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COLUMBIA Tuesday Morning, October 30, 1800. Political Priest*. Thc Chicago Times has tho follow? ing; chapter on this topic: Political priests ave doing more to maintain tho ascendancy of the Illach Republican party, and t<> "educate a generation to hate thc South," than arc all tho newspapers and all thc other loaders of thal party. We do not exaggerate in this. In thu last presidential campaign, as good au? thority as John W. Forney, the proprietor and editor of two daily newspapers, each having a wide cir? culation, and a man not likely to under-estimato tho influence of the press, declared that the Republican party in Pennsylvania would be chiefly indebted for its victory to the "loyal Christian church."' lt was this institution which most effectively helped the designs of the patriots Forney and Cameron in Pennsyl? vania/ It was the "loyal'' Christian church which gave tho Black Repub? licans in that State thc victory on Tuesday, and there were thousa%ls of Democrats in that State who helped liberally to pay political priests for doing it. It fis not difficult to understand why political teachings in the pulpit are more impressive than elsewhere, They are delivered under the sanc? tion of religious forms, and are ac? companied by solemnities and cir? cumstances which are well calculated to assure thc audience of the sinceri? ty of the speaker. Were a pot house politician, like John Wentworth, to say in a brothel that "the fight be? tween Congress and the President is God Almighty's light, and it cannot stop until (?od Almighty says enough," the statement would bc considered as the ravings of a blas? phemous blackguard; but when thc same language is employed by ;i Reverend Ilatfield in church, and ii preceded by religious ceremonies and a formal prayer to Cod, it is accept?e by a great many as au authoritative announcement of "the Divine will.' If the thought is an irreverent one and the expression of it blasph?mons a more severe censure should res upon him who employs it in profess?e worship than 0:1 the drunken derna goguc who is profane from habit. We think it is time for Democrat; seriously to consider the extent of tin wrong they are committing in en couraging thc prostitution of pulpit and churches, and in contributing b the support of political priests. Ashli from all consequences resulting fron such action of a jiolitical nature, tin spirit of irreverence springing fron the conversion of the pulpit to ? hustings is an evil which should se riously alarm all who truly respec that which is sacred. There is not J preacher- in the country who ha made himself notorious by dabbling in politics who has not employee language in the pulpit as profam and vulgar as that which we bavi quoted. The contemptible vanit; which makes this class of men itel for applause, and spurs them to th discussion of political questions prompts them also lo resort to tin artifices of demagogues, and to ut tempt to create a sensation by prc fanity. The business is demoralizing and congregations are taught t speak ot' Cod with a flippant irrevt i-euce which must diminish resptic for His character. Let Democrat withdraw their feet from politic: churches, and their support froi Black Republican . demogogic: priests-then it wilL not be ion before we shall have much more < religion in our politics, while thei shall be nothing of politics in 01 religion. The Louisville Journal corrects a erroneous impression that prevails i the minds of many persons who spea and write as if the Congression; elections occurring this fall won! affect the character of the Congre; that meets in December. The on] influence their elections can ha' upon that body is a moral influence Tho same members that compose the last session of Congress will.coi stitute the ne;xt, except in those eas where vaeane-ies have occurred ai been filleel by special elections. TI porsons elected this fall to Congre will not have seats in tho prese Congress-with the exception ju mentionetl. The political complexic of the next session will be, therefor the same as that of the last session. DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERES.