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HON. P. 8. BROOKS.

The Columbia papers of the aoth inst,
notice the arrival of Hon. p. S. Brooks in
Columbia. A committee, on behalf of the
citizens, requested that ho should meet them
for the purpose Of receiving some testimo-
NAL Of their appreciation of lis conduct in
defending the honor Of South Carolina
The City Hall at o'clock was designated.
At the appointed hour, an immense crowd
had assembled. Mayor ARTHUR, in behalf
of the citizens, presented handsome silver
pitcher, goblet and gol,l-heatled cane, as
a testimonial of their unqualified endorse
ment Of his course in chastising SUMNER.
After which Col. BROOKS addressed the
citizens at some length upon political mat
tiers. We have the Times report of his
speech. Our space precludes us from lay
ing it before the public.
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PERIODICALS.

We arc i'll receipt of the Edinburg and
Westminster Revie,o, published by LEON
ARD Scor1 & Co., New York. The four
Reviews and Black,oood are all works of
undoubted merit; some of the most emf
nent English authors arc regular contribu-
tors 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 are not filled with
trashy literature, but with historical, reli-
gious, scientific or instructive reading.
Price, $500 per annum for single Re.
view; Blackwood and one Review, $500; {;
the four Reviews and Blackwood, $1,000.
Postage on four reviews and BIackwood,
80 cts. year--14 cts. on each Review.
The National Democratic Review is also
on our table. This is new monthly Peri
odical, published by GEORGE P. BUELL., at
Washington City-devoted exclusively to
Politics. Price, $500 in advance. We
commend it to Statesmen and politicians.
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WRITTEN FOR TIE ABBEv1LLE BANNER
A Great District Mass Meetin

"A Great District Mass Meeting.
The citizens of the District are respect
fully invited to attend Temperance Mass
Meeting to be held at Abbcville Court
House, on Tuesday the 23d of this month,
(septe,nber) A number Of distinguished
gentlemen from Georgia and this State
have been invited, and are expected to at,
tend and will address the meeting.
A Pic Mic dinner will be prepared for
the occasion, at which We hope to greet the
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. We sincerely trust there is
sufficient interest felt upon this great moral
question Of Temperance in our District, to
secure large assemblage Of the citizens.
The committees that have been appointed,
of both ladies and gentlemen, are expected
to do their duty. Great and glorious will
be the day for old Abbeville!
B. JOHNSON,
II. FL. DURANT,
JOHN McBRYDE,
Committee Of Invitation.
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avowed object of tho selfstyleL "Republi-
can" party, of tho corrupt leaders and
blind dupes now supporting renegade
Democrat and southern traitor for the
Presidency. And in conclusion, we ask
what is, or what can be more infamous
than their assumption Of opinions common
to Washington and Jefferson or can n
vilcr or more atrocious desccration be
imagined even than this infamous assump-
ton, that these founders of the nation
would use the common government for
the ruin of tho very wor!; they had de-
voted their lives to establish?
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Punch on Headache.-The female head
aches are innumerable, but they arise prin-
cipally 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, headache
is the painful consequence. An unpopular
visitor brought home accidenty to dinner
will produce an alarming attack of head
ache, and the symptoms that successfully
follow are, instant loss of appetite, deafness,
peevishness, Mysteries, and finally a precipi-
tate retreat to the bedroom.
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
very frequent about that time of the year
when every one is, or is supposed to be,
out OF town, and do not cease until the
patient has been carried to the seaside for
q change Of air. The .milder forms will
vanish upon the application Of q piece Of
Jewellery J. or if the forehead is wrapped
up IN q new shawl, it is astonishing with
What rapidity hepaip disappears. Some-
Times q shifting sof the ,scape IS; requisite.
sAnd thnss d box iin tbAs Opera Skass besr,
khoNn Be produce san, 80 ~ Siaso,ra sc,,va.
sysn when The 6hs iil1 iGinsstjon ~
sisssn os e snosg Sssulnsn nsniha lsseript ia. and
ssthe QpsrA pisysd has been one 81 vsrdis.
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A Pickpocket Detector has been inyen-
ted down East. 1t consists externally of a
case, resembling that of watch in size and
shape. 1t has fob-chain or string, and is
worn in the pocket like watch. Within
the case is bell and spring-hammer, the
latter connected with the fob-chain. The
supposition is that the thief will suppose
that the watch-chain is attached to bona
Jfde watch, and will accordingly pull the
chain in order to obtain the prize. But
instead of getting the watch, the watch gets
him. The pull sounds the alarm-bell, the
owner of the watch grabs the rogue, and
the policeman conducts him to limbo.
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Il Cutting Reply.-In France smoking
is perhaps less rage than it is with us ;
but in France the liberty of smokers is
greater, think, than i'll America. Thus,
in the United States, people who smoke in
omnlbuscs, cars, cabins of steamboats,, or
other places Of the sort arc few and far be-
tween. In France, on the contrary, it is
very common to see gentlemen (O indulg-
ing in cigar on such occasions. An clc-
gant!y dressed and aristocratic looking lady
entered first-class railroad car, ut the
Paris depot, a day or two ago. AS she
opened the door and took her place she OBJ
served that the car was occupied Jy three
Or four gentlemen, one Of whom, at the
moment of her appearance, was in the act
OF lighting his cigar. Observing the lady,
he made significant grimace, and, with
the characteristic word-poIitcncss of a
Frenchman, said: "Would smoking in
commode you, madame z" The lady turned
toward him, and with an air of dignity re-
piled: 81 do not know, sir; no gentleman
has ever yet smoked in my presence ~
He put out his cigar.
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AGES OF ANIMALS.

