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COLUMBUS:
Thursday Morning, October t 43, 1556.
LAKUEST CITY CIRCULATION.
Fever in Charleston.
The Hoard of Health report 14 deaths from
yellow fever in Charleston lor the 3 days en
ding .Monday night, 9 o’clock.
—— .
On Sunday morning last, a son of J. H.
Pearson, in Columbia, S. C., accidentally let
fall in front of the fire place a powder flask
which he was removing, when the powder ig
nited, bursted the flask and inflicted severe
injury upon the lad.
We see it stated in our exchanges that Gen.
Winfield Scott, has expressed his determina
tion to support Buchanan for the Presidency,
giving as a reason for so doing, the utter
hopelessness of Fillmore’s chances for success.
“Sham Democracy.”
We have for some time past seen allusion
made in the Anti-Buchanan papers to the
“Sham Democracy,” but were never able till
now to discover its meaning. The Montgom
ery Mail says “ Indiana has been carried by
the .Shorn Democracy.” By this, we suppose,
it means to apply the term “Sham” to the
Democracy that completely nonplussed the
Clack Republicans in Indiana and Pennsylva
nia Ins! week. Very good Democracy—hope
the “Shams” will extend the good work to
other abolition strong holds.
—
Hancock Fair.
The Annual Fair of the Planters’ Club, of
Hancock county, w ill be held at Sparta on the
12th, 13th, 14th and loth day sos November,
1856. Liberal premiums are offered, and we
doubt not, that as usual, the exhibition will
be most creditable to that, old, and in every rc
perl. most conservative county.
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ATortll Carolina Hnilrontt.
Mr. Garnett, ‘in ids letter to the President
of the Company resigning the office of Superin
tendent and Engineer on the road, expresses
tin l belief, arising from an observation of the
regular and rapid increase of business on the
road, that the Company will be able to make
a dividend of six per cent, on the stock for
the year 18-17—1858.
To Printers
i'Jie Columbia (S. C.) Times says ten first
eittM Book’ hands may secure work in this of
fice during the Session of the Legislature,
commencing on the Ist of November. Wages
during the Session sl3 per week, counting
• lti hours to the day. and 25 cents an hour for
over work, for those who may be engaged on
the Legislative work.
News hands will be paid 815 per week, dur
ing the Session.
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Loss of tlie City of Savannah.
The Republican learns from a private dis
patch received in Savannah on Monday, that
the steam propeller City of Savannah, of the
Savannah and Baltimore line foundered, Sat
urday last, one hundred miles south of Cape
Henry. The vessel with lrer cargo is a total
loss, though we are gratified to learn that her
officers and crew were all saved and had ar
rived at Baltimore. The dispatch gives no
further particulars.
The City of Savannah had just been over
hauled and supplied with anew boiler, which
greatly increased her accommodations and
speed. She left Baltimore on Saturday, and
was bound for Savannah city when the disas
ter occurred.
The Republican is informed by the agents
that the accident will cause no interruption
to the line. The steamer Totten will leave
Baltimore on Saturday, to be succeededbv the
City of Norfolk.
Important from Pennsylvania.
V prominent member of the American party,
from New York City, says the New York News,
furnishes us with the following information:
PmLADKU'iiiA, Oet. 17.
The following resolutions passed the Fill
more and Donelson Executive State Commit
tee to-day, by a majority of 20 in the Com
mittee of 22 :
Resolved, That we deem it inexpedient to
make any alteration in the Fillmore ami Don
elson ticket in this State, and we are firmly
convinced that any interference with it would
be the means of giving tluj State to Mr. Bu
chanan instead of defeating him.
Resolved, That we refuse to accept either
of the propositions of the “North American”
State Central Committee, satisfied that the
Electoral Ticket already in the field is the only
one on which all opposition to Mr. Buchanan
ran successfully unite, and pledge it to un
compromising opposition, and to the defeat,
under any and all circumstances, of his elec
tion.
This action renders any further union of
the Fremont ami Fillmore parties in Pennsyl
vania impossible. The original Fillmore Elec
toral Ticket wfll be run.
For the Bally thin.
The City allusion.