-A coi pany of emigrants from North Cal? lina to the West gave as their reasi for migrating from North Carolin tho wish to "go where they could g a white man's chance, which, th feared, under the threatening asp? of <)ur national affairs, they won not long bo able to have- in Nor Carolina." This was their story they passed through Raleigh. Frc Norfolk, the New York Herald pi; fishes a talc that they left North Cai lina to escape per.see-ution as "Uni men." The Japanese imagine that, af death, bad men become low brute Temporarily Q,u?rt. A despatch i<> the Worlds&ys: Tlio situation on thc surface hore has assumed a quiet condition, but the leaders are as earnest ami as na? tive as ever. The radicals claim to have ever 2,000 nu n armed ami in readiness, to which may be added the eutire regular police force of the city, and an extra force who still hold thc commission issued to them before the late municipal election. The radicals generally have not re? treated a ste]) from the position they have assumed, and are more fully prepared to resist the Governor of Maryland now than they were live daysago. The Police Commissioners will not appear on Friday at the hear? ing before the Governor, neither in person nor by counsel. They are de? termined that it shall be an ex parle hearing. As there are over one hundred affi? davits to be considered, iL is not be? lieved the Governor will render a de? cision before Monday night. In the event of his decision being against the Commissioners, the latter will not vacate their offices except %y force. In this way, they hope to put the responsibility of a collision on the Executive of the Slate. General Cunby, commanding this depart? ment, has informed the local author? ities that if the Governor calls on the President and states that he is unable to suppress the insurrection in the State, Federal forces will be most certainly employed. Some of the radicals are facilitating them? selves to-night that they have over? awed the Governor, and that, as a consequence, a collision will not be precipitated. Xo public meetings have been held to-night, but the ra? dical armed organization is perfect. Governor Swann remains at. Anna? polis, and will not visit "Washington again. Tie was informed, last night, that the condition of affairs here had been fully considered, and the action of Hu- Government decided en in Cabinet meeting yesterday. The re? sult was communicated to bim, ami is as above stated. Governor Swami's proclamation has had the effect of quieting affairs in a local point of view in this city, so far as small rows, Ac., prc con? cerned. THE QUESTION OF MORAXIS.-We do do not believe that it is well to insti? tute comparisons, or to boast the mo? rality of one section of the country against the immoralities of another section. But the radicals make it the constant theme of their reproach against, the South, that th?! people here are given np to iniquities of the grossest kind. In view of this fact, the Boston Commercial says it maybe well to inquire haw it happens, if society is so impure lhere, that New Orleans is obliged to send to the North for inmates to supply the maisons de Joie of that city. The Boston Recorder, speaking of the loss of the ill-fated Evening Star, says: "The worst part of the freight was ninety-six bad girls, with live persons who had culled them out of the gaudiest dens ol' New York, to promote vice in New Orleans. Perhnps never were such a cotilo and a circus company and an opera troupe embarked together over the same keel before." It is a strange circumstance, that "the most moral section of the country" furnishes supplies of this sort to "the. most immoral section." PREPARING FOE THEM.-We stated, a few days ago, on the strength of a Washington rumor,' that au order had boen issued to prepare barracks foi 30,000 troops in Washington. It is freely stated, upon what is declared good authority, that the Quartermas? ter's Department bas received orders to provide quarters tn the District foi 10,000 troops. The shipment and sales of commissary stores that had been p.eoumulatcd there during the war, has ceased by direction within tho past two months. A PRAYING PAKSON.-A righteous radical parson, in tho North west, prays the "Supreme Ruler of the Universe to forgive the fierceness oj party strife," but also implores Him to "deliver the President from thc errors into which he has fallen, tc restrain him from desperate measure: in the day of his disappointment,' and to make him act like a radica generally. Such prayers are an ad mirable method to abate the "fierce ness of party strife!" Holy man. SANTA ANNA.--Tho New York Ile raid says that Count Nostity, whe served for some time in our own wai on the Union side, bas just returnee to tho United States, from Mexico hy way of Havana, and had an inter view with Santa Anna. Count Nos ti ty represents the chances for Sante Anna as favorable, since most of tin lower class of the people of Moxie* are opposed both to Juarez and tin Empire, hoing fomented thereto Ivj the emissaries of other chiefs. Fur thermore, we are told that an offei will ho made to Santa Anna to-day or at least at his office, No. 54 Beavei street-to furnish him 10,000 Enfielc rifles at ?B10 apiece. THE MEXICAN MUDDLE.