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THE GREENVILLE ENTERPRISE. *-V :-r .~ , _ -it' '. i, V.*'. ' -?; ?. i.?! .jr -rr : i ra . iiib'Ii ? r* T* i I 'J|f j?. I_fc-Tr--? ?-?=rr^r wu r at tiivi.,? .,. i .it?' ,.y,,; ; <?rr%... f r-3 Deiootefo to It two, politico, 3nleUigmce, onfc ti)t ^mproo emrnt oftlje State ani; Country JOHN C, M1LEY, EDITOR & PRO'B. ' , GREENVILLE. SOtiTRiCAROLlNA, NOVEMBER t3. 1872. ..... VOl.IIMR IIT_Nn on ' ?1?. -. .,. ...jTuu ? " - 1 ?BiLi-xiLii- i ! i" ? tli*J'J"" "" BuMORirno* Two Dollars per annum. Aovbrtiskuentb Inaerted at the ratea of una dollar per aqunro of twelre Minion line* (tbla alee I type) or leas for the flrat Inaertlon, fifty cents each for the aeeond and third inaertlon a, and twontr-flre oenta for aubeoquent Inaertlona. Yearly contracta will he mnde. AM advertleementa mnat have the number of Inaertiona marked on them, or th*y will bh Inverted till ordered out, and obarged for. Tnleaa ordered otherwiae, Advertisement* will invariably be "displayed." Obituary notices, and all mattera Inuring to to Ibo benefit of any one, aro regarded aa Advertisements. ... PTJF.H LIBBRTT WHITE LEAD, -t-n? Buy the Best?It is the Cheapest To Consumers of White Loud Everywhere. UNEOiULED. 1st. For Wearing and Covering Prpnartiea. SI. For Whiteness and H-autv ol Finish. 8d For Uni'oim Fineness ol Ormding. 4th. Same Weight will do more and he'ter work, at a given rost, Ihnn an J oilier. 6lh. Moat fck-onoinienl WkiU Lead ever In* Irodneed. 6lh. If jou wish to proonre aa much value as postlnle for voor monev and recur* handsome aud durable work, uae Pure Liberty White Lead. Try it end be convinced. Satisfaction guar. an teed. WHOLESALE AGENTS. OOWER, OX & ill ARKLKY, DEALERS IN Conch ITIutci'lulH, Pillule, Oil*, (alltse, Putty, AiV.y GREENVILLE, 8. C. Oct 9 93 20 A NEW ENTERPRISE! THB PALMETTO SHOE FACTORY! GOWER, MILLS 8c CO. plied tliomtrlvta AJ/ with the be." t and ('/ \(\ mo>t akillful man. fyf WfTUl' VIA ulucturcra, togeth IAI I ^ Ipl -r with a full nilp* | I I approved machine accumulated a V I pcrior leather from their " Ruckhorn .Tannery," ?T0 piepurcd to aupply the trodo with various stylus of Men's, Women's and Boya' SHOES. Their KirM-Cliisp .Work will bo atnmpcd with tho nmno oI the' Firm, nml wnrruntcd. 7. r. (10WKR, I I H. r. MoBRAYBR, O. 1?. MILLS, I <JEO. 11ELLMAX. Sept 25 21 (Jin IMlOltS, SASH AND BLINDS, MOHLDINOS. BRACKETS. STAIR FIXTURES, Builders' Furniahiug ware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tile#, Wiru Guard*, Terru Cotta Wars) Marble and gluts Mantle Piece*. Window Gluts a Sjyccialty. Circulars and Price Lint* *ont free on application, by 1?, P. TOALE, 'JO Ilayuu and <Jd biticknoy Sta., ' Charleston, 8. C. Oct 2 22 ly ESTABLISHED 1835. GUEEKVILLE coach FACTORY, FAIL AND WINTER TRAOt, 187^3 TDK publla are notified that bcaidta our uiunl iupply of *?? VEHICLES, W ? Iw-we make aoveral new auii baudtout atylea of ttf RfiCIAWAYS' AND \ 1E? 1MB* Now and elegant atylaa SPRING-WAGON BUGGIES, for one tail two tioitea. * S: WAGOHSj iSSBBBESS&Our specialty. ?<?. ? v# - - - - - - r iTucvimi J\f ao. if iron-Axio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6~bom FAKM WAGONS kept refalatly in *toek. '^*t 37 Years practical experience ! OOWRIt, COX A MARKLEY. Oct 7 22 4 NOTICE. ALT, pereon* Indebted to the E*tate of W. II. IIOVEY. d??f?Md, and lh?i? Indebted to the Into firm of W. H. IIOVEY A CO.. pro r<-qne?ted to melee payment between this tnd the flr?t day of December next. It heintt abeolutely necee.ury to doe* the ho.inea* of the Ent.te of the let* W. U. HOVKY.,lho.? pereon* wltO neglect th'e notice wltl have their note* end no. count* plaeed in the hand* of en nttnrney tor collectluo. 8. A. TOWN EH. Oet 9 23 8 Miea Lidia Ahreme, Mr, Jamee Oop.Und and hi* wife, Mr*. Catherine Copelnnd, and Mr. BUa* M. Bailey, eliiaena of Imuran* Count'*, have died recently. 1 REMINISCENCES or PUBLIC MEN. BY RX-OOVBRNOR B. V. BERRY. i [Continued from la$t Week.] ' THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. I started about the flut of August, 1800. 