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THEilOKHY NEWS,] Kvery Saturday Iflor niii?# j T W. EEATY, Editor.' TDKMS: ()\ V. YK AR, $2.00 Six Months, $1.00 All roiiiiniMilcNlloiiKlciKlliistONPrvp peltate (liferent, will be cUar^eil lor ns ml vert iKeineiitN. Professional & Easiness Cards V. 1>. 40J1NSO.W J, M. JOHNSON L'. y. </lATTlJ??A.l!ML. 1 JOHNSONS 5 QUATTLEBAUM, j A'lTOKNKV.s and COUNSKLOHS AT LAW Conwayboro, S, C. j OS. t. walsh, All. ' " Aoiomoy at Law and fcOIJClTOK IX KlJUlTY, U':ll practice in the courts of Marion, Horry and < Ivofgelow u. (H1\,hi at CON W AYKuIlO, S. O. Nov IS, ts7<>-tf. r m V."Y;ii.1 j-isi'iKi"" Attorney and Ccvmsoiler at Law Wtti give prompt attention to all busittes entrusted to bis caro. CONWAYBOHO, S. t. Jm no, -\ 1S71. r IM>1.AKA ilAia Commission Merchants, iyi fuont street, MEW YORK. i.it>eial advances made on consignments Naval Stores, Cotton. Ac. Orders receive Prompt Attention, I'ncxceplionablu references given North and South. J. ii. T )i.au J. H. Hart. of N. C. o( K. C rpilOS. Ij. JlAKKKl.SON, Commission Merchant *S!iij?I?iijtr and Forwarding A tie i it. mi.l. UKKEK, S. <J. special attention given to the buying ant) Colling of T<>.\ Ti miikk, ami other produce. Comfortable J/ouxe.i, Luis owl .St utiles f for frittiix, null hr fnrtiishcil to transient JimIter men, withoui ('huri/et who entrust their business t<) me. Y J.'rWiijjAMS, t) I>K AI.KKJi J* oenkkal mkuchan ihze, .MAM'FACTUliER OF NAVAL STORES COM.MISSION MEUC11ANT. A Nl> FOEWAEDING AGENT. Special attention given to the buying and soiling of Ton 'limber. HULL CliEhl\, S. C. ?).r~c. nooznit WITH EDMONS T.BROWN, WJlol.JiSAI.K OKA I.Kit I.V MEN AND HOYS' Bfiat*, Gap* X Straw Goods, AI.RO Ladies Misses and Children's Ilats, No. M IIav.nk St. CHARLESTON,,: S. C. Opposite Charleston Hotel. nov Id. Om. "Go! Feci ? hat 1 Have Fell.- , [A young lady in Xcw Y< rk was in the liabit of writing to the Philadelphia J^edyer on the sul>j"Ct of temperance. Her writing was so full of pathos, ami evidenced such a deep emotion of soul, that a friend of hers accused her of becoming a maniac on the subject of | temperance; whereupon she wrote the following lines:] Go, feel what I have felt; I Go, bear what 1 have borne? Hlnk 'neath a blow a father dealt, And the cold world's proud scorn; * Then sudor on from year to year? I Thy sole lclief the scorching tear. Go, kneel as I have knelt; < Implore, beseech and pray; I Strive the besotted heart to melt, t The dow nward heart to stay; ] Jie dashed, with hitter enrse, aside, , Your prayers burlesqued, your tears defied, | Go, weep as I have wept, O'er a loved fathei's fall; ' See every promised blessing swept? 1 Youth's sweetness turned to gall; Life'* fading flowers strewn all the way That brought me up to woman's day. Go, see what I have seen; ( Heboid the strong man bow, . With gnashing teeth, 'ip bathed in blood, ( And cold and livid brow; t Go, cateh his withered glance, and see I There mirrorM Ids soul's misery. t Go to the mother's side, And her crushed bosom cheer; Thine own deep angush hide; Wipe f:om her check the tour, Mark the worn frame ami withered brow, The gray that streaks Jicr dark hair now? The fading form and trembling limb, And trace the ruin back to hiiu Whose plighted faith in early youth i J'roinlsed onternal love and truth, J tut who, foresworn, hath yielded up That promise to the cursed cup, And led her down through love and light, And all that made the future bright, J And chained her there,'mid want and strife, That lowly thing, "a drunkard's wife;" And stamped on childhood's brow so mild. That withering blight, "a drunkard s child." (Jo, bear, and see, and feel, and know All that tny soul hulh felt au<1 known; H Then look upon the wine cup's glow? 1 See If its beauty will atone; r Think if it's flavor you will try, i \\ hen all proclaim, "Tig drink and die !" Toll me I hale the howl ? t Hate is a feeble word; ( I loathe- -abhor! My very soul With deep disgust is stir red Whene'er I see, or hoar, or tell c Of this dark beverage of hell! * i J VOL.8. CON^ Th* Decision on Ibe Enforcement Act. Tlio Grant Uarish ease, from Louisiana, and tho Kentucky election case, were decided by the Supreme Court ot the United States on Monday. They involved the most important questions considered by the court since the legal-tender decision. The indictment in each case was based upon the celebrated enforcement, act ol 1ST0, and the Court was