-A special to the New York Herald, of thc 25th, says : It is beyond ch ubt that the pre? eminent question before tho Cabinet is thc Mexican one, but it is not truo that the Government has come to a final decision on ?ill tho great and main points involved. The onfl?r point which hus been decided is that tho Government will not tako any territory from Mexico. This your correspondent knows to bo a fact. Mr. Campbell knows very little at present about toe ulterior policy to bc pursued in the Mexican matter. This is partly due to the sickness which has attacked him since Iiis arrival in Washington. It is true, lie has received instructions, but they are only general ones. The special instructions, those of vital impor? ta]) ce, he has yet to get. There is sufficieet official informa? tion here to prove that the despatch on Mexican affairs dated New Or? leans, October 24, was not based on facts. Trevina, ono of Escobedo's generals, went to Zacatecas, and not to San Luis Potosi, to look after Mejia. There could not have been a severe battle near Saltillo to defeat the Liberals, as per very latest and reliable accounts there were no Impe? rial Mexicali or French forces within striking distance. On the 24th ult., Juarez wrote that Durango would soon be occupied, and that he would establish his headquarters there or at Monterey. OUTRAGES BY FREEDMEN. -WeJearn that a most daring attempt was made to burn out Mr. Benjamin Clements on Thursday morning of last week, just before daylight; but being aroused by the barking of a dog, Mr. Clements succeeded in putting out the lires and arresting' one of thc in? cendiaries before good daylight. The negro arrested implicated another, who had passed most of the night with him, and promised Mr. C. that, if he would release him, he would have the other, who is a noted vil? lain, in the neighborhood the next night, so that he could be taken. Nothing has been heard from them since, but, as they are well known characters, they will bo caught, if j tiny remain in tho District. ANOTHER. -On Tuesday morning last, between midnight and daylight, two negroes went to the residence of an old gentleman, named Allan Dow? ling, twelve milos from here, and obtained admittance to the house, choked the old man until senseless, and then robbed him. We learn that Mr. Dowling has partially recovered his senses, but does not know the negroes. He says they knocked first and he opened thc door, whim they choked him until he remembered no? thing more. - Darlington Southerner. ? ? ? - GRANT ANO THE AMENDMENT.-The Philadelphia Press, of Thursday morning, says that Hon. .lohn L. Thomas, representative in Con? gress from the Second Maryland Dis? trict, and a candidate for re-election, had a recent conversation with.Gen. Grant, in New- York, in which tie., latter explicitly and voluntarily took ground in favor of the constitutional amendment, and declared that it would be fatal to Hie South if they refused to adopt it. In all the speeches of Mr. Thomas, he gives the particulars of this conversation, in which the General gave him this unqualified assurance. The Baltimore American, a friend and neighbor of Mr. Thomas', pub lishe ; the above from Forney's lying Press, but does not endorse it. It wishes tho falsehood to be believed, but dreads exposure, doubtless. FREEDMEN'S SAVING BANK BUSTED, j We have been informed through a reliable source, says the Mobile Tri? bune, that the popular institution ! (among the niggers) known as the "Freedmen's Savings Bank,'" has handed in its checks. A coroner's I inquest was held by a sable brother, and the verdict rendered was, "Died with circus on tho braiu." Several days previous to its demise, the circus was observed to lie crowded with colored individuals, all drawing the requisite wherewith from the immacu? late bank. At present there is not a farthing in the till. A piece of red crape hangs on the door-knob of said institution, and every darkey that jiasses that way pulls off his hat in silent, solemn respect for the de? parted. CHARLESTON AND SAVANNAH BAIL ROAD.