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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17;" 1866. was for a time Sneaker of the South Carolina UJIMAHY OF JVliWS. The Tycoon of Japan has been sending pre-lonts to the King of Prussia, j. General Schoileld has settled dpwn in Paris for the inter. THE UTOELS.

Tho Lmi the Plnckneys, of ftanib i Carolina. War and death have played sad IiavOe with, the old of the- South, and though for the greater period oi the late Rebellion South FREEUSOS SYSTEM. Interesting Letter from Ocueral Pillow. It gives us great pleasure to publish the subjoined letter from General Pillow, Most heartily dp we congratulate him upon his success, and trust that tha result of his enterprise may be fully to his antiopntlonH. He has gone to work like a man of sterling good sense, and his example ought to be followed iu all parts of the South.

If ail of her planters would do as lie has done ourglorioua section would soon agahi blossom as the rose, and attain a higher degree of prosperity than characterized her past: Nashville, Dec. 22, General O. O. Howard. Commissioner, Ac, fcc Washington It affords me pleasure to inform you that I have been successful beyond my most sanguine expectations lu engaging labor for my plantations in Arkansasaud Tennessee.

I have already engaged about four hundred freedmen. and have confidence in making a success ol' the I have given in all cases the freed-man a part of the crop of cotton, and I allow land for the cultivation of vegetables and corn for his own use, without charge therefor. I would have engaged one thousand laborers if, I had needed that number. My brother, who adopted my plan of work, succeeded hi engaging laborers for three places he is working. I have put one plautatiou under white laborers, from the Noi-tn, upon precisely the same terms I engaged frcedmen.

I feel anxious to try the system of white labor of that character for the plantation. Knowing the interest you feel iu the success of the system of tlio freedmen, and feoling grateful for your kindness to me, I feel it to be a ditty to communicate the result of my work thus far. With assurance of my personal regards aud respects, I am. Gene ral, very rcsnectfullv, Oidkon J. Pillow.

The Church of England and the Russian Church. AN ROCLKSIASTICAL COXPKRBWCB. The Moscow Gaxtte publishes a letter from Prince N. Orloff, giving an account of a meeting held in London on the loth of November for the establishment of a regular aud formal intercommunication between the Church of England aud the Russian Church. The meeting was attended by about eighty persons, "ehlerlv persons of High Church principles." Tho Bishop of Oxford Dreslded.

and there wore present the 5 Professor James Unpen. James J. Mapes, the eminent chemist and agriculturist, died on Wednesday morning last, at his residence in New York In the With year of his age. Professor Maws win born on the 29th of May, 130B. in the t-ity Whcre he died.

After serving many years as a clerk lie became a merchant at the age of twent.y-one' and was extensively engaged in sugar reriniug! in which tmde he failed. In the meantime lie gave much alt-cut ion the study of chemistry and the flue arts, and was apoiuted Professoi of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in the National Academy of Design. He wan nlso working member of many kindred societies in this city, and an honorary member of several European scientific societies. He was the inventor of several useful processes in sugar-making and refining, some of which are still In use, About twenty years no, having suffered severe pecuniary hwaes, he purchased a small farm near Newark, N. where he applied his chemical, knowledge to agriculture, with success.

He miiuufactured a fertilizer known as "nitrogenied superphosphate," which he ao-phed liberally to his and obtained large crops therefrom. He also deriveii considerable, revenue from the sale of this fortilizttr, but thtj purchasers did not have the same success in its use as the Professor himself bad. A periodical, called the Working Farmer, devoted to agriculture, was established by Prof. Mapes. It treated agriculture as a science, and labored to ground a knowledso of the cultivation of land on true principles.

Deep ploughing, draining and heavy were, in hit opinion, the only means by wiitf-h the faimoj could hope for success. The health of Prof. had been poor foi fceariy a year. Recently he was in Boston, as au expert in a patent case, and while on his way home took a severe cold, which was probably the immediate cause of h-is death. He leuvos a widow and three daughters, of whom Mrs.

M. K. Dodge, the popular authoress, is one. Many of the Professor's opinions on agricultural matters were strongly eoiubuted by practical men, and not a few did not hesitate to accuse him of disingeuuousness, if nothing worse; but there is every reason to believe that he was sincere in the opinions he endeavored to inculcate, and it is certain that practical science has lost in him a zealous champion. i CORRUPTION II PARLIAiUHT.