called upon to construe the third, iourth, and sixth sections of that act. The defendants to the Grant L'arish | ease were indicted for alleged violations ol the sixth section. This prohibits two or more persons from banding or conspiring together "to injure, oppress, threaten, or itimidate any citizen, with intent to prevent or hinder his lull exercise and enjoyment ol any right or previlegc granted or secured by the Constitution or laws of the United Slates." The defendants wee charged in the indictment with I conspiracy-to do certain specified acts, ) in violation of this provision. Were tlii; rights which they threatened to interfere with grunted or secured hy the , Constitulion or laws ol the I ni'cd ( Slates? If they were not, the ir.dict- j ineni was fatally detective. The Supremo Court has derided Unit j they were not. To appreciate the scone and importance ol the decision, j it is necessary to understand what ! were the rights under discussion. One was the right ol peaceable assembly i for a peaceful and lawful purpose. This, says Chiel .! ustice Waife, existed long before the Constitution ol the I United Staled, and leinauis subject to State jurisdiction. The States alone are authorized to punish its infraction i It was also alleged that the conspirators intended to interfere with the rights ol life and personal liberty, for they were charged with conspiracy t ? falsely imprison or murder certain citizens ol the United Slates resident in Louisiana, These rights, say the Court, are the natural rights ol man, n 1 ti e sovereignity for their protection rests alone with the States, " The only obligation resting upon the United Stales is to see ttiat the States do not deny the right.' Again, it was averred that the defendants sought to restrain the right of certain colored citizens of African descent to vote at any election. The right of suffrage, however, a; was decided by the Supreme Court two years ago, is not derived from the Constitution ol the United States; and as the indictment did not charge that the intent \v.;r to exclude the colored citizens from voting on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?so as to bring the case within the terms of the filtccnth amendment?there was nothiu" to I show a violation of the Federal Constitution or laws. From this it will he seen that although the Supreme Court does not in I - - in .no uuuiure 111c sixm section ol the Enforcement act to he uncoustitu tionul, it docs decide that the. hroa<l inter].rotation and application sought to he given to it in the Federal courts below is in violation of the rights ot the States and the Constitution of the United States. In the Kentucky election ease, the rjncstion was whether tiio third and lourlh section of the Enforcement act were appropriate legislation, under the Constitution, to enforce the fifteenth amendment, which provides that the right ol citizens to vote diall not be denied or abridged bv the o J United States, or by any State, cm ac* 3ount of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It is the opinion of the Court that the United States has the right under this amendment to punish unlawful individual discrimina.ions on account of race, color, or servitude! hilt. |)im nliifi'tirtii tft i I...j.. y ^ v |*. vi ?? ! wr tuwr\; nw " .ions ol the Enforcement act is licit dicy do not stop there. Irrespective jf such discrimination, they piovide generally for the punishment ol intoicrence witli the right of suffrage, and ,he power of Congress does not even <1 no lar an this. It being impos- < lible to separate the unconstitutional >arlH of these sections Irom those 1 yrhich are constitutional, the whole nust fall. 1 The result of both decisions is that ,he operation ot the Enforcement act s so restricted as not to interfere A'iUi ilic police powers ol the States, iu<I the thir.J and fourth section* are < nactically stricken lroin the statute jook. A SINGULA It LAW SUIT. j dr. David RIsIej'H Claim Again*! the i I'lurnlx Hank of New York. I [New York Sun.] j Judge Van Yorst rendered a deci- 1 ion of unusual importance on the , 4th instant. Mr. David Uisley was i citizen ol South Carolina at the out>roak ol the war in 1801, and with a iew of putting something beyond < ho chances ot war, bought ol the > Georgetown Hank of South Carolina !' t check upon that hank's Xew York < :orrcspondent, the l'hccnix Hank, tor ilO.OUO, The bank in George- i i ? - I , *.I> X> "V r^lrL' jL .An