is said, has ( a daily circulation of four hundred and twenty-five i thousand copies. i The Charleston Baptist Association will hold its One Hundred and Eighteenth Annual Ses- j sion, with the Sumterville Baptist Church, commencing on Saturday next While a clerk in the Boston post office was i stamping a letter on Tuesday evening, it exploded, injuring his arm severely. The letter contained a quantity ot percussion caps. At an auction sale in Greenland, N. H., on the 13th, a cut glass decanter, four wineglasses and two tumblers, which once belonged to Com- i niodore Paul Jones, were sold for $50. ??They have a public library in Melbourne which is open to all upon one condition, viz: every ( one who enters must have clean hands. Soap, water , and towels provided in the ante-room. The disappointed Johnson men in Tennessee i have already prepared another programme, i e., 1 Brownlow is shortly to die and A. J. to be elected j in his place, and get into the Senate ahead of Cooper. The rail roads of the country must be running themselves. The conductors are holding a Convention in Columbus, the locomotive engineers an- \ other in Baltimore, and the clerks a third in Philadelphia. When Anna Dickinson was at Salt Lake I City, a crowd gathered at the_ hotel to serenade somebody, when a call was made lor 'Jliss jlnck- < inson.' A dispute took plaee as to whether it was ( 'Miss' or 'Mister,' when a compromise was effected by an individual who ehouted, 'Bring it out!" , One of the Sandwich Elands claims the biggest apple orchard in the world, having one that is twenty miles long, and from five to ten miles wide. 1 The fruit is the native wild apple, very delicious, i hut very rapid in decay. Some of the trees bear , fifty barrels apiece. A three story brick house, eighteen by forty 1 feet, and in the construction of which 42,350 bricks were used, was recently built in Lancaster, Pa., in j nineteen hours and a half, and persons were living in it three days from the time when it was com- 1 raenced. i The Postmaster-General's report, now being i prepared, shows that the expenditures of the postoffice were two millions greater this year and receipts nearly one million more than last year, < showing a deficiency of over one million dollars for j the present year. The New York Ilcrald says that in his , forthcoming message, the President T :11 recom- 1 mend that the internal revenue taxes remain un- i disturbed for one year, after which time the ad- : ministration will have the debt well in haud, so that a material reduction of taxation can be secured. i In a class of little girls in one of the schools , in Boston, the question was asked, "What is a fort?" "Aplace to put men in," was the ready ' answer. "What is a fortress, then?" asked the < teacher. This seemed a puzzler, until one little , girl of eight summers answered, "A place to put the women." . Mrs. Keckley, the colored fabricator of gar- < merits for Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, aud her entbu- , siastic admirer and biographer, complains that she has received nothing from the sale of her book, ' though she agreed to share the profits with her ; publisher. She has brought a suit against the i delinqent. Railroads and canals, although in operation night and day, prove to be insufficient for the < transportation of the grain which the West desires { to ship. At Buffalo, on Saturday, resolutions were passed asking the presidents of the New York Central and Erie Railroads to immediately give further facilities, as it was impossible to fill . orders for points in the interior. ] Advices received at the Agricultural De- ? partment, indicate a falling off in tne tobacco crop i of one-third in Virginia and Maryland, and one- i tenth in Kentucky and the West. The estimated | falling off in the West will be largely increased by , early killing frosts, which sadly damaged the un- , cured tobaoeo. The bulk of the crop has been 1 saved. An elderly gentleman died not long since in Pike county, Pa., who wlieigbed 611 pounds in his shroud. The doctor estimated that he had lost fully ten pounds daily during his sickness, and , he was sick seven days. His three sons, who have | succeeded to the management of the hotel, or rather a tavern, which he kept during his life 1 time, weigh over eleven hundred pounds. Here is one of the credible stories that thev send us from San Francisco: "In passing through 1 the California market yesterday, our attention was < attracted to the stand of Joe Giusti, where we | were shown the largest cucumber ever grown in ] this State. It is five feet and two inches long, , and eight inches in diameter; it is coiled in the ' shape of a snake, one end having a white tip re- j sembling a snake's head." - i Gov. Clayton, of Arkansas, made a speech ' recently, which has created the most intense ex- 1 eitement among all classes, particularly among the members of the Republican party. The Governor , announced himself in favor of enfranchising every one as soon as it can be accomplished. He favors the reduction of taxes and doing away with at least $10,000 worth of offices created ny the last General i Assembly, and the reduction of the salaries of all ; State officials. , A dispatch from Nashville shows how ex? ? -1 . X I iJ-t.-J ...1 .f .1 1 rresiaeni uonnson was incfceu um ui mc scimiurship. It seems that on the day before the election Cooper's name was withdrawn as a ruse to test Johnson's full strength. The Stokes wen agreed to join in a vote for Mr. Cooper, if Etheridge would withdraw and make Johnson's defeat certain. As a compromise man he was enabled to poll the required votes on the first ballot and beat tbc exPresident by four votes. An imaginative writer says: 4iWoman is compounded of three articles?sugar, tincture of arnica and soft soap. Sugar, because of the sweetness which is apparent in most women?alas!1 that in some it should have acidulated into strong domestic vinegar; arnica, because in women is to be found that quality of healing and soothing after the bruises and wounds which afflict us men 1 in the great battle of life; and soft soap, for reasons too obvious to need specification." General Don Piatt is not jubilant over the j Republican success in Ohio. He writes to his , paper, the Cincinnati Commercial, that there never was a fight in Ohio so fiercely contested bv the Republicans as the last. "The land rung with speakers and was flooded with documents. The Republican losses'indicate coming defeat unless we take a new departure. As the Fifteenth , amendment takeslthe negro out of politics, the future issues will be of a financial sort, and then where are we ? Put your house in order, my Republican friend, for to-morrow you die." The New York World says that the proba- , ble effect _ of emancipation in producing the ultimate extinction of the black race iu America is < foreshadowed in an elablaboratc medical report recently presented to the State Medical Society of Kentucky, in relation to the relative fecundity of women of different nations and conditions. In support of the assertion that