A Peer Bartering Away hi I'urjinniet. tary Influence. J'rmn the Xuropta Timrt, Itec. Some strange disclosures have arisen out of proceedings lately taken by the present ilarl of Shrewsbury against the North Staffordshire Railway Company, disclosures which most people will thlrtc not over creditable to one of the contracting parties, aud of which we liavo not heard the last, for they seem to us to strike al the root of Parliamentary purity, and the independence of at least one branch of the Legislature. It appears In tho lifetime of the late Karl of Shrewsbury, a gentleman named Sbarpo got up the Churuet Valley Railway, and lo secure the Earl's parliamentary Influence agreed to pay him twenty thousand pounds in addition to the value of any laud that ho might still to the company.

This railway has since been amalgamated with or absorbed in the North Stattordshlre line, and from 1818 to 1S52 Interest was paid to the Earl on the sum named. The Snrewsbnry earldom having become defunct in the direct line, the House of Ijords installed the present possessor of the title and estates. Ha attempted to enlore the stipulation which his predecessor had made with Mr. Sharpe. aud proceedings for that purpose were instituted by him In the Court of Cnaneery.

The defense that it was Illegal for a peer to barter his parliamentary intluenoe. and, secondly, that If the claim were good against the original company it was not good against the North Staffordshire Company. The strangest part of the business is, that the Vict. Chancellor held the first plea to be bad, but the second valid, and he pronounced against the Earl's claim. This decision seems to legalize any amount of parliamentary corruption in which a peer may indulge for his own privals gain.

Aud If justifiable in a peer, why not iu a member of the other House of Parliament of in ajudge on the bench? The traduction raises the curtain on the many atrango and discreditable arrangement which-are known to have beeu made at various times between railway companies soliciting parliamentary powers and the pcrsous possessing those powers. Any spirited member of the House of Commons who sifts this affair in the interest of the nation will deserve the best thanks of all thoughtful men. THE KlSSiSSIPPI BLACK CODE. Sensible Talk by Sleinphis Paper. The Memphis riullrttH says: Orders from Washington instruct General Thomas to disregard tho first section of the act of tho Mississippi Legislature, "to confer civil rights upon i'reedmeu." This first section deprive treedmeu of all civil rights, and supposes that white men may not be vagrauta.

It operates upon tne fact of color, and not upon that of Idleness. Negroes must linve homes by the MH-ond Monday of January next, and failing can only secure homos lu a certain way. They are vagrants if ihey have no homea, aud the modes of securing employment are limited and defined. To this extent the statute is nullified by the omnipotent llureau. There is but one mode of settling, anally, this negro question.

A vagrant code operative upon idleness, and not Indians, whites' or blacks, as such, must be enacted aud enforced. If our Legislature were not de-void of wisdom, it would prescribe such laws and adjourn. Tennessee lias rati tied the constitutional amendment, repudiated the "Rebei debt," and now, to prevent "restoration" reitntcs to grant negroes those rights without which they are still slaves. The Ississippl Legislature, aoolishlng slavery by accepting the amendment, restores it, pro Umlo, by recognizing difference between men equally entitled to protection as freemen. The war inutle the negro free, and It Is wrong, is unwise to evade tho accomplishment of the inevitable fact.

Whites and blacks may both be Sufferers because of these events of war, but the victors impose these terms, and wisdom compels our assent Must the future of the South be clouded forever by the Incapacity or timidity of those who guide its political fortunes? Has tne Dress lost its influeuoe or boldness Are prejudices to be feared or flattered 1 Is not tho for assent to a policy prescribed so pal pable, even as the least of evils, that tbers should be no further evasion of the terms pre-MTiteu by this and other acts of Federal auiho rity. i I The Cotton Crop of Illinois. The remarkable Increase within fonr years la the shipments of cotton from points in Southern Illinois is shown from the lact that the shipments from nine of the stultonsou the Illinois Central Railroad amounted in 1So2 to 077(1 pounds, and in iixij to pounds. The following ligurcs show the constant and rapid increase: Yenr. Paf.md.

1 lSffl 91.W The yield for ltftli is equal to tnree thousand bules, worth over half a million dollars. A New Irou Ore. 4 aetentlfln contemporary draws attention to -Christmas Dsy was oelcDratea by several wife murders. There is a famine In Toona, India, and pa-rents are eating their own children. Sandusky, Dayton aud Cincinnati Railroad was sold the other day for J750.000.

St. raul's Church, In New York, Is to be a horse railroad depot. if A eervar.t girl in London recently committed suicide from reading a "sensational" novel. The property or Judge Rost, of Kevr Orleans, tho agent of the Confederacy In Spain, bas been restored to him. It is reported from Georgia and Alabama that the Government will withdraw all national troops, and give arms to the local militia.

-Heenau brought a challenge from the English billiard champion to the American champion, for $5000. The King of Portugal recently visited ltos-llni, incopnUa, and played the piano for the maestro, and when he left save him the ribbon nt the new Portuguese order of merit. The ice in tin Mississippi broke up on Friday at St. Louis, and carried everything before it down the river. Steamboats were sunk, occasioning a loss of half a million dollars.