1 to attend the Philadelphia National Union Convention. A t Helton I met Governor Orr and General Harrison Wo were joined by Judge Werdlaw and General McOowan at Cokesbury. In Columbia we Were detained all one day, and I went to tee my friende, the Hon. Robert Barnwell and Mm. John LoConte. Mr. Burn well gave me a great deal of pmdenl advice relative to the course fn he rviirBuoi) he? !?* I _ ? - * I ^-u<u-vu wjr % >? oumucrn ucifgnies IP I the ConTcnllon. He thought we ought to be entirely passive end simply acquiesce in whet wee done. We ought not to speak unleet It wet to represent the condition of th? South end the feelings of the Southern people. Prominence should be given to the Republicans in every thing, end the Dtmoerate keep in the background. At Cheater we were gratified with meets ing Jadge Dawkine end his lady, end also hie brother, Judge Dawkine, ol Florida, end Col, Farrow, of Spartanburg. We bed a bountiful supply of provisions end samtn thing to drink. Our Journey to Richmond was very pleneant. There the omnibus curried us, against our understanding end earnest protestations, to the Exchange Ho* tel. instead of the Spotwood. In order to show our independence, end that we were not to be enrried where the omnlbuq driver saw proper to lend tie, we nil determined to wulk on to the Spotwood Hotel, where we were handsomely enlertaiued till we took (lie night train fur Washington. We arrived there about daylight, ar.d stopped at Willard's. After going to headquarters of lite Johnson Ct*'b to eoroll our names as members of the Philadelphia Convention, we went to call on the Pi evident. His anti or r/ception room was full, and we had to wait si'Veral hours before getting an audi* ence. In the mean lime, we made the ao quaiiitanec of a g>eat many delegates from lite Kuril-west, who were waiting, like outaelvte, to see President Johnson. Afhen w? were ushered into the presence of Hit Excellency, he wade us a abort speech ; told us be wus very hopeful of the Convention, and that it wa* the most important Conven tion which had assembled since the adoption of tlio Federal Constitution, The President was looking reinatknhly well, and seemed in good spirits. I thought he had improved in every respect since I last saw him?hffc" Appearance giving the lie to ail the slanders about hie diinking. He is indeed a very wonderful man. In the evening we took the train for Philadelphia, and had a very unpleasant ride in old cats fill, d to suffocation with delegates. All the way I heard the Inquiry made wl eilier V?ll.indigham would be per milted to take his s<at in ilia Convention f Tliia suiprised ma very rauoli. I thought all would bs willing to receive any one who could give strength or bring influence to the Con volition. I and, if Vallandigham was to be excluded on account of hia Southern sympathies during the war, nil the delegates from the Southern Stales ought like wise to be excluded. There was certainly more propriety in rejecting a rebel, than a mere sympathiser with rebels.' We arrived in the ei'y about, midnight and took lodgings at the Continental 1 l??-i graphed from Columbia to reserve rooms for us. Thinking from the high sounding tides affixed to our nam?*( that, wa were all gentlemen of f -rtunes, the hotel keeper had reserved a magnificent private parlor adj-ieeni to our sleeping apartments for us to receive our company in, and for which he charged u> a round sum when our hills were footed Up. A great msn'y delegates and friends did, however, pay us the honor of calling to see us the next day, which was Sunday. . ,<<1 ah' In the evening, Governor Orr was depuled hy wnio of his Western friends to call on Mr. Vsllsndighnm and urge on htm the ptopriety of his not taking his seal in the Convention. Th^ Governor requested me to accompany Idm, which I did ; hut at the some time, expressing myself decidedly hostile to the object of hie mission. I thought it a great outrage for sueh a prop, oailion to he made hy a Southern man We found Mr. VaUandighftiu iti the midst of a large circle of friend* who ha/1 called at ' hit room to see hlra. After chatting a while, he requested us to walk into another 1 room, where Governor Orr briefly stated the nhjeol of his visit. lis told Mr. V*U