A bear rarely exceeds twenty years
q dog lives twenty years; wolf twenty ;
fox fourteen or sixteen; lions are long
lived-Pompey lived to the age of sew.
enty. The average age Of cats is fifteen
years; squirrel and hare seven or
eight years rabbits seven. Elephants
have been known to live to the great age
of four hundred years. When Alexander
the Great had conquered ono Porus, King
of India, he took Il great elephant which
had fought very valiantly for tho king,
named him Ajax, and dedicated him to
the sun, and then let him 60 with this in
scription; "Alexander, the son of Juyiter,
hath dedicated Ajax to the Sun" This
elephant was found with this inscription
three hundred and fifty years after. Pigs
have been known to live to the age Of thirty
years; the rhinoceros to twenty. A horse has
been known to live to the age of sixty-two,
but average twenty-five to thirty. Ca,nels
sometimes live to the age of one hundred.
Stays arc long lived. Sheep seldom exceed
the ago of ten. Cows live about fifteen
years. Cuvier considers it probable that
whales sometimes live one thousand wears.
The dolphin and porpoise attain the age of
thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at the
age of one hundred and four years. Ra,
vens frequently reach the age of ono hun
dred. Swans have been known to live
three hundred years. Mr.. Mallorton has
the skeleton Of a swan that attained the
age of two hundred. Pclicans arc long
lived. A tortoise has been known to live
to the age Of one hundred and SEVEN
Lodon L. Hour.
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NEW ARRANGEMENT.

We would direct special attention 10 the
new rates of Advertising which have been
agreed upon by the Proprietors of the
Banner and Independent Press. Our little
experience has long since convinced us that
our own rates, and those charged by the
country papers of the State, are not sufii-
ciently remunerative. While the price of
labor, paper and printing material have adj
vanced SO much us to add 25 per cent. to
the cost of publishing a newspaper, we
have thought that corresponding advance
should be made i'll our advertising rates.
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Life and Death in The Uyest.-The St.
Louis Republican publishes some statis-
ties OF the total number of inqucsts
held by the coroner of that city for the
past two years. Peruse the figures, aud
consider for moment what an epic they
narrate in little. The total number of in
quests hold, was upon the view of the bo-
dies of AT persons. The cause of their
death, as classified by the verdict of the
jurics, as follows: BY drowning, 1874 !;
from lntemperance and exposure Go; by
accident, SO; murdered, 54 males and II
females; from causes unknown, 40; by
suicide, %; by sun stroke, 10; congestion
of the brain, l3; infanticide, 8; suffocation
and burning, @. Of the drowned cases,
the bodies of one hundred and six were
never recognised.
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Arhifcal Grunite.-The Rochester I'm
ion says: awe have seen some specimens
of this article for building purposes, which
have n durable appearance, besides being
handsome. The 'granite' is made of q
composition of sand and lime. Thorough
chemical tests have proven its indestructi-
bility. 1t is moulded in blocks of five
times the size of common bricks, and in
admirable shape for building. Each block
has mortice through it, so as to pass a
current of air through the centre Of the
entire wall of the building, and thus pre-.
vent frost from entering. The cost of the
article, even in New York, is said to be far
less than bricks, and it can be laid more
rapidly"
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RATES OF ADVERTISING