The remains of a "fossil man" have been discovered in Nevada Territory, and doctors estimate the height of the biped at from ten and a half to twelve feet. A tender maiden of forty-three obtained a verdict of three thousand dollars damages, in Warren county, Ohio, the other day, against a blushing youth of seventy-seven, who failed to keep his promises. It is stated that Maximilian is omitted from the Catholic sovereigns to whom the Pope sends customary Christmas felicitations. Perhaps his Holiness feared his Highness might change his post office address before a letter could reuchhlru. Got.

Brownlow, of Tennessee, wants the Legislature to build two branch penitentiaries, one for Kust and the other for West Tennessee, laying thuttne present State prison is crowded with 600 prisoners, and the number la likely to reach one thousand. A clergyman lately addressed his female auditory as follow: "Ba not proud that our blessed Lord paid your sex tha distinguished honor of appealing first to a female after the resurrection, for it was only done that the glad tidings might be spread the sooner." '-General Lee seems to be the great man down Boutli. The Richmond iHtpatch says: General Robert E. Lee attended divine worship yesterday, at St. Taul's Church, of which (Episcopal) denomination he is a member.

As a matter of course he was the "observed of all observers." A piano clown Is performing in the theatre Salzburg with great success. He plays, or rather brushes, the "Carnival de Venice avec Variations" with a clothes brush 1 His perform knees met with much approbation, and the Grand Duchess subsequently invited biro to give a performance in her state apartments. I The selling of colored people In Delaware 1 for a term of years as a punishment for crime, the Wilmington Republican says, "is now a per. feci farce. Four persons were sold a few days since and brought from twelve to fifteen cunts each, and their purchasers Immediately let them go." About thirty members of the Lowell Con sistory, of what is known as the "Ineffable de ree" oi Masonry, assembled at the Washing ton House, Lowell, and through their Presl-' dent, Hon.

Peter Lawson, presented General V. Butler with a superbly engraved seal ring, containing the emblems of the thirty-third de free, combined with General Butler's own coat of arms, and a photograph album containing portraits of the members of the Consistory. The Chief Engineer of the monitor Monad- nock reports that she is a perfect success in every respect. She is seaworthy, as Impregnable as any of her class, and leads them all in point of speed. Lately she visited Havana, but so com-' pleto is her ventilation that the thermometer never ranged alnjve a hundred degrees, and generally averaged three or four below.

Her constructor was r. Hausoom.whose resignation Is in the hands of the Navy Department. Bishop Lynch has written to the Mayor of Toronto, complaining of the Insults offered to Sisters of Charity aud Catholic clorgy in the public streets of 'Joronto. He also says that on New Year's day a Mlnie ball was fired through one of the windows of Lorette Convent into a room occupied as an infirmary by a sick sister. The ball was spent and did no harm.

The City Council have offered a reward of $100 for the apprehension of the party or parties who fired the ball, unless It was accidentally done. The Tallahassee Florldinn, In describing the late Inauguration cf Governor Walker, says at the Close of the inaugural the band of the Seventh regulars struck up 'Dixie," wh ich electrified the audience and called forth repeated cheers. All Kit Us Inspiring strains. Many among those who had periled, their, lives In defense of a cause now gone forever wept as they remembered the toils, the suffering they had endured In vain, and their hopesforever blasted, which once animated them. -While a couple were being married In ton Church, the other morniug, the mother ol the young lady, who was under age, rushed Into church and lorbado the wedding.

The officiating minister atoncestopped the service, and thsmgh the bridegroom had pronounced the words, "With this ring I thee wed," declared that no legal marriage had taken place. Since then, how- ever, the matter has been discussed at a meeting of the clergy, and the unanimous decision they arrived at was, that the couple had been properly and lawfully married according to the rites of the church. The point is a very ticklish one, and will probably have tobe settled In the law court. Alittle point In natural history, was yesterday broivht "to our notice by, a friend, who, to furnlsh'us with aa item, was to good as to bring the very cake of Ice luto our office. It was a model In ice ef the perfect thapa an cblong box, the bottom being formed by the surface ice, anil the open top having been left unfrozen at tho bottom of the box.

The ice, which was richly flowered like that upon a window pane, was about a quarter Tlouseof Renresentslives, andit Is related or hi in that his love of the classics and "old forgotten him to talk suaioleht Knglish to be intelligible to ordinary hearers. His exact relation to the famous family is not known, though.be was desceuded from the Charles Cotesworth branou of the Piuckrwy inn t.ntrnsii pinexneys, tne original smjck oi the A uierieim ftimilv. are still extant ill Lin colnshire. Members of one branch of the still retalhing the name with the same orthography which the South Caroliua family used, are now carrying on the slate and Umber business at Peterborough, Kugland. The head of this branch of the family died about a year or two ago.

