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visit Columbia this winter, send their orders to
Mr.. GLASS, either by mail, or through somefriend.
We will with pleasure take the orders of those
who may desire it, and deliver the book at home
without charge.
When in Charleston, last week, we purchased
q copy Of JUDGE O'NEALL's "Bsnoh and Bar Of
South Carolina" another exceedingly valuable
and interesting contribution to the history of our
State. When we say that the few chapters we
have read are "very like" his Honor, every reader
will comprehend the idea exactly; for every one,
besides knowing and loving our Chief Justice, ap-
preciates the zeal and zest and the bounding,
bountiful heartiness with which he sets about
and does infinite justice to all his abors of love.
It is most admirable tribute to the State and to
those who have made her worthy, and is not less
valuable because, 'from frontispiece to fnis," i,
presents faithfully and fully all the lineaments
which make up the portrait Of JUDGE 0'NEALI
himself. May he yet live long and well, to adorn
The character, enhance the reputation, and illus.
trate the judicial dignity of South Carolina.
The Publishers, CoURTENAYs, Of Charleston, have
consigned the books to Messrs. II. F. AD1oKEs 8
Co. Two volumes-price SIS.
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Greeley Willing to Come to Vrginia.-The New
York Tribune says that Horace Greeley is perfect
ly willing to come to Virginia and tell all ne
knows about old Brown and bis plans. 1t adds :
"There is no need of requisition in the pre-
misses, for simple letter from Gov. Wise will
answer every purpose. And, in order to save e1-
pense, (the finances of Virginia not being in a
state of e1uberant prosperity we hereby notify
the Governor that Horace Greeley intends to
be in Washington on Monday, December 9th,
and will then and there be willing, soon as the
House shall have adjourned for the day, to step
over. at his own proper COST to Alexandria, or
any convenient pointi Virginia, and be examined
at length, before any Judge or Commissioner of
that State as to all matters concerning John
Brown and his colleagues in the recent affair at
Harper's Ferry. Having had the honor of slight
acquaintance with Gov. Wise in old Wing days,
we do not need to assure him that this proposition
is made in good faith, and that we require him
no safe conduct nor stipulation of any sort what
ever"
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b. d. Townsend, NJ. w. p.

The present Chief Officer of the National Divi-
sion of the Sons of Temperance of North Ameri-
ca. whose name heads this article, has been one
of the most laborious and efficient heads our Or
der has ever had, scarcely e1celled by the great
Cary himself. We had the very great pleasure of
making his acquaintance at the last annual ses-
sion of our G. D., and we had the qualification
Of renewing that acquaintance at the meeting of
the National Division, among brethren from all
parts of the Continent, who have long known and
served with him in the Supreme Councils of our
Order. As q gentleman he is affable, modest,
digni6ed as presiding officer he is prompt,
courteous firm, impartial; as Son of Temper
ance, he is always in the harness, ready to do the
work of subaltern or a leader, to advance the
good cause "He halls from the chivalrous State
of South Carolina, and is fully imbued with the
Spartan courage and devotion characteristic of
her sons," as has been well said of him by CO.
temporary.
Bro. Townsend has recently attended the Grand
Divisions of Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia.
On the 30th be will be present at the Grand DiVl-
sion of South Carolina, and we have the pleasure
of announcing that be will be with us at the ses-
sion of our Grand Division. Since his election to
the exalted post he so we'll fills, he has labored
with ncessant zeal to nfuse new life and energy
into the Order. By private letters circulars and
personal appeals he has inspired the entire Order
with his indomitable courage and never tagging
ardor. and he has the glorious reward OF seeing
our flag. which he found at half-mast, now float
ing in triumph, filled with prosperous gales-a
reward for his labors which he will prize "more
than ermined robe or kingly disdem." And he
will leave the chair of NJ. W. P. with the plaud-
its of tho whole Order ringing in his ears-"He
has done his ,rhole edHy."-Spirtt of the Age
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For the Yorkville ENQUIRER.
coNeREGATIoNAL MEETING.

