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Framklin's Lettcrs.-A writer in the New York
Times gives the interesting inteligeace that Mr.
Henry Stevens of Vermont. agent Of the Smith.
sonian Institute in Paris, has discovered a col.
lection OF four thousand letters, wholly In the
handwriting of Dr.. franklin. The writer
snys: .'- ~.
A great many of them were written from
Plassy, near Paris. 1t is not generally keowM
that Franklin Invented the manifold copying ink 4
and pres" now in sucl, general-m mercantile use. Z
whereby facsimile Of each letter is immedi.s
atey transferred Unto book of tissue paper.
Franklirkept duplicates taken in this Inaiinef
OF all his letters, public and private. Thabrime
cost OF the collection was Ef,0OO, but Mf!sSte-
F;yens went to the further heavy cost Of having
handsomely, bound In Russian leather, Tifsy
are. indexed also. Many Of the letters had be-.
come lilsglbie from "ge and :sdamp. but such,
carefully laid out OH highly glazed Bristol hoard.
were passed under heated metallic r6llen with
iwslting. !: s,.. .,,;:ey
Gen Harney and. the Sem;tloie.-The sa,
yapnah Georgian says our Florida neighbors
nav have great confidence in the. ability Of Gen: Z
iiarney to rid them of Billy Bowlegs and <shis !
tribe. The papers from Florida speak hiRbty of.
his system OF tactics, and thinks that Biilv wjN
grow tired. Of travelling during the. present
summer, ,and will probably sisboeASpdSin,
sonyrnienee on account Of the want q assssg.r
We do not knew if the. Gsasral ;can bring
Billy to fight, but if he .sasssapd fsis il vkie,
him, then we think the government HAD !. .bSttSr
abandon the war, and waste no more .timei niesi
and money. for tbsre u MP other officer in TIA
army WHO can equal Gen. iHafnsy 4g6tines ins
dians-CSrolina Times. ;sys
"A Primers. sr Bsss.rhe ph;i,ssigs b srss,ks y:
Amsr'capssays; Am, q Prominent ans6ns
Legis!atnre,is said TO be one fat 6dnniS;s
wealth 'Banks for. this city. which appasrss2o
have sEIginated sMong the pqhlisiteis and nv;6. e
tera The clssseS embrace. not ONLY ue MsS1y.
per aud book pubIlshers, NE sa.hpsS &
psRss prInsers sna sndsSsekss,asss sypsdssss
the amount paid ont {s4fs IA ~
printers and pressmetE Edione, exssei h1ff r. SsS
sand dollars &nd the pspar MIL tpsm Suf SS;7Rss
ifg paper 10 the; value Ok lone Ini6is Sad 81 Siss
tempt dollars peg 'snnnpe.s
MI Piress F;naa ees:Asa,Tr me-
ispsadenes ,ef ahs Exeter sNsS
that Gen. Pietes has had ~ ru s
exttasagsnce in'the Praa5 5dsnks 81 M n
ms term OF 1ice, and ne 1otsSt S4
tires with oHe-hslf his iouf r q s. -
Roekst--a ss 20 sufficient sum " MAJ g.
the disagreeabl necessity IT dspssSs y ~
"uncertsinties os The law Sof EiDs DIN
--oaro'1na IImss
Gen. Harvey. now ii fiorids Sss q s. 6
wh;sS sI 20 tne inc, sS.a%sed ss sS q Fort
from Fort Smelling re Col. JohSsor. ~ ~
airy, is7ordefed 70 81. I11is 10 9(spSsS l6E 11
survey OF the Senthern boundary of Kanss Ss
Col Sumner Is ID command typs suuadrons @ssss
., tss cavalry ordered to move along tho
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ABBEVILLE BANNER.
Thursday Morning, April 90, 1867.
w. G, DAVIS, Editor.
A NEW PAPER.

We have received the first number of the
Norfh Feast Georgian, edited by j. +. PArroS,
and published weekly ut Clarksvillc, Ga, for
$l.5O per annum, in advance.
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Worth Monumen,.-The municipal gov
eminent OF New York has voted $24 900
for the erection Of a monument on the tri-
angular plat of ground bounded by the
Fifth Avenue. Broadway, and Twenty fifth
street in commemoration of the military
services of Major General Worth. The
shaft will be about thirty five feet ten inches
IN length, aud will lie decorated with a
representation of military trophies won at
Chippewa and Lundy's Lane, in Florida and
Mexico, by General Worth, together with
tho names Of the battles in which he figured
eonspicuously.