This intereeling religious enterprise in our
city Ims been budding into useful life during
the present year, under the care of llev. Win.
A. Simmons and Indy. The day and Sabbath
school services are working well, in behalf
of the children. The pastoral visitations,
lecture and sermons of the Missionary, all tell
upon the objects of the Mission. But tve can
not do half business there, without u lot and
Mission Chapel on it. Allow me, my gen
erous friends, to call your attention to this
noble charity. The quarterly Conference
some time ago appointed Rev. W. A. Sim
mons. I)r. John A. Urquhnrrt and 0. P. Dnn
forth arommittoe to attend to this important
interest. But sickness, absence, &c., have
induced delays. Something must he done
definitely before the first day of Decem
ber. A lot is now the greatest necessity.—
Will any one owning lots, come to our relief,
either by donation or a favorable sale ? See
the committee.
L. PIERCE. P. E.
Columbus, Oct. 22,185 G.
Will the city papers please publish this for
the Mis sion ?
The State Elections.
Krom the Baltimore Sun Oct. IS.
The returns published in the Sun yesterday
morning left but little doubt of the success of
the Democrats in Pennsylvania and Indiana,
and of the Republicans in Ohio. We have
very little to add to-day except by way of con
firmation.
PENNSYLVANIA.
The official returns from several of the coun
ties reached us last evening by telegraph and
differ in many cases considerably from the
previous reports. Tioga county, which lias
been set down at two thousand seven hundred
majority for the union ticket, isj now said to
have given only one thousand five hundred.
This and the official corrections have increas
ed the Democratic majority in the State. The
following despatch gives the official returns
alluded to:
Philadelphia, Oct. 17. —The official vote
of Dauphin county gives the Union ticket 525.
The official vote of Philadelphia stands—for
Canal Commissioner, Scott, Dem., 36,088;
Cochrane, Union, 82,004 —making the Demo
cratic majority in the city 3,484.
: Bradford county—Union majority 3,850.
Northumberland county—Official Democra
j tic majority 1,228.
Berks county —Democratic majority 0,001.
Montgomery county—Democratic majority
1,996.
Cumberland co. gives 3.240 for the Demo
crats, and 2,975 for the Union ticket. Demo
cratic majority 271.
Lancaster gives 8,029 for the Democrats,
and 10,478 for the Union ticket. Majority for
Union 2,444.
York county official, gives the following
Democratic majorities : Canal Commissioner,
1,482; Auditor, 1,544; Surveyor, 1,539.
Bucks county gives 650 Democratic majori
ty, a decrease on t lie previously reported ma
jority of 344.
Monroe county gives 1,519 Democratic ma
jority, a gain of 19.
Lehigh county gives 810 Democratic, a loss
Tis 70 votes.
Schuylkill county gives 1,738 Democratic,
a loss of 102 votes.
i Franklin county gives 110 majority for the
Union ticket, an increase of 10.
RECAPITULATION.
We correct our table of majorities, as indi
cated by the official returns above, and
find the result as follows—subject, however,
to such changes as more reliable advices in
relation to several of the unofficial reports may
render necessary.
Democratic Majorities. Union Majorities.
Adams 75 Alleghany 4200
Bedford 140 Armstrong 500
Berks 0001 Beaver 800
Bucks 050 Butler 500
Cambria 1200 81air.... 700
Carbon 575 Bradford 3850
Centre 875 Chester 452
Clarion 700 Crawford 1200
Clearfield 000 Dauphin 525
Clinton 200 Delaware 400
Columbia 1500 Erie 1800
Cumberland 271 Franklin 110
Elk 250 Forrest 50
Fayette 300 Huntingdon 200
Fulton 250 Indiana 1705
Greene 1070 Jefferson 70
Juniatta 175 Lancaster 2444
Leiiigh 810 Lawrence 1700
Luzerne 1500 Lebanon 400
Lycoming 305 Mercer 800
Mifflin 100 McKean 250
Montgomery 1990 Potter 425
Monroe 1519 Snyder 300
Montour 550 Somerset 000
Northampton 2320 Susquehanna 1000
Northumberland. 1228 Tioga 1500
Perry 150 Union 450
Philadelphia 3434 Warren 300
Pike 500 Wayne 300
Schuylkill 1738 Washington 100
Sullivan 100 ——
Venango 130 Total 27,681
Wyoming 50
Westmoreland.... 700
York 1482
Total 33,702 ,
Democratic majority 0,021.
