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Comte?HI* Death and Philosophy* Auuste Cumtk, whose death, nt the hi of sixty, liio Canada announced, whs n only tho father but tho perfoctor of th Bcliejno of philosophy which, under tl "tiarhe of "Positivism;" is perhaps, the pi> tlest'forra xtliieh modern scepticism lias ; 8\iaied. M. Comto's history is not unwc thy of notlcc in connection with tho pec liar doctrines ho taught, and wo tako tli moment to give a brief sketch of it to 01 readers. Comto spraner from n nol>l<> fjimilv wlm estates lay in the south of Franco, ami who attachments wero eqnally strong Jto tl Uoiirbon family and the Romish Cliurc But lie enmo into tho world, at a peric whe?, in the enrly throes of the Frencli re dltition, all loyality, wlusjher eccular or ?i clesiastic, was being dissolved. Vcrj'sooi his eager and comprehensive mind seize and appropriated the new theories of hi itian liberty which were then promulgei Ilis early cnlttire was at tho l'olytechni school, where ho exhibited that wonderfi capacity for the exact sciences which aftei , wards-so greatly distinguished him *, an !iis first adhension was given to St. Simon then in the maturity of his socialistic specu Nation. The picturesque communism of th aristocratic reformer, however, was not snl btantial enough for the young radical, wh desired not only theorutic but practialeqna lit}*. Ilis experience, indeed, was a hard on and by no means calculated to impress 01 his mind a belief in the realities of that lovi for equality in wliick his wealth'- patron exulted, llo struggled for n long tirm against severe though honorable poverty From thy age of eighteen lie Aas. employe*, from six to eight hours a.<liy in privati tuition. At twenty-two lie began llie j>re paration of his lectures on positive pliiloso p!iy. The exhaustive cVaracter of labor: aggravated what, perhpps, was Tin organic tendency of liis highly wrought mind, ant in his twenty-ninth y-'ar he was attacked l>\ a fit of insanity whi<h arrested him just a the moment whence was about opening ins lectures undernuspices the most brilliant It was not until J 832 that lie acquired r permanentstip/orfrbv an appointment in the faculty of tliePolytechnic school, in which however, lie wes obliged to content him& self with thi post of iho lowest tutor. In J S 1.1, his/ourse of l'ositive Philosophy was published, hdJ was followed, much more through scientific than religious animosity, by iiis expulsion from his professorship. It is to Conitc's great credit that during these trials, aud throughout his long life of penury he maintained Iiis independence intact. He never pringed to power, or even accepted, patroage; and he died at last, in his sixtieth year, rts poor, and as independent as when he first entered a pupil in that school on tvltvroli liA rofln/?f oa mtinli It was not within the compass of such an . article as the present to give any tiling more than a meagre sketch of Comic's philosophical system. Il is based on the hypothesis that all knowledge whatever rests on a codtf of natural laws, which are capable of definite and positive (hence the name) ascertainment and expression. It is tine same, according to the doctrine of posilvAMsm, with morals as with physics. Ttte rules which govern human conduct and human passion are susceptible of as definite f? a!tAn * ! ? I"" ~? *1 ?? blilOOIUKItiVII LIIU I UIU3 gUVIT II II1<^ ( 11V stars. It is wily necessary, by the application' of a searching induction, to ascertain these rules, in order to enable us to determine the movements of man, socially and individually. Il ifc important to distinguish Cotnte's scientific from his theological speculations. In the former he has rendered great aid to the cause of science by the analytical delicacy and tlio systematic exactness with illicit he has divided and expressed nil laws which are capable of positive ascertainment, Nor does his work stop here. He has conutrill'tpH n hnrmnnv nf tlm e(.iini/>n? in rfeciprtx'al as well as their social relations; drill lie lias done this with such success as to receive the eulogium of some of the most eminent even among his theological opponents. Wo pass, however, from this topic, to notice very briefly the features of Comte's theological system. Society, according to Comte, is to pass, through three great periods. Tlie first of these, the thological, is to be diyided into three eras:?1. Felichism, or me worship ot ummalc or inorganic mattor. 2. Polytheism; and 3. Monotheism, The next great period is the Metaphysical, which is the period of speculation and doubt. The third and last period, which the human family, as it approaches perfection, will reach as its final stage, is postivism, 01 the period in which all tlie laws which rcg ulate society will have been discovered, sr as to leave no space for the intervention ol a Deiiv, and therefore no necessity for His it :? A :...i i.