Indopoi WAY 110 IK), S. 0., HA town had deposits in New I York inoro than sufficient to secure this check. Mr. lUsley wc. not able to present his cheek at lite I'lurnix Hank until the 4lh of January, I8C">. lie avers, and the hank officials now admit, that ho presented his check on that day, and was told that it. was good, and that they would honor it, I hut that Mr. Kisley must first satisfactorily identify himself as the payee, fie said he would do so, and went to the hank on the nert day wiih unquestionable proofs ol his identity. Hut the officers then refused to pay hint, saying that the United States govern- I ment had attached the money of the Georgetown Hank, lot confiscation. Mr. Kisley could got no satisfaetion : at that time, and when he could conveniently do so, he sued the hank lor dishonoring the check, claiming the < amount, with interest and damages. It seem] from the admissions in court that the depositsot the South 1 Carolina bank were libelled iu the 1 interim In-tween the presentation <>t i the cheek on the 4th ot January, M * 18(5"), and the re-appearauee of Mr. 1 i?:.. i -. . i i > iviMi-y .11 uiv iMiiiiv on i no next (i ty. I. Mr. Kisloy says that a bunk oflieial, I as soon us I?o was out ol sight, lushed i oil'to t lu* United States dist rieL attorney, ami had the money libelled, ami [: as iie did not see lit to intervene as a ? claimant, the government took a de- j < lanli, and the money was divided in !: moieties, fees ami percentages, the n government getting only ol the I whole sum confiscated. j It is admitted now that, sinee dis- | loyal t y cannot be predicated ol a hank- j i iiiLr corporation, the conliseaiion oi the ' money was illegal and Voidable. I < .Judge Van Yorsl, liou evi r, rules m against Mr. Kisloy on anothei point, i dismissing his complaint on the < ground thj?t a bank is not liable on an j I oral promise to pay made by its otli- L eers. The case will now go to the ? general term. < The Silver Circulation. I - < The accidental omission of a line in ' some recent observations ol ours on lionan/.a Mining made it wrong in an ; important particular, and we will now ' set tlie error right. The present transitional stage ol ' silver productions is an inopportune J period to restore a silver Iraetiotial circulation, not because the use ol . 1 silver tor that purpose is not desirable. ' ( but only because it is impossible to " establish accurately at present the permanent relative worth of Silver as compared with gold. II" silver is going to fall in value to filly cents on the dollar, as it may, under the process of demonetization now going on, it it extenned to India and other Asiatic countries, we ought not to buy thirty or forty millions at eighty-live or ninety cents on the dollar, the price the Government has been paying for its present stock on hand; and we ought not to choke our channels ol fractional circulation with any such debased! currency as we shall have by going on with the emission of silver at its exist- ' ing price. 11 our ntescnt silver oneaiter is soon ' to be won h only u York shilling, wh?n (' measured by gold, we ought to k< i*j> v ourselves in a position to increase iIn * intrinsic value hy adding more metal, ,l without subjecting the Treasury to ;l sciious and unnecessary loss. Of 1 course, if silver continues to fall, ol which there is every prospect, all na- ' tioiiH will soon be under the necessity ( ot reconstructing their coinage on a 0 new teisis as respects the relat ive worth of the two metals. lojis imppossihle to proceed with our coinage ol silver on an arhitray assumption of its value, which may soon differ immensely from its real value. It will, lor instance, he n preposterous to go on calling a coined \ silver dollar a real dollar, alter it shall Ij contain only fifty cents' worth of silver, v This debasement, or anything like it, a is what at this moment the Treasury I li ought particularly to avoid. f; The Treasury has already got its v lingers severely hurucd hy silver pur- t chases made to replace the fractional : v paper circulation,ami it should beware J a of going any further in that direction, i ? What it has already done is had g enough, and inexcusable enough from t any economic or financial point of I view; but to travel further in the same 'i road, in the present state of the silver f market, would he without any justili a nation whilcvcr. There is nothing a left but to a wait the progress of events, v