landigham that his withdrawal, for the sake of harmony, would redound to Ills popularity, and be appreciated by himself and foea. In reply, Vsllandighsiii spoke ' for about an hour moat admirably, eloquent ly and feelingly. He said the opposition I to hie taking hie eeat, tame from men who had grievously injured him, and never could 1 forgive him, although he had never harmed I one of tbem. It waa eaaier for an injured man to forgiva an injnry, than for the one ' inflicting the injnry to forget it. He aaid ' hie voluntary withdrawal from tha Con. venlion would be a confession of infamy on 1 hit part?that it would ha an acknowledge ment that his antecedents had been sueh as to render him unworthy of a eeat with honorable and patriotic mm I Moreover, < he had been appointed by hia eonatituenU < to represent them, and it would be an unworthy abandonment of hla trust. If he | waa excluded for sympathising with the South, how oonld Southern dalegstea be al- j lowed to take their aeats f He spoke of hla exila and perseeotion daring the war, and | the course ha had pursued. He taid for 1 two year* Ma family were prisoners in their i own house. Ills little eon wae threatened with see awl nation If he appeared In the t itrests ! His wile never left Iter house ex ^ eept by a hack street, to tee h*r niece ! He told ua tliat be would have beau elected ' Governor of Ohio while* he was In exile but (or the Invasion of Penneylvania end Ohio by the Confederate irrniee, President Davie had sent two gentlemen to ?-e him, ad one wao a South Carolinian. lie die. oloeed bie plena to theee gentleman, end urged Preeident Davie to make t. rm* with the Federal Government whllet he had the power of doing eo. That It waa Imf oraible ever to eotablieh Southern Independent?.? That tbe Demoeralio party North nt-ver would oooseot to dlaunlon. That in all hie Intercourse with them, he had only eeen eix men who were willing to have peace on terms of eeparation I He atid not withstand ing this determination, they exulted in ev? ery Southern victory, under the bgief tbat the Federal* would quit fighting IT beaten back and make Deae*. and !? ? ??> * re*t?rc the Unlen. Mr. Vallandighem said, with great cor reotness and etnphaaia, that If Johnson did not carry the Northern election that fall, the whole country stood in danger of being defeated by a tetrlhle civil war. He explained how It would be brought about.? If the Radicate were euooeesful in the eleotioos that fall, they would impeaoh President Johnaon, and attempt to revolutionise the Government. If they still kept the Southern States out of the Union, and ex<> eluded their votes in the next Presidential election, we should have two Presidents, two Congresses and civil war. He was very confident of carrying Ohio that fall, but spoke contemptuously of the streugth to bs gained from the Republican ranks by sny proposed collation with that party. He said the accession from that party would not be enough to fill the offices of the State. In the course of his vsiy interesting remarks, he said if President Johnson had broke with the Radicals when Congress assembled, he would have carried one-dialf of the body with hint. If lie had broke with them when lis vetoed the Civil Rights Bill, he oould have carried one-third ol the party, but now lie would carry none ( with him. When he hea>d of Lincoln's 4?ath, he thought nod said that Johnson would lie the salvation of the country.? Lincoln wns a cunning, unprincipled joker, promising everything to everybody, and utterly regnrdless of his promises. Johnson was a man ol firmness and principle?a Democrat and a Southern man, Tltje war a great improvement on Liucolu. Mr. Vallandigham was utterly opposed to breaking op the Democrat io party, and expected yet to ?et th-m governing the country. lie (aid be received more votes for Governor of Ohio than any candidate ever l did before, and yet he was beaten one hundred and twenty thousand votes! The I whole army, from Massachusetts,>0"Ducoti? cut and other States, was allowed to vote against him ] 8> me of thn soldier* boasted that they voted five times at the election 1 I saw that he was determined