The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-06-18

corn en- 1chhrSNc-We conveIsed yesterday
with two of our citizens, just returned from Nash
vile, Tennessee, which place they left on Wed
nesday evening wio state that corn had declined
to- cents per bushel at Nashville, and was dull
ahd dcclng, and that provisions Of all description
were dropping. They give II glowing descrip
ton of the prospects of the wheat crop Corn,
they say, is smnl, but that owing to the lateness
of the spring much land that would have been
planted in cotton. had the spring been moro for
ward, has been put in corn. This is sensible in
our Tennessee friends. Corn is more profitable
in Tennessee ut IS cents per bushe than cotton
at ~ cents per H.. to say nothing Of the economy
OF labor This is plain, to any man acquainted
with the applicability Of the soil and climate of
that locality to the two products. Columbus Sui,
Illness If Gen. IIalJach.-The veteran Gen
eraI Wulb"ch, Col. 4th Artillery, now lies dan
gerously i'll, with no hope of recovery. Thus,
probably, will pnss away. in n few hours, one OF
the brightest ornaments Of the army. Pity if
is that We have few such men left Gen.
Wabach is in his ninety first year. and has
three-quarters Of century lie served under
Louis XVI, and often had the Dauphn OH his
knec.-Baitimorc Patriot.
Sponyes-We exported from Key West last
year. says the Key West of the Gulf. about
Sl00,00O worth of spoDges; and the exporte of
this year, stimulated bys;the' advanced price will
probably reach 100000, or about one hundred
tthu Ii'y tHouSauu POUNDS Ol sponge. About
forty boats and two hundred men are engaged
III the business, who catch the sponge i'm the
shallow WATERS Of South Florida, as far west rs
Cedar Keys.
dPpointn'cmt-Gorernor of Unh.-We learn
from reliable authority, that General B. Hep |
kins, of Jacksonville, Florida, has been offered
the appointment of Governor of Utah Territory. |
fighter and If u man of resolution and nerve is |
needed to deal with the disciples Of Joe Smith,
it would, perhaps, be difficult to fix on better
choice-Charlestom Courier.
A New York paper says: GA few Sundays
ago at one of our churches the choir sang HYMN
to a tune which comes in as follows: NV moor
pol-my poor poi-my poor polluted heart
Another line received the following rendering:
And in the pi-and in the pi-and In the pious
he delights And still another was sung: And |
take thy pl.and take thy pil-and take thy
pilgrim home.'"
Carpentcr's Strike The iourncymen carmen. !
ters of Philadelphia held final meeting on Sat |
urday night, and after passing the following res
olution, adjourned sine die.
Resolpede That the wagos of the Journeymau
House Carpenters from the lst Of April to the
LIST Of November be 81 rs per day, and from the |
1st of November to the LIST of April be Al So
per day.
=, Suffrage in North Carolina.-Gov Bragg. of
S"Lohhos hotueefAN persons entitled to |
vote for members of the House of Commons. that
polls will be opened on the first Thursday in Au-
gust next, to take the sense Of the voters as 70
We ratification of an amendment to the consti- |
tuition of tho State making the suffrage therein |
free
9 a Warning.--The Alton Courier warn. the |
public against ealing. as greens, the tops of the
pierplant or rhubarb. Within the last few days |
number OF instances have occurred in which |
their use has severely poisoned those who ale of
them. The symptoms wsse violent purging and |
vomiting.
The Alabama Conference OF. The Methodist
EP'scopai Church has unanimously voted in favor |
Of expunging from the Discipline the General
Rule fosbidding "buying and selling mon, wo.
them" - " '"''"'
I. Unlaed States Seaatoy from zsxas-AMai. Ben.
McCniloch II is said, win bo candidate for the /
United States Senate from Texas, against Gen.