labor tends to in crease fecundity, and jndolence and luxury the reverse, many historical illustrations were adduced; among which were numerous statistics from various parts of the Southern States, showing that in a given population, where three children were l?orn during slavery, one, or less than one, is born now, and that at least fifty per cent, of the children of the freed people die during the first year of infancy. It is added that the immorality of the emancipated slaves has even more to do with their increased sterility than other causes. The journey from New York to Chicago by rail is now accomplished in thirty hours, at the rate of something over thirty miles an hour including stoppages, or more than forty between sta- 1 tions. Tnis is the fastest running ever done in America. Every improvement has been made upon these lines of radroad, and the greatest care is taken to prevent accidents. The Pullman cars are used, with the new platform and patent brakes. If the rate of speed were extended through to San Francisco, we should be able to go from ocean to ocean in four days and a quarter. The Pacific Railroad Companies will soon place upon their line a lightning train, of Pullman's cars, to run onoe a week in connection with the fast trains from New York to Chicago. .This train will carry passengers across the continent in five days. Then there will be nothing left to do but bridge the oceans, to circumstem the world by railway. A rail, with a two feet gauge, is now in sue- i cessful operation in Wales, and is attracting the ( attention of railway men. Though the line runs through a very difficult country, the expenses of construction and working are so smaH that the traffic yields the enormous revenue of thirty per cent. The reason is simple enough. Tt is because i the proportion between the dead weight and the paying weight is so much less than upon other railways. The engine and tender upon this line weigh about ten tohs, against forty tons upon the wider gauge of other lines. Instead of a first class carriage weighing seven and a half tons, to carry thirty-two passengers, and representing nearly five cwt. of dead weight for each passenger, the carriages on the Festinlog weigh only thirty cwt. for twelve passengers, or two and a half cwt. for each person carried. The London Railway Neics is confident "its economy and efficiency will cause it to be extensively adopted." ihc ?orhviUe (Stoquiw. YORKVIL.L.E, S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 4, 1869., Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that >ur terms for subscription, advertising and job, work, are cash, in advance. X.?The paper will be discontinued on theexpi- ; ation of tne time for which payment has been , nade. A Subscriber finding a (?) cross-mark on ;he wrapper or margin of his paper, will underitand that the time paid for has expired. PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS?1870. TVio Pmnrmtnr nrmniinncs TIFREE PREMIUMS for ' :he three largest Clubs of Subscribers to the Enquirer for the year 1870, amounting, in the ag- ' negate, to Seventy-Five Dollars in cash. The first premium will represent the value of Thirty-Five Dollars ; the second, the value of , Twenty-Five Dollars ; and the third, the value , af Fifteen Dollars. < The Proprietor, instead of designating special irticles as premiums, has adopted the above plan 1 in order that persons who secure the premiums 1 may select whatever article may be preferred, of , the value to which each may be entitled. , The person getting up the largest Club, at $2.50 | for each subscriber, will be entitled to the first of 1 the above premiums; the person getting up the 1 second largest, to the second premium; aud the ' third largest, to the third premium. Competitors may begin procuring subscribers at once?the time j ?f subscription to commence whenever the name , is handed in, or on the first of January, 1870, as j may be preferred. The money for each subscriber i is expected to be paid whenever the name6 are en- [ tered on our books, and no name will be counted 1 in competition until it is paid for. fiQy* To persons who make up Clubs of ten or ( more names, but who may fail to obtain a premium, | we will send the Enquirer, one year, free of i :harge ; and to those who sfcnd a Club of twenty < or more names, but who may fail to get a premi- . am, we will forward a copy of the Enquirer, one ( year, free of charge, and a copy of the Rural Car- j olinina and the Southern Cultivator, or a copy of , the enquirer and either, Godey's Lady's Boole, >, Peterson s Magazine, Frank Leslie's Lady's Mayadne, or any weekly newspaper published in the United States. B&" The premiums will be awarded to the sucsessful competitors at ono o'clock, p. in., on the , Second Monday in March, 1870. I THE OIL CAKE QUESTION. j We have received a communication signed "A", j in reply to the calculations of our Union county jorrespondent, as to the cost of sending cotton ; seed to Columbia to be ground into oil and oil-cake. , Owing to the late hour at which this coromunioa- | tion was received, our space being nearly filled up, we have no room for it this week. It will appear in our next issue. ( COTTON, CORN, TOBACCO AND SUGAR. The Agricultural Bureau at Washington issued a report on the 28th ultima In reference to the cotton crop, the report says there is no reason to believe, from an examination of the October returns to the Bureau, that the estimate heretofore made (2,750,000 bales) can be exceeded. The picking will be greatly reduced in quantity and the ( picking season will be over unusually early, except on plantations short of labor. The causes assigned for the crop's turning out shorter than it should have been, with the increased area of planting, (sixteen per cent.) are severe drought in the Carolinas and Georgia, very hot weather during August in Arkansas and the Southwest, and caterpillar and boll worm in various sections, the ravages of the last named, however, being less than was sup- ( posed. No mention is made of the unfavorable weather in May. , Corn has declined a little at the West, from a variety of causes. The temporary cause is the fluctuation in gold in New York last month; but the heavy wheat erop of the country, and the determination of consumers to avoid the use of corn at exorbitant prices by all expedients in their power, have something to do with the decline. It is certainly not caused by any superabundance of corn; for the croi) is reported short almost everywhere, even in the great com States of the Northwest. As a consequence, the hog crop of the country is likely to be short also. The sugar crop of the Southwest has, like all other crops of this year, suffered from unfavorable seasons. The New Orleans Picayune, good authority on the subject, says that the cane has grown very little since August, aud is unprecedented!