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AnYERTIsEMENTs

We refer TO the notices of NJ. STRAUSS Cokes-
bury. VS.. BARR, F. A. CoSNon 4 Co, DR.. J. D.
McKELLAR, Surgeon Dentist, Gen. A. NJ. SMITH,
ordering an Election of Brigadier General.
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A NOVEL SCHOOL

A Mr.. LkEDENBURo, n German, advertises to
teach II swimming school in New York, where
he proposes to teach the art in the latest md
most approved style.
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A PuZzLING aAzETTEER.

There arc seven Edinburghs in North
America; one called New, four more that
are spet Elinburg, and one that is: spelt
E,linboro'. Of Londons there are six, be-
sides eleven New Londons and one London
bridge. There are ten Dublins, only one
being New Dublin. Ten towns are named
Paris, thirteen towns Petersburg, (without
the Sant,) fifteen Vienna, and eighteen
Berlin. There are dozen Romes, to which
some Shakspcarian aspirants among tho
is not left unmatched with Juliet; yet,
while there are three places named Ovid,
and there is place found also for Virgil,
there is not single Shakespeare in the land.
although fifteen places have adopted the
great Milton for their designation. There
are eighteen different towns of Athens. and
eleven Spartas, but there is only Il single
Thebcs. Again, two IIannbals, seven AL
exanders, three Anthonys, and Pompey,
exists in different parts of the States, yet no
Cesar, except as name for slaves There
is not SO much rs a Julius. although there
is a Junius. There is no Augustus, although
of Augustus there are seventeen. On the
other hand, there are seventy -one Washing
tons, sixty five Franklins, fifty Jeffer
sons-counties towns, mountains, or rivers,
named after the good men Of the SOIL
There are eighteen LaFayettes, fifteen Fay
cites without the La, and nine Faycttevilles.
After John Adams, the first Vice President.
and second President of the National Ad-
ministration of the United States, twenty
seven places are namcd-some of these,
however, may be in honor of John Quincy
Adams, the sixth President. After Jeffer
son, third President, fifty-eight places are
called. as hcfore stated; after Madison. the
fourth President, thirty-seven; after Monroe,
his successor, thirty eight; to skip over an
interval, and come to our OWE times, we
find nine places called Polk, one called
Zachary, and nine called Taylor-Lut Zach
ary Taylor is not godfather to all-six Fill
mores, four Pierces, three Buchanans, and
twelve Frcmonts.-Dickens' Household
Words.
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RESIGNATION OF A UNITED STATES JUDGE.

The Hon. w. w. Drummond, one of the
Justices, Of the supreme court of Utah Ter
ritory, has forwarded his resignation 10
Washington. ucthus sets forth his reasons
for resigning:
In tho first place, Brigham Young, the
governor of Utah Territory, is the acknowl-
edged head Of the "Churcil of Jesus Christ
Of Latter Day Saints" commonly called
Mormons," and as such, head. Mo,mons
look TO him, aud to him alone, for the law
by which they are to be governed; there
fore no law Of Congress is by them consil-
cred binding in any manner.
Secondly. know that there is q secret
oath.bound organization among all the male
members Of the church, and to acknowledge
no law save the law of the "holy priest.
hood" which, comes to the people through,
Brigham Young, direct from God, he
Young, being the viccgerent of God and
prophetic successor of Joseph Smith, who
was the founder Of this blind and treasona-
bic organization.
Thirdly. l am fully aware that there is n
set Of men set apart by special order of the
church to take both the lives and property
Of persons who may question the authority
of the church, (thc names Of whom l will
promptly make known ut future time)
Fourthly. That tile records, papers. DC,
Of the Supreme Court have been DESTROYED
by order of the church, with the direct
knowledge and appreciation of Gov. Il.
Young, and the federal officers grossly in
suited for prcsuming to raise a single ques-
tion about the reasonable act.
Filthy. That the federal officers Of the
Territory are constantly insullcd, l,arassed
and annoyed by the Mormons, and for
those insults there is no redress.
Sxthlv. That the federal officers arc dai-
ly Compelled to near the form Of the Amer
can Government traduced, the chief exccu-
tives Of the nation, both living and dead,
slandered and abused from the massas, as
the cl,u,ch, in the most vulgar, loathsomc
and wicked manner that the evil passions
of man can possibly conceive.
