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From the iVVta York Day Book. THE ANTMLAVERY NOTIONS OF WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON. Tho organs of delusion and imposture are striving Lard to make the people believe that the atlf-styled Republican party entertaiu the same notion uf negro slavery that Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, dtc., did ieventy years ago. Well, if this were true, if they really entertained tho notions t>eculiur to tho men of that day, the fact iself would be anything but creditable to their intalliirt'lu-p. for iiicil so sfmiiil lis to remain stationary when the nation lias so changed, or who are so narrow-minded and bigoted as to retain a curtain view of tilings, though these things are thoroughly and radically changed from what they were, certainly have nothing to boast of, and are the last people in the world that should set themselves up in this progressive country as the leaders of opinion. But it is false, utterly false, that the Greeley s and Summers, &c., agree in opinion with Washington aud Jetl'eiaon on this subject. Ou the contrary, they are just as far from it as vice is from virtue aud treason from patriot lain. Washington and Jefferson, and generally ihe southern statesmen of that day, confounded negroes with ''slavery," or presence of that race with the social relations that spring spontaneously from their juxtaposition with whito men. There were only a few handled thousand of these people, aud most of them iu localities where the labor of whito inen (not free men hut white men) was better adapted, and this they mistook for "slavery," or as this was an evil, they confounded it with the relation existing between tho races. Since then we have acquired v;ut regions specifically adapted to negro labor. \Vo have monopolized the cotton cultivation of tho world, and these negroes have increased to nearly four millions, aud though Jefferson and \Vashingtou, under the then circumstances, naturally enough mistook slavery, instead of negroes, as an evil, will any ono dare to Gay that if they lived now, and under exWuur circumstances, thev would be such O / ?r Ulick-lieaded fools as to malce such a mistake ? To suppose so, is 10 suppose the acquisition and cultivation of Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana and Texas an "evil," that the cotton cultivation, which at this moment, is not only the basis of American power, but the mightiest lever of modern civilization, is also an evil, and fiually, that three millions of productive instead of three millions of non-producing negroes, are three millions of evils! This conclusion is unavoidable, and to Mtnrwo nr tn nrnfi*!).] to > 1 i i <hington and Jellurson would or could tultify themselves, that in Uio faee of ts, this conditiuii, those altera! cir% they would hold "shivery" to is an atrocious insult to their 'uiir mental capacities ?is well lialll. >se anti-slavery llepubliery is lo litem an evil.* t of power for fifty wn their National riffs, their grand venients, their for plundering well, indeed, do not mean Garrisons and oowuuereu, ueoubject. They .a buuks and cher.?nd labored to Iransj beings like themselves, . e become social monstrosities, , aociul lepers, " white uigjjers," aud .v> lime is not distant when tho aroused difguat aud iudiguation of the people will drive them out from them to herd with runaway negroes, and scarcely le?s degraded British subjects in Canada. But we mean the Sewards and Weeds, and Summers and Greeleys, &c., who are j iiviu jiv/utiuai tllUUVl'd, W J1U UVU opposed to negro slavery because they are in favor uf white slavery, because, for fifty years, it has been to them an evil. Jefferson, aud Jackson, and Calhoun, and Nathaniel Macon aud tho slaveholders of tho South have kept them out of power, and for fifty years protected the northern laboring classes from their schemes for plundering them, for oppressing and degrading litem, for reducing them to the eaiuo condition, in fact if not in name, as tho?c of Europe. There is uo contradiction of iuteresta between the South and North, but there is a mighty antagonism between the capital of tho North and the labor of the North, aud ft.ll*4 fil'lUiiltftl/luV *in* I- ? ? ?v W....VU.MV1 mu uuiuu uas HI ways cast his weight in the scale with the latter. We cau imagine Seward and Weed talking confidently together thus:?"Tho abolitionists have deluded a portion of the norlh 'ern people, and aroused a blind and bitter feeliug against the South." "This we will stimulate and increase in every way possible." "If we cau use the government to limit 'slavery,' to pen up the negroes so as to render the negro labor unprofitable and break it down, why then we will have a clear field ; the northern laboring classes, unaided by the slaveholders, will be helpless iu our hands. We will rule the nation through a nionied oligarchy. Or if it (this crusade) ends in disunion, the result to us is the same?the northern producing classes will be theu equally helpless; or fiually, should we only succeed iu getting