}' small. The Agricultural Department leports a falling off in the tobacco crop, of one-third in Virginia and Maryland, and one-tenth in Kentucky and the , West. The estimated falling off in the West will, it is said, be largely increased by early killing frosts, which have badly damaged uncured tobacco. The bulk of the crop lias been saved. PLENTY OF MONEY COMING. ] Many of the papers, both Northern and Southern, are figuring out to their own satisfaction, that i the people of the South are going to fairly roll in ( money, when the present crop of cotton is sold. { Among others, the Scientific American makes out what it terms the "Southern Balance Sheet," ! based on statements furnished it by the manager of a Mobile journal. According to this authority, the planters gonerally paid up their debts in Confederate money, during the War; after the war they had no credit, and, being compelled to economise, their attention was largely directed to the growth of breadstuffs i and meats. During this year a fair crop of cotton . has been made, and generally made with provisions and feed of home growth, so that planters have , received but small advances and are not now in debt. From these "facts" the Scientific American estimates that $75,000,000 will cover the indebtedness of the South abroad, and putting the net value of the cotton crop at $250,000,000, it thinks there will be $175,000,000 of "loose money" in the cotton States next year. This is a very delightful picture for Southern conteinplatiop, lacking only the element of truth to make it perfect But it so happens that it is false in the particulars of payment of debts during the war, and the "small advances" of this year. The fact is also overlooked that owing to the shortness of the corn crop, next year's supplies of corn and meat must come out of this year's cotton profits. It follows, then, that the amount of "loose money" must be let down several figures. The lien has also to be squeezed out, before cotton < will be allowed to rise to the price on which the i above quoted calculations are based, in order that i Northern capitalists who advanced supplies through : Southern factors, at from fifty to one hundred per i cent, profit, may come in for a share of the *175,000,000 "loose money." But even with these drawbacks, there is every reason to believe that the planters of the South generally will make a very fair profit on this year's crop. Even those who corne out behind will be benefitted ; for if money be plenty, tbey will be j able to borrow at home and purchase supplies at a j slightly less disadvantage than they have done un- a der the lien- system, which compels them to buy t the necessaries of life high and sell their crops low. t THE "RURAL CAROLINIAN.*' The second number of this magazine has been c received. It fully sustains the character secured s by the first number, in typography, illustrations r and reading matter. The prominent articles are ^ on Improved Farm Implements^ Agricultural c Fairs, Application of Manures, Deep Plowing and ( Results of High Culture. There is an agreeable s variety in the Horticultural, Editorial, Literary and Household Departments. We feel that we cannot too highly recommend this homo agricultural journal to those of our read- t ers who are directly interested in the cultivation of j the soil. For this reason tbo proprietor of the f Enquirer has accepted the agency for it. The f regular price of the Rural Carolinian is $2.00 per r annum ; but it will be clubbed with the Enquirer, J at $4.50 for the two papers. t ? ? ? THE YERGER CASE. Some months ago, a citizen of Mississippi, Edward M. Yergcr, shot and killed Col. Crane, the military Mayor of Jackson, the capital of the State. His reason for the act was that CoL Crane had levied on and sold a piano belonging to some of Mr. Yerger's family, to satisfy an execution for taxes issued against Mr. Y. The crime, was severely condemned by the public sentiment of the whole country, and had the civil law taken its jourse, this would have been an ordinary criminal ;ase. But the militaiy authorities of Mississippi contrived to give it a phase, which makes the case one Df vital interest to the whole country. Although the offence was committed against the laws of the State, and in no way came under military jurisdio-. tion, Mr. Yerger was arrested, tried and sontenced to death by a military commission. His counsel brought the case before the Supreme Court on a motion for a writ of habeas corpus, and it has just teen decided Dy tnat urnrt. s The point contested was whether or not the Su- e preine Court had jurisdiction over the case, or, in j jtber words, whether tho Court had power to set i iside the proceedings of a military Court. This a involved the constitutionality of the Reconstruction ] haws; for it was only under some one of these that's the military power could possibly claim any author- ( ity to try civil causes. Chief Justice Chase deliv- \ jred the decision, which was adverse to military g trials, declaring that the Supreme Court has juris- g diction in the case. Tlie Chief J usiice added that, e this question having been decided, counsel could r make a motion for a writ of habeas corpus, when- c aver they thought proper. e This decision has disquieted the leaders of the t Radical party, as they consider it a fatal blow to t the Reconstruction Acts. The President is also t in trouble, as his party look to him to set aside the j decision by disregarding the writ of habeas cotpus, t ind retaining the prisoner in custody. ^ STATE ITEMS. 1 ? Mr. J. B. Boyd has been appointed post mqs- ? ter at Lancaster C. H. ] ? The United States Treasurer at Charleston has s received $100,000 in fractional currency. ?The South Carolina Institution for the educa- f tion of the deaf and dumb and the blind, at Cedar r Springs, Spartanburg county, is to be re-opened . For the admission of pupils, on the 17th instant. r ?-William Adamson, colored, has been elected t Representative from Kershaw, to fill the vacancy c jaused by the death of Jonas Nash. There was r no opposition, and but few votes were polled. t ?The Winnsboro' jYeics says: "The body of Mr. t Derrill Hayes was found yesterday morning, about eight miles from town, on the Kincaid Bridge s road, dreadfully mangled." . ? The Unionville Times says a meeting is to be . held at Spartanburg Court House, on the 10th in- i stant, to devise a scheme for the construction of a r railroad from Spartanburg to Asheville, N. C. ^ ? P. II. Scott, accused of stealing $1800 from j the safe of the Express Company at Laurensville, ( has 1/een found guilty by the Court of Laurens ^ LUUWIJ. j ? The "fight," which was reported last week, t as having occurred between Land Commissioner j Leslie and "Senator" Wimbush, colored, at Col- ? umbia, turns out to have been only a quarrel. s Words?not fists, were the weapons used. , ? Governor Scott has offered $500 reward for the t apprehension of the party or parties who set fire s to the storehouse of D. G. Robertson, of Sumter ; count}', and $1,000 for the apprehension of "two , white men," who murdered Ilenry Thompson, a | colored man, in Abbeville county. , ? The Citadel at Charleston, at present held by ( the United States as quarters for troops, caught | fire last Saturday, from the sparks from a soldier's ( pipe, which fell in a quantity of hay stored there. s During the fire a number of cartridges exploded; | but no serious accident occurred. The fire was ( speedily extinguished. Damage unknown. l ? A destructive fire broke out in the village of ( Bamberg, in Barnwell county, last Saturday night. The Augusta Chronicle says six buildings were destroyed?three stores and three dwellings. The j loss was partially covered by an insurance of $2,- ? 