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.
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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
$
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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 &