to take lit* scat in the Convention, and 1 said to him, let your determination be known at onee. ! The opposition will grow till your decision ' i? known. I was anxious that lie should 1 tske hia eat, and thought it impolitic ntn! 1 crilrl to exclude him. Governor Orr was in favor of excluding liiin, s* he thought it 1 would hrenk up the Convention if he went ' into it! When the Governor found that I lie South Carolina delegation would not I vote to exclude him, he proposed that we I should not vote at ail. This I velicint tuly I opposed. Judge Dawk ins and several other South Carolina delegate* favored this prop- I osiitun 1 1 said it was unmanly, impolitic | and ungrateful in the South, to pursue audi i a course towards a man who had trade , such sacrifices, and suffered so much for the ( South and in the cause of constitutions) , liberty. 1 became exulted, and with a terrible oath, declared that, ?->oner than see VullanJighum treated ao unjustly, the Con venlion might break up and go lit hell I ? There wan a person ir. the room >1 I he time who seemed greatly shocked at my expre* sion. The next morning he said to u friend of mine, that he had travelled with me three or four daya, and thought, hominy sedate sppearnmo, that I wa? a member of the chnr?h, and that my denunciation f?ll 1 nn his ears like a clap of thunder in clear sunshine I was very much impressed with Va! 1 land ghain'a ability, firmness ami patriot- ! ism lie waaa great, man, and talked like < a man of geeius. He looked better than I he did when I first saw him In the Clnrleston Convention in 1800 Governor Orr j aid he was ambitious, selfish ami egotistie. | fliese ar? Very opt t<? be the qualities of a ] politician, and oven of a great statesman.? Mr- Calhoun had tils full share of them? | Ciee.ro was the prince of egotists, and so ( was Dcinosthanes. In 1859 or 1800, before , I had ever soen Vnllandlghani, 1 was so ( mucli pleased with one of his speeches in Congress, that I wrote to onr member of Congress, Colonel Ashmore, to present my grmeiui inanat to iitrn (or hia noble rfforl ' in favor of I lie South and conatitut'.ODal 1 liberty, and that it vn the apeeeb o( a I gentleman, a patriot and atateansan. Mr. 1 Vallandighain wan ao mueh pleaaed with < the o?mpliment, that ha brgged tha letter i if Colonel Aahmore to aend hi# wife. Poor I Vnllandigam ; how deeply I mourned hie t untimely and aod death. ] [Continued next Meek.] ( 1 I The government eel I# a million of gold i >aeh Thuraday, and buya a million in bond# tacit Wedneaday of November. Fine North Carolina apples are ael? ing in Pickena, at fifty centa a btiabel. J The valuable property known as the j Columbia Hotel i? advertised for aale at ( tuction, on Tuesday, December 3. It j a the moat deairable piece of properly n Columbia, and centrally located. f General Wade Ilamptioo will deliv- j )r n lecture in Alexandra, Virginia, c within (he next fortnight, on the life tod character of General Lcc, ^ ' t mcnouL i from ih* Mtt*4H i'h. * The Georgia Sensation?The Mysterious Doings in Appling County. Gkoete, HobgoUinye and Uneern Spirit* to the Front?Cockeru, Pottery, 0taeimare and flutrher Knire ?Kari of Com, Smoothing Iron* and nook* Jumping Around tin Floor?Tkl Old Faimty Cloth and /led-Hot Jlrivkbnt*?Fire Hundred People on the Oround?Full and Complete Particulare. On Sunday afternoon, it will be remembored, we published a brief paragraph stating that strange and supernatural tnanitestations had taken place at Surrency, in Appling County, 100 and 26 miles from Macon, and about sixty miles from Brunswick. Mr. Surrency is a gentleman well-to do in the world, and rs unirorsally regarded as one of the tnoet honorable citizens of the -county, and K would seem his house would be the last one ghosts would select in which to play mischief. WUAT MR. BURKKNCT 8AYS. Soon after daylight Mr. Snrrency came into the room and proceeded to toll from the beginning what had taken place np to that time. On Friday evening, a short while before dark, the family were greatly alarme 1 by sticks of wood tlying into the house and falling about the floor, from directions they could tell nothing