500. The owner of one of the stores had no in- i surance. He intended to insure on Monday ; but i unfortunately for him, the fire came before his po- ' licy. ( ? The Spartanburg Spartan says: "One day ] last week, at a sale at Mr. Dillard Dobbin's, Jere- ' miah Martin was shot in the arm by H. M. Tur- j ner. We are informed that the parties were en- c gaged in friendly conversation, when Turner drew \ his pistol and fired. There was no immediate " provocation, though there had been a difficulty J between them some years ago. Wc understand ( that Turner says it was an accident." i ? Messrs. Sullivan and Guffin, Radicals, have t been elected to the Legislature in Abbeville, by a ( majority of 286 votes out of 4,059 cast. No elec- J( tion was held atLowndesville precinct, on account . of a difference between the white and negro mana- ] gers, or the majority would have been reduced to 1 186. The Press thinks the Radicals could have ( been defeated, if all the white men of the county ^ had turned out to vote. ? The Chester Reporter, of last week, says: , "Mr. J. T. Clark, residing upon the plantation of ; Mr. Elijah D. Walker, gathered one hundred i bushels of corn from two acres of Sandy River S bottom. And on three-eighths of an acre of the 1 same - two acres, he gathered twenty bushels of 1 corn. Can Turkey Creek, Rocky Creek, or Fish- , ing Creek, beat the above ? This corn was thinned and plowed only once, and on account of the freshet and storm of rain and wind washing and blowing it down, it was not worked any more." ? An old couple, named John aud Louisa Landon, who had been left in charge of Horn's steam mills, in Edgefield county, were attacked in their own house, on the night of the 9th ultimo, by parties unknown, who stabbed them to death. Eight shots, supposed to be from Winchester rifles, were fired into and through the house. The only assignable reason for the murder is that the old man was known to have some $80 or $90 in money, on the premises." ? There was a "dignified scene" in the old Council Chamber of Charleston Thursday night, j A claim of D. T. Corbin was up for adjustment, , when in the course of the remarks which ensued, i Alderman E. W. M. Mackey called his uncle, T. J J. Mackey, a scoundrel, when pistols were drawn, 1 three shots fired by the latter at the former, and ! nobody hurt. Great confusion followed, and the 'j menagerie wound up and adjourned without set- , tling or defining the nature of the claim. ? ?The extra term of the Court of Common i Pleas, which convened at Newberry on the 11th j ultimo, continued in session three weeks, during which time about four hundred litigated cases { were disposed of. The Herald says: "The jury 1 unanimously agreed that in all ante-war cases \ udgments shall only be given for one-half of the )rincipal and interest to the 1st January, 1861, igainst the principal, and one-half that sum against life sureties. And on the most of the debts con- ] racted during the war, the same rule is applied, ixcept in extreme cases, where the true value of 1 he property is looked into, and a verdict given for ine-half of that sum, in cases of .personal property, md for the whole amount where the contract was , nade for real estate. Contraots made during the var for substitutes, and all eontraefs for purchase >f slaves, under the ruling-of his Honor-Judge , )rr, are thrown out of court, or held to be unconititutional, and cannot be collected." ] MERE-MENTION. Sixty-two years ago, October 9th, the first steain- ? >oat was launched in the United States. The J Ylabama river is lower than it has been for twentyive years. There are said to be six thousand jrinting houses in the United States. A large lumber of Northern men have bought farms in ( Northern Virginia this fall, and intend settling ] here permanently. "Twenty-three barrels of J iranberries, grown upon a quarter of an acre of and near Richmond, Va., have been sold to a Richnond confectioner for $10 per barrel. "There , ire great numbers of people out of employment in 1 ^ew York. A business house which advortised or a porter last week had two hundred and fortylight applicants by 11 o'clock, a. m. " " ""It has ( >een discovered by careful experiment in Cliarleson that the weight of a bale of cotton varies slighty with the temperature. A fall of ten degrees-in f he thermometer causes a bale of cotton to gain j ibout a pound and a half in weight. A Miss Vmy Wilkinson, of Benton county, Ind., has been ient to the insane asylum, she having lost her reaon from the excessive use of tobacco. Ver- c nont is the riehost State, per capita, in the Uni- J ?n. Dr. Maty Walker has been lecturing in 1 >t. Louis on the necessity of a law compelling men ( o marry before they reach the age of forty. A ^ olored man from Boston has located in, Richmond, fa., with improved machinery, and is doing a hriving business by extracting the essence from assafras root, large quantities of which are obtainid in that section. According to the JMrew 1 Vational, of London,, there aresix millions of Jews n the world, one-half of them Jiviug in Europe, ' md allowing only 200,000 in all America. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston News . tates that it is more than probable that President j xrant will visit Charleston, Augusta and Mobile ( >eforo Congress convenes. Jefferson Davis is , aid-to have accepted the presidency of a life inurance company in Memphis/"- SewiDg ma. hines are now run by water in Maine." It is oughly estimated that the reduction of the public J lebt during the month of October will amount to 1 light millions of dollars. There is said to be * agged school in London, in which, in order to re- j ain the scholars at all, the teachers are compelled J o let them out in time to pick the pockets of the 1 >eople on their way home from church. At ( ho North Carolina State Fair, at Raleigh, last * reek, Messrs. Groot, Kuck & Co., of Charlotte, 1 vere awarded a diploma for the best specimens of : :orn and rye whiskeys. Mrs. Elinabcth Cady Stanton is writing a hook on the "Women of the Sible." The total amount of sugar now con- ( lumed by all nations is estimated at 2,500,000 tons. . America consumes about 530,000 tons. The , irst water-power saw mill of which we have any , ecord, was erected at Saardam, Holland, in the ( 'ear 1596. Napoleon III, according to late , umors, has a novel idea in his head?none other ( ban a general disarmament by the leading powers j >f Europe. A young man named Turn mar- j ied a cousin of the same name on the plea that ] 'one good Turn deserves another." An "In- ' ernational Dog Show" is to held in New York. , Jefferson Davis has gone to his borne in Missis^' iippi. Boston is raising subscription^x^to purchase John Brown's farm." Twenty-two lersons were killed, or killed themselves, in New < fork last week. Pork is quoted at $50,000 < t barrel in Hayti. - One dollar in gold is equal to < 51,800 in Haytien money. The Jews of St. < Petersburgh are to build a synagogue costing $1,- i )00,000 roubles. A large hat factory has be- ] i;un operations at Wytheville, Virginia. Sitka i ilready experiences the blessings of annexation to i he United States.