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# Scraps & Facts.
The cotton received on the 4th of October at New Orleans, amounted to 11,993 bales.
The City of Norfolk, a slave Steamer, has been captured and taken into Havana.
The lightning burnt the undershirt off of a man named Allen, near Iowa City lately, leaving him unhurt.
Among the Wide Awakes from Maine in the New York Republican procession, were two sons of Hanibal Hamlin.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, are on a visit to New York, each having a son with him.
The Ohio Statesman says that fourteen thousand negroes will vote the Republican ticket in Ohio this fall, under the decision of Judge Brinkerhoff.
The common council of Lynchburg has appropriated $2,500 for the erection of an armory and drill room for the use of the volunteers and fire companies of that city.
The total number of bales of cotton raised in Tennessee for the year ending August 31, 1860, was 108,676, valued at $5,433,809. For the year previous it was only 86,321, valued at $4,266,050.
The Raleigh Register states on "undoubted authority," that the State Bank of North Carolina, in view of the alarming condition of the country, has determined to suspend discounting until future results shall be developed.
It is stated that new republican clubs have been formed in various parts of the West, under the names of "Zouave Wide Awakes," "Rail Splitters' Battalion," "John Brown Avengers," and "Harper's Ferry Raiders."
The census of Charleston shows a population of 40,748. In 1850, it was 42,985. In the last decade, the slave population has decreased 9,926, and the free colored population 184. During the same period, the white population has increased 3,315.
The only contest in the State for Congress, the present season, was between Gen. Ayer of Barnwell, and George P. Elliot, of Beaufort, to fill the seat made vacant by the expiration of Mr. Keitt's term of service. Mr. Ayer has been elected by an overwhelming majority.
At a late ball in Paris, a lady wished to remain after her husband thought it time to go home! To effect her purpose she went into the gentlemen's dressing room, and threw his hat out of the window, and then thought it tolerably safe to accept partners for the next six dances.
Out of a caravan of eighty-two persons, who crossed the Great Desert from Algiers to Timbuctoo the present summer, all but fifteen used wine and other liquors as a preventive against African diseases. Soon after reaching Timbuctoo, these all died save one; while, of the fifteen who abstained, all survived.
A meeting of the citizens of Augusta, Geo., was held on Saturday evening last, the object being to ask for the interference of the President of the United States in behalf of Col. Rudler, now a prisoner in Honduras. Resolutions to that effect were adopted, and the Hon. Howell Cobb was requested to lay them before the President of the United States.
The statistics show that the deaths in Philadelphia are one in forty-five annually, Boston one in forty-one, in New York one in thirty-seven, Baltimore one in thirty-five, Charleston one in thirty-six, in Richmond one in seventy, in Norfolk one in eighty-seven. Norfolk, is therefore, the healthiest of the sea board cities.
A citizen of the upper part of Laurens District, Mr. Isham S. Bolt, committed suicide on Monday morning, by blowing out his brains with a shot gun. It seems that he had been much harrassed in mind with the fear of an insurrection, for some time, and had lain with his arms beside him the night before his death.
Wm. H. Seward has declared that Lincoln will, if elected to the Presidential chair, immediately issue an address to the people of the United States, setting forth his views of public policy, more especially in relation to the institutions of the South In this way Lincoln hopes to quiet the fears of the South, and to prevent the secession of a single State.
There have been thirty arrests in Princess Anne and Norfolk counties, Va., of negroes implicated in the recent conspiracy there. Dick Ryan, the ringleader, and another free negro, the Norfolk Day Book says, were shot and killed by the patrol who were attempting to capture them. In Halifax, N. C., there have been some servile disturbances. The slaves on two or three farms had run off. A patrol had been appointed in the county.
It appears from statistics recently published, that the consumption of coffee is increasing much more rapidly than the production. Last year the total consumption of Europe and the United States alone was but 312,000 tons. The probable consumption of the present year is estimated at 337,000 tons, and the probable production at 274,000; and of next year the former at 313,000 tons, the latter at $45,000.
The number of American sea going vessels which were totally lost last September, or reported during the month, amounted to 35 of all classes, viz: 8 ships, 3 barks, 2 brigs and 22 schooners. Of these 21 were wrecked, 4 foundered, 3 abandoned, 2, capsized 2 burnt, and 3 were run down. The total value of these vessels (exclusive of their cargos) may be estimated at about $570,000.- Charleston Mercury.
A young woman was arrested in Hartford, Ct., on Wednesday, for stealing