Two of his sons emigrated to Australia, leaving the others to continue the business of their father at Peterborough. A LETTER FaOlJJEFFERSGS DAVIS! 1 Our readers have already heard of the Ladies' Southern Aid Association, whose ohteet Is to assist, pecuniarily, Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her lamiiy, it appears mim Hie nocreiary anu Agent of the Society recently wrote to. Mrs. Davis to Inquire to whom contributions riinlit be inclosed.

Her reply is published, and we think it presents stiflicient interest to be printed In lull. It is as follows: Mill View, Doc. 4, 186" My Dear Sir lam in receipt of your very kind letter in the name of tlio Ladies' Southern Aid Association, having "i'or Its object the purpose of placing" me "and family iu circumstances soinewhst commensurate with their estimate of" me and mine, and beairin that I will, at my earliest couvenienco, dosiguale a place to which the means so collected may be conveyed, so mat they may "safely and satisfactorily reach mo." From bur desolated an Impoverished friends I scarcely expected such aa expression of material symputuy, though my powers of gratitude fcava bceu almost daily taxed to thauk those who have, with so much heart eloquence, pleaded with the President for him who, though unsuccessful, has given you all he, could, bis best energies, and whose only hoe of future happiness lies in the sweet trust, often expressed, that ha has not lost your confidence and love. Ignorant of all which his own peoplo have done for him in his painful captivity, his devotion is unabated. The uiifortunate have always been deserted aud betrayed, and did ever man have less to complain ot when tie nad lost the power to serve? "The mult itude are silent.

Why should they speak, save to him who hears best the words most secretly uttered? My own heart lolls me the sympathy exists, that the prayers of the family hearth are not bushed. Be loving and coniiding still to those from whom I have received much more than I deserve; fir more olUcial honors than I ever desired. Those for whose causa I sutler are uot unworty of the devotion of all which I had to give." This is the message ot love which is sent through prison gales to our own people. I say our peoplo, because both of us have been brought up with you; one of us was born in Mississippi, the other came to her In infancy. These are my own people, and it is a privilege of which no change of circumstances can deprive me.

To the accepted prayers of our widows aud orphniis, our suffering but heroic women, our brave and true men, our Innocent little children, I look for the restoration to my little ubitdron to their agonized but Christian father. If a merciful Providence so ordain it, we hops to live and die amoug you, mutually consoling and bearing each other's burdens. I pray God we may be restored to the home of our childhood, for how can we sing our own song in a strange land?" We would not have our dear friends betrayed by their sympathy in offering, for our use, too much from their own "basket and store." I and mine have so far been miraculously cared for and shielded from want. We seem ever en-vired by the love which is redacted upon us from tfcut which lighted my husband in his dungeon softened his prison walls with sunny pictures of loving eyes and outstretched arms. Grief and gratitude seem to impose upon me silence.

I would, but cannot say more. I will inclose within this note the names and directions of geutlemen to whom the contributions of which you speak may be inclosed. And instead of the eloquent voice winch so ol'leu has poured forth his love to his dear people, now mute, I offer a wife's and mother's, aud a country-Woman's gratitude to you aud those you represent. I have the honor to be, very gratefully and sincerely yours, akin A. ijavis.

I NOVEL FRAUD IK NEW YORK. A Clerk at Palice IId-qarterB Dealing in Appointments tbe Force. A very singular fraud ha Just eome to light at the Central Office of the Metropolitan Police force, and one which it is Ciincull to understand under the circumstances. It apnears that Abial Swill, tumor clem in llieLlnet Clei x'somce, has been in the habitof obtaining franduleutap-poiotments on the police force lor different persons, receiving compensation for the same. How this was done requires some explanation In order to afford our readers a proper idea of the case, it will be necessary to describe the rou tine ttirougn wutcti successiui appneauts lor ap.

polntmeul have to pass. After obtaining the indorsement oi live responsiDie citizens, nis name is taken down. He then passes before the Board of Surgeons, and if fouud of the regulation boight ahd able-bodied, he Is duly passed by tho Hoard and sent to the Chief Clerk to be sworn in. After taking the oath the appointees go to the clerk charged with the fraud to receive their badges, buttons and numbers for their caps. Such is the usual routine.

On Wednesday last, while the police trials were in progress at head-quarters, a patrolman who stood charged with some delinquency in duty came before the Board of Commissioners examination. Mr. Acton thought he was oelow the standard fixed for members of the force, five feet nine Inches, and he inquired who measured him. The officer replied nobody. Ou being asked who appointed him, he naively answered, "Mr.