about, ami without any human agency they could see or find out. The wood would fall before being seen, and what made the mystery more mysterious, the room in which the wood was faljing had all its doors and windows closed. This was in (ho front room. Soon after dark they stopped falling and was sue cecded by brickbats, which fell at short intervals throughout the night in every room in the house. Mr. Surrency, his wife, two grown daughters, Mr. Iioherts, a clerk and a Baptist minister by the name of Blitch, were present, and with the exception of the minis^ ter, who got upon his horso and left, they all remained awake the whole night. Notwithstanding; the windows and doors were tightly closed, and no opening left in any portion of tho house the brickbats continued to fall ; but although sometimes just missincr. but not ono otrnH; any poreoti. UOTTLEH AND GLASS TAKK A HAND. Soon after the bricks commenclscI falling, bottles, vases and glassware generally commenced jumping from their usnal places, fall ing and breaking. Mr. Surrcncy seeing the distraction going on, directed a negro man to take four bottles containing kerosene oil out of the bouse and place them in the yard. No sooner had be 6et them down when one flew back, fell in the middle of the room, scattering the oil in every dircclion. The whole family saw thi9. It seemed to come down from the ceiling over head, ami indeed everything else falling did so perpendicularly?that is to say came straight down from above. These strange antics continued with scarcely one minute interruption until daylight Saturday morning, when they ceasod, leaving the bouse nearly bankrupt in crockery and glassware, and a large quantity of brickbats and billets of wood around the floor. That afternoon, or on Saturday, the 19ili, they commenced again pretty much in tho same manner, ana doing about w hat had taken place the night previously. '1 lie family which had now been Joined many neighbor*, watclicu every nook and corner of tlie house to detect, and, if possible, to unravel tlio mystery. But so quickly would pitchers, tumblers, books und others articles jump from their positons and dash to the floor the eye could not follow, and broken fragments wore the first things seen, except in ono inrtunco, and that whs a pan of water and some books ; they were teen to start. . ' , ; "! k chairs, 81i0ks and ci/>ti!ino were tumbling about the house as f the hand of a veritable witch or inseon devil was present, lint the most inapplicable incident of his dav was rh? ?a/??nn ??' a ^ ^ | -w O ll'K VI ordinary clothes hooks frotn a ocked bureau drawer. They also fell on the floor, the drawer remaining tightly closed aa usual. Nothing else of spiritual noto ocinrred to day. All got quiet at lialf past eight o'clock Saturday night. TlIK OPKRATION8 OF SUNDAY. As stated above, our special ro i norter arrived before daybreak md hoard the story of Mr. Sur- t *cncy as above related. So soon i is he got through w ith it he step)ed up to the OI.D FAMILY CLOCK ind was about relating how rapdly tho hands had tiaveled the ] lial when the ghosts wore about, i >n tho previous day. All eyes I vero turned to it, and much to , their astonishment the hands commenced running around at the rate of about live hours a minute. It was a thirty hour weight clock, and after seeing it run at this rate for a short while our reporter determined to at least solve this mvs teiy. lie stopped the clock, carefully examined the machinery, and found it not only in perfet order, but nothing whatever nnnsnal, inside or onr. lie could not for the life of him see tho slightest thing wrong about it. tl1e magnet tueoby. It has been suggested that there may bo a largo magnet about or under tho house, but magnets do not attract wooden substances, and, besides, whilo the clock wns running at its rapid rate. Mr. L. had his watch in his pocket, which kept on its usual way, and was not in the least affected. lie set the clock right, when it continued to keep correct time up to the time ho left. * a bei> hot brickbat. Nothing else unusual occurred until seventeen minutes before twelve o'clock, when tho performances reopened