Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-12-11

November IS T
There is a powerful combination
now forming, headed by Jay Cooke
for the purpose Of securing an early
resumption Of specie payments.
Senator Fowler, of Tennessee, has
written q letter in which he takes
broad and liberal grounds on tho suf-
irage question, and earnestly favors
the immediate enfranchiscment oi
Tennessee "rebcls."
A Washington couple having the
misfortune to lose child, and wish
ing to convey tho body to Baltimore,
cvaded tho express charges by dres-
sing the child in its usual clothing
and took it between them on the
cars.
Tho frontior Index newspaper con-
stan,ly moves it's Office westward
keeping about sixty miles beyond the
end OF the Union Pacific Railroad.
The Union Pacific road conveys
passengers ono thousand four hun
dred and thirty miles from Chicago.
"Only ten days to California;" is ad-
vc, tiscd by tho Company, in connec
tion with the Wells-fargo Express.
Four hundred cars dass,d the tenn
porary bridge ever tho Missouri, q,
Omaha, yesterday.
The treasury agents seized in New
York on Friday, thirty-fvo thousand
yards of fine Lyons silks, and larg
quantities Of French clocks. 1t il
the Iargcs: SECURE ever made in the
United States, aggregating $4,000.
A kersene lamp exploded in the
house of Mr.. q. j. Leslie, at Sing Sing
TN Saturday, burning Mrs. Leslie, and
her two children to death.
Mr.. Frederick Glider, living in the
Shenandoah Mountain, near the Hardy
line, during the month Of October,
killed seven bears.
AT the late term of our District
Court, it was decided by Judge Car
reEter, military appo,ntee, that the
| proc 'amation Of P,esiient Lincoln,
Of J .nuary l, 1853, emancipating the
. negroes, was, to all intcnts and purpo.
seq, valid and binding upon The South
ern people from that date. That I'LL
sales Of slaves subst queut tc that date
were null aud void, and ii sold on cred.
ii the consideration could not be col
ected- The COUNSEL representing tho
party claiming pay for slaves sold ut
administrators sule in 1862, contended
hut they were not legally free in the
South until tho date Of Gen Granger
proclamation Juno 10Th, 1861 Cor
lpus Christi ( TEE 1s) advertiser.
A Dung Cincinnati dentist WAS in
troduted 20 fashionable beauty the
other eveEing, and gracefully opened
tho conversation by saying, "Miss-,
| hope may consider that we are
not entirely unacquaintcd. i had the
pleasure of pulling tooth for your
father only short time ago."
HAYES CITY.-General Custer has
captured Cheyenne village of Black
Kettles band, killing one hundred and
fifty, and capturing fifty three Indians
and one thousand shorses and mules
Fifiy-one lodges were destroyed
Captain Louis Hamilton was killed
and Colonel Barni,z wounded. Mnio,
Elliott is missing. OF the soldiers
nineteen were killed and fourteen
were wounded. Custer returns to re
fit. Black Kettle, the principal chic
was killed, and the tribe badly GRIP
pied.
A buried city, it is reported, ha
been discovered ben cath extensiv p,
lava fields. in the vicinity of tue vii
lage of Tayahualco, Mexico. Wei
preserved buildings and dried remain
of Eumau beings, it is stated, hav,
been uncovered. A commission O
scientific men has been sent from tb
City of Mexico to conduct the explo
rations.
The youngest mother, in Englap1
. is aged eleven years.
: The London News says we are told
= that I, 100000 meteors fall daily int
our atmosphere, and asks, "1ow fa
arc we safe from the effects Of so trt
meEdous o bombardment?
LoNDoN.-D'Israeli has resigned
Gladstone has gone TO Windsor.
Gladstone has excepted She Premie,
ship. go: -.
Mrs. A. Gatewood, of New York,
day or two age, stole quantity Q
lace. Tuostay morning detectives q,
: restad her, when she confessed he
guilt and asked for q few minutes
privacy before, accompanying th
officers. She was peamitted to retir,
and falling TO. return, tho office,
, vent up stairs and fonnd she had as
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