The Proprictors of the AbbeviIlo Banner and
!ndcpenuHnt Press, have established the follow
ing rates Of Advertising to be charged in bo,l
papers:
Every Advertisement inserted for less time
than three months, will be charged by the inser
tion at One Dollar per Square (li inch-the
space of IL solid lines less,) for the first iscr
ton, and Fifty Cents for each subsequent in.
sertion.
eB The Commissioners, Sherff's, Clerks apd
Ordinary's Advertisements will BE- inserted i,
both papers. each charging half price
eB Sheriif's Levies One Dollar each.
EB Announcing Candidate, Five Dollars
Advertising an Estray, Two Dollars, to be
paid by tho Magistrate
Advertisements inserted for three months, or
longer at the following rates:
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FAILURE OF MAILS.

We regret to learn that portion Of the
trestling over Crim's Creek has been carried
away by the recent freshet upon the Green
vile d. Columbia Road. We have not
learned the extent of damage. Our mails
have failed from Saturday up to tile time Of
going to press on Wednesday; We are,
therefore, unableto record anything transpir-
ing since that date.
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STEAMBOAT COMPANY.

We are pleased to see that strong efforts
are now being made by influential mer-
chants in Columbia, to run 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 check upon the power
of the South Carolina Railroad, by making
the Congaree navigable to Columbia. The
chief difficulty seems to be near Columbia
boats cannot get nearer than CRANKY, 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 fact that they have no
competition to Columbia, while from Au.
gusta they have to contend with wate,
transportation.
Since the completion of the GreenviIle
Road, all the freight for the upper Districts,
in coming from the sea-board, have neoes.
sarily 70 pass over the South Carolina Road
by way Of Columbia hence IL may be seen
that the high freiehts charged BY the South
Caroline Bsiltosd have ultimately to b
paid 81 ts fsEineit sstI ;coo osunssrs of ths
bsba I q ! sii oaLa
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BUSINESS GAMBLING.

Tho Now York Tribune exposes the ex-
tent to which speculating is carried Oh in
that city:
"There are at this moment contracts
atloat in this city alone to the amount of
several millions of dollars, based OH stipu-
lations on the one side to deliver, on the
other to receive, large quantities of pork,
Beef, Flour, Wheat, DC, on a given day at
stipulated prices. In other words, A. bets
Is. large but indeterminate sum that
flour will be lower or higher, as the case
may be, next month or next fall, or next
New Years, than it now is. Merchants,
whose Legitimate business requires all their
time, intellect and means, have rskcd their
all, and moro than their all, in this desper
ate game. Of course, many must be ruin
ed, some driven to insanity or suicide. and
thousands seriously crippled, by venture
which involves all the vice or mischief of
iaro or brag, with more than all its baleful
influences on the public well-bcing.
u: is to this latter point that We would
here call attention. For weeks past, tho
daily reports of the markets have generally
quoted pork as dull, with few and inconsid-
cradle transactions, though at this season,
when the stocks held in country villages arc
apt to run short, and salt pork is very ecn-
orally eaten by laborers, there should be an
active demand for it. Turning to the daily
reports of the last two years, we find the
prices of pork in this market to compare
with those ut which it is now held as fol-
lows:
le45-Aug. 12. l555--Aug 10. ls56-Aue. II
Mess. Dbl. $l2.27 u SO $l937a75 sI9.93 a $50
rrme' Dbl. l0.5Os G2 1868 Is l7.75a l8
Here it will be seen that pork is higher
than it was last year, in the midst of a
great war and OIL the back Of the shortest
corn crop for many years, and fifty per cent.
higher than it was two years ago, though
the great war was even then fairly begun.
And now there is not only general peace,
with great corn crop last year, and an
other as great nearly sale, but there has al
ready been realised signal decline in the
prices of nearly every staple of food, pork
excepted.
| OF course it is not necessary to explain
that the present price is the result of n
gambling corner,'-onc set of gamblers
having bet large sums that pork would be
lower; another set, that it would be higher
than certain price, at a certain day then
and still future. Those who bet on high
prices either already possessed or have con
trived since to obtain control of most of the
pork on the market, and arc holding up the
price by buying more us it is offered, or in,
ducing its owners to hold on. Meantime
CONSUMERS suffer from the cxorbtancy o!
the price, and buy as little as possible, wait
ing the inevitable crash hence trade stag.
mates and our city suffers
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CO-PARTMERSHIP,