~ n _. at/ is uub uuiiiuu uy v^anuu that Christianity, as a step in the great marc!) of social development, was, pro hac I'ice} true. Il was true, however, only as an ~ itit'ei mediate process in tho preparation ol mankid for governinont by a definite though godlegs co3c ofpo-ilive laws. It is a cardinal objection to this hypothesis that so far from the development of civi ligation being marked by a religious prop ojress 8uch as that sketched by Cointe, the Tacts are quite tho contrary. Fetichism has been the faith of some of tho most cul .rtvated as well as some of the -most refined oommumtta. At the highest period o Egyptian culture, the Kgyptian pantheor ' was one vast apotheosized menagerie. Cro i cod lies, wolves and cats,had each their wor shippers. On the other hand, the edvidcnc< seeuis to prove to un that so far from tlx most.ancient nations being Fetich-worship i perS, several of them at least approaches f nure Monotheism. But be this as it may Tt. M / \i?nv ifiaf oa ?I.a - .v ^ V.V*.. t.K.r ?v c*( 1IUIU I I *3 jliugiw^ u ; national culture being from the theological to the mot.%jJiy<{Jeui,'the most polished na lion of antiqtmy?1i?ve passed from .the met - - apbyflfcal to Uio theological, Grecian anc toman philosophy p?eceeded Grecian anc Itoftdn Christianity. i, Let it, htfirttfer, be admitted that as time .passed (fi 'there' ia^a gradual uncovering ! r taw*, wiiiebj lo the buiuao eve, were be tff ?vre uuARvrrui v a v? ? wutni v.Meni, it Wll [ readily B? agreed tlmt this is true, for ther< it ttorcefyjt tU*tftor)ci?tat: oMlie' Onrvcrse ii whjoi. ! fffeve that-phe S^e?a^)P^M7>we -t!>Uigljt is^ej > %<pni^y^j)gmjMa>fei^ggnerHl law. Thu *' v^Sv ,,13iiPfc:cfc*,oran* r ofl" _-^ii c^p^'vipiwwmct and immedia^ *eocy of tb* 'Altmo^ty, or tbe r<$uk c fj> is a system w I. it roYol?t? with* regularity .letei H'V ;* . ' -<* \L ' ! physical phenomena which aro as jet un'ex* ro : plained. ot This increasing recognition of second at causes, however, does not weaken the lie proof of tlio existence of a Jirst anise. It b- only pushes the proof of design one step futbs erbaok; and after it does this, it mnko th*t ?r- proof infinitely stronger by displaying u- to tho observer not merely single ncta of lis wisdom ami power, but a vast scheme ma. nr tured infinite ages back of omnipotent and all-wise government. The position of mo e dorn scepticism in ?ueh a view is that of a se mouse standing by the side of a hall-clock, le and when lie discovers that the clock is It. moved by some inner machinery?that the id striUinrr of llin linnr tlio lirkimr of tlin niin k*- life, and the motion of the hand*, arc deter* B? mined l?y a prearranged law?declaring 11 that tlie clock ra pelf-existent and self-prod pel ling. If such should l>o the impression i- of a mouse a few hours or days old, one of ]. more experinco might tell iiim that at a c deffinitc period back, there came to the hall il a being who imparled to the clock new pow - ers; and that at a perio<l still more remote, il /mother being made the entire nvichine, i, with all its powers of periodical renovation, - out of pieces of steel and brass. Certainly e the completeness of the clock only strength* ? ens the proof of an intelligent maker. Even 0 thererefore, if we recognize an universal sys, i- tern of second causes, it only strengthens e our proof of a Jirst. 1 \v? 0.1.1 1I...1 1-. e have attained a considerable circulation in England, in the shape of a free translation s edited by Martiucau. which lias been repnb. lislied in this country. With us, also bis 1 distinctive opinions bavc been adopted in ; sonic of tlie occasional writings of the late - Mr. Horace VJinney Wallace, and in the "Progress of Religious Ideas," by Mrs. L 5 Maria Child. Of tlieso latter writers we. ; have only to add that the advocacy of the 1 fust is likely to be inoperative from its suh ; tlety and hesitancy, that of the second from I I its coarseness. Mr. Wallace rather hints I ; than states Comtu's peculiar views ; Mrs. ] . Child thrusts them before us with such bald- j i ncss 11)fit those who might accept tlwm in 1 their classical original, shrink from in the gross infidelity in which in this new American version they arc clothed. . A First Sorrow. Arise! this day bliall shine Forever more, To tliee n star divine i On Time's dark shore. Till now tliv soul ims boon All glad and guy ; > Did it awake, and look At grief to-day. Xo tiliado lias come between ti.aa - Like.some long-cherished J renin Thy life hits run. But now the stream has readied A dark deep sen, Ami sorrow, dim and crowned, Is wnitiii!? tliee. ? Kneli of God's soldiers bears A sword divine; Streleli out tliy trembling hands To-day for thine. To eaeli nnointed pric.-it God's summons enme ; Oh, soul, he ppenks to-day, And call* thy name. Then with slow, reverent step And heating heart, From out thy joyous days Thou must depart; And leuving nil behind, Come forth, ulone, To join the chosen band ' Around the throne. Rube up tliinc eycu?be strong? 2* or cast away The crown that God has given Thy soul to-day. IIow to Cook a JIusband.?As Mrs. Glass said of the hare, you must first catch him. Having done so, the mode of cooking him so as to make a good dish of him is as follows: Many good husbands are spoiled in the cooking; some women go about as if their husbands were bladders, and blow them up; others keep them constantly in hot water, while others freeze tliem by conjugal coldness; some smother ' them in haired, contention, and variance; i uuu buiiiu hvi'i' inciii in jhckic an nieir lives, j These women always 6erve them up with | tongue sauce. Now it cannot bo supposed I that husbands will be tender and good, if managed in this way; but they are, on the P contrary, very delicious, when managed as follows: Get a large jar, called the jar of carefulness, (which all good wives have on hand,) place your husband in it, and set him near the lire of conjugal love ; let the fire be pretty hot, but especially let it be P clear; above all, let the heat be constant; Cover liim over with affection, kindness, and subjection; garnish with modest, becoming familiarity, and the spice of pleasanlry ; and if you have kisses and other confectionaries, let them be accompanied with a sufficient portion of secresy, mixed with prudcrico and moderation. We . should advise all good \vive9 to try this receipt, and realise how admirable a dish of C husband is wllen properly cooked. 