- Her population has increased 1 o six hundred and eighty, and the number of grog I ihops to sixty. On the Mississippi river, the steamer which makes the fastest trip is entitled to i vear the antlers of a deer on its pilot house as a i ;oken of supremacy. '."An exchange says that < sugar has gone up so high as to produce a slight 1 ncrease in the price of sand. Massachusetts | iow indulges in "charitable horse trots," for the j jenefit of benevolent societies. John China- 1 nan is an imitative chap. In this country he 1 Irinkslager beer, and makes Limburger cheese and < wldgna sausages take the place of bird's nests and logs. Ninety thousand barrels of flour are inspected in Charleston annually. Walla Wala, Washington Territory, reports marriages and livorces in equal numbers, and alternating with ' istonishing regularity. There arc ten candi- 1 lates for Mayor of Montgomery, Ala. ( ? ? - i The New State Capitol.?'The eastern wing if this building is being temporarily fitted up for , :he next meeting of the Legislature?November ' ? tn mAO at all/an f a tnlrtm fh A AAntt>AA^ ' I'll. UtVIIJUO I'll llllVd) lU n IILrlll Ult IUUUUVI ivas awarded, has worked energetically, and?as far 1 is we arc able to judge?very efficiently. There aas been a complete transformation of the interior i )fthe building. Partitions have been erected, walls plastered, and innumerable odds and ends looked i ifter, which go to make up a vast amount of work, rhejob has been superintended by Mr. W. R. 1 bloyt, ably assisted by Mr. Charles E. Kirk, of this ;ity, as head carpenter, and Mr. Carpenter, of < jreenville, as superintendent of the plasterers, j Mr. E. C. Plumer, of this city, attended to all the clumber's work in the building. As a matter of nterest to our readers, we give the following dessription of what has been done: The main entrance 1 s on the North side of the first story. Passing ;hrough the corridor, on the right is the Auditor's 1 jffice, and opposite is the Attorney General's office. ] ibout the centre of the corridor, is a bronze statue )f George Wr :ington, bearing the inscription : 'Modeled 1778, in France, by Houdon; cast in ' Richmond, Va.. at W. J. Hubbard's Foundry." 1 Passing through the corridor, on the right is the Comptroller's office, and adjoining it is a room, j vith a fire-proof vault, for the protection of im- ; Dortant papers. On the left is the Treasury department, with private rooms, vault, etc. On the ight i3 the Governor's office and private room. j \djoining is the office and private room of the ' Secretary of State. On the oxtrenie left is the ? Supreme Court room, adjoining which isaconsultng room and a well-lighted apartment, intended ( is a library. And so ends the first story. On the second story, in front, on either side, are ' ooms for the accommodation of the Speaker of ! he House, the President of the Senate, and their :lerks. The Hall of Representatives, as well as i :he Senate Chamber, upon this floor, are tastefully itted up; the ceilings being finished with orna- , nental brackets, corners, &c. The walls are nlas:ered in imitation of stone. Galleries surround the aall of the former, while in the Senate chamber a ' jallcry extends along the North side. This chamjer is to receive an entirely new outfit?furniture, j :arpets, &c. On this floor are seven committee- j -ooms, cloak and wash-room. The entire building vill be heated with coal. Several thousand dollars vorth of extra work, we are informed, has been ' aut upon the building?which will be completed 1 n a few days.?Columbia Phoenix. The Raw Material.? The Philadelphia Aqe ! rri.j. T? n * 1 >ays: inai xjuropean manuraciurers or cotton ;oods are beginning to agitate the question of re- < noving nearer to the raw material. Cost of trans- ' lortation is eating away their profits. Thus the Lancashire manufacturers are contemplating the < emoval of their establishments from Manchester ;o the British East Indies; and the Marseilles ournals are suggesting the transfer of the cotton actorics from the North of France, where they are iow concentrated, to the South of that country, so I is to be nearer the supply of Indian cotton, comng through the Suez canal. The same view is 1 aken of the question in this country, and several arge cotton manufacturers in the North are prelaring to transfer their business to the South. We ] nust reduce the cost of producing, as well as Eng- 1 and and France, or suiter in the markets of the vorld. i LOCAIi ITEMS. V NEW ADVEBTI8EMENT8. \ M. Jones?Practical Invention?Relays are Din* "gnrou's. E. C. McLure & J, A. Bradley, Jr.?The Chestei Be porter. F. R. Castles, Administrator--Application foi Discharge. Fohn 0. Crawford, Executor?Application foi Discharge. # I. A. McLean, Administrator?Application foi . . Discharges.. Dr. J. J. Miller & J. C Miller?Administrators' Notice. tl. H. Glenn, Sheriff?Foreclosure of MortgageSales for-December.?Judge of Probate1! . Sale. F. M. Deal?Lime. F. F. Wallace?Clerk's Sale. L. W. Clawson, Deputy Messenger?In bankruptcy?Applications for Discharge?In the matter of Francis Hammond ana Hillary Kirkpatrick, - < Gr. H. O'Leary?Saddles & Harness. P. B. Darwin?Notice. B. P. Boyd?Cheap Groceries. F. C. Harris, Judge of Probate?Citation?J. G. Hetherington?Rebecca Hetherington, deceased.?Notice to Absent Defendants. I. S. R. Thomson?Administrator's Notice. VXiss H. M. Walker, Lincolnton?School for Girls. THE BIBLE GAOBE. At a recent meeting of the York Bible Society, :he following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That Judge W. C. Beattybe requestid and authorized, as ne shall deem best, to collect \ands for the purpose of employing a Colporteur, is recommended at the last annual meeting. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. At a called meeting of the Agricultural Society >f York District, held on the 2d instant, with Maj. A A. McKeozie, presiding the following persons vere nominated as delegates to the State Agrimltural Society's meeting at Columbia, on the LOth : Principals?A. A. McKenzie, J. T. Lowry. Alternates?J. L Adams, J. E. Wilson. EXTRA TRAIN. The President of the King's Mountain Railroad uithorizes us to state that, in order to accommolate persons desiring to visit the fair at Columbia, in extra train will run to Chester next Wednesday norning, provided there are as many as twenty vho will go down in if. Return tickets, good for :en days, will bo furnished on payment of the reguar fare, $1.60. The proposal is worth considera ion ; for visitors to the fair can save one day's time md expenses at Columbia, by taking this train. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Our friends throughout the county will confer a special favor on us and the readers of the Enquirer, by informing us of any matters of general in:erest which may transpire in their respective leiehhnrhnods. Furnish the facts in each case af briefly as possible, at>d we will put the informatioi nto a shape suitable for publication. The names )f persons giving us information must accompanj :heir communications; not for publication, but as in evidence of good faith on the part of the write] ind for our own private use. TOURNAMENT POSTPONED. As will be perceived by reference to the adver :isement, the Tournament at Fort Mill , has beer postponed one week, and will be held on Thursday :he 18th instant, instead of the 11th, as heretofon innounced. We have been authorized to mak< this change by parties interested, for the reasor that the day first advertised would have made th< tournament come off at the same time as the State fair. Many persons desire to visit both, and foi the accommodation of all parties, it was thought best to put off the tournament until after the fair rhe reason is a good one, and will doubtless prov< satisfactory to all interested. PRESENTMENT OP THE GRAND JURY. The presentment of the Grand Jury, handed ir en the 2d instant, reports favorably as to the condition of the offices in the Court House, and recommends a few repairs and improvements, among ethers a stove for the Court room; repeats the recommendation of the last grand jury, as to repairing the jail; and finds that the inmates of the Poor House are well clad and comfortable. Nc reference is made to the manner in which the pub ic roads are to be worked. In regard to old debts, the grand jury say: "Notwithstanding the fact that we, as grand jurors, entertain serious doubts as to the legality ol my recommendations we may make on the subject if the collections of old debts, yet, in order to advance the general welfare and prosperity of the people at large, we recommend that such indulgence be extended to debtors in enforcing the collection laws, on debts contracted prior to December 20th, 1860, as may be found in each special case to be equitable and proper." SALES-DAY. As last Monday was the beginning of Court week, there was a full attendance from the country to attend the usual sales, and our merchant* seemed to have as much business as they could conveniently attend to. The following sales of real estate were made: The sheriff sold a lot iu Yorkville, on which aw situated two store-houses, levied on as the proper ty of George Heyman, for $2,297?purchased bj Carroll, Clark & Co. The sheriff sold for the Judge of Probate, or suit for partition, the following tracts of land: One tract, belonging to estate of Duncan McCal< lum, deceased, and containing 292 acres, at 70cts, per acre, to L. R. Williams. One tract, belonging to estate of J. H. Davis, leceased, and containing 1150 acres, at $4 pei icre, to W. B. Hill. One tract, belonging to estate of William Feem stcr, deceased, and containing 180 acres, at $7.6< per acre, to J. A. Sanders. One tract, belonging to estate of Wm. H. Chambers, deceased, and containing 170 acres, at $6.8( per acre, to W. C. Reid. One tract, belonging to estate of J. C. Wallace, leceased, and containing 41 acres, at ,$1.12J pei icre, to Samuel Harmon. The, Clerk of the Court sold, to foreclose a mortgage, one tract of 684 acres, belonging to Jasor Hicklin, at $5 per acre?purchaser, Wm. Massey, Messrs Thomson & Jefferys, assignees in bank ruptcy, sold a mill seat, with eighteen acres of land, belonging to the estate of A. M. Kee, for $300, t< J. H. McElwee. Also two tracts of land, belonging to the estaU pf C. S. Cline; one, of 138 acre3, at $3 per acrepurchased by James Daniel, and one of 183 acres it $2.80 per acre?purchased by the bankrupt Also the half interest in a tract of 26 acres, whicl was purchased by James Daniel, for $325. T. S. Jefferys, assignee in bankruptcy, sold om :ract of 106 acres, belonging to the estate of E. H. Dherry, at $5.50 per acre, which was purchased oy the bankrupt W. B. 3Ietts, assignee in bankruptcy, sold the following tracts, belonging to the estate of L. H. Massey. One tract of 201 acres, known as the "Robinson place," at $2.15 per acre?purchased by the bankrupt. One tract of 189 acres, known as the "Patterson place," at $2 per acre?purchased by the bankrupt. One tract of 6t acres, the "home place," at fel.25 per acre?purchased by the bankrupt. One tract of 300 acres, at $3.60 per acre?pur;hased by W. J. White. One tract of 130 acres, at $2.26?purchased by John Dulin. One tract of 175 acres, at 50 cents per acre? purchased by the bankrupt. The half interest in 10$ acres?purchased by the bankrupt for $5. One tract of 85 acres, in Lancaster county, at $3 )er acre?purchased by S. P. Hamilton, of Cheser. One tract of 278 acres, in Lancaster county, at ?1 per acre?purchased by S. P. Hamilton. OOUBT WEEK. The Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions met at this place on Monday last?his Hon. or, Judge Wm. M. Thomas, presiding. The grand and petit juries were organized early on ' Monday, and the charge delivered 16 the foreman, when the Court adjourned, in consequence of the sales, until Tuesday morning. On Tuesday, Mr. Solicitor Brawley prosecuted before the Court, the following cases: He State vs. Harvey Killian, colored?Larceny. , Found guiHy^and sentenced to onV yOar iff the penitentiary. The State vs. Mike nail, colored?Lareeny. Not i guilty. The State vs. Bufua White?Larceny. Plead guilty. No sentence passed. The State vs. Isaac Harvey, colored?Larceny. Found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in penitentiary at hard labor. mv _ n. ^ T> T mn. xne otaie vs. \jreurge Djruum?uuwu; ?uu malicious mischief. Found guilty on both charges and sentenced to the Penitentiary at hard labor for six months. The remaining cases on the criminal dockets were continued or otherwise disposed of, and on Wednesday morning the Court entered upon the civil dock eta. We observe, as 4 favorable feature, the small number of indictments for crime at this Term of the Court, and ascribe the cause in part to the certainty and rigor of the punishment inflicted by the presiding Judge in his administration of justice on this Circuit. 1 lie amount of business on this side of the Court has been gradually decreasing at every Term since the organization of the Court. The Grand Jury was discharged on Tuesday afternoon. We notice their report elsewhere. , SALE OF LA5D. The attention of our readers is called to the sale of the lands belonging to the estate of Robin Ap. C. Jones, advertised by the Judge of Probate to be sold on the first Monday in December next. These lands are situated near Rock Hill, and comprise some of the best farming lands in this county. They will be sold in separate tracts, and parties in search of good farms will do well to he ou hand. EDITORIAL INKLINGS, r Case of the Cuba. ' ' The trial of the officers of the Cuban war steamer at Wilmington terminated on the 30th ult Thdy were all discharged, except six who ! were required to give bail in the sum of $500 each, for their appearance before the U. S. Dis trict Court, which was to meet last Monday. Forty-five of the crew of the Cuba left on the cars for New York, on the 27th. At the cars, before leaving, they gave three cheers for Commodore Higgins, their late commander. Their ill-fated ship and others of their officers were also cheered. Stealing by Sample to be Suppressed. 