Swift," informing the President that he paid one hundred and fifty dollars for the appointment. He was immediately arrested and locked up to await examination, it being a criminal offense to personate an oUleer. As soon as the news of the procedure reached the clerk's ars he vacated his desk, and was not again seen in the until Sunday morning, when he was brought there by Detective McCarty. of the Twenty-ninth Precinct, and committed to a cell. At present it Is not known precisely how many of these bogus appointments have been made, but it is understood that six cases have been already discovered.

The men, having learned for the first time that their appointments were illegal, came and reported to the Chief Clerk, surrendering their shields. We understand that there cannot be many more yet undiscovered, for the books do not exhibit any deficit. The way in which Swift succeeded In passing the appointments through the regular channels was to send the men to the Chief Clerk, with several others who had been regularly passed and appoiuted, to be sworn in, and on their return issue the necessary shields aud button. Swift was for six years a patrol man, and as roundsman was terribly beaten while attempting to make an arrest, and in consideration of his severe injuries, was temporarily placed in the clerk's oitice for duty. Being prompt in the discharge of his duty, and making himself quite useful, Swift was retained in the office and promoted from desk to detk.

The rlrst fraudulent appointee discovered has been released from confinement, as no doubt exists that he acted in perfect faith, supposing that he as pursuing the usual course. Under this view of tho case, none of the others were incarcerated. Wtiat steps will be taken with them has not definitely been decided upon. JVeu York taper, An Infernal machine California Ten geance. Judge Field, of the United States Supreme Court, received by express, on Saturday, a small box with a printed address, which came from Kan Francisco, by the last steamer.

Not knowing its purport he proceeded to open It, with the ordinary eautiou which curiosity Inspires, in the presence of Judge Lake, who Is also temporarily in Washington. Upon unscrewing and raising the lid aiout half an Inch Judge Lake caught ight of several little copper wires, and instantly suggested that It was an Infernal machine. Further operations were suspended, and the box placed In a tub of water until Monday, when it was taken to the War Department, where It was opened, and twelve large metallic cartridges with heavy ball, nicely adjusted with fulminating powder so as toex-ploda upon the raising of the lid, were found. There was a single line written upon the inside of the lid, as follows: "Ist October you decided the Puebla case." The affair has greatly increased the excitement already ielt in certain circles here in consequence of the growing frequency of these. beUhwajat wcitrwaeeft Carolina was free from Invasion, that State has suffered fully as much- la Xhia respect as any other State of the South.

Tho Rebellion carried otl the lout surviving male member of one or iwo oi i no niort distinguished and impoverished not a few of the wealthiest families. The last news from Charleston brln-s us intelligence of the death of Mrs. Rebecca "Doyiey rim-aney. wno was, we believe, the last person who bore that famous name. a snort time since the famous old PInoknev mansion, which the founder of the family in this country had built in and which had become one of the landmarks and relics -of Charleston, was destroyed by fire, and Mrs.

Pinekney was iorced to retire to Walterboro', South Carolina, where sh owned a family residence. From the exposure incident to this uuaiige, very severe on a may or ner advanced age and infirmities, shecausht cold, aud died on Inst Christmas dsy.agud nearly ninety years. (wo outuvea an of ine tnends or tier yrnutn, had been for thirty-two yearn a widow, aud of soveu children who arrived at mature years she survived nil but two, both of whom were females. She had lost her sight almost entirely, and her hearing was much impaired. She retained her intellectual faculties in great measure to the last.

The family which has thus become extinct was among the most famous in our history. Thomas Pineuney, its founder, emigrated from Lincolnshire. England, in HW, and settled at Charleston. He was the father of three sons, each of whom attained some local celebrity. uis rmd child, nomas Pinckney.

was au En sign in the Seventeenth Regiment Royal Americans of the colonial army organization. 1 His second son was Charles, better known in his tory as Chief Justice Pinckney, having been made Chief Justice and King's Councillor in the province of South Carolina in 1732. His wild was the "original' rice nlanter." having: been the first person to attempt the cultivation of mai important staple in this country. Chler Justice Pinckney died in 1739. The third son of mourns l'incKney was William, who wus at one timo the Royal Master in Chancery and C'ommUsary-Generid of the Province.

The lirst son died childless; Charles had two sous and wiuiam onei This latter is unxuwu to lame, but tne sons of Charles both became famous. and are now kuown as "the Pinckuey oi Revolutionary fame." tie rot, or these was Charles Cotes worth Pinckney, who was born in 17. and died in 1SJ5. Ho was educated at Christ Church Col lege, Oxiord, studied law lu the Middle Temple, London, and military tactics in the Royal Military Academy of France at Cacu. ile returned to America a few years before the breaking out of the Revolutionary war.