hold of the executive power, only elect Fremout, why we will at least get the offices. and a four vears chanr-A J ? - ?MV AtUVIVIlUI Treasury." To men like these, without principle, witbont belief in Democracy or the virtue of the people, without patriotism or any of the nobler sentiments that " make ambition virtue," whose God in money, aud who really believe that governoiuut is. or should be, as in Europe, a mere machine for robbing tho masses ol the proceeds of their toil?for such men, We repeat, who, for fifty years, liave. been checkmated by the slaveholders of tin Soutb. it is to be expected that they should hftte Uegro "Jttlaveryn and labor to break ii do#ifi And they differ only in the meant . t...?. n ; ... ?vui oarriaou ana UI8 g??g ? They Jeeire to interpow t&fcderai g*eroaMftt, the common gov ?l^^States for the ruin^o^ ?!*$?'' ' r, -V' avowed object, of tho self-styled "Republican" party, of tho corrupt leaders aud blind dupes now supportiug a ror.egade Democrat and southern traitor for the Presidency. And in conclusion, we ask what is, or what can bo inoro infamous than their assumption of opinions common to Washington and Jefferson ! or can a viler or more atrocious desecration be imagined even than this infamous assumption, that these founders of tho nation would uso tho common government for tho ruin of tho very work they had devoted their lives to establish ? urn. jauttXiiMUAmJU The Boston Courier publishes the following in view of the recent electioneering exploits in Ohio : There cnn bo no objection whatcvei among Mr. Burlingamo's constituents, that he should bo " upon his travels,"?that he should bo lionizing among Western Abolitionists, or playing his part as a stump orator in the cause of Fremont, instead of keeping his scat at "Washington, inasmuch as, so far as his personal services are concerned, he is worth as much to his constituents out of Congress as in it. Ho has J none of the capacities or the capabilities of a legislator. Ho lias neither industry, ap| plication, system, nor business knowledge, | such as should distinguish a representative ! from one of the first cnmnitini. j ties in tlie country, and it is uttering 110th: ing but the truth, which every 0110 who is ! acquainted with him must perfectly underi stand, to say that thcro arc many young j men in Boston, who have received a merI cantile training under good masters and tcachcrs, and who have acquired some I knowledge of foreusics by being members ! of the Mercantile Library Association, who : are far better qualified to represent Boston | iu Congress than he is. lie has not been ! heard of in the House, cxccpt in the frothy declamation which constitutes his "single j speech," upon the Sumner question, and ho I serves there merely to mako a unit?to ! keep symmetrically the singular collection ; of do nothings and ablc-to do-nothings, I 1. ! ?1. .1-. " * * * * ' i which uio juwiy?01 wiucli it was said in j the days of its strength that it was the only ! one in the State of Massachusetts which j ever called itself by the right name?had j selected to represent our old and onco honj orcil Commonwcath in Congress. It may bo repeated that Mr. Burlin! game, as a representative from Boston, is worth as much to his constituents out of j his scat as lie is in his seat in Congress, he : being an entirely different individual from ) any 0110 whoever represented Boston in ! Congress before, and that it is of 110 consei' fpieuco what ho may busy himself about ! while Congress is in session, if it so bo j that he keeps himself out of mischief.? j However, it seems that ho is not gifted ' with even this saving grace, but that he is i 1 b ? ' I HiiucuuifT j,uoiu uie country making abu- | I sivo and inflammatory speeches, which may j do very well for Anson limlingamo, but I {-which arc repudiated and "spit upon" j i*by the majority of his constituency. Mr. I Builingame is an abolitionist?as black | j and thorough an abolitionits as Theodore j Parker or William Lloyd Garrison?and I bis election was attained through shameless I fraud and disgustfhg hypocrisy. lie iinI posed himself upon the Know-Nothings of | bis district as ono of their order, and he ! left them as soon as ho had received the I favor from their hands which he had earned ' by his double dealing. A committee appointed by tho British | House of Lords upon tho subject of the i present inodo of carrying capital punislij incuts into execution have reported thereon, anil made the following recommendations : " 1. That executions should in future be i carried into effect within the precincts of the prison, or in some place securing simi| lar comparative privacy. ! " 2. That a certain number of official i witnesses bo present at the execution, and ! bign a deposition at having witnessed it. | " 3. That such other spectators as the loj cal authorities see fit to admit be also al; lowed to he present. 