3 The Board of Cotton Brokers in New York j have undertaken.to break up the stealage system, } by which, under the pretense of sampling, the r weights of cotton bales are so much reduced before selling. There has been a great deal of complaint about this nuisance, from both buyers and sellers, and it-has risen to such a magnitude that the ne* cessity for putting a stop to it is apparent. The 1 plan proposed by the Board, which is embodied in i a circular, is as follows: 5 Receivers of cotton are to store it in selected 5 warehouses, in the care of responsible parties, who 1 are to consider all pickings, loose and refuse cotton, J as the property of the owners, and permit no one 5 to have access to the premises, unless duly authorr ized. In all cases where cotton is turned out on t the street, or carted for delivery, sellers are to have ' a clerk on the spot, to protect the ootton until it ' has passed the scale. Sellers are also to have all the refuse and fallen cotton preserved for them, either by the warehouseman or their delivery clerk, ( and under no pretext whatever is refuse cotton to be removed by other parties. Buyers are to take similar precautions, and warehousemen are to weigh | all samples taken from the bales by order of the ' owners, keeping a record of the same and sending ! a memorandum of the weight to the broker. If [ these suggestions are adopted, theBoard say they are provided with means to prosecute any criminal act (in the way of stealing samples, loose cotton, &c.,) when reported to them, with evidence to ' convict. Gov. Holden's Doings. p Great excitement has been caused at Raleigh, . by Gov. Holdpn's organization of a small body of negro militia. His intentions are unknown to the , public, yet the work of raising militia is going on. ' A dispatch of the 29th ultimo says: It is stated that a body of three hundred armed negroes left this city secretly last night on their . way to Chapel Hill, Orange county, to which place ' arms for them had been previously sent. A train ^rtis sent to Goldsboro' yesterday to bring a large ' number of negroes from the eastern part of the State. Up to this time the train has not arrived t here. The Governor's official organ says this morn. ing that "no troops have been sent off yet." Facts which have leaked out show that a serious movement of some kind is taking place. I Salt as a Preventative of Rust. A writer in the Eufala (Ala.) Newt, whom , that journal states to be an old and successful planter, says: r "I have used salt for fifteen years or more. I find it essential to success on all lands like mine, and most of the cotton lands are like mine. Three i hundred nornds (six bushels! of salt and two hun dred of land plaster to the acre are almost a total . pre veni ative of rust, which is one of the worst enemies < o cotton the planter has to contend with. Salt makes cotton bear longer in the season and stand drought better, it increases the (quality of the > staple, it acts equally well on corn, oats and other r grain, toughens wheat straw, and causes less waste from the heads of wheat breaking off when cut. . I use eight hundred bushels, but many cannot use ) k on account of the price." Important Infernal Revenue Decision. . The attention of all officials connected with ) the collection of Infernal Revenue is earnestly called to the following highly important qircular. I It may be the work of some wag; but it reads so r much like an authentic Internal Revenue Decision that we are afraid to pronounce it a joke: . _ "Every consumer of whiskey or other spirituous , liquors must be required hereafter to make true and exact entry in a book to be provided for that ' purpose, of tne hour and day when he takes a " drink, the quantity drank, by whom the same was > distilled or rectified, the serial number of the cask > from which drawn, by whom gauged, the kind of adhesive stamp on the cask, and tne serial number , thereof; and in all cases where a consumer takes more than five drinks of the same kind of liquor in any one day, he must be licensed as a wholesale i liquor destroyer; and when he takes mixed drinks, . or drinks of different kinds of liquor on the same l day, he must be licensed as a rectifier and stamped accordingly. Consumers who take less than five i drinks in one day will be considered of no account." The Cotton Ring. I A late number of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph contains a letter from a Northern gentleman, not , directly interested in the prioe of cotton. We take the following extract from the letter, with the explanation that a "short seller" is one who i contracts to deliver cotton at a certain price, hav. ing none on hand and hoping to buy what he is to deliver at a lower price, before the time of hisconL tract expires: "I thoroughl^fcaderstand the matter?know exactly the calculafioos of the speculators and spinners?and if the planters will only hold back their ; crops, the short sellers of cotton will be completely "cornered", and will have to pay the price asked by the planters, whatever that may be. Gold was in a similar condition recently, when the "short sellers" had to buy of those who owned the gold at 150 to 160, and had it not been for the interposition of the Government, it would doubtless have gone still further, and the owners of the gold would nave made larger profits. Since the cotton season opened, the planters have been playing (unintentionally) into the hands of Northern speculators who have made money by the decline, and are now preparing to make money by buying cotton when they think it has touched bottom. I know this to be so, and now I hope the planters will inform themselves as to the true situation of affairs and act for their own interests." GOLUMBIACONTBIBUTORIAL BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. COLUMBIA, 80UTH OABOLIHA, HQVEMBEB 1. 1869. Southern School Books. We desire to call again the attention of our friends to the series of school-readers in coarse of publication byDuffie & Chapman, of this city, entitled Reynolds' New Pictorial Readers. Three numbers have" Already appeared, and the fourth (and last} will bo out in a few weeks. Wehave examined tbeae-boolts, and find them all ihatwe need. They are equal to the best northern readers in their style.