-We learn that a bill has been filed in the United States Court for this District by the corporation of the Bogers' Locomotive Machine Works, New York, for au injunction against the sale of the above road, advertised to take place in November. As this is a ease of great public im? portance, it is to be presumed that a hearing will be had at an early day. Tho counsel for the corporation is Gen. William E. Martin. The bond? holders ^ro represented by Hon. Henry Buist and Hon. J. B. Camp? bell, and the Charleston and Savan? nah Railroad by the Hon. Charles H. Simonton.-Charles/on Courier. "Mary, who died for you?" asked a parson of a blooming sweet sixteen. "Nobody as I know on," was the promptreply. But the parson repeat? ed, with zeal, "Mary, I say, who died for you?" Mary was irritated, but replied, "Why, nobody, sir; there was Bob Dawson lay bed-rid for me about six months, but folks say he got up again." JUST SO.-Some insinuating chap remarks that about tho only politi? cians who can be fully relied on never to betray confidence aro those who never have it reposed in them. "Now, then, my hearties," said a gallant captain, "you have a tough battle before you. Fight like heroes till your powder's gone; then run! I'm a little lame, and I'll start now." A MAX PITCHES HIS WIFE OUT OF A SECOND-STORY WINDOW.-At about l o'clock, yesterday afternoon, (milean excitement was raised among theciti zens residing in the vicinity of Ninth street, West, and F street, North, in consequence of a man named Thomas having pitched bis wife out of a se? cond-story window of a boarding? house in that neighborhood. I Washington Chronicle. GREELEY DISGUISED. -Horace Cree ley was noticed by a Rochester re? porter, on Monday morning, footing it fleetly towards a hotel, carrying a carpet-bag in a state of full collapse, and his hair in its usual condition of wild eentrifugality. He had made an ineffectual ellbrt to disguise himself under a black hat. It is understood that Senator Wil? son experienced a change of heart and obtained forgiveness through the efforts of Henry F. Durant, Esq, who is preaching with great effect in Boston. Mr. Durant is one of thc ablest criminal lawyers in Massachu? setts.- National Intelligencer. Gen. Neal Dow, of Portland, Me;., recently spoke at a session of the English Social Science Congress, set apart for the benefit of the working? men. There was such a noise and rov made, that md, a word could be hear!. A call for the formation of "Con? stitutional Guards" is published in the Washington papers. They are "to be ready at all times lo aid the constitutional authorities." A recruiting rendezvous has been open? ed in Washington. lt is saidathat the Spanish Govern? ment has purchased of the United States two monitors, ?t an expense of $2,000,000, and, as the Government has no available funds, two wealthy merchants of Havana have gone se? curity for the amount. The contemplated Episcopal Con? vention of the Diocese of North Caro? lina in November is indefinitely postponed. I ts object was to provide an assistant for Bishop Atkinson, bul his health is too good to need one. Formerly, by hand, a. pound ot cotton was spread into a thread about 10S yards long, but since the applica? tion of steam, it will produce a thread ir>7 miles in length. Radicals in the Old School Pres? byterian Conference in Missouri have seceded from that body because ii would not adopt their views of poli tics. New gobi mines of great richness are announced to have been disco vered in North Georgia. ? company of responsible parties has been or? ganized to work them. The Richmond Timm says it hear: every day the most distressing report: of poverty and sufferiugin Richmond some.of which are so desperate as t< be bordering on starvation. PARDONED.-A despatch to the //-. raid says among the pardons issn ec? on Thnrselav were the following fron this State: David Garvin, W. S. Mill lens and Simeon Adkins. It is singular that the more yoi damp the ardor of a troublesome talker by throwing cohl water on hi: effusions, the sooner he dries up. NATIONAL BANK STOCK. -It is stat ci that 8160,000 of the stock of th? Shenandoah Valley National Bank, a' Winchester, Va., is owned by Bal ti moreans. A philosopher says that "a mai without money is poor, but a man with nothing but money is std poorer." The corn crop ot* Southern Indian: is now ont of danger from frost, am is the largest ever known in this'par of the State. The railroad brielgeeiver the Bigbe< River, enabling trains to run througl from Selma to "Meridian, has beei completed. The full official vote of tho Penn sylvania election, from every Count,; but one, gives Geary 17.70G majority Tho total vote reaches nearly 000,00*0 A Baltimore bon vivant can onh elescribe Parepa's voice by likening the effect of it to that of '10 claret. Chicago is talking about surround ing herself on three sides with park: and drives, at a cost of 63,000,000. A cheap and poor coffin, that wa: easily broken open, saveel a man ii Brussels from being buried alive. 