which must soon denote the ultimate h shape weich this interesting problem I is likely to assume. t It is a great pity that the regular s issue ol the fractional paper currency s was ever disturbed. It ought to have a been left to follow in the wake of the t greenbacks in which alone it was made s redeemable.?N. Y. /Sun. o Mic Obstructions ill Savannah Hack Rivet'* n e The nature and efleet of the dam or t obstructions upon which the United \ States Engineers are at work in the s Savannah Kiver are difliuull to under- 1 uand without reference to a map. v Kor a considerable distance, extend- a ng lrom below the Savannah Land j g ft i 4 -^^4 JLLi idoiit eiournal. fUllD.VY, A1MUL 8 Charleston Railroad crossing to u point just below the City of Savannah, tho Savannah Kiver is divided into two streams, which form Isla, Argylc, Hutchinson ami other islamls. The river on the South Carolina sole is known as the Hack Kiver, hut it is as hoi.1 and broad as the steam on the Georgia side, which retains the name ol t he Savannah. Tne plan ol the engineers is to block up the channel or "cross-lides" between Argyll- and Hutchinson lslan Is, making them one island, so that the whole body of water of the main Savannah Kiver, a large part ol which now llows through this channel into and down the Hack Kiver, shall he kept on the Georgia side, with the hone that the increased volume ami rapidity ol theenirrent will dei pen the channel at and Ik low Savannah. The project. is an excellent oik*, so far as Savannah is concerned; but ii will Infatal to the rice plantations wlbch hue the Hack River, ami the proposed obstructions will, moreover violate a solemn treaty between Urn States <d Roorgia and South Carolina. The Seeoud Artiele o{ the Treaty of I>eaulor< is as follow*-: Aktu i.k 11. The navigation ol the River Saraiinali at and from tho bar and mouth along the northeast, side ! [>l Uockspur bland, and up the direct [iourse ol the main northern eliannel along the northern side of Ilulchinsou's Island opposite the Town ol Savannah to tin* upper end ol said Island, and Irom thence tip the hed or principal stream of the said Uiver t > the confluence of the Tugaloo and Keowoe Kiv is, and from the conlhi. I ' l I .nice up the channel of tl e most north .un stream ol Tugaloo Uiver to its source and hu k again hy the same ! ; tiannel to the Atlantic Ocean, is hereby declared to he henceforth [cjU't/ly ' tree to the eui/.ena ol both Slates, and 5.T(7/i/i( Iiom all duties, tolls, hinderince, inlc> ruction, or molestation whatever, atU mplcd to he culoreed hy one State on the citizens of tlie jther, and all the rest ol tin* River Savannah to the southward oi the ton-going description is acknowledged lo he the exclusive right of the Stale )f Oeorgia." Iiy the closing up et the eliannel j between Argyle and Hutchinson Islands the planters on Hack River will be seriously injured. They will lose niii-ii iu? i..'. i.. ..? . ........ ?. i in*, i f?/\i > in w :iu I I 11 I V 11 < 'A j ii:il>l?js them to cultivate their lands. Ami it is plain thai, if thorn he any iglil or authoriiy to prevent. the warns ol the liver from flowing thncn\ Hack Kiver, as is intended to Ik* done, > hero is equal right to interpose a ! ai rier to keep the waters lroin flow- i 11 tr uj). The two together would eon to r'ort Hack Kiver into a huge pond. I vviee before has an attempt been nade to ent oil Hack Kiver, ami on inch occasion the prompt suction of l?e Stale has arrested the work. Tin* oiee ol the Slate is not as potent as | t was. hut (inventor Chamberlain has nade a strong remonstrance to the \ ar Department, and the facts have eer.Juid before Senator Kob utson and Jotigressmen .Markey, Smalls and loge. They will, we are confident, l<> what they can to aid tin1 planters rho are endangered. The rice planations on Hack Kiver are the tinest i:d most, valuable in the Stale, and n earnest effort must he made to save hem. There is no time to lose. We a list agitate! agitate!! and agitate'.!! f the War Department is deal an I ' ieorgia is dumb, tiie Courts are still | JKU lo US 111 \* 111 < 110-1! I (111 (ll our li?