44 4. That the exact time of the execution < bo made known to those without, as, for ' instance, by the tolling of a bell, which | shall cease at the moment of execution, j and the hoisting at tho samo timo of a black finer." Interesting to Dejitistn.? At the roccnt Dentists' Convention, held in New York, Dr. Harris, of Baltimore, exhibited an inj strumcnt invented by Dr. Putnam, for producing local anasthesia, very useful for ex trading teeth without pain. Dr. Putnam stated that he had extracted three or four thousand teeth with the aid of this instrument. The agent used was ice and salt, and tho instrument was so contrived, that application could be made to the smallest portion of any external part of the body. It was a singular fact, he remarked, that when applied to the gums it produced no pain as it did to the outer surface of the body. Tho gums were frozen by the application, and the teetb extracted without the slightest pain, and with no bad consequences. It required but two minutes to effect the purpose?at most tbreo or four. A simple, cheap sheet iron stove or oven, with a small cast iron fire box in tho rear, and which will not heat a room like tho ordinary 6loves, has recently been devised for summer use. Tho doors and apartments are bo conBtructcd that the heated air may be guided to any part of it. Tho doors, which generally leave a place for tbe admission of cold air into tbe oven, are made of I.WA nlnfflo Willi ??lf .1 " - - v>. w * * a bit OWIl'OUblllj^ UillliptJrB J U3L ' above nnd below them, so that heated air 1 and smoke may be made to pass directly ' through the door, or by adjusting the dam1 pers may be made to pass around it through ^ other flues, as may bo desired. This would > j appear to be quite an ingenious and season1 able invention.?Boston Post. I Machine for Pegging Boots and Shoes. t ?-A new machine for this purpose hsu been ? brought forward. The boot is placed on f one part of the machine, and a stick of ) wood on another; motion being given, one nAvtiAn it*- ' ? |/wiMvu vi mo muuiiBoiftin op6rut6S to piick f the boles with ao awl, another to mato tho - pegs, another to feed the pegs to the mouth a of the hole*, and another to drive the pegs I Lome. These various operations are per1 formed with great rapidity, about two mtn9 utes ouly being required to double peg eaeh boot. , j~ A Singular Case,?A few evenings ago ;!W:; .... . . .. ABBEVILLE BANNER. WILLIAM O. DAVIS, EDITOR. THURSDAY MORN'Q, SEPT. 4, JL85G. E?-Tho friends of MATTHEW McDONAI.I), announce him a Candidate for re-election I for Clerk, at the enuuiug election. The frieiulu of C. J I. ALLEN announce liim ai a Cundidate for Clerk of tho Court at the ensuing election. We direct special attention to the advertisement of Ciiappell Williams, Commission Merchant, Hamburg, and that of A. LI. j Mii.l?, Land Agent, Dubuque, Iowa. BTOBM. I Oil last Sunday night wo wero visited I with heavy rains and considerable wind. It lias doubtless injured, to some cxteut, the corn upon the creeks. NEW COTTON. Twenty-eight bales of new cotton have been 6old iu this place at prices ranging from 10 1-2 to 11 cents per pound. Our market is buoyant, and buyers anxious. DELICIOUS* GRAPES. Wo are indebted to Dr. II. Klkuoii for a handsome present iu the way of Grapes. They were the Catawba variety, grown upon vines of two years' planting. MTTPTrwn M? TTTP t nWUTirovTr t tj v<k , AlDUCl SOCIETY. Wo are requested to say that Iicv. T. A. IIovt will deliver an Address before the Bible Society at Lowndcsville on the 10th iust. FAILTJEE OF MAILS. We regret to learu that a portion of the trestling over Crim'a Creek has been carried away by the recent freshet upon the Greenville <fc Columbia Uoad. Wo have not learned the extent of damage. Our mails have failed from Saturday up to the time of going 10 press on Wednesday ; wo are, therefore, unable to record anything transpiring since that date. NEW ARRANGEMENT. Wo would dircct special attention to the new rates of Advertising which have been agreed upon by the Proprietors of the Banner and Independent Press. Our little experience has long 6ince convinced us that our own rates, and those charged by the country papers of the State, are not sufliciently remunerative. "While the price of labor, paper and printing material have advanced so much jis to add 25 per cent, to tho cost of publishing a newspaper, we have thought that a corresponding advance should be made in our advertising rates. HON. P. 8. BROOKS. The Columbia papers of the 30th inst., notice the arrival of lion. P. S. Brooks in Columbia. A committee, on behalf of the citizens, requested that ho should meet them for tho purpose of receiving sonio testimonial of their appreciation of his conduct in defending tho honor of South Carolina.? Tho City Hall at 8 o'clock was designated. At tho appointed hour, an immense crowd had assembled. Mayor Am-iiur, in behalf of the citizens, presented a handsome Bilver nitY'liAr a on/1 ~ ? u ui?u ^uim-u^-uueu uuu^, iw a testimonial of their unqualified endorsement of his courso in chastising Sumner. After which Col. Bkooks addressed the citizens at some length upon political matters. We have the Times' report of his speech. Our space precludes us from laying it before the public. PERIODICALS. Wo