The Democratic plurality last year was 11,-
530, but the “Unio-t” majority in the State
at that time over the Democrats >as 2,734.
The following dispatch sets down the ma
jority somewhat larger than we make it:
Philadelphia, Oct. 17—The entire returns,
official and reported, with all the corrections,
received up to two o’clock to-day, show a
Democratic majority in the State of 0,048.
Cincinnati, Oct. 17.—The Cincinnati Ga
zette says the Republican majority is over
30,000 in the State.
New York, Oct. 17.—C01. S. Medary tele
graphs to the Journal of Commerce, from Co
lumbus. that the Democrats have elected to
Congress Groesbaok, Pendleton, Miller, Cox,
Cockrell and Hall. Medill and Horn’s dis
tricts are not in.
Bounding the Atlantic.
The steamer Arctic which arrived at New
York on Tuesday, has sounded the Atlantic
all the way across, finding the greatest depth
2,070 fathoms (more than two miles.) It was
not accomplished without difficulties, as many
of the instruments used were new inventions.
Tlie bed of the ocean in the section traversed
by the Arctic, is a plateau, as already an
nounced by Captain Berryman, who had twice
before sounded across the Atlantic.
The bottom in the deepest part is a very
fine mud, of a mouse-gray color, so that the
eoundiug instruments frequently sank several
feet into the mud. They brought up speci
mens of the bottom, at every sounding, in
quills which were attached to the end of the
sounding instrument. Toward tlie shore on
each side, this mud changes into a fine green
ooze. No other substances were met with,
no rock, nor anything thnt might prove fatal
to a telegraph wire. There seems to be now
nothing to hinder the great work, to unite
Europe and America by means of a telegraph
wire, an undertaking so grand that few
thought it possible. The whole distance across
was toundto be 1,649 sea miles, from Bt. John,
N. F., to Valentin Harbor, Ireland. The
greatest depth was found nearly in the centre
between these two places. The profile of the
Atlantic bed. on this route, is of by far easier
grade than many of railroad profiles.
Madam Macallister.
This la Iv, it appears, had. at last dates, ar
rived .;i Bt. Louis, from Keokuk, (where her
husband died.) By the advice of her friends
she intends to appear again before tlie public,
as soon as circumstances will permit. Mae
allistor's cabinet will be remode ed and improv
ed by her: and she is fully competent to do
it. Sourti of her friends at St. Louis intend
getting her up a complimentary benefit, with
(fid Sol Smith at their head. It lias been go
ing the rounds that Macallister died wealthy,
which was not the case. As she has no busi
ness agent for the present, Sol Smith has kind
ly taken charge of her ass airs, and all commu
nications for her should be addressed to his
care.
The Presidential Election.
The following is a summary of the laws and
constitutional requirements in the election of
a President and Vice President:
1. Electors elected on thefirst Tuesday after
the first Monday in November.
2. Electors meet on the first. Wednesday in
December and cast their votes. They then
sign three certificates—send a messenger with
, one copy to the President of the Senate at
Washington before the first Wednesday in
January—another by mail to the same person,
and the third deliver to the Unit ed States Dis
-1 trict Judge where electors meet.
3. Each State provides by law for filling any
vacancy in the Board of Electors occasioned
■ by absenoe, death, or resignation. Such of
the electors as are present, are generally au
; thorized to fill any vacancy.
4. The Governor gives notice to Electors of
; their election before the first Wednesday in
1 December.
5. On the second Wednesday in February,
Congress shall be in session and open the re
turns. The President of the Senate shall, in
i the presence of the House of Representatives,
open the certificate of returns, and count the
votes. The person having the greatest num
ber of votes for President, if such number be
a majority of the whole number of electors,
I shall be tlie President.
0. If no person has a majority as above, the
. choice is to be made from the three highest
i returned. The members of the House, by
i States, form themselves into Electoral Com
| mittees, and the majority determine which is
to be the choice of the State—each State hav
j ing only one vote.