1 Moral Couraqk.?Sidney Smith, in his work of moral piylosopby, speak* in this wise of what men lose for want of a little ? moral courage or independence-of mind :? 5 "A great deal of talent is lost in the world ' for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to the gjave a number of obscure ' men, who have only remained in obscurity because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could have been induced tn heorin wnnM ? J ? ? O"? " " I in all' probability bate gone great lengths in the caieer of fame. The fact is, to do anything in tbia world1 worth doing, we must not stand back shivering, and think5 ing of the cold and danger, but jump in and ? scramble through as well as we can. It I will aot do..to be perpetually calculating tasks, and adjusting nice chances; it did veiy well before tue flood, where a man COllId I'AnftnU !?'? ?? ? ? '-1 ?- J vmuwmi? ma ICUU9 UpUU fl?l IIIWJIIUW1 " publication for a bundled and fifty jfeara, P and then livtf to see its success afterwards v ? but at present a man waits and doubts, and. hesitates, and consult* h? brother, and his | ullole, and particular friends, till, ofrc fine day, he fiads lie is sixty years of age; Uftt a ue haa lost so tuuoh time in eonsamng, his !" first comm imd partioolar fncnde,, tbatbe Luis uo morenirtv* to folJow theii^advice." S *?ke4 iJSj. * lor.irfBoifl slie.caet, wi?y aabip was rolled } "?W The boo of *N?p|uq? rmm?*k< i p ^ # ^ ^ 1 The Hurt tot Every One. Oil! there is n heart for every one, If every ouo could find it | Then up and seek, ere youth is pone, What'er the toil, ne'er mind itl For if you chance to meet at Inst With that one heart intended To be a blessing unsurpassed, Till life itself is ended, How would you prise the labor done, IIow grieve if you'd resign it; For there's is t? heart for every one, If every one could find it. T I i 1- 1 iiciii us urt- uinuc, uiu iiugcio oaj , To suit each other dearly ; But each one takes a different way? A way not found no clearly I Yet though we seek, and seek for years, The pains are worth *ho takii.g, For what the life of home endears Like hearts of angel's making! The haste, and guard the treasure won, When fondly you've enshrined it; For there's n heart for every one, If every one could find it! ClIABLES SWAI.V. The Patent Umbrella. Good koii a Rainy Day.?Our friend Board, of Cincinnati, tho artist, has invented n plan to stop that most inconvenient ami unpunishable crime?umbrella theft; which we intend to make public, at the risk of violating the patent laws. We will tell the story as he related it. "I had just bought a fine silk umbrella, and started to the Kunielt House on a rainv day, when I began to reflect upon mv extra viganee, and to wonder, as 1 tripped nlong proudly under its broad and safe cover, whether or not it would go the way of all umbrellas, and leave mn to the 'pitiless pel tings of the storm,' before the day was over. True, I could keep it in my hand, but then I was occasionally so absent-minded that I would be just as apt to set it down in a public bar-room, or even to have it taken quietly out of my hand by some adroit rhrn/lJirr tl% / Htl H S / ? ?/? T C?!f nnnoomn.l Suddenly an idea occurred. I stopped into a hardware store and purchased a small padlock. On arriving at the hotel I closed mj* umbrella, slipped tlie lock on to the wire spring which keeps it shut, and deposited it with perfect confidence in the public rack. I was not. long waiting for a customer. A splendid-looking fellow, with a goatee and mustache, you see his likeness as Augustus Tomlinson when my picture of Paul Clifford is exhibited.) stepped up with the most perfect vnnchaluuce and took my identical umbrella. I sauntered towards the door, giving a casual glance at the weather ; my hero endeavored to spread the sheltering silk; but alas! it was no go? again! Still worse. What the duce was the matter? lie looked?saw the trap, and the fall in his countenance was exactly that Sloil from llifi Slitilinio In tlir* ri<1ff?iilnns I li-wt so often heard of but never scon before. My umbarella was quietly deposited in its place, and my gentleman meekly sauntered towards the reading room, and skipped out of another door umbrella]ess. I was bv no means satisfied with one experiment. In a little while I saw otic of the most brazen appropriations of small tilings (he was especially hard on lunches and drink?free) in all Cincinnati. "Now," said I, ''is my chance." This customer had an article in his hand which might in courtesy bo 6tyled the "ghost of an umbrella,'' and cotton at that. With a grandiloquent air lie deposited it right alongside of mine, and went to the bar. There he picked up a treat (it was election time,) and eat crackers