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COLUMBIA, , riday Morning-, October 6, 1865. A homicidal mania of tho most frightful character the United States. The cessation of hostilities between the North and the South, has by no weans stopped the effusion of blood. On the railroads, rivers and inland seas of this .country, the -chapter of homicidal accidents reminds ns of the bloody battles of Grant and Loo. On many of the leading railroads conflicts between locomotives moving in opposite di? rections axe of almost daily occur? rence. Two first-class engines, con? stituting the motive power of passen? ger *rains*half a mile long, dash at *' each otter like infuriated bolls. When they strike, humdredsof men, women and children are suddenly crushed to death, or maimed for life. "Scores-of cars full of human beings are as com? pletely dashed to pieces as if they had been pitched over the Natural Bridge of the Falls -of Niagara. Steamboats also "collide," (as the ' 'horrible accident men' * mildly term it, y one boat cuts the other in two, there is a sad, gugrling shriek heard for a moment above che noise of tho wind and waves, :aaid hundreds sink to their long homes in the depths of the sea. The work of taking human life is going on bravely in the hones of vice as well as in the work-shoms of the land. Indeed, the Carnival ot Death, says the Bichmond Times, seems to be ?s fast and furious as it was before grim-f?saged war smoothed its wrin? kled front. But the most alarming feature of this mania for taking life is that it has seized upon the female sex. The ladies no longer permit the wrongs inflicted by the sterner sex to be re? dressed by magistrates and male rela? tives. . Indeed, it is now very hard to determine Which is the sterner sex, as the "gray mares" are everywhere, in pistol shooting, proving themselves ."the better horses." The women of America not only redress their wrongs with the pistol, but they shoot with the most wonderful accuracy and pre? cision. Of the dozen or so men who have recently been shot by women for various offences, ranging from se? duction to forgetting to walk to church with a high- spirited lady, all "have been struck at the first fire, and in vital parts of tho body. The almost invariable and favorite weapon is the beautiful little four-barreled pistol of ?Starke's patent, which is not much bigger than a front door key, and shoots as strong as a "pocket Colt." The gentlemen of this coun? try being proverbially gallant, the mania recently manifested by the fail sex is treated as a good-humored pleasantry. The reason of this is that the pri? vilege of shooting men who have be? haved badly has not yet been abused. Several of the men who have beor shot by women whom they deceivec and deserted, were, we think, verj justly punished. But this mania, to which loveb woman is fast falling a victim, maj be carried too far. The pistol is si convenient a mode of redress of smal injuries that it may be eventually re sorted to by irate chambermaids, salet women, seamstresses, milliners, w&sl: erwomen and market-women, whe their little bills are not speedily se tied. Fashion, the most imperious c all tyrants, may exact from eyei woman of decided ton the shooting < half-a-dozea men. When pistol gil leries find their way into the ' 'firs class finishing schools," the privllej; of being a mun will be a very dange ous and uncomfortable one. BEPORTED ARREST OF HOWEI? COB The Washington correspondent of tl New York Post writes: "Itisbelievt here that Howell Cobb has been a rested, on a charge of participating the Anderson ville atrocities. " j > iMtU CaNllB? ConrciBtiion. ? ? The Convention met at Raleigh, on Monday, ?nd promptly organized by electing E. G. Reade permanent Pre? sident. One hundred and bight mem? bers answered io their names. The prospect now is that barmony and accord of opinion on all. important questions will prevail, that they will make the amendments and do all things needful to take the State back inj? the? Union without delay, and then adjourn.- The Convention is 'of more than average ability, and few, if any, politicians by trade ?re. members. ' U? tfee Frccdnca. M From the Raleigh ?Progress, we take the following exccllmit ?dvice to the freedmen. Notwithstanding the ti? rades of such papers as tSie New York Tribune, we imagine that the negroes will find truer and more practical i sympathy from their fermer masters ? and mistresses *thau fn?