7. If neither of the candidates get a ma
jority of the States before the 4th of March,
j then the Vice President shall act as Presi
dent.
8. If the people do not elect through their
Electors a Vice President, then the Senate of
the United States shall make the election from
the two highest candidates returned to them
by the Electors.
Bank Statement.
j We publish this morning the Bank State
-1 merit tor the month of September, and find but
j little change from the condition presented by
j the statement made the month previous—cir
-1 dilation is 87,344,798, against $7,048,812,
showing a ailing off of a little more than
$304,GU0. Net profits on hand are 81,677,-
977 against $1,594,424, which shows an in
crease of a little more than $71,000. Depos
its are $3,253,844, against $3,477,980, which
shows a falling off Retain of 8224,000. Specie
is $1,383,208, against. $1,340,088, which
shows a picking up again in specie at least of
about $48,000. Notes discounted upon per
sonal security are $11,997,549 against sll,-
085,988, showing an increase of about $312,-
000. Loans secured on own stock are 8525,-
740, against $522,293. Domestic exchange is
$7,880,222, against $8,017,288. Foreign ex
change Is $275,176, against $873,871 —show-
ing a decrease on foreign and domestic ex
change of near $250,000. Suspended debt is
$1,601,048, against $1,008,522. Altogether,
this statement is about what might have been
expected from the stagnant condition of our
trade for the last month. Merchants with
debts to pay and with but limited receipts,
have wanted exchange and have used it; they
have wanted, also, the use of their deposits,
and, in the absence of an active business with
the country, the Banks have not been able,
without unnatural effort, to keep their bills in
circulation. In considering these statements,
however, it is always necessary to
that they include two distinct classes of irflft
tutions; distinct, at least, with inspect to the
causes that effect them, and while, therefore,
there has been a falling off with every City
Bank, in the circulation, there has been an in
crease in the circulation of all but four of the
Country Banks, and those four have been
nearly stationary. —Charleston Standard.
Letter from Col. Hose.
IYf.tumpka, Oct. 17,1856.
Messrs. Editors : I was not a little surprised
to find in 4 the Mail of yesterday, a notice of
what you call “that big bet” that you now ex
tract from the New Orleans Picayune, that
you have been told, however, thnt the propo
sition came from me. I beg to assure you,
gentlemen, that your informant is entirely
mistaken in the information that he gave to
you. I never made such a proposition—to
any man, woman or child, in my life. Nor
have I ever authorized any human being to
make such a statement or anything like it,
and I trust in God that 1 never shall. The
mode and manner, the amount of the big bet,
the way it has found its way into the news
papers, and the occasion and terms that call
ed it forth, are exceedingly distasteful to me.
And 1 have some misgivings that it was in
tended to place me before the public in a
wrong position. I trust that no man who
knows me, and is disposed to deal with me
fairly, would suppose me guilty of such
wretched folly as to propose to wager SIOO,-
000 on an election, that too. against the man
whom am going to vote for, if 1 can ascertain
before the election in November, that he will
get move electoral votes than Mr. Fillmore.
1 regard Mr. Buchanan as a safe and reliable
man, and so I do Mr. Fillmore—equally as safe
for the South ; my object is to give my vote
to the man who I think stands the best chance
to defeat Col. Fremont, and not to bet $25,-
000 that he gets more votes than Mr. Buch
anan.
This matter originated about AYetumpka,
and was intended to place me in a ridiculous
position as a gasconader. 1 am an old man.
have not meddled in politics for a good many
years—dislike very much to appear in the
newspapers any how, and much less when
such notices place me in a false position.
HOWELL HOSE.
The Shadow on the Pillow.
The following incident was communicated
by Sir John M'Neil: “A Highland soldier had
ltis arm so severely wounded that it was about
to he amputated, when Miss Nightingale re
quested the operation delayed, ns she thought
that under careful nursing the arm might be
preserved. By her unremitting care this was
accomplished, and the poor soldier, on being
asked what he felt towards his preserver, said
that the only mode he had of giving vent to
his feelings was by kissing her shadow when
it fell on his pillow as she passed through the
ward on her nightly visit.”
Change of Proprietorship.