and cheese enormously. Thence to the reeding-room, with my eye still on him, and in less than a minute, with a shrug, and buttoning up his coat an extra button, he passed in a rapid business manner to the door, picking up my umbrella, with scarcely a glance, as he went along. I was on hand. With a sudden movement lie attempted to raise it; no go! Again! still a failure. With a decision perfectly Napoleonic, and worthy of the occasion, lie was about to tear away the slight obstruction, when I stepped up and said : ''Don't do that! 77/ lend you the kry!" 44 All ! Mr. 1 I I llii ' Rlrfln?o , " mistake?thought it was my own ; good device; devilish good! Think I'll adopt it." And with the most perfect ease lie put my umbrella down, took his own and vamosed. I was satisfied. I had found out how to keep an umbrella, and now I am on my way to Washington to get a patent for it. Rkading Ai.ot'n.?There is no treat so great as to hear good reading of any kind. Not one gentleman or lady in a hundred can read so as to please the ear, and send the words with g.Mitle force to tin*, heart and understanding. Indistinct utterance, whines, drones, nasal twangs, guttural notes, hesitations, nnd other vices of elocution, aro almost universal. Why it is, no one can say, unless it be cither the pupil, or the nursery, or the Sunday school, gives the style in these days. Many a lady can sing Italian Rnnrrs ivilli / An?i/lnriiKI? d*o..i.i!nii K..? o- - ?; Wllinot read English passihly. Yet readin g is by far tlie more valuable accomplishment of the two. In most drawing rooms, if a thing is to be read, il is discovered that nobody can read ; one has weak lungs, another gets hoarse, another chokes, another has an abominable sing-gong, evidently a tradition of the way in which ho said Watts' hymns when ho was too young to understand them ; another rumbles like a broad wheel wagon ; And another has a way of reading which ovciua iaj piuuwiiui mm. vrimt lie is rfnoing is of no sort of conscquonce, and bad better not be listened to. Pleasure of Heading.?Of all the amusements that can possibly bo imagined for a working man, nfler daily toil, or in the intervals, there is nothing like reading a newspaper or a book. It calls for no bodily exertion, of which be has already had enough, perhaps too nri&h. It relieves his home of dullness and samoness. Nay, it accompanies him to bis next day'a work, and gives him something to tbink of besides the mechanical drudgery pf his every day occupation, something WT can enjoy while ab osm, am WIUI jiiessurB,? If I were to [m/ ^jf^taste wbich would stand by ne under every variety of circunvstance*, nnj jf>e a source of hagguusss ant}, cheerfulness to nje through Itfe,ffd a shield against all its ilUbiowever,-ffcings might go ajpiss, and the world fro?rto lipoiv ym, it ?WJdLbe readi^g.-^#*- Jolm *53^. Education of Girls.?Tlio subject of physical education is beginning to attract ?p attention. The following remarks arc from Ti the Boston Courier written by tho editor ? after having attended a school festival in fu Fnneuil Hall: "But there was ono thing wo notlccd __ Which did throw a little shadow over our thought. We stood on tho platform, very f" near the twys and girls, as they passed by Ct to receive a boquet at tho hands of the *5 Mayor. Wo could not help observing that not ono girl in ten had the air and look of good health. There were very many f?> lovely countenanccs?lovely with an expres- er sion of intellect and goodness?but they were like fair flowers resting upon a fragile stalk. Narrow chest, round shoulders, meagre pallid cheeks, were far too common. N There was forms, a general in their movements of tlie buoyancy and vivacity ofyouth ? and childhood. The heat of the day ly and the nervous exhaustion of the occasion, tli were to be taken into the account and due ? allowance should bo made for them. But this was not the first that we were forced 8P to the conclusion that here in Boston, in ^ the education of girls, the body is lamentably neglected. And it is a very great find nr serions neglect, the consequences of which of will not end with the sufferers themselves. Of what use is it to learn nil sorts of things ro during the first sixteen years of life, and gj to stuff the brain with all kinds of knowl- ej( edgo, if the price be a feeble or diseased body ? ? A finely endowed mind shut up in a sicly body, is like a bright light in a broken lan. tern, liable to be blown out by a puff of wind or extinguished by a dash of rain. If the destiny of woman were to be put under a glass and looked at like a flower, it would It< be of little eonsenupnco lmt. ivnmnn mud .li take her pari in performing the duties ami ? sustaining the burden of life. These young model scholars, in due time, will marry men whose lots it is to earn their bread by some kind of toil, ill which their wives must needs _ aid them. To this service they will bring intelligent capacity and conscientious purpose, but how far will these go without SI health, and the cheerful spirits which health ? give? A sickly wLfc is no helpmate, but a fn hindermate. If we nrglect the body the th body will have its revenge. And arc we ~~ not doing this? Are we not throwing our fu whole educational forr.e iinnn tlm Krain J Ic tli not a healthy city-born nnd bred woman ? getting to be as rare as a blank swan? And is it not time to reform tiiis altogether ? Is it not time to think something of the casket as well as the jewel?something of the lantern as well as the light?" An Indiana correspondent of the New At York Evening Post is said to be responsible for the following: "A bereaved husband, standing b}' the grave of his deceased wife, refusing to be comforted, said to a friend as he turned toward him and laid his head on liis shoulder ?'Tve lost horses and I've lost cows, and I've lost likely calves and shoats?but I never had anything to cut mo like this!" Wasn't that an afflicted mourner!" ' Wl., -ll !