by a pair of scissors jumping from the table to the lioor. At that time Mr. Lindenstruth was sitting in a chair, when, without the slightest premonition, a large brickbat tell with great force right beside him, breaking in two. lie Immediately picked up a piece of it and * aiiueu lb 10 iUllSOn, Alia DotlJ found it Slot. Then taking up the otlicr piece lie tried two or tSireo times to break it by tlirowing it on the floor, but tailed. lie then laid this second halt' on the sill of a window in the room, intending to bring it home. Resuming his seat near the tront stoop, he was again staitled by tSie piece he had placed on the window tailing at his feet, and once more breaking into two pieces, lie did not pick it up again. At twelve o'clock a smoothing iron jumped from tlio fire place about six feet into the room. It was replaced, and again jumped out. lie noticed that the iron was also hot; but this may have been heated At (lie lire. A BI10WKR OF COIIN. At about this titno dinner was announced, whon the family and many guests walked out to the table. Soon after being seated an ear of corn, apparently from Hue ceiling over head, fell between Mr. .James Campbell, of Macon, and Mrs. Surreney ; striking the floor with great force il broke in two, scattering the grains all round tho room. Later in the day another ear of com fell into another room, striking near Mrs. Hums, a Northern lady, who at the time liar! an infant in her anna. Soon after thi&. whilst Mr. D. M. McGuuley, AlleU Walls, Robert It. lVestel I, C. C. Kason, John M. Walls, J. W. Roberts and Daniel Carter, of that neighborhood, and Campbell, Lindenstruth and Macon were standing in the front room, llioy were at the time intently watching everything visible in the room, but nono saw this until after vessel was broken. I TUtC EX Cn'KMKNT-v EXTRA TRAIN. So rapidly had tho news spread, at d so great was the excitement, the Macon and Brunswick Railroad dispatched an extra train on Sunday. It ailived at Snrrency about three o'clock in the afternoon, with seventy five people on hoard. But the ghosts, spirits, or whatever else they might be called, did not choose to givo them any manifestations, and tho train left in about an hour, taking most of them back. A few remained, however, determined to see into tho matter. There wero at least three or tour hundred persons on tho ground daring Sunday, and op to tho time our reporter left fully fivo hundred had visited the place. OTI1 Kit 8iqns AND WONDEK8. While all tIicpc things were going on in the house, the kitchen department was hy no means idle. Butcher knives, skillets and crock eryware were falling around loose to the terror and horror of the cook. Another inysterous thing occurred on the liret or second day. Little piles of sugar, totally unlike anythihg ot the kind then used hy the mtnily, were found upon the ll.?ors of the residence.? In one of these a few pins and Bteol pons were found. There were various other incidents of this totally incomprehensible mystery related to and seen hy our reporter, but enough has already been given. what is xr ? Tso one who has yet visited the place can give any rational theory its to tho agency which produces these strange sights. Mr. Switch. ;y is a plain, old fashioned Geor gia gentleman, ami it greatly -|in> *( uoyed and disgusted with tho t whole proceedings. He peremp- t torily refused any compensation ] from any one ot tho two or three I hundred persons who hare eaten c at his table. If they are prodnc- ] ed by magnets they must be of a 1 different kind from any ever i known. We must loave the ques- < tion tc some one else for solution 1 At tho time our Macon party left ? people were coining in from all t directions, and we presume the < excitement continued today unabated. f The Macon Telegraph contains J an afeconnt of the mystery* fully < corroborating the foregoing, and i says that Mr. Snrreticy, whose < | house the demons, human or su- < i pernfttiirttK have baI round f> tr tlioss* ! t revelry, ia a gentleman of luost. I excellent character in lib comma- t nity. He is one of the leading t men of Appling County, a quiet 1 and good citizen, and has repre- ' scnted his county in the General J Assembly of the State. He is the < owner of one pi tho finest farms < in tho county, and is also agent i tor tho Macon and Brun^yiok t U-.ul at No. 6. 