VA L, the undersigned, have this day formed
w n Co.par;ncrshp under the Firm OF
"WIER LIriIGOE," and will have now
Stock OF
Fall and Winter Goods
here by the first of October next
One of The Firm has gene to New York now.
and will bring s,sr cthing and cheap.
JOHN y. WIER,
AUGUSTUS J. LTTHGOE
Angus. %, 1856 - At
+. S.-I feel very thankful for the liberal pat
ronage bestowed nn the old Firm, and bespcak
the same for the rew.
Your old friend and citizen,
JOHN a. WIER
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We direct special attention to the adver-
tiscment Of CnAPPELL WILLIAMS, Commits
sion Merchant, Hamburg, and that of y. II.
Mills, Land Agent, Dubuque, Iowa.
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A country exchange calls attention to
the fact 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 he thought the
State ought not to vote, or that that could
not be an extraordinary occasion which
happened regularly every four years, the
vote Of. the State would Be lost"
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II i 1 M 81

Two DOLLARS per annum, if paid in advance ;
Two DoLLARs and FIFTY CENTS If not paid within
six months, und THREE DOLLARS il not paid be-
fore the end Of the year. All subscriptions not
limited at the time of subscribing. will be con-
sidered as indefinite, ind will be continued until
arrcarages are paid, CT Il: The option of tho Pro-
Prletors. Orders from other States must inrari
ably be accompanied with the Cash.
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DIS@oLUTToN

ME Firm Of WIER & MILLER was thi,
L. day dissolved by mutual consent, the linn
tatioh OF The Partnership having expired. Tho
name Of the Firm will be used in the closi,, m
Of the business, by either one of US.
"A All persons indebted to US by Note or Account.
VIII please come forward and pay up as soon al
convenient. as it is very desirable that the bu.i
ness should be closed as enrly as pos ible.
JOHN A. WlER,
G.. Med. MILLER.
August 22, 1856. IS If
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In eAieago. The Chicago Democratic
Press, states thst the Hon. 6 Niagara, Bar
lingame, Of Mass addressed an audience
:ofsssersI tltol,sand tfton ihsb ceny pf the
Fssnent hursdays svenipv d m
Hs viii u 'iaM q e q hs Y suS. M
40 thes ;ssiss55 Is, lid al pFss.hss 81 i
FREMONT and psisssat ion.
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NEW COTTON.

Twenty-eight bales of new cotton have
been sold in this place at prices ranging
from 10 l-2 to IL cents per pound. Our
market is buoyant, and buyers anxious.
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DELICIOUS GRAPES.

We are indebted to Dr. III. KLEuou fo,
handsome present in the way of Grapes
They were the Catawba variety, grown upon
vines Of two years. planting.
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ES- Can any one say why it is consid-
cred impolite for gentlemen to 60 in tho
presence Of ladies in their shirt sleeves,
willie it is considered correct for ladies
themselves to appear before gentlemen with
out any sleeves at al2 We merely ask
for information
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STORM.