Plan to Rcctyy the Course IF The Poio-
mac.-Dr. Thomas G.. Clinton: formerly
assistant examiner IN the Patent Office, has
sent us q plan by which he proposes to re-
tain Il first class navy yard at Washington,
to rcsuscitate the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal, and to give commercial basis to the
District of Columbia. lie says that the
cause of Georgetown suffering from back
water during frcshets, and Washington
from shoal water, is to be found in the sud-
den bend of the river from east to south at
the junction of the two cities. His plan
removes this cause by giving an issue to
the river in the direct line Of its current
force. about the line of Virginia avenue,
first ward. lie calculates the expenses Of
the execution Of the works at *2,O23. 1884,
SO and the returns from the new land made
out of excavations and graded private prop
erty purchased at $3,256,474.2O.-N.Y y.
Herald.
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Il New WAeat.-Mr. S. Louis Shaw, of
Eureka, Humboldt Bay, California, writes
to the Commissioner of Patents that lie
has recently procured the seed of new
kind of wheat from a friend, who told him
that it was wild variety found in the ST.
ezra Navada. Mr.. S. had planted few
kernels last year, the yield of which was
very large-at least five hundred kernels
for each one that lie planted. lie enclosed
u few bits of the straw Of this wheat, be.
cause 1t was solid instead Of being hollow.
From the general appearance of the speci-
mems thus received, it is supposed to be a
variety named triticuns polonicun,, of which,
humorous experiments were made in Eng
land, proving it to Le entirely worthless So
far rs making bread is concerned. The
kernel itself is very large, much larger than
the common varieties so generally used in
this county, Washinyton Union.
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Tile Tomb of DR.. Kane The door OF
tie vault at Laurel Hill Cemetery, where
repose the remains of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane,
is about six feet in height, by three in
width, and on either side sustained by
massive granite columns, Of pyramidal
form. They uphold a block, also of gran
ite. The entrance faces the south, and i.
reached by path upon the hillside. The
lot is enclosed by heavy iron chain, run
ming from stones of primitive formation,
set in the ground about ten feet apart, and
respectively about two feet in height. The
chain is Of galvaniscd iron. TO those who
are familiar with Laurel Hill, the spot is
known as the "To,nb in the Woods" A
cypress stands to the left of the door of en-.
trance, and hardy oak extends its branches
above the spot, while a beecl, tree near by
is scored with names of visitors. The tor
of the rock is overgrown with moss. I'm.
mediately above, upon the slightly ascend.
ing hillside, to the east, is the M monument OF
Joseph G. Neal.
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Il Singular Discovery-In 1852, few
grains Of wheat were discovered in the tombs
of some mummes found in the south of
France, supposed to have been two thousand
years old. These grains of Egyptian wheat
were planted, and produced. to the surprise
of every one, 1900 to IL. The Govern
ment took the affair in hand, and consigned
the management of it to the farmers Of the
Government farm at RambouiIlet. The re-
suit has been most astonishing. Each year
the product has heen magnified in such an
immense proportion over the preceding
year, that the Minister Of Agriculture is
now enabled to distribute over France a
large quantity Of this wheat to each of the
departments, gratuitously, with instructions
from the Government farm rs to the best
mode Of cultivation. At a late meeting of
the Academy Of Sciences, the Baron lie
Manneville presented several stocks of this
regenerated Egyptian wheat Which were
six feet high and bore each several fine ears.
y French lady explained in my hearing the
other day, this great multiplying power of
the Egyptian wheat by the long rest it had
had F! 1t is great and important discovery
for the study Of agriculturists.
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Scarlet Fever and Small Por.-Dr. w.
Fields, Of Wilmington, Delaware, says
Having much experience in the cure OF
scarlet fever and small pox of the most ma
lignant type, l would thank you, for the
sake of humanity, to publish recipe
which, if faithfully carried out, will cure
forty-five cases out of every fifty, without
calling on physician
Scarlet Frver.-For adults, give one ta.
blcspoonful of brewers yeast in three table
spooufuls of sweetcned water, three times
a day; and if the throat is much swollen
gargle with the yeast, and apply the yeas,
to the throat as poultice, mixed with In.
dian meal. Use plenty of cat-nip tea tc
keep the eruption out of the skin for sever
al days.
Small Por.-Use the above doses o
yeast three times a day, and milk diet
throughout the entire disease. Nearly every
case can be cured, without leaving pock
mark.