arc in receipt of the Edinburg and Westminster Review, published by Leonard Scott <fc Co., New York. The four Reviews and Blackwood are ail works of undoubted merit; some of the most eminent English authors arc regular contributors to these works. They are all original ly published in Europe, and re-published by Scott & Co. in this country. Not like most of periodicals, they arc not filled with trashy literature, but with historical, religious, scientific or instructive reading. Trice, $3.00 per annum for a single Review ; Blackwood and one Review, $5.00; the four Reviews and Blackwood, $10.00. Postage ou four reviews and Blackwood, 80 cts. a year?14 els. on each Review. Tho Nationul Democratic Review is aho | on our table. This is a new monthly Peril odical, published by Gbokob P. Bukll, at j Washington City?devoted exclusively to l'ouucs. 1'rice, $3.uu iu advance. Wo commend it to Statesmen and politicians. stsahboat'comfakt. We are pleased to see that strong efforts are now being made by influential merchants in Columbia, to run a line of boats from Columbia to Charleston. These men, smarting under the odious discrimination made by the South Carolina Railroad in freights between the cities of Augusta and Columbia, are struggling to establish com petition?impose a check upon the power of the South Carolina Railroad, by making the Congaree navigable to Columbia. Tho chief difficulty seems to be near Columbia; boats cannot get nearer than Granby, three miles below Columbia. Although the distance is about the same, the South Carolina Railroad usually charges 25 per cent, more for freights to Columbia than to Augusta. This discrepancy is wholly owing to the faot that they have no competition to Colombia, while from Augusta they have to contend with water transportation. Since the completion of the Greenville Road, all the freight for the upper ItyptricU, in coming from the sea-board, have neces. sarily to pass over the South Carolina Road hv vrav r\f Iimwa k* / "TV y Mvwyv vr winj wuwu that the high freight* oha,ged by the South * PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. An election for President aud Vice President will bo liad on the 4th of November next. This is ttio 18th canvass since tho adoption of the Constitution. The choice is made by a number of electors froin each State, equal to the number of Senators and and members of Congress. These electors meet in their renpectivo States and voto by ballot for President and Vice-President, and franamif rooul* ^ ?1 11 11 >uv 1V?UII VV tuu 1 IVaKIVIlIi OI 1110 Senate. Our electoral volo when Washington was olected, numbered only 09 votes, all of which were cast for him. Now our electoral college numbers 290. We have three candidates?Fiiemont, Fillmore and Buchanan?for President, one of which must get a majority of the whole electoral college, viz: 149 voles, or else tliero will be no clioico. Should neither get a majority of the whole, the choice will bo made by the IIouso of Representatives. If the election goes into the House, then it will re fjuiro u majority of tho thirty-ono States of the Union to elect. In tlio Ilouse, sixteen States for either of the candidates will elect; and it only requires a majority of the delegation from any State to control tho vote of the State. Tho wholo voto of each State only counts as one. The vote of tho approaching election is variously estimated. However much the friends of tho respective parties, biased by their wishes, may feign confidence of euceess, tho public mind is v.&w settling down to tho conviction that tho contest will bo between Bichakax and Fkemont. Though no great admirer or sworn advocate of 13uc hanan, we give, for the information of our readers, what we conceive to ho his chances of success. "\Ye are forced to the conclusion that ho will get the vote of every Southern State, excepting Maryland and Delaware. This gives him a vote of 109 from the South, leaving 10 to be made up from the Northern States, to insure his election. Pennsylvania will give him 2*7 of these. Illinois and California will add 15 votes, making 151?two moro than a majority. Wo are much inclined to the opinion that Maryland will be carried for Bcciianan. Both the Senators from that State, Pratt and Peauce, have publicly avowed their determination to support him. A Democratic gain of 2,982 over the vote for Governor in 1855, would carry the State for Buchanan. written kor the abdevil1.e banner. A Great District Mass Meeting. The citizens of the District aro refpeetfully invited to attend a Temperance Mass Meeting to bo held at Abbevillo Court House, on Tuesday the 23d of this month, (September.) A number of distinguished gentlemen from Georgia and this State have been invited, and are expected to attend and will address the meeting. a n:- \r:~ .1: ...mi 1 - 1 j.