He was a member 01 the tirst Provincial Congress ol South Carolina; was made a captain iu the llrt rugiment of "Rebels'' raised in 1776. and suliseuueutlv rose to do us colonel, lie served at the capture or on joriuson, in cnaneston uarnor, ana was present at the defeat of tho British at Fort Moultrie. He wus an aid-de-cauip to George asnington at Jfrandywine and Germantown. He subsequently tignred in the Soula again; was in the unsuccesstui expedition into ionda In 177 fought under Moultrie aguiUHl the Bri tish General Provost at Charleston, mid in the disastrous assault on Savanuah in 1779. (The accepted historical account of this latter battle is irom uis pen), lie neid ort Moultrie curing the siege or Charleston; was captured, and remained a prisoner until the close of the war.

During the war he was for a single session Pre sident ol the South Carolina Senate. After its close he was made a member of the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, and also of the convention of his State which rati tied IU He was also a member of the State Constitutional Convention ol 171)0. He declined a seat on the Supreme Bench, and a place in the Ca binet, both offered him by Washington. He was Minister to France in 1790, an4 was the one who was dismissed by the Hepuulican powers of the country iu 1797. Pinckney attorwards returned with Marshall and Gerry to arrange the difficulties with France, and received notice from Talleyrand, then at the headot the unstable French Republic, that America must settle the dirticulties by paying a certain sum of money or go to war.

it was ttas rineKney wtio replied.tn the phrase how historical: "Millions for defense, not a cent for tribute." The three ministers returned and preparations were made tor war. Washington was created Lieutenant- General and Coinmander-ln-cblof (the title being afterwards changed to General), and Pinckney was appointed (July I7si, Major GeueraL Wa with France, however, did not ensue. Talleyrand went down i Bona parte tin ned up as First Consul, and changed the as well as the destiny of France. No necessity for volnnteers arose. Washington died before he could accept ranx created rornim and for him only, and Pinckney was mustered ontof service because not wanted in the capacity of a (tencral, "In the same year MU0), he became the Federalist candidate for the Vice Presidency with John Adams, but was unsuccessfulreceiving only sixty-four votes against seventy-three for Burr.

This was the occasion of the famous election when the Electoral College vote was a tie on Jef fiesonand Burr.andthe duty ol electing a President devolved for the first and only time on the House of Representatives. The balloting for President began on the 11th of Keoruary, 1801, and lasted until the 17th, the House remaining in session during the whole time. Beds were provided for the members, and one of them became so exhausted that his wife had to be admitted to the door to take care of him. On the thirty-sixth ballot Jefferson was elected President, and Burr, bis competitor, having received the next highest vote, was declared Vice-President. In 1801 Mr.

Pinckney was a candidate for the Presidency, but was badly beaten by Jener-son, receiving only the votes of Connecticut and Delaware. In 1H04 he was defeated lor the same otlice by James Madison, and never afterwards fiuured in national politics. Thomas Pinckney, the second son of the Chief Justice, ami oroiner oi tne iasi mentioned, nas also a Revolutionary tame. He was a lieutenant in his brother's regiment, but afterwards served as an aid on the staff of General Lincoln: was in the battle of the Stono and iu the assault on Savannah, where he acted as aid to the Count d'Kstang, aud lead a forlorn hope. He was wounded at the battle of Camden, N.

and saved from being bayoneted by an old college claim, who was an officer In the British army. He was sent to Philadelphia, and was released at the end of the war. He was Governor of South Carolina in 1789, Minister lo Great Britain in 1792, and to Spain a few years later. It was he who effected the treaty of lldefonso, by which the free navigation of the Mississippi River was secured. He was In Congress froui 1799 to 101.

He was appointed Major-General. March 'Si. and as commander of the South ern Military Department during the war of 1813-15. prosecuted ana cioseu me campaigns against the Creek and Seminole Indians which Andrew Jackson had begun. His last battle was that of Horse Shoe Bend, Alabama, March 27, 114, which resulted in the almost total destruction of the Creek Indians as a tribe.