-- ? 1 - -r -v _ *T 11cii tin nil; w111115 jiwjhu ui mo uni- j i ted States reduce their expenses one shilling j ! a day it mak?*s a difference of eighteen ! millions of dollars a week, and over fifty millions cverv month . t ^ ~ ^ An Exchange paper says the most dignified, glorious, and lovely work of nature is J! woman ; next, man ; and thirdly, the Berkshire pig. ABBEVILLE MALE ACADEMY. At rJ"MIE Exerciscs of tliis Institution will be .L resumed on the First Monday in January next. The government of the School'will he rigid, and every effort will he made to main- ^ tnin n high standard of morality. tri The Scholastic year will he divided into j? 'two Terms. The first will commence on the 1st Monday iu January, and continue Twenty eight weeks; the second will hegin on the 2d Monday4 in September, and continue twelve ri weeks. J TERMS OF TUITION. C. Reading, Writing, Spelling, 1st Ses. 2d Ses. and l'rimary Geography, $14 00 $ 6 00 The above with Geography, History, Arithmetic, English Grammar and Exercises in English 'Composition, 20 00 9 00 The above with all the advariced English Branches, , 23 00 10 00 The above with Latin and Greek, - - 28 00 12 00 Nl Students will be received at any time during the Session and will be charged from the 1' time they enter until the end of the Session, ?~ unless special arrangements are made to the 'j! contrary. ^ i?? ?ui * V....L vuu vv vwvmmivu nvivitoiniDUIC i nvco. , A. C. ELDER, A. B. ,l Dec 19, 1856 33-tf MT Abbeviille Banner will please copy. FROM fc in ABBEVILLE TO WASHINGTON. ?c A FOUR HORSE -STAGE leaves ABBK- VILLE on Monday, Wednesday and A Friday at 6 o'clock, A. M. fi leaves Washington, Oa., on Tuesday, Thurs- J day and Saturday roomings. pi C A Daily Train feaves Washington at 0} o'clock P. M., for Atlnnta and Augusta. OFFICE at the POST OFFICE. ^ JOHN McBRYDE, Agml. Abbeville C. 11., April 8, 1857. 48 ly oi DISSOLUTION. Di 'pi!E late Law Firm of McGOWEN APER1. 1UN is Dissolved by mutual consent All business commenced up to this d%?e will be conducted and fininhed by us together under tj, the name of the old Firm, as if no Dissolution had taken placc. 8. McGOWEN. JA& M. PERRIN. *r January 1, 1857. 85. tf " TO THE LADIE8. More New_Mantilla? I ? CHAMBERS & MARSHALL J HAVE reeeired this Week direct from New an York, a beautiful assortment of pi BLACK CHANTELLY LACK, ?*> Black Silk and Black Moire ^ntiqae hand- '? oraely Trimmed White h Colored No. 1 Granite Range. Di Abbeville C. H.t S. C., April 17 [SOI/ FULLER'S q * it i m "rsnm ?" * J JlA1 JbolAoiJlallmLINl. v an PERSONS visiting the CAPtTOL would do ?? well to call at FtrLLEEM8 amd obtain an Outfit In the ihape 4fca new and Fashionable w 'Head PicSeT ' ^ J, RmUmbtr, you trill not r+grtt ?L cull at A" ' FULLER'S. ' ?*, M ? ?i--. , _ WJ1. "T: ~T* /( BT May 18* fftfT <ly. 1 ^ ;:jjL ~ * I Notice Tits: a 4 b*. * ^ A . ' . * i The friends of Capt. G. M. MATTISON re- * cctfully announce Iiith as a candidoto for ix Collector at tile ne*t election. Tlic friend* of JAMES A. MoCORD rcspectlly announce him as a Candidate for'Tnx dlector at the next election. The friends of I)r. J. F. McCOMl) respect- 0 lly announce liim as a Candidute for Tax >llector at the next election. a ??|?j?? ???? o The friends of MATTHEW MtDON- y I.D respectfully announce hi;n a Candidate r rc-clection as Clerk of the Court of Ge.i- g al Sexgions and Common Pleas, for Abbeville * istrict, at tlic next election. t A few of the Long Cane friends of W. G. REL, would respectfully announce him as a ..wlM.i ~ t C? 1 'iT - 4. A1AAi:An uiiiMKiic iur oncriii lit mc t?e*v ciwuuii. The friends of JAMES H. COBB respectful j announce him os a Candidate for Sheriff at e next election. pj" The friends of J OS KIM I T. MOOHE reectfully announce liiin a Cnudidatc for Sheriff the entitling election. The friends of T. B. MILLFOKD respectfully inounce him ns a Candidate for Tux Collectoi ^ Abbeville District, at the next election. ?3T The friends of GEORGE W. KICllEY spectfully announce liim a Candidate for ^ ioritr of Abbeville District at the next [ action. a The friends of MATTHEW U. COCII- " AN" respectfully announce him n candidate ^ r Sheriff of Abbeville District, at the next eci nm. The numerous friends of C?>1. T. J. JRERTS rcspcetfully announce him a Caudate for Sheriff at the ensuing election. ?2T The friends of 1>. W. HAWTHORN reectfully nnnouncc him n candidate for Sheriff _ Abbeville District nt the next election. MANY FRIENDS. \ ?3T The friends of NI MROl) McCORD re- 1 Oct fully nnnouncc him ns n Candidate for n i<rrifT nt the rnsuintr election. 1 t3TThe friends of S. f?. W. DILL re.xpect- ^ lly nnnouncc him a Candidate for Sheriff, at e next Election. Tl.? f-I ltr flilffir ? - iireniaiinwi ?. ii.omrrin rtn|H'Cl- , lly announce him n candidate for Shtrijjf at c ensuing election. 