&. j 11, am. uimiur win uu prepared lor the occasion, at which \vc hope to greet tho old and young of both sexes, and enjoy a free and full repast together. We hope to have a sufficient number of able advocates from abroad to furnish the public with addresses forenoon, afternoon and night. "Wo sincerely trust thcro is sufficient interest felt upon this great moral question of Temperance in our District, to secure a large assemblage of the citizens. The committees that have been appointed, of both ladies and gentlemen, aro expected to do their duty. Great and gloriouB will be tho day for old Abbeville! B. JOHNSON, H. II. PUR ANT, JOIIN McBRYDE, Committee of Invitation. There are men who would hesitate to counterfeit a bank note or forge the signature of a friend to an ordinary bill, yet have no hesitation about imposing upon the publie a spurious article of medicine. It stands to reason that a man, or any set of men, who would bo guilty of such imposition, have not mornl honesty enough?admitting they had the ability?to compound even h moderately decent preparation. They are consequently knowingly trifling with the lives of tlio community, and should be branded with something worse thau mere counterfeiters. We do not think the word murderers too strong. "Wo are led to these remarks by the appearance of a spurious and bungling imitation of Dr. M'Lane's Celebrated Vermifuge and Liver Pills.? Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, are tho sole proprietors and manufacturers of these very excellent medicines. None can be genuine without their signature on the wrapper of 1. 1 *-1 cm;ii uux or viai. Punch on Headache.?The female hendaches are innumerable, but they arise principally from vexation and disappointment. They may be divided into nervous and sick headaches. The nervous is irritable and cannot bear being spoken to. The sick is despondent or sulky, and bursts into tears at the least contradiction. When a lady cannot have her own way, a headache is the painful consequence. An unpopular visitor brought home accidently to dinner will produce an alarming attack of headache, and the symptoms that successively follow are, instant loss of appetite, deafness, peevishness, hysterics, and finally a precipitate retreat to the bed-room. The poor servants feel the effects of the headache as much as any one, and do not stop in the room longer than they can help. These unfortunate headaches are C - A. - 1 . ll? ? -? .1 tctjt uoqueuv hiwui umi ume 01 ue year when every one is, or is supposed to be, out of town, and do not cease until the patient lias been carried to the sea-side for a change of air. The milder forma will vanish upon the application of a piece of jewellery; or if the forehead is wrapped up in a new shawl, it i* astonishing with what rapidity the pain disappears. Some* times a shifting of tUscene is requisite, ?nd thiM a^box in t^?^Opera^hM .been S?t>peM?^>lay*dhaah3o oceoTV^rdiV BUSINESS GAMBLING. Tho Now York Tribune exposes the extent to which speculating is carried ou in that city: 41 There are at this moment contracts ailoat in this city alone to the amount of several millions of dollars, based ou stipulations on tho one side to deliver, 011 the other to receive, largo quantities of pork, Beef, Flour, Wheat, &c., 011 a given day at stipulated prices. In other words, A. bets 13. a largo but indeterminate sum that tlour will llfl Inwnp r\r liiivlini- ?"?? 1 .v?v* w* HO bUO taou may bo, next month or next fall, or next New Year's, than it now is. Merchants, whose legitimate business requires all their time, intellect and means, have risked their all, and more than their all, in this desperate game. Of course, many must be ruined, some driven to insanity or suicide, and thousands seriously crippled, by a venture which involves all the vice or mischief of faro or brag, with more than all its baleful iutlucnccs on the public well-being. " II is to this latter point that wo would hero call attention. For weeks past, tho daily reports of tho markets have generally quoted pork as dull, with few and inconsiderable transactions, though at this season, when the stocks held in country villages are apt to run short, and salt pork is very generally eaten by laborers, there should be an active demand for it. Turning to tho daily reports of tho last two years, wo iind tho jMitw ui jiuiu. 111 mis mantel 10 compare with those at which it is now held as follows : 1845?Aug. 12. 1355?-Atttf. in. 185C?Aug. 11. Mesa. bl.l. $12.27 a fil) $19.37 n 75 ?l9.ftH a $<J0 Prime, bkl. 10.50 a 02 10.08 u 75 17-75 o lti " Here it. will he seen that pork is higher than it was last year, in the midst of a great war and 011 the back of the shortest corn crop for many 3'ears, and fifty per cent, higher than it was two years ago, though tho great war was even then fairly begun. And now there is not only general peace, with a great corn crop last year, and another as great nearly sale, but there has already been realised a signal decline iu the prices of nearly every staple of food, pork excepted. " Of course it is not necessary to explain that the present prico is tho result of a gambling ' corner,'?otie set of gamblers having bet large sums that pork would be lower; another set, that it would be higher than a certain price, at a certain day then and still future. Those who bet on high