>ni the whole host of fanatics who are endeavoring i to make trouble and get money by exciting SI feeling between the em? ployer and the employed : "As the friend of the freedman, we advise him to have a thought for the rigors of winter, now fast approach? ing. To the colored man who has a wife and six children, a dozen cords of wood and a few barrels of corn will be worth all the eenventions, loyal leagues, and universal suffrage prayer meetings ever held We would not have the spiritual wants of the blacks neglected, but we leave them to the preachers for that ; and we leave them 1 to the radicals here, as well as at- the North, for their political rights. It is their physical wants we think of, and we would admonish them to be up and doing before the freezing time comes. Easy enough to loaf on the streets and sleep on the common when the thermometer is at 90, but when the mercury falls to 20 or below, warm j blankets, worm houses, com dodgers I and bacon sides will go much farther to make ye African happy than the wild hunt after equal rights-on pa? per. . ?"Think of these things, colored men and colored women, and go to work to lay up something for the many rainy days that are 'coming. To a hungry, shivering person, a bushel of meal and a load of wood is worth more than the right of suffrage. Work hard, be fingal, behave and be content with your condition, or you will soon secure a right that will ex? terminate your race in this country -the right to starve." ANOTHER NEW ?STATE.-In 1861, Colorado was organized as a Terri? tory, and on the 5th of this month the inhabitants thereof adopted the Constitution proposed to them by a Convention assembled for that pur? pose. Application will be made at the ensuing session of Congress for admittance, and, as an enabling Act has {Arcady been passed, Colorado will enter the American Union, ere the year expire, as the thirty-seventh member of that sisterhood of States. By the Constitution just adopted, the Legislature is to consist of thirteen senators and twenty-six members of the lower house, to be afterwards in? creased as circumstances may require up to the maximum-thirty-seven senators and seventy-eight represen? tatives. Colorado hes just North ol New Mexico, has Denver City as its capital, and, though closely land? locked, bids fair to wax great in popu? lation and rich iu well developed re j sources. Some other of the adjacent Territorios are, it is understood, ?1st fitting themselves for habilitation ai States, and, perhaps, some now living will behold a century of Senators a Washington, even as Rome had he: august court of the Centumviri. UNITED STATES LAWS.-Thc Go vernment intends publishing the law of the United States at each one o tlie capitals of the States lately ii insurrection-papers to be selected oi the recommendation of Provisions Governors, who have, with others been already notified, .?The Vicksburg Journal, of the 10t ultimo, contains an order from th Assistant Commissioner of Freedme: in Mississippi, ' providing for negr education by taxes laid on negro ix dustry and resources. We see many evidences in the Northern press that our late enemies no longer cherish in their hearts a bitterness towards us, but, on the contrary, evince a commendable dis? position to . cultivate amicable rela? tionships, It becomes us to meet that spirit cordially ?nd consign the dead past to oblivion.. We clip from a leader, in the Kew York Ihnes, this paragraph: . There are a great many Southern? ers in this city trying to make ar? rangements for a resumption of busi nesss. As a general thing, their conduct is manly, frank and sensible -calculated to ?in the confidence and respect of every generous and just community. Nine in every ten of them have been utterly ruined tey the rebellion. Most of them cast their fortunes into the struggle for a cause which they believed to be Tight, but whick they see and acknowledge to have been fatally and finally de? feated. They have lost position, in? fluence, property, children, friends everything which makes life desirable. Under such circumstances, weak men sink down into abject despair, or drag out the rest of their lives in tho safe obscurity of foreign lands. The defeated Southerners meet their ca? lamity in a more manly style. They show in their defeat, as they did in their struggle-courage, desperate tenacity*of purpose, and that high spirited readiness to meet all the re? sponsibilities of their conduct, which never fails to command the respect of the world. SUSTAIN PRESIDENT JOHNSON.-The malignant speech, so characteristic of the fanatical Senator, Charles Sumner, delivered by him in the Massachusetts Republican Convention, is precisely what was anticipated from such a source. It is a refined repetition, with a few variations, of the speech recently delivered by Grand Man? darin Thad. Stevens, of Pennsylvania. When Congress meets, Wilson and all the rest are to be let loose. The storm is brewing. Radicalism pouring its red hot wrath upon, the devoted head of our President, who moves calmly along, regardless of his enemies, who are equally the enemies of their country. The people are his reliance, and they will nobly sustain him in the patriotic position he so strongly occupies. He is entrenched in tho hearts of the people, defying the puny efforts of radical madmen. With Andrew Johnson at the helm, the good old ship of State will safely ride out the storm. THE CHTJBCH WAI:.