The Newspaper and Job Office, together
with the buildinging belong to the Advertiser
and Gazette, of this city, were sold yesterday,
under executions vs. M. P. Blue and Britten
Blue. Jeff. Jackson, Esq., of the law firm of
Watts. Judge & Jackson, became the purchas
er, at a bid of SI,OOO for the establishment,
subject to certain mortgage incumbrances on
the building amounting to $8,500. Messrs.
Cloud ami l nderwood are continuing the pa
per until its affairs are dciinitely settled.—
Montgomery/ Mail.
A pur ter at the point of death being ad
vised i eat a piece of a puilet. declined, say
ing he nod it might “lay on his stomarch.”
TELEGRAPHIC.
Telegraphed to tho Daily Sun.
From New Orleans
New Orleans, Oct. 22.
The sales rs cotton to-day amount to five
thousand bales at feeble prices, barely sus
taining yesterday s quotations. Flour tend
ing upwards. Pork nominal 821 25.
Freights dull.
Political Intelligence.
New York, Oct. 20.—The Herald of this
city (Black Republican) says the recent elec
tions point conclusively to the eleetion of Bu
chanan as next President.
The German Black Republican organ of
Philadelphia repudiates the Fremont ticket
formed last Friday.
The French Swindlers.
New Y’ork, Oct. 18.—Carpentier, the French
railway fugitive, has been arrested, and if is
believed a clue has been found to the deposit
of a large portion of the funds abstracted.
Arrival of tlie Texas.
New Y’ork, Oct. 20. —The steamer Texas
has arrived from San Juan, with 150,000 ir.
specie.
Walker’s troops were concentrating at Gra
nada, and the invaders were advancing. A
decisive battle was expected about the 2d inst.
The invaders were about 2,009 strong, and
daily expecting reinforcements. Walker had
<BOO or 900 men. In the battle of San Jacin
to the Americans lost twelve men, including
Col. Call and Lieutenants Reed and Hutchi
son. The enemy’s loss was severe. Walker
has sent Maj. Heiss to ratify a treaty with the
United States.
From Kansas.
St. Louis, Oct. 19.—Two hundred and for
ty emigrants, near the Nebraska line have
been arrested by Cooke’s dragoons.
The Elections.
Columbia, Oct. 18.—The Democratic major
ity is undergoing considerable reduction from
the first reports, by accurate returns. The
estimated majority in Ohio for the Freedirtevs
is 30,000. In Indiana the State Senate will
have a Fremont majority and the House Dem
ocratic.
Columbia, Oct. 18, 9 20 P. M.— Pennsylva
nia, it is now’ judged, will stand in Congress
14 Democrats, 11 Fremonters; Ohio, 7 Demo
crats, 13 Frcmontcrs. —1 yet doubtful; Indi
ana, 7 Democrats, 5 Fremonters. Showing in
the three States Democratic gains of 19.
Philadelphia, Oct. 18.—The State Central
Committee.of the National Americans, (Fill
more and Doneison) of this State held a meet
ing here this day, and resolved on uncompro
mising suppo: t of their own distinctive ticket
to the rejection of all fusion or compromise.—
The Democratic majority is now placed at
6,000.
The Triennial Convention.
Philadelphia, Oct. 18.—The General Con
vention of the I’. E. Church, now in session
here, will adjourn on Tuesday, 21st inst., to
meet at Richmond, Va., in 1859.
Spanish Claims on Mexico.