prices either already possessed or have contrived since to obtain control of most of the pork on the market, and are holding up the price by buying more as it is offered, or inducing its owners to hold on. Meantime, consumers suffer from the exorbitancy of the price, and buy as little as possible, waiting the inevitable crash ; hence trade stagnates and our city sutlers." A Cutting Reply.?In Franco smoking is perhaps less a rage than it is with us; but in France the liberty of smokers is greater, I think, than in America. Thus, in the United States, people who smoke in omnibuses, cars, cabins of steamboats, or other places of the sort are few anil far between. In France, on the contrary, it is very common to sec gentlemen (?) indulging in a cigar on such occasions. An elegantly dressed and aristocratic looking lady entered a liist-class railroad car, at the Paris dfpot, a day or two ago. As she opened the door and took her place she observed that the car was occupied-by three ! ? ? .1 ? ui imn gi-m it-men, ono ot whom, at the moment of her appearance, was in tlic act of lighting his cigar. Observing the lady, lie made a significant grimace, and, with the characteristic word-politeness of a Frenchman, said : " Would smoking incommode you, madame ?" The lad}' turned toward him, and with an air of dignity replied : " I do not know, sir; no gentleman lias ever yet smoked in my presence !''? lie put out his cigar. Life and Death in the TFVs/.?The St. Louis Republican publishes some statistics of the total uumber of inquests held by the coroner of that city for the past two years. Peruse the figures, and consider for a moment what an epic tliev narrate in Utile. The total number of inquests hold, was upon the view of the bodies of 477 persons. The cause of their death, as classified bv the verdict nf il.? juries, as follows: By drowning, 184; from intemperance and exposure GG ; by accident, 59; murdered, 54 males and 11 females; from causes unknown, 40; by suicide, 20 ; by sun stroke, 19 ; congestion of the brain, 13; infanticide, 8 ; suffocation and burning, 0. Of the drowned cases, the bodies of ono hundred and six were never recognised. # > ? Arlijical Granite.?Tlie Rochester Union says: " We have seen some specimens of this article for building purposes, whicli have a durable appearance, besides being handsome. The 'granite' is made of a composition of sa/jd and lime. Thorough chemical tests have proven its indestructibility. Il is moulded in blocks of five times the size of common bricks, and in admirable shape for building. Each block has a mortice through it, so as to pass a current of air through the centre of the entire wall of the building, and thus provent frost from entering. The cost of the article, even in Now York, is said to be far less than bricks, and it can be laid more rapidly." < ?? ? A Pickpocket Detector has been invented down East. It consists externally of a case, resembling that of a watch in size and shape. It has a fob-chain or string, and is worn in the pocket like a watch. Within the case is a bell and Bpring-hamraer, the latter connected with the fob-chain. The supposition is that the thief will suppose that the watch-chain is attached to a bona fide watch, and will accordingly pull tho ,1... ?i- ?--- " ' bUUIII 111 UIIICI Ml UUUIIM lUt) |iriO). X)UL instead of getting the watch, the watob gets him. The pull sounds the alarm-boll, the owner of the watch grabs the roguo, and the policeman conducts him to limbo. A country exchange calls attention to the faot that the vote of South Carolina in the next'Presidential election is in the hands of one man. "If Gov. Adams should fail to call the Legislature together at the time of election, either because be thought the State ought not to vote, or that that could not be an extraordinary occasion which happened regularly every four years, the vota of' the Stih wnnld f* l<vrf n In Chicago.?The Chfoftgo Democratic Press, states that die Hon. "Niagara" Burlingame, of addressed m audience $ .. - ,n.'- r AGES OF ANIMALS. A bear rarely excoeds twenty year*; a dog lives twenty years; a wolf twenty; a fox fourteen or sixteen ; lions are long lived?Ponipey lived to tho ago of seventy. The average ago of cats is fifteen years; a squirrel and a haro seven or eigbt years; rabbits seven. Elephants have been known to live to the great ago of four hundred years. When Alexander the Great had conquered ono Porus, King of India, ho took a great elephant which had fought very valiantly for tho king, named him Ajux, and dedicated him to the sun, and then let him go with this in . (& A i .1 ii.. _^ T ?