CONGREGAVIONALm mEET1N0s
At meeting of the elders and members Of the
congregation of the A. R. Church of Yorkville, on
Tuesday evening, the 22d inst, the following res
olutions were unanimously adopted-Dr. A. L.
BARRON acting as Moderator, and W. C. BEATTY
as Clerk. .-...-
Resolved: That the prayer-meetngs, instituted
and conducted by our esteemed Pastor, and held
in this church every Tuesday evening, have our
sincere and hearty approval and concurrence; and
we hereby promise-supplicating the sustaining
grace of God to enable US so to do-to give to said
meetings our prayers and our personal attendance.
Resolved: That in addition to the usual exer.
cises and services Of prayer and praise, we cor
daily sanction the plan of our Pastor in deliver
ing Lecture at each meeting on continuous and
connected portion of the word of God-deriving,
as we do, little less instruction and satisfaction
from his Lectures, than from his regular pulpit
discourses.
Resolved: That this congregation does hereby
extend fraternal invitation to all christians Of
each of the denominations in this village, as well
as others having soul to save, to unite with US,
and CO operate in the exercises and blessings Of
said prayer-meetings.
Resolued: That the proceedings Of this meeting
be published in the ENQUIRER.
A. BARRON, Moderator.
W. c. BEATTY, Clerk.
Nov. 22d 1859.
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Secretary.

The Governor Of Mississippi on the Position Of the
South.-Gov. McWile, of Mississippi, has sent
his annual message to the Legislature Of that
State He says the Republican party and the
Abolition party is one, and proceeds:
In this view of our position on the election Of
an Abolition President, will it not be time "to
put our house in ORDER" and be prepared to car
ry out fully the following resolution Of the Dem
ocratc party of the State, which represents an
overwhelming majority Of the people. This is:
"Resolusd, That in the event of the election Of o
Black Republican candidate to the Presidency,
by the suffrages Of one portion Of the Union only,
to rule over the whole Uuited States, upon the
avowed purposes of the organization, Mississippi
will regard it as o declaration of hostility, and
will hold herself in readiness to cooperate with
her sister States of the South, in whatever mea-
sures they may deem necessary for the mainten-
ance of their rights as co-equal members of the
confederacy."
For the purpose of being prepared for the con-
tpgency provided for by the foregoing resolution,
I would recommend as necessary and expedient,
that you, by your legislation, should make it the
duty of the then Governor, in the event Of the
election of Black Republican to the Presidency
of the United States in November, 1860, to issue
his proclamation ordering an election, for dele
gates to State Convention, to be holden on the
first Monday in December next thereafter, and
that said delegates be appointed to assemble at
the Capitol, in the city Of Jackson, on the third
Monday Of the said month of December, 1850, for
the purpose of adopting such measures as may
meet the e1igency of the occasion. -.
1 would further recommend that you should
adopt resolutions inviting the other Southern
States to cooperate with the State of Mississippi
in the adoption Of such measures as may he ne
cesary for the maintenance of their and our rights,
as co-equal members of the confederacy. This is
all that, for the present; would recommend to
be DONE s... ,. s..r '.-' g
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CHESTER CORRESPONDENCE.
CHESTER, Nov. %, 1859,

ChESTkh, ANof' ~, 1Oo"'
Since my last report of our cotton market pri.
ces have continued very steady, ranging from 10
rs to 10 35, for good article. Some few lots
which are termed "fne," have sold at 10 40. The
grade of cotton we call fine in our market, is
classed good middling in Charleston, and niddling
upland in Liverpool. You will notice in the Liv-
erpool classification, that "New Orleans fne' by
the last steamer, is quoted at Sd; Upland fine, at
7sd /; and New Orleans Middling at lied !;
while Upland Middlings only bring 15-16d.-
This shows that our grades do not stand as high
in Europe as the Gulf Cotton. Our cotton looks
as fair and bright as any raised in the Southern
States, but the fibre is not go strong. Another
reason is, our planters take pains or trouble to
procure good gins, or to have them kept in good
order. If the loss which the planters sustain on
account of using imperfect gins could be estima-
ted, there would be q revolution in this respect
in a short time. Some men look astonished when
told their cotton does not compare with their
neighbors'. They look incredulous when told
their lint is injured in ginning They cant under
stand it, but the reason is, they never think on
the subject. They have gin made by soma one
who may have tried how fast he could make them
work. They had better try hov weH they can
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CAROLINA BOOKS.