1 TII1C HAUNTED HOUSE IN AI'PUNO < COUNTY, GEO KOI A. ' The spiritual minions and fiend* 1 ish embassadors of His Santanic Majesty seem to presevcro in i their visitations upon tho premises | of Mr. Surrency, at No. 6, Macon j and Brunswick Railroad. < The following account of a few < hours experience in this little | branch house to pandomonium 1 from which his majesty seems de- < tcrmined to expel Mr. Surrency, I is furnished by Mr. VV. C. Reins < hart, of Jessup, for the Black" | shear Goorgian. He says : I YVhilc there, one or two bricks ^ and a piece ot chamber crockery 1 tell, but as we did not see them ' start, or while they were in mo- ( tion, wo wore very much inclined 1 to belfeve that they wero thrown 1 by some person. On Monday 1 night, however, I went up again, ( and remained till Tuesday night. ' Up to dark Tuesday afternoon 1 ' saw nothing fall that could not i ? * * imvu UV3UU mrown oy some living ' person and so expressed myself to 1 Mr. Snrrencv. Shortly after dark, ' however, Mrs."8urreney came in- J to the parlor from the kitchen, and ( told Mr. Currency that every one 1 would have to leave the kitchen, * as things were falling there at such 1 a fearful rate 'hat it would bo 1 dangerous to ro nain. f Mrs Surreucy then took ns all ' into the kite's:., where we saw several bottles and various othor I things that had fallen. As soon as t c got into the kitchen things were heard to fall in the front rootn vf the honse, and the crowd went bjick. Knowing that things seldom fell where the crowd was, 11 took a seat and remained in the Mtchen. While there I saw a tin pan stai t from the table and full on the floor. Shortly afterward, Mrs. Snrrcncy was cutting a piece of meat, ami had occasion to leave it and go to the stove. While she was at the *tovo, or rather, as she turned froth the store to ..go back to the table, a servant girl and some of the family cauio in wit' the piece of meat which had fal- I len in tlio middle of tho parlor c floor. I urn confident no one ex 1 cept Mrs.. Surrency end n#yself * were in llio room the time Mrs. 1 Surrency was cutting tlie incAt 1 until it was brought in by thfc ser- 4 vant girl. I saw Hcvoral other re* ! markablc things, but tbe ftbovo is a fair patnplo of the doing of the? (well, I won't mention fiis name) up there. VV. C. EE MS II ART. ! [ From the Oeierraior* Jiom<ino,} I A Romantic Snicide in Naples. ' A melancholy occurrence, 1 which has no pnrallel in tho re- J cords of romantic crime, recently 1 took plnco in Naples. In the 1 Ilivicr a di Cbiaja resides Siz So * raphino Itissi, who is tho official " agent in Naples of tho ltoynl Lot- . tery bureaus and tho owner of a ? magnificent silk bazaar and a pri- g) vato banking-house on tlie Toledo. ^ lie litis a son. Giovanni, and two c (Ifliwrlilora M .-u ' ?1 u. win. avisoi uiou never- I jj al years ago. The son had long j p lived in an English boarding I ?> house, in tire Struda ISanta Oatri ?t na di Chiaja, kept by 0110 llrync. I1 In old lhnnba's flourishing days & a grot in wan aunt to England to " purchase valuable horses. While 11 i in London his Majesty's groom 11 died, By the old King's pormi6- " sion the horses were given to " Byrne, who was an export jockey. " Byrne went to Naples, and was 11 engaged in his majesty's stables.1 " Step by step ho advanced to tlio! *' position of master ot horses.? (li Whon the old King was dying ho M did not forget tho horseman. During tho brief and unhappy reign ? ? ?VI Bjtttti* ained bis old position, and when ho new King was driven from Naples bis Queen promised the torseinan that be or bis family ilioold never want as long as her jurse could assist tbem. Byrne, isd saved money, and when quiet 'eigned in Naples he fitted up a sommodioiis and respectable >oarding?bouee, which has ever unco been the favorite resort of ourists in moderate circumstances. Young Giovanni Rissi bad been or several years a visitor at Byrne's bouse, estensibly to pro jure a knowledge of