_.. I d^i i^hiuii i ivicAiuiuur, uiu son ui J uy nor, liath dedicated Ajax to tho Sun." This elephant was found with this inscription threo hundred and fifty years after. Pigs have been known to live to tho ago of thirty years; tho rhinoceros to twenty. A horse has been known to live to tho ago of bixty-two, but average twenty-fivo to thirty, Camels sometimes livo to tho age of one hundred. Stags aro long lived. Sheep seldom exceed tho ago of ten. Cows live about fifteen years. Cuvier considers it probablo that whales sometimes live one thousand years. Tho doiphiu and porpoise attain tho age of thirty. An eaglo died at Vienna at the ago of one hundred and four years. Havens frequently reach tho age of ono hundred. Swans liavo been known to livo threo hundred years. Mr. Mallorton lms the skeleton of a swan that attained tho ago of two hundred. Pelicans are long lived. A tortoise has been known to live to the ago of one huudrcd and seven.? Lodon L. Hour. S3T C an any one say why it is considered impolite for gentlemen to go in tho presence of ladies in their shirt sleeves, while it is considered correct for ladies themselves to appear before gentlemen without any sleeves at all ? We merely asli for information.?Exchange. THE SMYRNA CAMP-MEETING, Near Lowixlesvillc, will commence on YTednttday Evening the 121/A ititl. Milliliters requeatcc to attend. II. II. DURA NT. Sept. 1, 18f>G. ?.0 3t ?l)c 3,bbcuillc Banner Is Publiahod Every Thursday Morning, by DAVIS &, HOLLINGSWORTH W. O. DAVI9 Editor. J. HOLLINCJSWORTH Publisher. x- J-t XVL W 1 Two Dollars per biiiiuiii, if pai<l in advance Two Dollars ami Fifty Cbntb if not paid witliii nix months, unil Tiihee Doi.lap.r if not prviti l?o foro the end of tho year. All subscriptions no limited at the tiino of subscribing, will be con sidcred as indefinite, and will be continued mili arrearages arc paid, or at the option of tho l'ro prietors. Orders from other States must iitvuri ably be accompanied with tho Cash. RATES OF ADVERTISING. The Proprietors of tho Abbevillo Banner ant Indcpcnibnt 1'rcsx, have established tho follow ing rates of Advertising to be charged in botl papers: Every Advertisement inserted for a less t'nn than three months, will bo charged by the inner tion at Ono Dollar per Square (1? inch?tlx ,,r id ? i? \ wi iv. ,) mr me firm lii^er tion, and Fifty Cents fur each subsequeiit in Hvrtion. C2T The Commissioner's, Sheriff's, Cleik's un< Ordinary'a Advertisements will be inserted ii both papers, each charging half price. Sherilf's Levies, One Dollar each. ?2T A niiouiieing a Candidate, Five Dollars Advertising an lOittray, Two Dollars, to b< paid by tho Magistrate. Advertisements inserted for threo months, 01 longer, at the following rates: 1 square 3 mouths $ 5.0( 1 square G months 8.Ill 1 square 9 mouths 10. IK 1 square 1'2 months 112.01 12 squares H months 8.0< 2 squares <> months 14.0( 2 squares 9 months 18.0C 2 squares 12 months 2o.0( 3 squares 3 months 10.Ot 3 squares 6 months lt>.0( 3 squares 0 months '21.Of 3 squares 12 months '25.0C 4 squares 3 months 12.01 4 squares 6 months 20.0( 4 squares 9 months 2G.CK 4 BQUares 12 mmiOia tnnr 5 squares 3 months ]5.o( R squares G months 25.()C 5 squares 9 months 31.OC squares 12 month* !!!!!!!! 35.0C 6 squares 3 months 20.01 6 squares 6 months *' 30.0( 6 squares 9 mouths 8g!o0 0 squares 12 months . . jo^OC 7 squares 3 months 2.r>!oC 7 squares 6 months S5.0C 7 squares 9 mouths 41.OC I Bqimrcs 1 n months 45.0C 8 squares 3 mouths 30.0C 8 squares 6 monilm 40.0C 8 squares 9 months 46.01 8 squures 12 moutlis 50.0C Fractions of Squares will be chargcd in proporlion to the above rates. UP" Business Cards for the term of ono year, will be charged in proportion to the space the^ occupy, at One Dollar per line space. gSF For all advertisements set in double column, Fifty per Cent, extra will bo added to thf above rates. DAVIS <fc HOLLINGSWORTH, For Banner; TUCKETT <fc WILSON, For Preit. CLINTON LODGE, NO. 3, A.\ F.\ M/. A THERE will be a Regular Communi cation of this Lodge held on Jionday /^r \ Evening the 8th inst. Members are requested to meet earlier than usual. By order of the W.\ M.*. J. G. BASKIN, Secy. Sept 3. H Municipal Election! AN ELECTION will be held in the Court House, for Iutendant and Four Wardens of the Villnge of Abbeville, on the uecond Mon day?the eighth day?of Septomber next. Managers.?John G. Willson, J. William Livingston aud B. P. Hughes. By order of tho Town Council. 8. McQOWAN, Jntendant. August 21, 1866. 19 2t n m n xor a own. council. Fob Intkndant: J. G. WILLSON. Fo* Wardens : J. H. WILSON,* JOHN MoLAREN, J. A. HUNTER, R. C. STARR. Sept. 8, 18M. 20 It For Town GounoiL Intkkdant: - JAMES M. PERRIN. Waidkjh: H. T. TUSTEN, R. A. FAIR, M. T. OWEN, MATTHEW MoDONALD. August 27, 1858. 10 > ?t\ - At?e?ti4?*r Abbeville Light Infantry!! r CAFT. inrwawoir i. ?. i.r M WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION jpTTf BUSINESS. ISTI1G undersigned having ta-j6*fi0^ ken tlio Wurohouxo situated immediutcly on th?j River Bank, and formerly knoWn as Sibley dl Uslier'u, but more rocently kept bjf Mr. Thoii Kernughun, is now prepared to take Ootton 011 Storftgo, and oilier produce that may b? consigned to hirri> His rules of Storage and Commissions will bo at the usual rules ehurged iu the pluct'i Receiving and Forwarding attended to, and Cash udvunces made on product in mure. Having been previously engaged for setd-ltl years iu the sfttuo business, in this place, I hop* to renew u general acquaintance with tny old friends and tlio public at (urge. Through industry and close application to business, 1 hope to merit u liberal Bliure of putrnnuge. UHAPPELL WILLIAMS. Hamburg, Sept. 3, 1800. 