Several books of rare value and excellence have
recently appeared from the South Carolina press
works which add to the literary reputation of
the State, and furnish contributions to our histor
which the far.away future only can adequately
appreciate. These works have found their way to
our sanctum, and ought to have received an an-
nouncement commensurate with their sterling
merit. We have many reasons for regretting our
unavoidable inatteution to editorial duties; but
when a neglect of these books comes up before
us to condemn, we cry "peccavi," most earnestly,
and indulge a paragraph or two even though
"heaven and earth should come together"
Most of our readers, who are alumni of the
College, have, doubtless, ere this procured, read
and admired DR.. LABoRDE's noble History. We're
ceived it promptly read it through "at the gal
lop :" laid it aside for careful perusal and the
most elaborate review we could master; and in
determining to do our utmost, did nothing We
have not yet given it the second reading, but we
nevertheless have an opinion and will not longer
delay the expression of
We could ssrun and read" such book. There
is not on any page an uninteresting fact, an un-
truthful idea, or an inelegant expression. The
style is pure, elevated, classical, English. Re-
plete with thought. every chapter is lively, spri-
ted and entertaining; and adhering strictly, can
didly and critically to the truth, the whole book
is permeated with that generous and refreshing
beneyolence which has endeared the author, per-
sopally, to all who know him. galaxy Of bril-
liant nortraits, sketchedand finished by masters
band-the light and shade which belongs to each
are blended so happily, and each is so like to ife
an instinct with real heart and soul, that the very
nresence of each seems to respond to the magic
tonch and attest, before US, the artistic power
which formed its glowing counterpart. The idea
which prompted the work is noble one, and it
has been carried out triumphantly.
We shall not pretend, now, to afford correct
index of the varied contents which in themselves
Give incalculable value to DR.. LABoRDE's History
We simply commend it to those who, by their
co injection with the College, or their interest IN
the educational progress Of the State, are expec-
ted to extend to it hearty encouragement. We
assert that to the truth of which every reader
will bear witness, we claim for it place in the
library of every intelligent man and woman in
South Carolina. Let those who do not intend to
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xoRKy1LLE FEMALE COLLEGE.

We extract the following paragraph from the
Sumter Watchman of recent date. We reprint
the article, in order to show our people at home,
the estimation in which this institution is held
abroad. We are pleased to learn that arrange
ments have recently been effected, whereby the
affairs of the College will be conducted with
greater energy and spirit than heretofore, and we
predict for it brilliant future. At an early day,
all necessary information will be given to the pub
lie by means of circulars and advertisements:
YorkvMs Female CoUege.-There will be found,
upon another column of our paper to-day, an e1-
tract, taken from the "Home and Foreign Reader
of the Presbyterian Church in the United States"
in regard to this noble institution of female learn
ing. The able and efficient President has, we
learn, recently visited our District in connection
with the interests Of his College. We cannot too
highly commend this College to parents having
daughters to educate, and should be highly graft
fed to see it literally sustained by Sumter. Ex-
celent boarding, we are informed, can be obtain
ed in private families convenient to the College,
at SO per month. Mr.. Anderson, the President,
will receive fifteen or twenty young ladies into
his family. Further particulars will be set forth
in an advertisement soon to appear in our paper
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MERE.mENTION,