Late advices from Havana inform us that
Spain is about to make anew exhibition of
force against Mexico, and compel that gov
ernment into an acknowledgment and liquida
tion of the claims of Spanish citizens against
it. It will be remembered that a few months
ago a Spanish fleet was sent from Havana to
Vera Cruz to back up the very strong demand
made by Senor Santos Alvarez, the Minister
from Spain, and that President Comonfort re
fused at once, on its appearance before Vera
Cruz, to proceed with the negotiations then
pending between himself and Senor Alvarez
until a disavowal that the fleet was intended
as a coercive measure, and a part of it at
least withdrawn. The French Minister en
deavored to heal the difficulty with apparent
ill success, but the final result was that a por
tion oftlie fleet returned to Havana, and a
convention was agreed upon between the par
ties, the substance of which is as follows :
The object of the government of Mexico is
declared to be the revision of certain credits
that had been unlawfully introduced in the
Spanish claims, to which the Spanish Minis
ter assents, the terms of the convention of
1851 and of the treaty of 1853 to be complied
with, and their stipulations fulfilled, and the
payments of dividends not to be delayed, but
to be placed on a like footing with the credi
tors under the French and English conven
tions. Two commissioners for the revision to
be appointed by each government, and both
governments to repudiate any claims illegally
introduced. Bonds which may have been
issued on illegal Spanish claims to be holden
good as they may have passed to the hands of
third parties, but the Mexican Government to
have the right to proceed against the original
Claimants. Those who have received bonds in
this manner can return them and repay the
interest they may have received from the gov
ernment, and thus shield themselves from
criminal prosecution. If the claimants whose
claims, although admitted, may be found to
have been illegal, refuse to do this, they are
to be prosecuted by both governments, civilly
and criminally, and their names given to the
public.
This convention, which amounts on the
part ot the Spanish Minister to an acknowl
edgment that fraudulent claims had been pre
sented by Spanish creditors, admitted by-
Santa Anna’s Government, caused an excite
ment on its reception in Spain. The Spanish
Government immediately refused to ratify it.
and Senor Santos Alvarez was recalled. Tlie
concessions were asserted by the Gnceta of
Madrid to be “incompatible with national
pride and the good right which is on the side
of Spain in her reclamations,” —and that the
quarrel could perhaps only be adjusted by an
appeal to arms. Our advices from Havana
show that the language which the officialjour
ual of Madrid held about the close of August,
hud a meaning, and that Spain is in earnest.
We shall await further intelligence in regard
to this matter with much interest.— X. 0. Pi
cayune.
Wonderful.
The Free-dirt organs are making a won
drous ado over , card of ex-Governor H. S.
Foote, who publishes a true account of his
Senatorial difficulty with Fremont. A similar
ado was made over the testimony given by Mr.
Buchanan under commission ut the instance
of Fremont, It is indeed a matter of surprise
to these organs, that gentlemen should tell
what they believe to be the truth.
Opinion of the X. Y. Post.
This journal takes consolation, if tlie Fre
mont party is defeated in Pennsylvania, judg
ing by the election of 1818, that the State will
be carried in November. It bases its calcu
lation upon the following fact:
“Four or five hundred majority only car
ried Johnson, the Taylor candidate, into the
Governor's chair in the year 1848, and yet a
little while afterwards, on the Presidential
election. Taylor swept the State by 14.000 ma
jority.”
Southern Commercial Convention.
Our readers will recollect that this body
which held its last session at Richmond
Va., adjourned to meet again in this city in
December next. We beg leave to direct
the attention of citizens of this and other
Southern States to this subject, hoping
they will take sufficient interest, in the
object of the Convention to take early
steps for securing a representation therein
at the approaching session.
It will be seen, from the proceedings
of Council last evening, that our author
ities have had the subject under consid
eration, and authorized the appointment
of a committee to make the necessary ar
rangements for a suitable accommodation
of the Convention.— Sav. Rep.
Singular Effect of a Locomotive Whistle
on a Horse.
An intelligent friend in this city W
returned from the State fair at Water
town, relates the following singular inti,
dent which occurred at Evansville Jefitr.
son county, in his presence. A gentle,
man with a very fine, high spirited four
year old horse had driven down to the
station for the purpose, as he said, of ac
customing his horse to the locomotive
whistle. As the train appeared the en
gine screamed, of course, as an engine can
only scream, and at the very first sound
of the whistle the horse fell down dead in
his tracks the victim of a mortal fright.—
Buffalo Republic.
A Wedding.