7, 1S55 3. G. CALHOUB, ~ 1 PTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN 'r EQUITY, ARBCVIIiLC c. if., Ill attend promptly to all Ou*inr*s cntrunlrd to * t-nrr. 1 Jiiiiiiury HO, 1857. 3!?-tf S. 31c GO WAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ' OFFICE IX LA W RANGE, g Next Door to Thomson k Fair, r ABBEVILLE C. II. , January 1, 1857. 35-tf J "iMOUUN & COTHRAN, > " I tornrys at Law and Solicitors in Equity. Ojficc, the one formerly occcujrial by rcO'oican <fc Perrin, L A W It ANOE. J J as. M. I'tnniy, Jas. S. Cotiira*. nunry 1, 1857. 35-tf < XI* A. JU>th. I). F. JONE3. * t JONES & JONES, ! tornrys at Law nnd Solicitors in Equity. c6 OFFICE?ABBEVILLE C. II., S. C. ' m~~m. 1 XTILL prnetiee in Abbeville, Anderson, t ' V Laurent, Newberry, nnd adjoining Dis- i lets. \Y ill promptly attend to all business trusted to them. ^ April 16, 1857. 50 < MARSHALL, LEE & DeBRUHL. \ PUIS undersigned have associated with t.liem, ? L in the I'rActice of the Low, STEPHEN ' DkURU 11 Ia, Esq. All business entrusted to 1 eir enre will receive prompt attention. ' J. FOSTER MARSHALL, ! W. A. LEE. ? January 12, 1857. 37-tf < NEW NOTICE. I GOODS AT COST. i ,/TESSRS. FERRYMAN <fe WALLER take ? rX pleasure in making a new bow in their sir Store, at Greenwood, near their old place. They would announce, to their friends and e Public generally, that they, being desirous making room for the very large Stock of e Fall, will sell a large portion of their ItESS GOODS at the originnl Cost Prices. CLOTHING will be reduced so as to make " astonishingly low. Greeti wood, August 4, 1857. 14 6m \ P. S.?We know we have the best friends ^ id Customers in the world, and feel tliot we ' ive but to call on them for help and they will spond. Now, friends, as we are absolutely need of funds to buy new Hoods so u to f commodate you, we would ask you to Help by paying your old scores. BBETILLE MARBLE YARD. ! HI IE undersigned having dissolved bis coL partnership with J. 11. LEAVELL, takes lacsure in announcing to the public generally . id to the citizens of Abbeville District in irlicular, that he has a large stock of ^ VERMONT AND ITALIAN MARBLE i bands, and from which he proposes to manacture, to order, *.very variety of MONUMENTS AND TOMB-STONES. y He would respectfully say to the publio \ he has secured the services of the 1 HOST EMINENT MARBLE ARTISTS, , id hopes, by close attention to business, to erit a reasonable share of publie patronage. J. D. CHALMERS. August 20, '57 16 8m trick masonry and Plastering. HI-IP. lnrloMinna<1 liavmn fn-narf L nership in the above oust n ess, are areparI to do all work entrusted to them in tlie best id moit substantial manner. Having a long , actical experience in the business, they flatter erase]v# that they can pleaee the most fasti dus. All work will be warranted, JOHN COUMBE, A. J. WOODHUBST. Rirntwot?H. A. Jones, J. A. Calhoun and ? r. J. W. Hearst, of Abbeville.' Abbeville C. 1L Oet 10,185#. #8-ly * ' ' * as 0 Removal. * rHE Subscriber baa remoTedv from his old stand to Eoright A Starr's Gia. Factory, g id returns bU thanka for paa^favora, and ao>tla a share of puWlo patronage in bis Hnr . Ha wUl make Paanel. Door*. Sash, Blind*,* ?> ardroWs, TaMea, Deeka, Door and Window L fimtt. dfce., Ac. ; v '' ? ] N. 'B.?He-will alao make CofiiaB of tbe finest -J ^irttiSiiifh. ' - 1 Fer nttnbdi- ap^ly to *uy gentleman {a the wo of-Abbe till*, j : '> > > t ? ? I -?: ?.W'1 BOWERS.V, ApJtt 1, lUt -> *4 lyjf ? ~T~^ Applfcartton ** I ?te IBe VUl^e^t ^t*?r' Aagm JUSfc. !* |? Jf , * . f . " JT " 'A FEW MOHB IBFTv" S. E. OEAYDON & CO., Cokcsbury, S. C. \ LTIIOUGII our New St<Wk .Sprirtj :V Goods is rapidly diminishing hy tin irge snlcs we nro making, still wo woulJ soy ti ur friends, and the public?Come on, we huv< "A Few More of the Same Sort Left," nd will be pleased to serve you to tlio best o >nr ability. Were we to attempt to enumerate all ou Hook, the newspaper would not hold it ; am >et?idc*, wo deem it altogether unnecessary.? ufltce it to say that wo have a large am 'aricd assortment of * itaplc and Fancy Dry Goods IIF.ADY-M A DE Cr.< >TI11NG, HARDWARE, BOOTS, SHOES, GA1TKRS, HATS, CAl'S, BONNETS CROCKERY, GLASS AND TIN WARE. AI.SO SUGAR, COFFEE, TEA niOV VAira AND VIS EG All, TRACE CHAINS, HARNESS, PLOW LINEL POWDER. SHOT, LEAD, SOAP, CANDLES, STARCH, iODA. SPICKS, ?fc COOKING EXTRACT? In short, almost any thing a reason able ma: ould desire. As to prices, we need not say we will sell ou ;oods lower than any one else, for semrihl >eople know that such assertions arc "nl udge." But we do say that we will deal fairl nd sell as low as honest men can afford to sel lid we respectful^' invite those in want ti ;oods to give us a call, as they might "go fat her and fare worse." S. E. GRAY DON' ?t CO. April 16, 1857 60tf BYTHEWOOD & COWAN, GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Nn 9H1 Fv#?ti * v/?r COLUMBIA, S. C., [^Otl ti.e Snie of UI'.Al. KsTATIJ, NEGROES 1 also COTTON', Will]AT, BACON, Lore Vhiskey, Sugnr, Coiroo, Molasees.lFlotir, Buttci lorn, liny and Produce generally. Strii-t pergonal attention puid to tlie wile c ny of the above?liberal advances niitdc an rompt returns. Iatiikw W. BvniEwoon, James M. Cowa> Aug. 10. 