*litS. dm I Courier. Tom I'aine. Among the Centennial <?vc111h there k oik* tli.it slionl'l not Ik* forgotten, et will not gladly Ik; remembered, localise it is associated with a name which is as generally distasteful as ; i*y in oui history. In the winter ot a niudrcd years ii?o was published the itmcus pi mi oh let, Com mon-Sense, rhieh crystallized into fixed purpose he wishes ami hopes lor independence riiieh filled the colonial mind. The uthor was Thomas I'aine- a very onspicuous figure in his time, Inn j ;enerally know n to us as Tom I'ainp, | he infidel. One little hoy whom the Casy Chair well knew heard Ins name irat upon a raw wintry day in a New England town, when his attention was ttraeled l?y the tiring of guns, and lie sked what tlmy were for. The reply run in substance that some disn putalo people were celebrating Tom 'nine's hiit! day. The tone in plied hat lie w as a dredful reprobate. Hut urely Tom I'aine had done some good 1 ervice. lie wrote Common-Sense,; ml published it in the dark hour of he Revolution. It was a wholly tin [ elfish service, for he took out no j opyriglit; and even in those days ' inoii^ a colonial population of three j bilious only, poor and in the midst ol ; xhausling war, there were a hundred ; houKHim copies of the pamphlet sold. Vaslbnglon, Franklin, Adams, Jefferon, hailed him as a puldio benefactor, iut among later Americans his name vas always mentioned with horror nd disdain. It is agreed that no sin;le cause was more effective in pro f \\ "v. y * % / .A / v v t- >. , 1.3 70. NO. 14. during tin? I feelarat ion of Independence than his Common-Sense. Vet sixteen years ago, u hen a portrait ol Paine was offered to the city of Philadelphia, lo he hung in the hail whore the Declaration was adopted and signed, it was dee,lined. A likeness ut Tom Paint-, the infidel, must not hang among the august shades of the fathers. Vet the religious views of o p. ?? 1 .. .. .-II ...... i wini esseini:\ny those ol "Tout .Je/L ison," whose name will he saluted as among the ihohI illustrious ot this illustrious year. The tecling ahout I'aine in tiro beginning el the century was largely 1 |>o!iiieal. When .L flerson was President, lie- invited I'nine to eoine to this countiy hem France, where he had narrowly escaped the guillotine, and iie arrived m Oeteher, 1802. His I fiends gave hi in public dinners. His opponents said th at. Tom I'aine and loin JillVtvon might to dangle from the same gallows. For even in that golden age el '.In republic, to which ho many sighing imaginations revert, (mm the e.oriuption of litis age of brass and iron upon which we have fallen, there was some warmth of parly feeling ami expression. When I'aine came to New >t ork he stopped at the old City Hotel, ot. llroalway, just north ol Trinity Church. And the iimu sit v little Laurie Todd, or < i rant Thorhurn, heard one day that the great shun r was standing ul the door of tlie hotel, and lie ran out with some friends to see htm. Hut Mr. I'aine had gone to his room. The Scotchman w as not t< he foiled, and he asked a sen nut who was sweeping the hall if Mr. I'aine w as at home. Hearing that he was. Thoihurn mi.shed on and was shown iu'o a largo room whore the table w.is set lor breakfast. One ?rou(Ionian was writing, another reading the newspaper, ami at the | farther oml of llie ro? in stood a long, lank, coarse looking figure warming his hind (juarlers heioro the lire. The intruder asked lor Mr. Paine. The figure by the lire replied that his name was l'aine. Thorhurn put out his hand, which Paine took, and the little i Scotchman said that ho had called Irom mere cm osily. Mr. l'aine re- ' plied that he was Very glad to satisfy it. I'p ui which Thorhurn made a how "like a goo?c ducking his head under water," u a'.ko I out, and shut the door, while all the gentlemen in the room huist into a laugh, which lie hoard all the way to the door. lie did not care; lie had seen the great man. J?tiI he had to pay lor the?' pleasure. The great city was a small town then, and the story ol the interview grew as ;.L was repeated. Thorhurn was clerk of the Scotch Presbyt iian church, in Coder Street, and it lie had hobnobbed with Voltaire ? as Voltaire was then generally esteemed ?or had sworn eternal friendship with David 11 nine, he could not havostinek his brethren with greater horror The Kirk Session took alarm. A special meeting was railed, and (Irant Thorhurn was suspended trom psalm singing h r i hrco mouths because lie had shaken hands with Thomas Paine. Doubtless Paine has becu very harshly treated. lhs honomve.rm two I be doubted. llis political views were those ot the men ol his time whom we most revet chit, and his religions oj?ii ions (lid not ?iiller Irom those ol imtny men whom we most highly honor, lie was not mii