On last Sunday night wo were visited
with heavy rains and considerable wind.
1t has doubtless injured, to some extent, the
corn upon the creeks.
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- tiu,e is not distant when tic aroused
disgust aud Indignation Of the people will
drive them out from them to herd with
runaway negroes, and scarcely less degra-
dcd British hjects i'll Canada.
But We mean the Stewards and Weeds,
and Summers and Grceleys, &C., who are
an,i'slavery from political motives, who are
opposed to negro slavery because they are
i'll favor of white slavery, because, for fifty
years, it has been to them Ar evil
Jefferson, and Jackson, and Calhoun, and
Nathaniel Macon and tie shareholders of
the South have kept them out of power,
and for fifty years protected the northern
laLoring classes from their schemes for
plundering them, for expressing and de-
grading them, for reducing them to the
salue coalition, i'll fact if not i'll name, as
those Of Europe.
There is 10 contradiction of interests be.
tween the South and North, but there is
mighty antagonism between the capital of
tue North and the labor of the North, and
the STAKEHOLDER Of the South has ALWAYS
cast his weight in the scale with the latter
We can imagine Seward and Weed talking
confidently together thus :-"The aLoli-
tionists have d.Iudel a portion of the north
ern people, and aroused blind and bitter
feeling against the South" "This we will
stimulate and increase in every way posi-
ble." "If we can use the government to
limit slavery to pen up the negroes so as
70 render tue negro labor unproftable and
break it down, why then we will have a
clear field the northern laboring classes,
unaided by the shareholders, will he help.
less i'll our hands. We will rule the nation
through monied oligarcby. Or if it
(this crusade) ends in disunion, the result to
Us is tue sane-the northern producing
classes will be then equally helpless: or
finally, should we only succeed in getting
hold OF the executive power, only elect
Fremont, why we will ut least get the off.
ces, and four years chance at tie National
Treasury" TO men like these, without
principle, without belief in Democracy OF
the virtue Of the people, without pa.
triotisln or any Of the nobler sentiments
that make ambition virtue" whose God
is,noney, aud who really believe that gov
lilt ernnlsnt is. or should be, as in Europe, 8
mere machine for robbing the masses O.
tue pfoceeds of their toil-for such men
1e repeat, who, for fifty years, have beer
checkmated by the slaveholders of tn,
Sonth, u is.to be expected that they should
liateEhegro slavery" and labor to break 4
DOWN And they differ only in the mean
erftpioyedy from Garrison and his gang O
= white nsgrpss.n They desire to interpos,
ne federal government the common gov
sfnmeHe of all the States for tile min o
snAats tneae atesS to- pen up the popula
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Interesting to Dentists.-At the recent
Dentists Convention, held in New York,
Dr. Harris, of Baltimore, exhibited an in
strumcnt invented by Dr. Putnam, for pro-
ducinlg loca! anasthcsia, very useful for ex
tracing teeth without pain.
DIR. Putnam stated that lie had extracted
three or four thousand teeth with the aid
OF this instrument. The agent used was
ice and salt, and the instrument was 80
eont!rived, that application could be made
to the smallest portion of any external part
OF the body. 1t was singular fact, he re-
Marked that when applied to the gums it
produced no pain as it did to tile outer sur.
face OF the body. The gums were frozen
by the application, and the teeth extracted
without tho slightest pain, and with no bad
consequences. 1t required but two minutes
to effect the purposc-at most three OF
four
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MEETING OF THE LOwNDEsvILLE BIBLE
SOCIETY

We are requested to say that Rev. I. a
lloYr will deliver an Address before the
Bible Society at Lowndcsville on the 10th
inst
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CLINTON LODGE, NO. 3, A.. F.. M.
a THERE will be Regular Communi
XXcation of this Lodge held on Monday
w Euening the 9Th inst Members are
requested to meet earlier than usual.
By order of the W.. NJ.
J. G. BASKIN, Sec'y.
Sept 3. Ii
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BANNER.
WILLIAM Q. DAVIS, EDITOR.
THURSDAY MoRN'G, SEPT d 1s5e

cT The friends of MATTHEW McDON-
AID, announce him a Candidate for reelection
for Clerk. at the ensuing election.
cY- The friends Of C. II. ALLEN announce
him Candidate for Clerk of tho Court ut
the ensuing election.