1857 17 tf More Rooks and Drugs! rllE Subscriber? have just received tliei Stuck of Mcdicincs, Hooks and I'ane irtieles, and are prepared to sell at slior irofit.s. We are Agents for the sale of a series ( STANDARD WOUKS, now in the course < niblication, by the Appletons of New York.Vmong these are included The Debates in Congress from 1789 to 185< Kenton's Thirty years' View. Morses (teneral Atlas of the World, from tli at est authorities, to lSSfi. Cyclopedia of American Eloquence, wit 'ortrnitk. The Now American Cyclopedia. The Cj'clonedia of Wit und Humor, Editc >y Wm. E. Burton. Specimen Copies of the above works may b cen'at our Store, together with many othe tew nnd elegant Book*. We nre also agents for the sale of 0 rover' t linker's SEWING MACHINE, acknowledge ? be the best now in use, and the least liabl o get out of order. This Machine will b warranted and sold here at New York price! 'rices varying from $1IW1 to $125. BRANCH <fc ALLEN. Sept 17, 1857. 21 tf 500 Agents Wanted ! V HOMESTEAD FOR TEN DOLLARS THIRD DIVISION. 5Q1 A AAA WORTH OF FARMS AN] $f)IU9UUU BUILDING LOIS, in tli iold Region of Culpepper County, Virginii o be divided amongst 10,200 subscribers, o he 7th of December, 1857. Subscription otil en dollars doirn; or fifteen dollar?, one ha lown, the rest on delivery of the deed. Ever ubscribcr will get a Building Lot or a Fam anging in value from $10 to $'25,000. Tlics 'arms and Lots arc sold so cheap to induce se' leinents, a sufficient number being reserved, tb ncreoso in the value of which will comncnsat or the apparent low price now asked. Uj vnrds of 1,850 lots are already sold, and :ompany of settlers, called "The Rappahai lock Pioneer Association," is now forming au will soon commence a settlement. Ample s< lirifr.v will 1?A (?ii'0n fnr tKo faltlifttl V *"? l"-' """ inee of contract** and promises. Nearly 45,00 icres of land in diferent parts of Virginia no* it cumniand, and will be sold to settlers at froi 51 lip to $300 per acre. Unquentionable titI till in all catrg be ffiirn. Wood cutters, coo] :rs, fanners, Ac., are wanted, and five liundrt \gents to obtain subscribers, to whom tl nost liberal inducements will be given. Son: tgeuts write that they are muking $200 pi nonth. For full* particulara, subscription igencies, <tc. Apply to E. BAUDEH, Port K?yal, Caroline Co., Va. August 28, 1857 17 6t AIUBROTYPES. W. 0. KENNEDY Respectfully informs the rubiic thi he is permanently located at WUil'U HALL, iVhere ho in fully prepared, at all times, i ;ive a good Picture und oorrect Likeness for noderate retnuueratioa. July 6, 1867 10 It rllE COPARTNERSHIP heretofore existir between II. A. Jones and J. W. Livirii iton, in the Practice of LAW, is this day di idved, by mutual consent. II. A. JONES. J. W. LIVINGSTON. March 31,1&S7. 48-t( EDWARD H. BBITTONi * I Alio Editor and Proprietor of the Carolin Timet,) COLLECTING AGENT, COLUMBIA, a C., OFFERS his services to the public bb a Co lector and general business Agent. H will receive for collection Notes or Account ur Ally oeutivu VI IUC OlOW, ut VIIO UBURI CC7TI nitsion*. Office over the Carolina Times Printing o [ice, Columbia, 9. C. References will be given if required. july 28 Attention Citizen*! HOUSE AND FURNITURE PAINTING EXECUTED in the neatest and moat FjwIi ionable Styles, Imitating choice Colon Wood and Marble. Orders from the country will be promptl' attended to. By . T. M. ARD, Oct 17. 'SB. fS4-fiml Abbeville C. H. NOTICE. JOHN WINCEY, Esq., -will be happy t Attend to OVER HAULING OF BNGUNfiS rMill Wofks, in the Vicinity of Abbevill nd the urroundhig country. ApAeuU will plaiH epply to .John Er ight, Abbeville, or Wm. -Lebby, jflb?rlegtdi i. 0. JOHN WINCEY. Oct 81, 1856. . 26-ly. grape vnria. ABBETILUB MODEL YlflEUM! Dr. toaiio offers- for Bale Vim* Cci rwr nod Rooted ViNm, nt the folio* tgrwtmt ' " c ;T'7: Per Huflclred Vine Cftfttinga, br Sorted Enrfpdta-VWfietf?*? 10 0 fegife< K.&. Tin?a p*taa?l ?l qMnooatfl* ratte. 'V/r '[sewing MA chin ES. \ TO MANUFACTURERS, PLANTERS* * AND PLIVATE FAMILIES. . In Purchasing such an article as a SEWING MACHINE, the true policy is to buy the best. I, T M. SINGER.t CO.'S GAZETTE, nbcauti 1 fill pictorial paper, contains full and reliul>lc information about SEWING MACIHNKS, nn<l answer nil questions tlint can bo oske?l on the subject. All who read this paper will learn now i.o purciiasc 11 aewmg Machine with which $1,000 a year, clear profit, can be made, nnd will bo protected from being; imposed upon by some of the humburg Machine* now before the public. Singer ?fc Co.V Machine i3 arrnnged to' do coarse and fine work of every discription. The Gazette niny be obtained gratss on app'i; ention at nny of Singer ?fc Co.'s Offices. _ . [i Mncliincs on exhibition nnd for sale and instructions given, by \VM. C. MOORE, Agent ia r Abbeville. e Singer ?t Co.'s Chnrlestoa Office, 324 King|] street. y Principal Office 323 Ilroadwny, New York/ II July 23, 1857 1 2 ly 'f To Mechanics, Inventors, and liana* factnrers. 1' N ANNOUNCING the THIRTEENTH Annuo! Volume of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, the Publishers respectfully inform tlio public that in order to incrensc nnd stimiilnte the formation of cluh.?, they propose to offer One Thoutand Fivv Hundred Dollar* in (Ja*h Premium* for the fifteen largest lists of subscribers sent in by the 1st of January, 1858 ; i emu 111cmiunm iu ue uisimimou as lollows:? !, For tlie largest list, ; 2<1, ?260 ; 3d, I, *200 ; nil, ? 