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II WdrnsnD TO f>hyStctdnS.-Dr.L Locock,
the Queens physician, has been peremptori-
Iy dismissed from further attendance on the
royal family, where he has been hitherto
admitted on terms Of familiar intercourse
His salary, $4,000 per annum. royal
present on each safe delivery of the Queen,
and large practice among the nobility, is
no small loss. The doctor has made every
effort towards reconciliation, but the Queen
remains incxorabIe. 1t seems tina, it came
to the Queens ears that DR.. Locock was
given to too much talking, and that though
she told Prince Albert that his habit of
sleeping between the blankets was a vul-
gar, dirty Dutch practice" she did not care
10 have it told abroad d,-Aivepool Post.
Heavy Damnges.-The trial of J. II.
Carpenter. in our Circuit Court last week,
for the seduction of Miss Goram, resulted in
his being fined $2.750 and costs. The case
will propably cost him $4,000. He is worth
about $4,000. His property was attached
when the suit was commenced. The doc.
tor is married man. Miss German had
been married to DR.. Dunningtoa about three
months before the birth Of the child. Her
husband got divorce. She is about eigh-
teen years old, and modest and retiring in
appearance. The Court House WAS crowded
during the trial, which lasted five days.
Paris (Ky) Flag.
Tie Rev. DR.. Dewey says that If he was
slave at the South he would runaway If
he could. So if he was dressed up in pet
ticoats and put in a nursery to sew and
take care Of children, he would get away
or run away, or do anything else. If he could.
1t does not follow, however, that keeping q
woman in petticoats, sewing and taking care
OF children, is wicked, or wrong, or curse
Wren DR.. Dewey realizes, or rather when
he thinks that negro is no more like him
than he Or. d. is like woman, lie will
refrain from making such silly remarks as
he has made about slaves running away
~ Y. Day Book.
n French Colony.-It is said that some
French gentleman from Louisiana, largely
engaged in sugar planting in that State,
have purchased d tract Of land in the neigh
borhood Of Tacusa, on the line Of the, ILL.,
nos, where ahey will organize colony Of
French residents, who are nov on their way
from Canada, Arrangements are ,uads for
the erectioa OF stores, hotels, mills, ware-,
hosses and dwellings,; md Il is expectsd
that large aad fohrishing colony will be
Afmty located tie present Gseaaqll !
SIS OF Wsdssd itiafHooo, Il h as 4brsks;
'osttt GeoEg gsgxu, Dss fysss sl,jetf ft SfJpysdI
The dNsllipG toas9e afs Jfsa
Wa1, Att Csak tspH HSS -
Tie loss q later s ast t51sst5 ne &6080.
md Of tl,e ofsers at s6o0o each s
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New York Markets.

New YORK, November 19.--Flour--
The market to-day closed firm; sales OF
$4,000 barrels Common to good State
at S4,80a4.9O, Ohio $5.SOa5.sO; South
ern $5.20a5 50--a decline of s cents on
State and 10 cents on Ohio
Wheat--Is unsettled sales of 1850
bushels. Western white 112a123 cents
red 109a116 cents.
Con-The market is firm; sales at 81
8 80 cents for mixed Western.
Pork--Mess has advanced Csc sales at
S19 50a19.75 for Mess.
Whisky--Is unchanged-sales of Ohio
"a cents.
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DEATH FROM Exc Ess1vE JoY.-The
Clarkesburg (Va.) Resster relates the
following melancholy occurrence:-Last
week a son of Col. Joseph j. Winter, of
this country, returned from Kansas after
an absence of some three years, we believe.
His appearance had so changed that even
his father did not recognise him when he
entered the paternal mansion. After the
son had made himself known, the father
stepped to the door of an adjoining room,
and calling to two of his daughters, in
formed them that gentleman desired to
see them. Upon entering the room, the
young ladies did not at first recognize
their brother; but almost instantly the
Oldest, named Cecilia, recognized him and
sank instantly to the floor, dead Being
somewhat delicate, the joyous surprise Of
thus unexpectedly meeting her long-ab-
sent brother, to whom she was dearly at
tached, was too much, and her gentle
spirit took its flight to realms where her
happiness will endure forever.
Man doubles all the evils of his fate by
bordering over them.
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A NEW SOCIAL FEATURE.--The New
York Evening Post discloses an aspect of
society in that city that will be new to
many of our readers:
Rich and well dressed protigates are a
prominent, and, We had almost said, the
favorite feature Of the New York draw
ing room. Our city is even now more
rife with other stories Of intimacies as dis
graceful as anything which has been dis
closed in the relations of Mrs Workman
and Furniss, and, we blush to add, quite
as mercenary. We have no special stand
ard which sets mark Of infamy upon
the rome. If he dances and dresses well,
and has leisure hours to devote to the en-
tertainment Of idle women, there aIe al
ways enough to be flattered and beguiled
by his attentions into tamiliarltles which
result in dishonor, if not in disgrace.