He wns isba tided in 1815, retired to private lite, aud died a The son or wiuiam fincKney, wno am not become' distinguished, had a sou who did. His name was Charles, lie, too, ilgured in the Revolutionary war, beiug capturwd at the taking of Charleston, and kept, like his two grand-uncles, a prisoner until the end of the war. He was a member-of the Provincial Congress of Uelegat to the Constitutional uonveniion of the States in 1788, and President of the South Carolina Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States: was Governor ot the State in 1701, 1795, and again in 1800: a Sena-'or in Congn-ss In 171W; was Minister to Spain in W02, and negotiated a release from Spain of all right or title lotlie Louisiana and oilier territories purchased by the United States from France, ills last appearance in public life was in oppoIUou to the Missouri Compromise bill, as a Representative in Congress from the Charleston District. Henry Laurens Pincknev, his son, has also a national reputation, ilewasiu t(e State Legislature from 1MB to 1832; was editor of the Charleston M'rcum lu lsifr, Mayor of Charleston during the uuUincation excitement, and Jn 1NJ3 represented that district in Congress. He was reelected in 18:.

In 1839 and 1H40 he was agaiu elected mayor of Charleston. His literary reputation chiefly depends on his editorial careor, though he published memoirs of General Jackson, Robert Y. Hayne, who was his brother-in-law, and of Jonathan Maxcv. He was prominent as a Rebel, and died at in 1S03. The huahaud of the lady whose decease has served as the text for the revival of those old reminiscences was William Cotesworth Pinckney who had the misfortune to be a valetudinarian and whoaa success in life was not at all cora-mensurat with his abilities.

The world was not his oyster, and be wielded no sword to open it, but preferred the privacy of his library, and was better s.tU4 with, bis pea tUau sword, Rishop of Lrfucoln, the Bishop coadjutor or Edinburgh, Dr. Pusey. Mr. Uddon. Dr.

Williams and Canon Wordsworth. The Russian Church was represented by Prince Orloff, Count A. Tolstoi and the Russian Chuplain In London. Prince Orloff says: "After reading the resolution of last year's meeting, purporting 'that tne doctrine of the F.astern Church should be examined with a view to mitigating the estrangement of the various Christian churches from each the Bishop of Oxford desired me lo say a few words. Having premised tPat I was speaking in a private capacity, I said that the Russian clergy, praying daily for the establishment of a common Christiau church, would be always Inclined to promote it.

In prixif of this I alleged that the study of the Knglish language had been introduced into our ecclesiastical academies, and that our clergy would be prepared to sift privately all disputed points. I added, however, that the most holy Phllaret, tho Archbishop of Moscow, and lofty patriarch of our Church, was of opinion that this was a grave and difficult question, which ought to be slowly matured, and above all, Investigated closly and minutely. In conclusion, I moved "1. That works should be published in England setting forth the history, doctrine and present condition of the Anglican Church, with a view to proving that it is not a Protestant but a Cat hollo Church, and accordingly related to tho Eastern Church. I also remarked that, the subject being altogether unknown to the Russian public, it ought to be explained fully aud copiously.

2. That Anglican clergymen sympathizing with the cause should be stationed at Moscow and St. Petersburg. 8. That the matter should not be precipitated, or urged with too much eagerness or violence, but that we should trust iu the Divine assistance rather than in the success of our human and short-sighted endeavors.

What we had to do now was to prepare the ground by elucidating the question. The seed would grow up, and future generations, perhaps, would reap the harvest if God willed it. "Father Popoff, who delivered an eloquent speech, breathing the spirit of Christianity, expressed himself lo the same effect. After him some clergymen spoke on dogmatical points. I omit quoting their opinions; they will be probably communicated by Father Popoff In his report to the Chief Procurator of tlio Holy Synod.

They had no immediate reference to the matter in hand. Ten bishops, two archbishops, and some other gentlemen, among whom was Mr. Gladstone, who was staying at Windsor with the Queen, had sent letters sympathising with our efforts. "Before the close of the deflates I rose again to declare that the Russian Church being but one of the five branches of the Eastern Catholic Church, the matter was all ihe more comDll- cated. and that the subordinate members of our clergv were not at liberty to decide any ecclesiastical questions, being entirely by the rules aud directions of their church.

The Servian stry, upon Inquiry, proved a mere myth. Prayers were offered up at the beginning and close of the meeting, which had a purely soi rit ual character. No resolutions were passed, but all agreed that the cause should be promoted cautiously but Incessantly. The day after I paid a visit to the Archbishop of Canter bury at his country seat. He would have liked to despatch two Bishops to Russia, but, hearing what I had to say against his plan, put it off.

The Bishop of Exeter, the inonegenarian patriarch of the Anglican Church, also speaks with great interest of the work of reunion. The matter has nothing whatever to do with politics, though, if a reuuion were effected, the Russian and English interests in the East might possibly become identical' General Crawford's Movements. The following is an account of the movements nf Hener.il Crawford, civen bv a Brownsville correspondent of the Mew Orleans Timet, of which some menuou uos uecn inaue in our tele graphic despatches: General Crawford comes here direct from the North, armed with an appointment as General in the Army of the Mexican Republic, and authority to recruit an American division, to be commanded by himself, for service in the Republican Army, lie nas estaousnea a recruiting office here, and I am reliably informed at several other places in tho Interior of the Stale. It is certain that ne nas plenty oi money to back up his operations' and he is getting recruits very fast, considering the size of the place, so fast, in fact, that If the other recruiting oltices do as well in proportion, no great length of time will elapse ere the American division will be recruited up to the maximum numoer. "It is said that General Lew Wallace and Gen.