150 ; 6th. $1UU ; 6th, $90 ; 7th, , *80; 8th, *70; 9th, *G0; 10th, $50; 11th *H0 ; 12th, ?35; 13th, *30 ; 15th, *26; loth, >f $20. d Names of subscribers can be sent in nt different. times mid from different Post Offices. The r> cash will be paid to the orders of the successful competitors, immediately after the 1st of _ January 1858. Southern, Western, and Canada money will be taken for subscriptions. Canadian snbscrir bers will please to remit Twenty-six cents exy tra on eaeli years' subscription topre-pny post tape. Term* of Subscription.?T wo Dollars a Year, >f or One Dollar for Six Months. >f Club Itatex.?Five Copies, for Six Months, - $1 ; Five Copies for Twelve Months, $8; Ton Copies, for Six Months, ?8 ; Ten Copies for !. I l: . 1> ... n -T Ju I"V..V I.I , 1 IVI'UIJ topics, n)f Twelve Month-*, $28.' e For nil Clubs of Twenty nnd over, the yearly subscription in only $1.40. b The new volume will be printed upon fins paper with new type. The general character of the Scientific A>1 mf.iiioan is well known, and as heretofore, it will be chiefly devoted to promulgation of ino formation relating to the various Mcchanicul r and Chemical Art*, Manufacture*, J\fjricnliurt. Patent*, Invention*. /Cnr/meeriiry, Mill Work, '? and all interests which the light of Practical d Science is calculated to advance. It is issued e weekly, in form for binding it contains annually from 500 to 600 finely executedlEngrnv> ings, and Notices of American and European Improvements, together with an Official List of American i'atcut. Claims published weekly in advance of all other paper*. It is the aim of the Kditors of the Scientific Amkiiic^n to present all subjects discussed in its columns in a practical and popular form. They will also endeavor to maintain a candid fenrlessncss in combating and exposing false theoe i it-8 nnd practices in Scientific ami Mechanienl matters, and tlins preserve the character of j the Scikxtifio American as a reliable Eneycli opntdia of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, jf i-lT* Specimen copies will be sent gratia to any part, of the country. ^ MUNI? it CO., Publishers and Patent Agents, ? No. 128 Fulton street, New York. ' Tlic State of South Carolina, e Abbeville District?In the Cowman J'leat. ;c Amos Clark, Jr., . } Attachment. u r*. > McGowun ?fc Pcrriu, James A Liddcll. ) I'lfTs Att'ys. j ~\\711EKEAS, the Plaintiff did, on the thirty- * e. I V first day of October, 1850, file his declnration ngninsl the Defendant, who, (as it is Kj sftid) is absent from and without the limits of Ir this State, nnd has neither wife or attorney ln known within the same, ti|>?n whom a copy e8 of the said declaration might be served. It is ~ therefore ordered, that the said Defendant do ,j appear and plead* to the said declration, on or le before the first day of November, which will 10 be in tho yenr of our Lord Eighteen Ilundred ;r aud Fifty-Seven, othorwisu final and absolute 8 Judgment will theu be jjiven and awarded against him. MATIIEW McDONALP, c. c. r. Clerk's OfTice, Oct 30, 185ft. 27 !y ~ The State of Soutb Carolina* Abbeville Dintrict.?In the Coiftmoif Pleas, William Wilson, ) vtl- J- Foreign Attachment. Jfts. A. Liddell. ) Thomson <fc Fair Attorneys. Whereas the Plaintiff did, on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ftfa ty seven, file liis declnrattion against the Defendant, who, it is said, is absent from and without the limits of this State, and lias neith? er wife nor attorney known wittih the same, upon whom a eopy of the said declaration ig might he served? g- It is therefore ordered, that the said De* s- fendant do appear and plead to the said declaration, on or before the twelfth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, otherwise final and obsolute judgement will then ty$giveu and aworded against him. M ATT 1IEW?MoDON A LD, c. r. r. Clerk's Cftiee, April 11, 1S51 61-??ly ? Tlie State of Soutb Cuwliuo* ABBEVILLE DISTRICT Office Court of Common Plea* grid Gen'I Scttiont. Jaines T. Baskin, ) "Attachment. e j,roe8 A Liddle. ) Baakini P,'ir8 Attorney, ta % 1/HEftEAii.the Plaintiff did, on the eigh-' i- VY teenth day of October, eighteen . hundred and fifty-six, file lijs declaration against f- the Defendant, who, (it is setd,)"ie absent from' and without tho limit* of thia^tate. and haa neither wife nor attorney known within tu4: same, upon whom a copy of e*1d declaration* < might be nerved: It is therefore ordered; that the said Defendant do appear and **to the aaid declaration, on </r before the 'nine-'* t??nth Amv tot Dnt/ifutr fifty-seven, otherwise flnafnndr abitti'd?d jiftfg-' ' meut will then be given end awarded against^ ? him. - > 'cK * MATTHEW McDONALD, C. C. P.; . ? Clerk's Office, Oct. 18, 186S -25-ly \j _ House BiTflUiiTgr. T11E uudersigned is now prepared to do' ftl]L. work entrusted to hhr eare, in the'Boildvfc ing Line; to Draw Flans arrd?hreet all deaerfp-;' tions of Huildinge, from a one-eto#ji ho^ga to Coort House. l - ^ Architect* in die tfatoo, be flatten he <* liAve work done in#a style equal to aud1-? aa cheap a# ban be done in Raw Ufcrk. V" 4 Of New York City; Ferryman k jailer, Market > Dr. Jol?? P. Barratt BtirntteVn^ OTTj X WJXJSO" t ' Greenwood, t)ct. TO, f&86. 4^1^ ' "?? '" ' F. r. .;R0?EB?8WRKS ' MILIC AUCTfHInT . % ;: a -VV^SSS&SB^t^^ p, r" ^^%\Sr' r"mfl ~ V % .,* .