000 elead bodies were picked np ii the streets of B?lame, lnelia, in om j morning. Famine. A microscope has been constructed which magnifies an object 1,575,000, 000 times. A man nameel Maguire is going t( write the history of the Irish in America. Young ladies from the "first fami lies" in the State are employed a compositors in Georgia. There aro 7,080 Federal office-hold ors in the State of New York, win elenounee the President. Hanging is an amusement in Mexi co. Tiley are going to build a fin Masonic Temple in Memphis. The South wants rest -and money Ejuropeun A'cws. B.U8SIA, THE UNITES STATES AND CANADA - Tho Greek Government--that <>f ?ill others vliich ought, auder the circum? stances, to impose on itself tho greatest re? serve-has aroused European diplomacy, and forced its attention to the problem arising ont (d' the Eastern question; on tho other hand, t he most authorized Russian journals have openly accepted the oppor? tunity offered to the Cabinet <>!'st. Peters? burg, as they say, "of watching over tho populations* connected with Russia by blood Or religion." Lastly, il is loudly af? firmed that the United States want to have a station in tb" Mediterranean, and tba! England le's ma enough with Malta, and regrets tia.- Ionian Islands. All these things aro .-aid, and arti all true. (?reece, which does not exist in its own strength, meditates the annexation td" Candia, under pretext of emancipating tho islam'., lott in reality to-place it under the occult protec ! terato of Russia; the Cabinet of St. Peters? burg, which has made an alliance a "pro? vidential'' one. according to Prince Gortschakoff with that of Washington, promises thc Candiatcs .what it refuses to Poland, and announces itself in the East as the protector of thc weak, in spite of the contradiction given to it in the Caucasus; America hopes to obtain from Russian in? fluence wdiat the Porte refuses to her by the advice of tho Western Pi >wera;;Englan?", who never applauds *'the deliverance of populations longer than tho day when some rival appoars to threaten her, is already becoming uneasy at Italian great? ness, and foresees the inferiority of her own Hag in the Mediterranean. What arc we to conclude from oil th:.-? Thal it is less tho Bastera question, properly so-called, than that of the Mediterranean, as wo muy style il, which is this dav propounded by the events of Crete and Sicily, and by the murmurs arising from thc midst of the Greek Archipelago. Let us take . arewhat we are about. Let us bi ware of losing our way in the narrow defiles of the Eastern question, and let us confront thc legion ol political interests raised from the very outset by the gigantic project of piercing thc Isthmus of Sue/, li is to those inter? ests which arc debated at the present day; and if "Prance, Italy and Austria compre? hend this bu t, and Spain studies it pro? perly, thc Mediterranean powers ought r< bo able.to cope with them. But how? Wi shall explain hereafter, if the movement does net miscarry, in consequence of th< prompt1 pacification of sicily, ?md tie maintenance of treaties in ibo island o Crete. Paris Pairie. Tin: irr.AT.TU OF NATOLEON MEDICAL on NTOX. The following authoritative stalemen appears in Un-London /"awv/, a high modi cal authority: Prom accounts ?hieb we receive from au thoritative sources, we are able to expr?s the belief thal tie- sinister omens wide! have been drawn from the re.-oat hidispo sition of the Emperor of the French, maj in all probability, be pleasantly falsified The benefit which thc Emperor had derive from the wafers of Xiehy, induced bin contrary to Hie wishes and advice of Ravel to resort again to their use. lake man other persons who had to repent ile- inji dieious and untimely use nf t lu- water, lb Emperor suffered a severe momentary a*, gravation of the symptoms, to which ace dents were unfortunately added, ? his ha been wholly conquered, and the most trot blcsomo symptoms were those ol a. tempi rary and accidental character. There i nothing in the condition ol health in whic I the Emperor now is to warrant any appr< '?tension which might not ?i- juslinabl have been entertained ia the past; '.her.;; nothing incompatible with prolonged hi and activity. Fresh air. quietness an change will probably fortify the Em per? to meet sat isfactorily all the p. .ss i ble phys cal and mental demands of his liest in portant and laborious functions, it wou) be obviously improper to enter into dotai on such a subject, bul we speak seriousl; and with a knowledge of tie- medical di tails of the case. NEW STYLE OF BUILDING IN CAIUS. /.