Mr.. ANDREW YoNauE, Conductor on the Char
otte Railroad, was injured so seriously on We'd
nesdsy of last week, that he died the same day.
The Carolinian says that the strain stopped to
wood at q point about two miles above Killiaa's
Mill; and as it was moving off, Mr.. YoNGUE was
attempting to get on, when his foot slipped from
the step, with so much violence as to break his
grasp upon the railing; he was thrown under
meath the wheels of the car, which passed over
his legs, cutting one entirely off, about half way
between the knee and the hip joint, and badly
mangling the other, fracturing it in three or four
places. Fortunately, DR.. D. H. THoMAssoN, of
York, who was on the train, took up the arteries,
and saved the unfortunate gentleman from imrle-
date death from the loss of blood. "..''.".A new
paper is soon to be issued at Darlington c. H.,
entitled the Southerner, which will be under the
editorial supervision of F. F. WARLEY, Esq, who
has hitherto distinguished himself in Carolina
journalism. ..........This day, 24th of November
has been designated as day of thanksgiving
in the following States, twenty-seven in all ::
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Alabama,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio
and Kansas. ......'."The ship Excelsior, which was
wrecked on Sullivans Island, on Sunday of last
week, has been sold at auction for one hundred
and twenty-five dollars and the cargo that re-
mained in the hold, for the sum of one hundred
and sixty dollars .."There is now in operation in
the o. States one mile of railway to every thcus-
and inhabitants; in England, one to every $500,
and in the whole Of Great Britain, one to every
5000 inhabitants .....Eternity is depth that
no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate
no imagination conceive, and no rhetoric describe
'.''.".A petition to Governor WISE is in circua
ton at Manchester, N. H., praying him to post
pone BRowN's execution until the meeting of the
next Legislature Of Virginia. '.'.'.'SAMsoN RIAL
one of the slaves emancipated by JOHN RANDOLPH,
died at Piqua, Ohio, on the 1st instant, aged
about 80 years. ......".The Legislature of .his
State meets on Monday next.
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4 SUGGESTION The Richmond Dispatch, ever

4 Suggeston.-The Richmond Dispatch, ever
prompt and reliable Journal, land one too which
furnishes much Of the editorial of some Of our
journals) has an original way of doing things
The following suggestion made by the Dispatch Of
the 18th, we heartily endorse:
"The Legislature, which is soon to assemble,
will doubtless make great changes in the military
laws Of the State. We would suggest one which,
we think, would prove highly beneficial in all such
cases as that presented by the Harpers Ferry out
rage. 1t is to bestow upon every captain of mill
tia, and his officers, the power Of forming them
selves into court for the purpose of trying all
cases in which the party has been taken in the act
of exciting insurreotion, Of a law hanging him on
the spot. The execution of q law of this kind,
in one or two instances, would have prodigious
effect When men know that they are to be e1-
alted into heroes and martyrs for attempts Of the
kind, as Old Brown has been, it may be possible
that they will initiate him. But when they find
that the only alternative of complete success is to
be hung like dog and buried in ditch with ropes
around their necks, they will beyery cautious how
they venture. They will want the stimulant Of
vanity, which keeps Old Brown up 1t is one
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Movement I'm Sumter.

At public meeting Of the citissns Of Sumter,
as we learn from the Watehman,. the following
preamble and resolution were adopted:
Whereas, disclosures Of an inAsmmstory char
acter are brought to orr notice by every mail,
showing that it is time for every slaveholding com
munity to be on the alert for its own security, and
protection Of its interests And whereas, notwith-
standing the warnings from the press growing out
ofthe present state of the country straggers from
the North continue to visit and tarry in our town
as agents for books, medicines, &c, whose real
object may be to act as spies and abolition ennis
saries: Therefore, ~
-Resolped, That we, the citizens Of Sumter, In
public meeting assembled, do cail upon audrequest
our Town Council to institute rigid serveilanoe
on all such transient persons; and where full sat.
isfacton is not given, to notify such persons that
their presence in our community is not to be.tole-
rated. -'' at. " ~.E 10.
It was further moved and adopted, that COM
mittee of FIVE be appointed to lay the foregoing
preamble and resolutions before the Town Coun.
oil. In accordance with which motion the Chair
appointed Messrs. W. E. Dick, L. p. Loring, h
Haynsworth, A. A. Netties and Dr.. J. L. Heyns-
worth, q committee. ~ Z -
1t was further resolved that an adjourned meet
ing be held to-day "wednesday to which the cifi-
zens Of the whole district were invited.
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make them work. Light will begin to break in
upon them before long, I hope. -
; We have good demand for cotton and at full
prices. The receipts are beginning to fall Oft,
and the information from the country is, that the
crop has turned out much shorter than anticipa-
ted. The frost, though late, killed everything so
efectually, that no more has opened since.
There is considerable demand here for corn
at about 80 cents per bushel, from wagons. In
some cases, ST. has been paid.
Flour is in demand also, at prices ranging from
about 50 80 to So s73 per sack, from wagons.
Salt has been selling at 81 Is per sack, but
owing to the small stock, prices have advanced to
81 80 to 81 s5. The article is scarce, and ad-
vancing in Charleston.
Sugar remains about stationary, say, 8 to "a
for brown; II for Stewards C. Molasses, scarce.
New Orleans-none in market. West Indies, Of
the different grades, remain at 40 to 55 cents
Cheese, 16 cents. Yours, j.
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Gop. Wise a, q Penman.-A letter writer from
Richmond, gives the following information in re-
gard to Gov. wise's rapidity of Penmanship:
"Governor Wise, in the character Of scribe,
surpasses, perhaps, any man living. In point Of
rap;dity he can only be paralleled in short hand
while his writing is almost as legible as print.
had occasion some time ago to copy some writing
of his and did so, page after page as he produc-
ed them. started when he was about two pages
ahead, and, though he had to compose while had
merely to copy, at the close Of the tenth page he
was still two pages in advance. At this stage he
was called off to dinner, and availed myself Of
the opportunity to procure peculiar style Of pen,
which thoug hit would facilitate the operation
We both set to work again simultaneously; and
though he stopped occasionally to mend his pen,
(he writes with quill pen) and now and then
walked rapidly round the room, while I, mean
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J. NEWTON FLOYD.

