The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-14

"N~N'O. 1N06I1AIS b&sNos AsONAhkf0 bRO AAASF AvOaAG-
Ro,-The Minister Of the Republic Of Mexico to the
United States, accompanied by his mother and
sister, arrived in this city on Saturday afternoon.
They are staying at the Charleston Hotel.
DEATH oE MIR. JAMES PHYNNEy.-On Saturday
the family OF MIR. JAMES PHYNNEY, received a teie-
graphic dispatch from Richmond. announcing
his death in that city on Friday, the 18th instant.
Mr.. PHYNNEY left this city some two weeks since,
and proceeded to Richmond, with a view to try
the eftsots OF q change Of ali. on his health,
which had been failing for some time. In the de-
cease Of MIR. PHYNNEy, the Printers of Charleston
have lost one of the most estimable Of their num-
Der. He will long be remembered for his quiet
and unobtrusive manners. Mr.. PHyNNY was q
native Of this city, and was in the fifty-second
year Of his ago. We sympathize with his rela-
tives in their bereavement.
AFFAIRS IN SOUTH CARoLINA.-A correspondent
of the New York Times, writing from Charleston,
on the 4th instant, says: sAlong the seaboard
general bankruptcy must ensue during the coming
winter, unless creditors should prove vastly more
lenient than creditors usually are. Nearly every
plantation is moro or less mortgagcd, and should
foreclosures be insisted upon, the best lands in
this State will change hands at q ruinous sacrifice.
The lawyers are preparing to reap q rich harvest
out OF the cases under the new bankrupt law, for
there will probably be no portion Of the Union that
will contain as large q number Of insolvents, in
proportion to the population, as South Carolina"
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.-Oni Saturday evening
Coroner WHITING was notified Of death at MUIR
PHYS Boarding House, that demanded an inquest.
II appeared that THos. NUdENr, a man about thur
ty-seven years of age, and from New York, had
been boarding at MURPHy'S, No. q Queen street,
for two weeks. On Saturday afternoon about four
o'clock, he came home and soon became rapidly
sick. While be was lying on q sofa, apparently in
a dying condition., a message was sent for the
Rev. MIR. YATES, who instantly repaired to the
boarding house, together with his son, DIR. Jo-
sEPH A. YATES. Before their arrival, the man had
died, and Mr.. YATES observing an undue haste
manifested, In. the preparations for the burial,
promptly notified the Coroner. Mr.. WHITING was
soon on the spot, and after impanneling a jury who
viewed the body, they were discharged until Mon
day woeh. III order u allow Ur. YATES full time for
a post mo,fem examination and q chemical analy-
sis Of the contents of the stomach, grave suspi-
cion being aroused by the suddenness Of the
death, the man having been seen well, hearty
and sober at q O'Clock the same day. He was
supposed to have some $500 in his possession,
but only $50 could be satisfactorily accounted for.
The matter will be thoroughly investigated, and
il any guilt is attached to his late associates, they
will be. speedily indicted for.the crime.
--o--se
The FEAST OF TABERNAoLEs,-oR s'SUccoTa."-
This is the first day Of the Festival Of Huts, and
for the information of our non-Israelite read
ers, we proceed to give q description Of it., copied
from the source to which we have been indebted
on several previous occasions. CHAMBERS says !:
On the evening Of the 14th day Of Tishri, the Feast
Of Tabernacles, commences. (Lev. xiii. A. The
interval between the Day Of Atonement and this
festival is employed in preparations for this fes-
tive period. Each family fits up some room
especially built for this purpose-for q booth, or
erects ono in the courtyard or garden The I'M
genial climate of the North, and the advanced
season of the year (generally late in September),
will not allow the Jew to make the booth his regu-
lar dwelling place during the festival but he at
least takes his meals in it. Another popularity Of
this festival is the use Of O branch of q palm-tree,
Of q willow, myrtle, and citron. It is these which,
according to tradition, are meant by Leviticus,
xiii. 40. The willow branch and the myrtle are
tied TO the lower part of the bough Of the palm
tree, but the citron is kept separate; and it is the
duty of every congregation to provide these re-
quisites for the use of the members There are.
however, few religious Jews who, if they can
| afford it, do not procure them for their private
use. Grasping the palm branch with the right
hand, and with the left the citron, and holding
them close together, . benediction expressive or
the occasion is pronounced, and the branch slightly
shaken. This ceremony is gone. through every
! morning during the seven days of the festival, and
by each individual separately. No Jew would taste
food before the performance Of this rite.
The eighth day should properly so conclude the
festival /; but rabbinical authority has added a
ninth, under the title Of Rejoicing with the Law.
This, as it's name b%etokens, 10 a day of great mer-
riment, in which even the greatest. rabbis-oi
course in their own way-take part, expressive OF
their delight in, and attachment to the law, the
last section of which is publicly chanted in the
synagogue: for the .Pentateuch is divided into
f~fty-four sections, according to the number OF
Sabbaths contained in an intercalary year and on
each Sabbath, beginning with that following this
festival, its respective portion is read, so that the
whole cycle is completed on the Sabbath before, or
rather, as established by custom, on that festival.
The Hynagogues on this occasion exhibit scenes OF
extraordinary hustle, and not rarely also of up
roarious joy. In the evening the places Of wor.
ship are crowded, and the boys are seen entering
with little gaily-painted banners and wax tapers in
their hands. The synagogues are most sump-
tuously lighted and before the ark generally gilt
ters o veil Of very costly materials. not unfre.
Qnently gorgeously bedecked with pearls and
| precious 6COn66. y. ~ rAtTFt t
After a short service the veil is drawn back, the
ark opened, and the scrolls Of the Law-covered
with costly stuffs, and occasionally also with plates
of precious metal-are solemnly banded by the
beadle to various persons by name tc
the ark for that purpose. This done, q portable
canopy, carried bt several youths, is extended
over the minister and wardens, who, with the
scrolls in their hands, head a solemn procession
which is joined by all other bearers Of scrolls, the
youth, and the little boys, the latter holding ir
their hands the banners alluded to, at the tops Of
which lighted wax tapers are fastened, all chant.
ing hymns in praise Of the Law.
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