-The rupture between the Low Church clergy ind Bishop Potter, in New York, growing out of the practice of the former in permitting non-episcopal? ly ordained .ministers to officiate in their pulpits, is approaching a crisis, ?n Sunhay evening, 18th instant, as it to make contempt for tho Bishop's recent pastoral forbidding any such practices as emphatic as possible, Rev. S. H. Tyng, Jr., invited Rev. Dr. Storrs (Presbyterian) to preach in Iiis pulpit, and the invitation was ac? cepted. Among tue clergy present on the occasion was Dr. Tyng, Sr., and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Bishop Potter's organ, the Church Journal, noticing this event in a double-lead sd editorial, employs this emphatic language :9 "After what has already taken place, this act can no more pass unnoticed than the attack on Fort Sumter. It is an open declaration of war," One of thc new fall bonnets in New York "was made of fine grey felt, powdered over with steel powder so thickly as almost to 'conceal the felt. The effect was very beautiful, like moonlight upon the wrought silver. ' This bonnet was bound around the front edge and around the curtin with a narrow band of mauve velvets, trimmed across the top with a brond band of velvet . of the same color, ornamented with a tuft of black oats and steel flowers at one side; the inside trimming to match, and strings of maroon colored ribbon. Another bonnet, somewhat similar in material, was of white felt, powdered with gold dust, and t.immed outside abd inside with golden oats and blue velvet. Tho strings were of broad blue ribbon, edged with blonde." ACCIDENTAI. SHOOTING.-Two cases of .accidental shooting have occurred within a short time, within a few miles of this place. In one instance a wife shot fur husband *vith a pistol endangering his life; two servants in Co. D.,29th Maine Vet. Vols., now at Society Hill, while fooling with a r.tle-sbot a fellow*servant, killing him instantly.-Darlington JSIew JCra. TThe President's A<Mr?M to tkc ITiVT Brazilian Minister. The rulers of great States, -whether monarchs or presidents, frequently avail themselves of the opportunity, when a foreign minister is presented, to give sign incant lim ts, or even to declare l>oldTy, sometimes, their po? licy upon important international questions. The present Emperor of the,French has become famous for that. At innes, when the political horizon of Europe looks threatening, and thc nations of that continent are troubled with fears of a storm brew? ing, as animals are said to snuff an approaching'volcanic eruption, every word, look and gesture of that extra? ordinary man are eagerly watched, j Every ?ne will remember his language I to the Austrian Ambassador just be? fore the war in Italy, or his remarks to the Ambassador of Russia, just before the war in the Crimea. No utterance of the Delphic Oracle ever startled the nations so much as his have. . The language of President Johnson to the Brazilian Minister, Mr. Joa? quin Marie Mascontes dc Azambuja, when that gentleman was presented on Saturday last, was of the same character, if it did not threaten war, as to the policy of the United State? with regard to the nations of th< American continent. It was a propel occasion to enunciate his views, ant the views of thejpeople, and he avail ed himself of it. He said: "Our po hey is one which is simple and easily to be understood. We wish to pro j mote the progress of civilization n this hemisphere, f?nd, for that pur pose, the development of material re sources, the improvement of com inerce, and the introduction, as fas as possible, of free, intelligent labo into the virgin fields of the continent Instead of weakening new America] States in our vicinity, we wish to im part strength to them by reposing i: them a generous confidence, rathe than by indulging jealousies of thei prosperity, or a querulous dispositio: in regard to the manner in whic'. their governments are administered Above all, we wish to impress ther with the conviction that all the nation of America, if they would continue t exist, must aspire to absolute sell sustaining independence, and to perfect political equality with th other nations of the earth." These words are couched in court( ous phraseology, and are very niodt rate in tone, but no one can mistali their meaning. He wishes to inipai strength to all these new States < America, in order that they may exi: in self-sustaining independence au in perfect political equality with tl other nations of the earth. That 1 considers it their right, and their pn per position in the world. He lool upon the American system of govern ments, and the relation of these gi vernments one to the other, as uniqu as being detached from thc Europea system, and as having internation relations apart from and independe] of the Old World. Consequently, au interference with, or attempt to su jugate or change the government > auy of the States on this contine] by European Powers, is a gross usii pation. and must be regarded as inti restly hostile to all. It is an invasic of and an assault upon our Amerira system, and specially aimed at tb country, which is the great controllir power. The President means, e\ dently, that the American States mu work out their own destiny, uninfi enced and uninterrupted by Franc England cr any other trans-Atlani Power; and in giving expression this idea iie expresses the sentime of the whole people. Nor were these words uttered u advisedly or without any obje< They were intended for others 1 irides the Brazilian Minister, and, our judgment, are very signifieai Mr. Johnson