Iioeau are both connected some manner with this movemeut, and that they are now on the way to this place. Caravajal, the Mexican filll-buster of fame, is also expected here soon, with a large sum of money, to assist in defraying tho expeuses of the -pleasure "Our neighbors of the opposite bank of the Rio Grande huve got wind oi this business, and are considerably worked up on account of it. The Matamoros papers are mightily troubled concerning General Crawford's movement, and are busy workiug the peopleof theclty up to the fighting point by means of appeals to their pockets through theedltorial columns. General Mejia, commanding Imperial forces iu Matamoros, has levied a loan of the merchants of theclty. He has arranged them into three classes, and assesses the first class the second class KM) and the third class t-O0.

This loan is being rapidly collected fiom the merchants, who receive in lieu of the money drafts on the Imperial Treasury at Vera Cruz, drawn by the 'Illustrious General "He has also commenced barricading the streets again, for the purpose, I suppose, of being ready for the -American Division' in case they should at any time take a notion to visit Matamoros. It is hardly to be supposed that they will make a movement on that city, from the fact that they are being recruited so openly here. It Is morethau likely they will join General Escobedo's force at Meir, and from thence move on to Monterey, establishing their base of movements at that point. However. I do not claim to possess any knowledge of military strategy, and can only base my opinion ou what would scsm most reasonable to one unsophisticated In the ways of war.

Time will tell. "A schooner, loaded with arms and ammunition, consigned to a Mr. Harbole, Purveyor at Headquarters, Twenty-fifth Army Corps, and transacting a large tMolneas In this place, went ashore near Bagdad, Mexico, a few days since, during the norther, and was seised by the Imperial authorities at that point. This fact has been reported to General Weitzel, who has instructed General Clark, commanding at Brazos Santiago, to investigate the facts of the case and report I suppose we may look for something interesting from this yet, aa It was undoubtedly a high-handed outrage to seise the vessel after It was wrecked, upou the presumption. I suppose, that the cargo wa intended for the Ke- arc -r au undescribed ore of Iron.

It has much of tha characteristic appearance of plumbago, and leaves a black greasy slain wnen rubOed De-twnen the lingers. It is comparatively soft. and when scratched with a knile falls off Um mass in beautuui shining particles, navinga metallic lustre, and not unlike powdered mica, This mineral is Snld to have been obtained in Ireland, near the surface, underlying about fif teen feet ox peal, its analysis gives me iouow-ins Der-oentmre; Insoluble (in HIT and NOSl 9-6 ferric oxide W-5, total, HW-O.) This mineral li quite unacted upon before the blowpipe, and contains uo carbonaceous matter whatever. CITY NOTICES. Cold Weather.

"Well, Jones, It's a dreadful cold day, But you don't seem to mind tl," "Why, no, I never find It i Eo cold as other people say." "You take, then, something warm withiaf "Oh, no not my UmB A man may freeze, tn spite of gin; save my comfort, health and an, And am at Bennett's Gxicn', Youths' amd Bots' Clotbino. TOWIB HaLI. No. SIS Market street, Bkmkktt A Oat Prieet greatly reduced lo ml the ttrt. Qqrb f0A( Wmr erfest (sua tr levenH jee s.

of inch In thickness and frozen up within this inclosure was a family of gold Ash. The fish ap- pear to have been totally uninjured by being i shut up in their Icy prison, and were as brisk as ever on being put Into a bath of freshwater. Salem Gazelle, Wh. Franklin W. Smith, a Boston contractor, was tried by Court-martial, and found guilty of pocketing a thousand or two dollars out of a contract with the Navy Department for supplies.

The report of the Court-martial was sent to President Lincoln for his examination, who returned it with this characteristic Indorsement; "Wlwreat, Franklin W. Smith had transactions with the United Slates Navy Department te a million and a quarter of dollars, and had the chance to steal a quarter of a million; and vhtrta, he was charged with stealing ouly and from the final revision of the testimony tt Is only claimed that he stole $100, 1 aon't believe he stole any thing at all. "Thvrrivn. the records of tfci Court-martial, together with the finding and sentence, are dis-apiiroved, declared null aud void, and the defendant to fully discharged. "OiHiUS'i) i.