20 4t X7 hmilxis, IOWA, WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA LAND OFFICE, AT DUBUQUE, IOWA. PARTICULAR attention paid to the locating of Lund Warrants for persona South, ou the finest selected Timber uiul Prairie Lmirla., Warrants loaned to KettWs on oilo year's tnrioai 40 percent. Interest, chui'ging $1.25 per Aero for Wurrnnl. ThXch paid, Collections made and remitted for in Sight Exchange. Money loaned at high rates of Interest. Investments mado.? Uncurrent money bought, ?tc. ITT" Refers to Wm. C. Davis, Esq., Abbevillo C. II., S. C. Sept. 3, 1856. 20 tf LAN D WARRANTS^ An Unlimitod Number "Wanted. r|"MIE undersigned is still in the market for _I_ Lund Warrants. Prices, however, at present arc much depressed ; though he will pledge i himself to pay as much as can be had for them in any murkct. Remittances made at thoir higli1 est market value. l?v Sif?Wt vr? ?. . , ?H..- ^.ci.13 vii new i orlt 1 | or Churlcsloii, for ull Wurruuts sent to mo by mail. ; Address W. C. DAVIS, Abbeville C. II., S. C. Sept. 3,1856. 20 tf Attention! Southern Rights Dragoons!! 1 "^7"OU are hereby ordered to appear IW?. JL at your usual Parade (irouna, on flWSl Saturday the 6th of September next, at lli o'clock, a. m., for Drill and Instruction. : liy Order of CAl'T. SMITH. R. J. White, O. S. Abbeville C. II., Aug. 20, 18.16. 19 2t Notice - ?S "KREBY B'ven. t',nt nn Application will j JL be made to the Legislature of South Carolina, u <ii/ im ni-Ai owsmii, lor tin Amendment of tho J* Charter of Incorporation of the Village of Ab- H beville, ko as to uuthorUo and empower the rd Town Council to tax the Property of the citizens H . of the Incorporation, for llie purpone of repairing m j the Road:! mill Streets, ami for other purpose*. B Aug. id?, 16.r)0. I'J 3m \ Public Notice i 1 "H"S hereby given that Application will be niado \ JL at the ensuing Ki-psion of the Legislature. fur tho renewal of llie Charter of Incorporation of Trinity Church, Abbeville District. Aug. ?-S, lO'iil. 1" om DISSOLUTION. I rpjiE firm of W1ER ? MILI.ER was thi? g* _I. day (Unsolved by mutual consent, the Mm- I 1 itation of the I'ai tiiership having expired. The I name of the Firm wi'l be used in the closing up 9 s of the buHiu"fS, by cither one of us. I All persona indebted to us by Note or Account, B 2 will please come forward and pay up an soon a* I - convenient, as it is very desirable that the buti* I ness should be closed uh cnrlv ?s pos ible. m .IOMN A. WIBR, ff 1 G. McD. MILLER. m i August 23, IS56. 19 tf ~~c o-PAlrf MEISHTPT" TKirri.' n.~ 5 ' " " " mc iiuvi? mis any lormoil u under the firm of " Winil it LYTI1UOE," uud will huvo & now Stock of Fall and "Winter Goods hero by the first of Oclohor next One of the Firm hsw gone to Now York now, nud will bring a >tr etluii^ now and cheap. JOHN A. WII2R, AUGUSTUS J. l.VTHGOE. Augu>t 23, 1850. 19 4t 1*. S.?I feel very thankful for the liberal patronage bestowed mi the old Finn, and bospeak the fiiiiue for the new. Your old friend und citizen, JOHN A. WIER. TANDTOR SALE. I OFFER to Sell my Rock Plantation, near Greenwood, adjoining the Koek Church, and hinds of Dr. Logun und others, containing upwards of SOO Aor??, a good portion of it the finest Cotton and Cora Laud in this purt of the country. Any peraou wishing to nee.it, may call on Mr. S. li. Majors near the place, or myself ut home. JOHN McCLELLAN. August 27, I85fi. 19 tf Estate of Thos. P. Dowtin, dee'd. 7(kTOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may -L^ concern, thut there will be a Settlement of the Personal Estate of Thomas P. Dowtin. dec'd, in the Ordinary'B Oflico of this District, at Abbeville Court House, ou Thursday the 20tk day of November next. All persona having demands against said Estate, will present them properly attested, and lhoM> indebted to the Estate are requested to mukc payment to the undersigned on or befora ' the dav of Settlement. M. O. McCASLAN, Executor, AMELIA DOWTIN, Executrix. Abbeville C. H.f Aug. 19, 1850. 18-Sm Fresh Lard, IriAA LBS. which is offored at small figures, ,UUU by H. S. KERR. Aug. 13. 17 if Liver Coinplaint. ?'I'lle only remedy over of" fered to the public that has never foiled to care, when directions are followed, is M'LaneVIJver Pills, prepared by Fleming Bros., Pittsburgh. Pa. It has been several yoars before the public, and has been introduced in all section* of the Union; Where it has bocu used, it has had the inoe? triumphant success, has actually driven oat of M* < all oilier medicines. It has been tried under allJL the different phases of Ilepatis, and hs*bo$<r: , " found equally efficacious in alL \ . "i f ; .v ** . MT Purchasers will beeareflil to ask folr 1 Al'Lane't Celebrated Vermifuge, ranqufatttired; . by Fleming Bros, of Pittsburgh, " vermuuges in comparison are wortbfew, -"'Br.v M'Lana's genuine Vermifuge, also his oolebrated Liver Tills, can now bo had at all re?p&fcUWa drug stores. None genuine ^Bol^ by Ward I. aw &