is not a person to s unmeaning things. We think we c tell the Emperor Napoleon, the B: bish Government, and "whoever dst may concern," that they foreshad< a clore emphatic; declaration on t jame subject in the forthcoming mi ?ige to Congress. The idea of < duding absolutely European influer on this continent is as fixed and ii alterable as the laws of the Medes a Persians. Indeed, it grows daily the public mind. The offensive : herference with American institutic when our hands were tied rank deeply in the heart of the peop Unless allayed by an early settlenn of the Mexican and other difficulti it will break out in a manner that vc listurb the peace of the world. ^ reiterate, therefore, what we haye si before-that the proper way, ai perhaps, the only peaceable way adjusting these questions pertain] to America, is to call a Congress Nations, in which the due weight the United States should be felt. [New Fork Herald, 25t?. Iiooal Items. ..Cation Blanks" and peraits- -icdisps? sablc to all persons purchasing er shipping cotton-eau be obtained at this^bffice. EarLOTMEKT.-Eight or ten^pood print? ers can ob te in employment in this office, during the approaching, session of the Legislature. _ CASH.-We wish it distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job work are cash. The money must in every casa accompany orders, or they will not be attended to. This rule applies to ab. Mr. W. "H. Orchard, a? will bo seen-by reference to our advertising columns, bas renewed hiff old business-that of Professor of Music. By the way, Mr. O. will please accept our thanks for an Augusta paper, of tho 1st. PEOPLE'S STEAMSHIP COMPANY.-We call attention* to the advertisement of Messrs. Willis & Chisobn, in relation to the estab? lishment of the Potpie's Steamship Com? pany. This will he a favorite line, and will no doubt Ho successful. Their steamers leave Charleston every Thursday. Their vessels arc new and first-class steamers. MEW ADVERTISEMENTS.-Attention is call? ed to the following advertisements, which ar? pvbbsked for the first time this morl? ing: . . Mrs. H. E. Buff-Land for Sale. W. H. Jeffers k Co.-Forwarding Notice. Gen. Ames-General Orders No. 16. I. O. 0. F.-Meeting of Palmetto Lodge. W. McGuinnis-Wanted to Exchange. A. ll. Phillips-Furniture, Books, &c. Jacob Levin-Furniture, &c. W. H. Orchard-Musical Card. Meeting of Citizens of Bichland. J. C. Janney-Election Notice. THE MAKUFACTUKE OP CHAMPAGNE. -There is in New York a house in which is displayed, a sign, "-, Manufacturer of Champagne." The English Wine Trade Review relates that this branch of industry is also pursued in England. A chemist has recently been purchasing low French white wine or sherry, with which the market is at present glutted. The operator places it in bottles of the orthodox shape, and submits it to the action of a soda water machine, by which it is copiously charged with carbonic acid, giving it the required degree of efiervescence, which, of course disappears soon after the bottle is opened. A tin-foil capsule and an attractive label are then added, which render this exhilarating beve? rage fit for the market, where, to our knowledge, it has been sold and is now un ofter. The South Carolina Presbytery convened here last Thursday, the 29th ult., Kev. S. S. Gaillard, moderator. The body, though not as large as usual, was very harmonious, and a great deal of business was despatched. Delegates were appointed to the General Assembly at Macon, Ga., in November next. Presbytery adjourn? ed to meet at Greenwood, S. C., Thursday before the third Sabbath in April, 18G6.-Newberry Herald. Benjamin G. Green, the postmaster of Mystic, Conn., was sentenced to ten years in the State prison at Hart Ford, "Wednesday, forstealing between $200 and $300. Jerry Townsend, who stole 3100,000 got only seven pear?. Green was tried before a Quited States Circuit Court, and Townsend before a Connecticut jury, md that is tho difference between United States and Connecticut justice. At a meeting, Tuesday evening, at lie Union League (of Washington) .corns of ?hose preparing to leave for heir homes at the ensuing elections, i was announced that ail desiring eave of absence in the several depart nents can procure the same on appli :ation to the chief clerks. Arrange nents have also been perfected to >rovide half rates of fare for all tra? veling to their several homes. It is said that the Minnesota State geologists have discovered gold in the icinity of Vermillion Lake, in that 5t*te, in such quantities as to justify he immdiate working of the mines, rho discovery has caused considerable xcitement, and emigration has al eady set in to that point. Davenport, Iowa, was a good deal gi tated over the attempt of a man to ut his throat and pull out the tongue f his wife at a hotel on Saturday, "hey were strangers and claimed to e from Iowa City. He had been a outeuant in the 3d cavalry. , Rev. Dr. Sehon and Rev. Dr. Me 'errin, of the. Methodist Episcopal Ihurcb South, have been pardoned y tho President. Buoyant inscription for the Atlantic* ible-"To be left till called for." [Punch. The revenues of Cuba for the fiscal eur were $29,021,588.45.