English, but eally to court one of Byrne's ors. Mr. Byrne bad two luughteiB, Eliza and Martha, who vero accomplished and of great teauty. Eliza, the elder, added o her remarkable personal charms uid amiability of character suticieut to win the most fastidious. >ho formed a union with young Liissi, and both lived with the firm determination of one day besoming man and wi o. Tbo marriage day was finally settled lpon, but Risai's father objected. Mr. Byrne watt indignant at the jlder Rissi's objection, and refused ,o permit his daughter to hold further communication with the banker's son. From the 6ih to the 9th inst., which included the day assigned Tor their wedding (August 8th) lothing was heard of Miss Byrne >r Giovanni Rissi. Rumors ot an 3lopetnent were inevitable, the general belief being that they had tied to Wems' Bay near Greensock, Scotland, where Miss Byrne had many friends. About 7 /clock on the evening of the proposed nuptial day, when the sun :ind just set over the grand bay of Naples, and while thousands were pnng to the princely grounds of lie Villa Reale to hear the tnusic >f revel in the luxuries of the laintily-tashioncd salloons, the ntcution ot a policeman was atracted to something which was )Ccasional!y rolled up by the lido ip the convex walling of the pubic garden ou the bay. Tresses, the folds of a silken Iress, and also the garments of a nan made the gend'arine hasten :o the authorities of tho deadlouse and announce what had jcen seen. The morgue boat with iid uHBijr liu* vring, was Bern 10 mo ipot and I be objects were hoisted >11 board. A young man und wonun bound together with cords iround the ankles and necks were cvealed to the men in the boat.? rho girl had been beautiful. The nearly teeth, chiselled features, md splendid auburn tresses put he orpse mongers out of their outitic of cold carelessness for nice. The portly foi m ot the veil-known and universally'-adnired Giovanni Ilissi was then liscovered. The music in the garden was liushed, and the news ot the disjuvcry spread through every circle within the Villa Realc?nobles, mtitled aristocracy, and plebeians. L'lie point of the public garden, op>osi(o gloomy Vesuvius, where lie corpses were found was hronged with spectators, and tho >?>at was followed on its way tip he hay to the dead-house. A phial >f priussic acid was found on Uissi, ind iL WH8 proved that lie ami the ;irl died froin the effects of pois>m. The bodies wero taken to tho ate dwelling of Mi6B liyrnc, and d'terwnrd the remains of Giovnnli Kissi were sent to his father's louse. Serenade of the Governor Elect. The Sumter New*, of last Thursday, give* 1 notice of a serenade of the Governor ?leot, Mr. F. J. Moes*. Jr.: " Toreh'Lit}ht Proctttion ?Oa lent Friday light, the liftth nit , tlic colored (iici.de nd supporters of the Governor elect, had g> nod ovation, in honor of Ida election o that elevated poaition. They turned up eek, and played the very old Sntan, around own. They could not k:ck up a dual, aa lie heavy rain that had jnal fallen, preented that oonenmmalion ; nor did they lake eneh olhera' fur fly, ea their apirits rere too exuberant, and their aoula ton oh he joyful' for aucli a catastrophe na tat, but they hollered, yelled, rhonted, reamed, snorted, pitched and cavorted, ancrd, pranced, and tore around like omsncliss, on 'ft bender;' brat the drum ke they were trying to stave In it* head ; nffed nnd blew on wind-instruments, and randished torches nbout like n legion of emona, fresh from the sulphuric regions of sndemoninm. They marched around In oisterouv procession, to ths Gubernatorial ransion, where his Kxcelleney received iiem with distinguished consideration, and nsde a speech which elicited thunders of pplnioe from the Inmultuona ninllittide.? lis manhood seemed tborouglily aroused, nd his voiee rang loud and clear above in din of the uproaiiotis crowd. We preme, that he w ns equal to tlie grenl omer?ney, and that he extended the hospitality, inal on such occasions. We have no ids a nit so much noise was made, without ilia wietanco of Itlue Huin.' The prooeasion as a tremendous affair. The Governor's nr is just now, in the ascendant."