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Rslr It may not have bsen generally

RST 1t may not have been generally
remarked by our readers, and we. there
fore, state the fact-noteworthy as char
acteristic Of the Shakesperian drama,
which ignored the Fictitious distinctions
between comedy and tragedy, established
by former writers-that there is no trag-
edy Of SHAKESPEARE in which comic
scenes and characters are not introduced !;
while there is only one comedy-The
Merry Vices Of Wndsor-without some
intermixture of sentiment approaching to
tragic. Another interesting fact, which
may be appropriately mentioned in this
connection, is that the origin Of the mod
ern European drama isSdue to the Chris
tian Church, in the mysteries and morali-
ties devised by the monks of the middle
ages, the materials of which were events
in biblical history OF the lives of the saints,
and wherein the solelnnlties of religion
We're sgnalized.
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All you see at the time is cloud like dust
storm, composed Of shreds Of clothing, burn
ing muscle, and triE1ling fat, with Jumps of
soagulated blood. Here and there stomach
CT liver comes falling down in a sinking
shower. One wretehed fellow slipped irom
the rope by which he was tied to the guns
just before the explosion, and his arm was
nearly set on fire. While hanging in his
agony under the gun, sergeant applied a
pistol to his head, and three times the cap
snapped, the man each time wincing from the
expected shot. At last rife was fired into
the back of his head, and the blood poured
out of the nose and mouth like water from a
briskly handled pump. This was the most
horrible sight of all. | have seen death in
all its forms, but never anything to equal
this mans end
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The weight of the Mimic ball is about
one and a half ounces. and the weight of
powder for charge is about one-tenth as
much. The cartridge is so constructed
that, encased in paper and creased by
dipping it in tallow, it slips easily into
the barrel till it arrives at the charge In
this respect the Min mas greatly the adj
vantage in saving Of time and labor of
forcing down the ball with the ramrod.-
These balls have range of ten hundred
to twelve hundred yards, with an eleva-
ted "back sight" perfectly within the
command of the marksman, and just as
easily used as any shot range or point
blank shot.
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L A T EST N EW S .
stocks and Money at New York
Eeffct of Foreign News. &c.

New YORK, Nov. 18.-Fancy stocks
naturally reacted to-day from the recent
unprecedented initiation under the infu-
ence of the unfavorable foreign news, but
generally closed steady at an average de-
cline of 4 per cent State stocks, except
Virginia, on the contra airy, advanced
Ohio per cent. and Missouri per cent.
Virginia declined 2per cent. The total
amount of stocks sold at morning and
afternoon boards was three millions of
dollars, Money is very easy and rates
are dropping.
The report that the special specie de-
posts were counted in the weekly bank
averages is unfounded.
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From Wa shingtOn.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-It is believed
that Costa RIGA will retire from the poss-
ession Of San Juan river as soon as she
be informed Of the negotiation of the
recent treaty between the United States
and Nicaragua.
The action of the constitutional con-
vention Of Kansas meets the approval of
the Administration as calculated to quiet
the existing troubles.
Sir William Gore Ouseley arrived here
tonight.
A Paris letter says that 100000
francs worth of French bills on the
United States and $4,000, 0O0f in En-
glish bills have been returned protested.
Bullion in the Bank of France has in
creased.
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LIFE IN MINNESOTA Mrs. Swisshelm.
formerly editress OF a Pittsburg, paper, is
at st. Cloud, Minnesota, and in recent
letter contradicts the reports of famine in
that region, She says there is and will
be no suffering from want, that the means
of a comfortable living are within the
reach Of all who will WORK. There are
some deer and few bears; plenty of prai-
RE hens and wild ducks, and beef Of the
very best quality is but ten cents per
pound. She says, Il know Of but one
family that appears in danger of suffer-
ing the coming winter, and the husband
and father last week refused to work
at two dollars and a half per day, cash."
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A<Ss@ 1t is a gratifying duty to an
nounce that some of the manufacturing
establshm ents which discharged their
hands and suspended operations shortly af-
ter the beginning of the panic, are making
arrangements to resume their labors. The
Albany Iron Works, the Rensselaer, n.
~ Works, and some thirty-two factories
in Massachusetts will soon sound again
with the hum Of their busy workmen.-
This isa glimpse of daylight beyond the
darkness of the ''revulsion" that so sud-
denly overwhelmed us, which offers in
deed, welcome promise Of deliyerance.