There was quite an interesting circumstance
which occurred in Anderson village on Mon
day last. We heard it first, by accident, from
10 to 20 school girls, pretty well grown, who
were giving their views and opinions as to tin
propriety of the matter. I ascertained from
their conversation that one of the school girl
in one of the colleges at that place, went di
rectly from the school room to the church
close by, and there was united in the bands of
matrimony with a young gentleman of this dis
trict, who took her into his carriage and drove
off somewhere rapidly. The girls seemed
amazed at the audacity of the act on the pm:
of the young gentleman, and its secrecy on
the part of their school companion also ama;.-
ed them. One of them said it was a very se
rious affair, and “when once done could not
be undone.” “Walked directly from the
schoolroom to the church ! ” said another:
“just think of that! ” “I am surprised,”
said a third, “ so tall a girl as she should fall
in love with such a little, short fellow."—
“But,” said one, more experienced, “that's
always the case, a tall lady falls in love with a
short gentleman, and a tall gentleman with a
short lady ! ” Someone of them very grave
ly intimated that it might injure the school,
at a distance, hearing of the circumstance.
But the reply was, the parents of the girl live
in Anderson village, and no blame can conse
quently’ attach to the school. —Ureenville Pat
riot.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier,
in a letter from Philadelphia the day after the
election, writes:
I have just received the news of the great
Democratic victory achieved in the city and
county of Philadelphia, and perhaps also in
the great Key Stone State itself. This result
effectually bruises the serpent’s head, even be
fore his lodgment in our political Eden—the
snake is not only scotch’d, but, I really be
lieve, actually killed, and the petty little ren
egade will henceforth have to “hang up the
fiddle and the bow-.” without the consolation
of “going where the good niggers go.” Yes
terday, (election day here) and to-day. the
wind has been high and howling, the weather
gentle, cool, and stormy, answering to the
convulsion of the political elements about us.
After the storm, however, will come a calm,
and sunshine, auspicious, I trust, of peace and
harmony to our distracted country, and of
perpetuity to our great and glorious Union.
We find the following dispatch in the Au
gusta Chronicle:
Philadelphia, Oct. 20 —The Fillmore State
Councils of New York, Massachusetts Penn
sylvania and Kentucky have issued an Address
to the American people asking the Union con
servative element throughout the United States
in opposition to the Sectionalists, Buchanan
and Fremont, and in favor of Fillmore. One
passage of the Address will attract special
notice, when read in connection with the
whole, it is in the following language:
“We seek no undue privileges or favorit
ism; we give no countenance to the rabid dis
unionists of the day, but maintain justice and
right, combined with equal privileges due to
every free born son of America.”
The meeting appointed the Hou. H.
Moore, of Philadelphia, Horatio H. Pay, New
Y’ork, a Notional Finance Committee
Whistle for It.
An English paper states that a ‘Mrs. Mart
Anne Dixon, widow of a canon residentiary ‘■*
York, has presented two ancient silver tank
ards to the corporation of Hull. One of them
is a ‘whistle tankard,’ which belonged to An
thony Lambert, Mayor of Hull, in 1069, when
Charles the First was refused admission to the
town. Mrs. Dixon ‘bus frequently been tod
that there is only another whistle tankard in
the kingdom.’ The whistle comes into ph’. v
when the tankard is empty; so that when it
reaches the hand of a toper, and there
nothing to drink, he must, if he wants liquoi.
‘whistle for it,’ which possibly may be tin
origin of the popular phra“e.”
Go Abroad for the News from Homo-
The New York Herald, in a notice of (•;”
recent Congressional election held in tM*
District, says: “In the Charleston (8- 1
Congressional District. Mr. Miles (American
has been elected.” The Herald is somev - ‘
famous for the publication of news. which n- 1
other journal, by any effort or ingenuity
could possibly get possession of, and it win.. •
be a matterof interest in the present instni.- 1 -
to know how it made the discovery that els?
or Miles is. or ever bn-< been, a Know -
ing. —Charlatan Stand’ ■rd.
Death of Aged Printers.
Mr. George A. Steele, one ol the
printers in New York city, died on l ] (
lie lias been foreman of White & Cos. sc- ■-
ment for over thirty years, and council
with it, altogether for nearly halt a cent' 1 -.
He wns much respected.
The Newburvport Mercury announce- •-
death of Mr. Henry Barber, who worked*
the Mercury office Go years, and died a (
age of 76. During the whole of his H' e - ,
Barber was never five miles distant from “
and never saw a railroad nor a steam a>a l
cept from the windows of the office in ‘
he worked.