// Patrieh&a the following: There is al this tine- in course of cot etructiou, as an experiment and possib model,.in the Quartier de Roule, a hon: having nine stories above the ground floo and with basement aud cellars, altogethi eleven stories. As land in thc centre . Paris is of great value, and. consequent! rents very high, the object of the buddie in question is to obtain increased space 1 increased elevation. Tho house will liai this peculiarity that it will have no st ai case, but will he provided with an hydra! lie apparatus similar to that in use 1 builders to raise their materials to uppi scaffolds. This apparatus consists of tv large flat forms, ascending and descendit every minute without making any nois Upon these platforms will be placed seat so that the lodgers in the house Svill 1 enabled to roach tin- highest stories wit! ont any fatigue. iSoin this arrsngemen it WOUld follow thai Hie upper stone bein;,' the most airy, commanding the be views, and being free from all risk of i; convenience from lodgers above, will pr bably obtain higher lent than the Otb apartments. Thus au en!ire revolution house arrangement will be effected. Tl new buildings of tin.- Rank of France wi it is said, be prepared with ascendiugstai such as we have described. TELEGRAM 1 la >M PRESIDENT JOHNSON. At tin- monthly meeting of the Couut of the Liverpool Chamber of Commcr on the 10th instant, a telegram was res which had been received in answer to tl message forwarded to President Johnsi on the night cd' the Liverpool banquet the layers, of the Atlantic cable. The mc sage is addressed by Mr. Seward, fro Washington, to Capt. Hamilton, and is the following effect: ' The President ol' the United States r ciprocates the friendly congratulations tho banquet at Liverpool, and trusts tb the people of Great britain and Anu ri may henceforth ami forever rememberth in the history of human progress they w be held to have been not alien and host powers, but kindred nations, springii -from ono root, and portions of one ra< extending the common principles of fiber and humanity." DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.- About ha past 1 o'clock this morning, a d structive lire broke out in tho Iar? four-story brick tenement buildin on tho "West side of King sircad, ne; Wentworth, belonging to Mr. ] Poincignon, ?uni known as tho Que? City Hotel. The upper part was c cupied as a hotel by .Air. N. McLaug lin. Underneath, were two store Nos. 270 and 281. The latter w kept by N. McLaughlin as a liqu store, and the former by W. Kinsma confectioner, and H. W. Kinsma upholsterer and dealer in winde shades, Ac. The building was coi pletely destroyed. Thc owner of t premises. Mr. Poincignon, as well thc parties occupying them, are i insured.-Charleston fourier 29/7/. Prentice says it sounds like a pal dox that young men are general anxious to wed Miss Fortune. ?JOOOI Xtoaas. Tho Phonijt oflice ia ou Main street, a few doora above Taylor (or Camdcu ) si rent. FOR TUE LADIKK. Mr. C. 1". Jackson bas presented us willi article, tb? HM' .it which perhaps ean !?.. understood by thu ladies, lt resembles a double tent 1.!.. What, is it? VALUABLE W'OKK. W. lt. lluittt, lisa., Si cretary of state, has performed a moat impon ant service to the Judges ol Hie District < om is, members of the bar. Ma gistrates aud other dftic. rs who may Uaw business with these courts. Ile has rom piled and authenticated under the seal or the State the -Vet, rules, lines and refuta? tions relating to the establishment ol these courts, which form a complete manual or vadem?cum, uot only for officers, '..?.t qpr every one having suits coming nuder ita jurisdiction. Thc contents will show how completely tho work has boen dom-: F.x tract from the Constitution; i'lstri.-i < lourl Act; rules and forms for tho transaction ol business; quarterly ses- ions ol' I be District Courts: civil rights hill and other Acts; and sundry other matters of interest. For sale at this office and at the office of tho i Secretary ol State. Price SI. I MAU. Aim iNur.MK.s rs. . Until further no i tice, tlie mails will opi ii and clofte as fol? lows: ' Northern mail opens IIA a.m.; cluses 12A p. ni. Charleston and Western mail opens I 3p.m.; doses '.ii a. m. Greenville maii op( ns 5h p. m.: closes 8 p. m. On Sundae tho hour of delivery is from :! to -1 p. ni. Tut: BURN INO OF COLUMBIA. AU inter? esting account of the *'Sack and Destruc? tion d' the City of Columbia, s. C.," ba? just boen issm d, pamphlet form, from Ihe Viue.uije. power press. Orders filled to any extent. Price 50 cents. Copies can be obtained at this oflice and the bookstores. BLANKS FOR SALE AT nus OJTFICE. -Let ters of Administration, Declaration ?