* end in literary contents far superior to any that tve have examined, and we have examined most of them, having used several of them in school ourself. The series is shorter than most others.. Attention s given to purity of English in all of them; but in the third, special attention is directed to pronunciation, popular mistaken being illustrated and corrected; and derivation forcibly presented. . The orthography is American.. Literary. A German named Denbon has translated the Julius Coesar of Shakspeare into Latin. The title of the translation is Gvlidmi Shaketperii Julius Coesar. It is a thin octavo, and costs, to get it here, about $2.50. Renau's Life of St Panl, recently published in English by Carleton, of New York, is exciting great interest among readers of polemics. The price is $1.75. The best hand-book of Mythology that we have ever seen, small enough for a school book that its to say, is Cox's Manual of Mythology. It is a 16 mo. of just 300 pages; is in the form of question and answer; and gives the most sensible, consistent, and intelligible idea of the grand old Gods of Greece and Rome that We Iiave ever seen. It was re-published from an English edition last year by Leypoldt & Holt,v of New York, and sells at a dollar. It is illustrated; and contains a brief resume of Egyptian, Assyrian, Vedic, Persian,. and Norse Mythologies. It is evidently the mature work of a Bcholar such as Mr. Cox is uoiversally.known to be. Mr. Cox is the author of other books upon classic subjects, which every reader und student, of the classics should have; such as, Tales from Greek Mythology, Tales of the Gods and Heroes, and Tales of Thebes and Argos, all three of which have been reprinted under the title of Tales of Ancient Greece. Ur.JCoz. has also published a History oj Greece. Synod op South Carolina.?Prom the Chester Reporter we gather the following about the re cent session or ttie synod in mat place: The Synod of South. Carolina was convened in the Presbyterian Charoh, on the evening of the ,20th instant. Rev. D. E. Friersoa was elected Moderator. Drs. Howe and Plumer gave encour-. aging accounts of the Theological Seminary at Columbia. It now numbers thirty students, with prospects of success. The proposed removal of Oglethorpe University from Milledgeville to Atlanta, excited some discussion, but was finally referred to the Synod of Georgia for action. Prof. J. M. Anderson, of Davidson College, made a flattering report of the prospects of that institution? it having at present over one hundred students. Dr. Howe announced that his history of the Presbyterian Church, of South Carolina, was now ready for publication, but that $600 was necessary to have it stereotyped. .Col. J. H. Taylor, of Charleston, and J. R. Aiken, of Winnsboro'. each guaranteed . $200, and the remaining $200 was soon made sure. The Synod adjourned Saturday evening, to. meet at Anderson 0. H., on 'Wednesday before the fourth Sunday in October next. The New Orleans Picayune says: "We had flattered ourselves that Louisiana could boast the largest and most savage gallinippers in the wide world, but a gentleman writing from New Jersey rather refutes our hitherto firm conviction and pet idea, He says he was attaoked some nights since, and severely bitten, by an animal that heralded its approach by a sound like the trampeting of an elepnant in an Indian jungle, of a solo on a French horn. The night was veiy dark and the enemy had every advantage, but he finally got hold of the thing, which felt somewhat like a grasshopper, but from the extreme length of its bill he thought it might be a humming-bird. Converting both hands into a patent squeezer, he succeeded in crushing out the life of the animal or bird. He was informed next morning by his host, who carefully examined the mutilates remains, thai he had undoubtedly massacred an ordinary Jersey mosquito." . . Jprotial anb Comrntrtial. Y0RKT1LLB PRICE8 CTOMHT. CORRECTED WEEKLY BY CARROLL, CLARK 4 CO. WEDNESDAY, November 3,1869. BAGGING?Gunnv?V yard .. ? 30 BALE ROPE?Hemp ? ft .... 12*@ .. Manilla, ? ft 25 fa) 30 Couon,? 9> ? IRON TIES, per pound, 10 ? IS* BLUE-STONE, ? ft ? 20 CANDLES?TalloW?? ft (gj Adamantine, ? ft 22#@ 26 COFFEE?Rio?V ft , 20 ? 2d Lagoyra, V ft (a) 80 Jam, V ft < >... .. ? 46 COTTON YARN, V bunch of 5 pounds, Q 9 36 GUNPOWDER, ? ft.. .. ? 46 MACKEREL-No. 1, half barrels.... v.. ? 4. No. 2, half barrela (5 No. 3, half barrela . @19 40 -11 No. 1, ? Kit, ... @ 3 76 No. 2, ? Kit, @3 50 No. 3. V Kit, @3 00 MOLASSES?Cuba?? gallon ? 70 West India, V gallon .'. ? ? New Orleans, V gallon........ 115 ? 125 NAILS?Northern?V ft 7tf ? 8 RICE, V ft @ 12 SALT, V sack, .. @3 50 SUGAR?Pulverized?V ft ? 25 Crushed, V ft..-. ,. ? 25 A, ?ft : @20 C, Extra, V ft ? 14 Brown, V ft ? ? 10 TEA?Hyson?V ft. 1 50 ? 8 00 Imperial, ? ft ? Black, V ft I 00 ? 1 50 VINEGAR?Older?? gallon ? 85 PRODUCE MARKET?PRICES PROM WAGONS. BACON?Han>??? ft...... - .. ffi 33 Shoulders, ? ft, ., ? 17 . Sides,? ft.'. s'.W.Cl'. @22 CORN,? bushel ? 1 35 CORN-MEAL, ? bushel.. ? 1 35 DRIED FRUIT-Apples, peeled,? bushel.. .. ? 1 00 Peaches, peeled, V bushel.. .. ? 150 Peaches, unpecled, ? bushel .. ? 125 EGGS, ? dozen 15 ? FLOUR, ?100 2)8 4 50 ? 5 96 HIDES?Green?V ft ? J Dry, ? ft ? J4 LARD?Country?V ft @ 22. LIME, ? bushel....- ? 50 '* OATS. ? bushel 75 PEAS, ? bushel ? POTATOES?lrlsh-? bushel 50 ? 73 Sweet, V bushel .. 75 ? 1 06 SHINGLES, V 1000 3 50 ? 4 00 TALLOW, ? ft 10 ? 12# WHEAT. ? bushel ? 1 50 Cotton?The receipts are limited, for theseason. Prices continue firm, good middling being worth 23i cents. CHESTER, November 2.?Cotton?Our market, for the past week, has been quite steady, and we quote middlings at 23i. CHARLOTTE, November J.?Cotton?The market opened last week with a fair demand at from 23k to 24 cents for middling, and closed on Saturday at 233 cents?tendency firm and steady. Sales for the week 335 bales. Corn?Old $1.20 to $1.25 ; new, $1 per bushel. Meal?$1.30 to $1.35 per bushel. Flour?$4.25 to $4.50 per sack from wagons. Oats?70 to 75 cents per bushel. COLUMBIA,.November 1.?There was but little cotton offering to-day ; the sales amounting to 80 bales?middling 24 cents. NEW YORK, November 1-7 P. M.-Cotton a shade firmer; at 261. LIVERPOOL, November 1?Evening,?Cotton . closed firm?uplands 12Jd. CHARLESTON, October 28.?The Crops and Receipts.?The harvest weather still exhibits remarkably favorable features for the period under review^ and the staple has been taken from the fields in good condition; the quality of the receipts have been consequently excellent, the supplies coming forward to this market having never displayed a higher average. The intelligence from a large section of country report that the crop has been mostly picked, ana gives reason to fear that the ultimate result of the growth may not reach the figures that some have anticipated. The supplies coming to the ports continue to indicate good receipts, and the amount arrived at the principal Southern seaports, up to the latest dates, were as follows: 1869. lS68. New Orleans, October 27, 133,568 134^244 Mobile, October 27, 47,469 38,911 Savannah, October 27, 98,363 53,647 Charleston, October 27, 54,130 28,341 Texas, October 22 18,807 19,323 The Cotton Market.?The operations in this staple have exhibited much steadiness during the week, and prices have been sustained at most points. In the English market quotations ruled