The Fall Term of the Mecklenburg Superior
Court, was held week before last We learn from
the Charlotte Democrat that the case of the State
Us. Floyd, from CASTOR, was disposed Of. 1t will
be remembered that Floyd was convicted at the
last term of murder, but appealed to the Supreme
Court, where he was granted new trial-the Su-
preme Court deciding that the case was nothing
more than manslaughter. Theprisoner, therefore,
submitted to verdict in accordance with that de-
cision, and was branded with the letter M on the
left hand. and discharged.
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THE MILITARY COMMISSION.

We are indebted to our friend, Capt. LUCAS, Of
Charleston, r = copy of the "Minutes Of the
Military Comr sion at the meeting in Greenville,
8. c.. Augu. 1852"
A hasty reading is sufficient to assure US that
the Commission is made up Of decidedly incon
gruous elements. No two are agreed. The mem
bers seem to have studied out each his own
scheme, to the feasibility Of which no other mem.
Der could be persuaded. Hence, each suggestion
was voted down in its turn, and the Commission
adjourned without efecting the great object Of
their appointments thorough, radical revision
of our military system. Several resolutions were
passed, however, and provisions adopted for their
presentation in the form of Bill at the ensuing
session.
The first point, upon which all agreed, asserts
that sit is expedient to alter and amend the ex-
listing Militia system of the State" Very good !!
Then in order, they resolve, to exempt members
of volunteer companies from road and patrol duty,
from militia service after term Of ten years, and
from taxes on property to the amount of $500
VERY good); that the Sheriff be required to make
return on executions for fines, within 40 days,
under penalty of S1O0for each failure (all right
that all vacancies in offices be filled by graduation
(capita) that the Adjutant General be constituted
Commissary General of Ordnance, and take the
rank of Major -General-in Chief-(very good) /;
that all volunteer companies be required, within
two years, to adopt State uniform doubtful) !;
that no individual whois not in point Of fact "pil
man." shall be surgeon or assistant ditto-(ele-
gant) that the Commission meet in Columbia en-
Monday next, for further conference-(very pro-
peri.
By parentheses, we nave indicated hearty ap-
proval of nearly all the measures adopted by the
Commission, and we trust, if nothing better Gun
be done, that the legislature will, at least agree to
the moderate notifications suggested But much
yet remains to be reformed; and our motion is,
that the entire Commission be placed under arrest
that guard be detailed whose duty it shall be to
watch them "like hawk that, after the manner
of the venerable jury-system, they be placed in
close confinement, without lights, bread, water, or
other refreshments with an emphasis on the last
mentioned) ard that they be kept until they rem
der verdict-in systematic, connected, radical,
thorough going, and efficient reform Of the Mill
tary System of South Carolina. We imagine every
body seconds the motion?