>n Bond or Sealed Note, Mortgages and Con? veyances of Kcal Estate. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Attention is call? ed to the following advertisements, which are published t!.i'- nuirning for the first time: Iv A G. 1>. Hope-Flour. Bacon, Ac. ?. Pryce A Son Flour, Hams, Powder. John Meigban -Boote. John C. Seegers ?V Co. -Groceries, A'c. .lohn C. Ihal Paints, (?lass, Ac. John H. Counts-To Bridge Buddera. A. s. Wallace-Internal Revenue. Among thc arrivals at Boston by tile China was thc Princess Murat, who is on her way home to Florida, She is the descendant of Joachim Marat, King of Naples, and belongs in Florida, where she has long re? sided. At the close of the war, Fouis Napoleon sent to know how she fared, and, on receiving the required infor? mation, set tled on her for life the sum of 20,01)0 francs, or about $3,800 in gold, annually. She is also a relative of ( S-eneral Washington, her great grand-mothcr having been Washing? ton's sister. SUIS? NEWS. POUT OF CHARLESTON, OCT. 29. ARRIVED SATURDAY. Steamship Andalusia, Burslov, New York. Brig Lincoln Webb. Wylie, Boston. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. Steamship E. B. Sonder, New York, steamship Kingfisher, Harris, Baltimore. Brig B. "k'oung, Gibsou, New York. Brig Ocean Wave, Sylvester, New York. Sehr d. H. Burnett, Wilson, New Y'ork. Sehr. Enchantress, Blatchford. New Y'ork. Sehr. Maria Hall, Garfield, New York. Sehr. Mary E. tiage. Hopkins, New York. Wt: XT TO SEA YESTERDAY. Steamship Quaker City, West, New York. Sclir. Clara, Barrett, Philadelphia. Steamship Kensington, Hedge, Boston. OBITUARY. On the evening of Saturday, the 13th of October, IStJf?, departed this" life, in the thirtv-first vear of her age, Mrs. MARY ADAMS 1JR?OKS, wife of Capt. J. Hamp? den Brooks, and daughter of the late cx Gov. dames II. Adams. Amidst the gloom of tho public calamity, this visitation of death has been felt with peculiar poignance by the surviving kin? dred and friends of the departid. She died at the residence of her husband and Iiis mother, and her remains were intorrod in the family cemetery at tho village of Edgefield. U wa-* on the 21th of January, 185(5, that, in the bloom of her youthful health and beauty, sic- became a beloved and cherished wife. Time only served to endear hi r more and more to each and every member of her husband's family. Her genuine simplicity and truthfulness ?f character, her amicable, prudence and good sense, and her high spirit and native en? ergy, commanded and enforced respect; while her warm and sympathetic heart, her considerate regard for tho feelings of others, her engaging modesty and her uni? form sweetness of temper and manners, inspired even more of affection and love. During the brief period of life allotted to her, she was hot without lier trials. A de? voted mother, daughter and sister, she was visited with affliction in all these rela? tions. Her first-born, her eldest son, was taken from her by death. She saw her noble father sink into the tomba few years since, and but recently an attached and be? loved sister. These trials were borne with a Christian humility and resignation not unworthy of the Episcopal Communion to which she belonged. She was the imper? sonation of maternal love, and to ber "five infant children her loss is irreparable. To? wards her husband, ber loving do votier^ found expression in every act, and word, j and look; to him her death is a calamity and a sorrow profound and inexpressible. Beloved in all tho relations of life, she has been torn from her family, of which she was thc ornament and pride; and her sor? rowing relations and kindred find consola? tion only ? i the remembrance of her vir? tues and in the reflection that she baa been translated to a brighter and happier ?-1-iere._"C." Notice to Bridge Builders. I>ROrOSAL8 will be received until tho 2 uh of November next, for the build I ing of a BRIDGE across Broad River, j where the former bridge stood. Plan ?ml j specifications will be furnished to ail mak? ing application. Address ANDUEW CRAW FORD, Columbia, or JOHN H. COUNTS, I U xington C. li. JOHN H. COUNTS, Oct :;<. tnt President Company.