iiiIi?I;iI in the ordinary sense, lor his Age ot lvcason was written to oppose atheism. llis misloriune was lh.it. lie. hail no tact, ... I ami the very vigor ami simplicity ol j mind ami style whieh nnnle ('oiiinionSeitfio and The l.ioh's of Man suelt efficient political pamplilelH, made his reli<riou* treatise, the Age of Ueason, ! ' ? o ? I n al to hiH reputa!ion. In the first i lie trenchantly expressed a great and ! poweilnl opinion. In the last he eame into collision with it, and it crushed him.? Km io?;'s K.vsv Cu.in:, j in Harper's Ma</a.;inc J'<>r A prd. Origin uf k,He has an Vxe to CI rind." We owe more of our common sayings and pithy proverbs to 1-h". /'Vanklin than many ol us think or know. We say ot out w ho flatters or ! serves us for the sak <d some secret, Rellish gain or lavor, 4de h is an axe i to giiml.* In the !>o tor's 'Memoirs i is the following story "much alter the matin t of the 4whittle' Htorp), which explains the origin ol the phrase: Franklin says: When 1 was a little boy, / remember, one c* Id winter's morning, I was aee? sled by a smiling man, w ith an axe on his shoulder. "My pretty boy,' said he. 'has vour . . ( * V ? */ fuller <4 grindstone ?' 'Yes,' R-)i J I. "You are a iiue little fellew^ waul lie. 'Will you lei me grind an axe on it ?' Pleased with the compliment of 'a line little follow, *Ot yes sir,' 1 answered, 'it its down in the shop.' 'And will you, my man,' said ho, patting ine on my head, 'gel me a little hot water.' How could I refuse? I ran and noon brought a kettle lull. "'low old are you, and, what's your name?' continued he, without * ' .74# '--4 ! A DVHill i.SivUEXT.S Ito*.! ut f ? jw:r square lor fir.it, %*4 l.l \ ? :? s l.j-^a i, ?,u spquout insertion. " <; in s.i.i c ?\ irl esnstitut' A *qu*' t v\ 1 iit i/ic'Vi i or tvpu; le**ihi an in li w i.i !* < ii.n ,,ijil toi u a k | uut. >la; i iaqe iiui i% s iVeo. Deaths and KuiutiI notices fre??. Keii^ioits notions ofoim square f.e ?. A liberal discount will be made t?> tho? whose advertiseinenU tme to bo kept iu Iwr three months oi longer. waiting for a reply. I'm sum you're one ol the finest lads that ever 1 ii ive soot). Will you turn a few minutes for mo ? Tickled with flattery, like a 1??ol I went to work, and bitterly di 1 1 rue. I he day. /t -wan a now axe, ?od 1 toiled and till I was almost tiled to death. The school-hell meg, and 1 could not get away. My ha i woo blistered, anil it was not h d I ground. At length, however, ih? a\e I was sharpened, and the man tunc d to me with: 'Now, you little rascal, you'v j?' iv ed truant: scud to school, or you'll get it.' Alas! thought I, it was h ird r nmigb 1 to turn a giindston?? thin ? ? ?l * I d iy, I but now to he called a little ia>cuJ, j was too much It sunk deep iu mv I mind, and often have I thought ol it j since. | When I ace a merchant over po'.ito I lo his eostomeis, begging liuvn t" I lake a little hramly, anu throwing li k goods on the counter, thinks I, that i man has an axe to grind, j W hen 1 see a man flattering tin* ! people, making great professions of attachment to liberty and crating ! loudly about economy, who is in prii vnto a tyrant, niethiuks, look out, good people, that follow would see I you turning a grindstone. \\ hen / see a man hoisted into ofj (ice by party spirit, without a single j qualification to render him cither rcr-pectabln or uselul, alas! imlhinks. dchuied people, you are doomed for a son to turn tin.' grindstone lor a bool,y Law ami Justice, A somewhat remarkable case lias I just been derided in Kngi .nd by Chief Justice Coleridge and two of j his associates. A man bought a lirstclass ticket Irom London to Scarborough, and on the back ol it thes* words were printed: "Lss ied according to the company's regulations and to the conditions in the timetables of the respective companies over whose lines this ticket ;s available." Hut the train did not si art at the time announced; and tailed to make it 1 advertised count ctioiis. The passenger lost tin! train lie w toted to meet at Leeds, and finding i c would have to wait three hours toi another, procured a special train t > hi- dts'inalion, which lie reach <i an ie-MC ami a quarter alter the l nne In v, ,(s binHe paid for tlie train and ih.-n sued the company for the ex m expciM.*. The county court d-t ided ihattbo company must, pay i >r tl.e -penal train, ami now on appeal tho high court of justice has pa,tinned this decision. This joint ?tvi*i?II that a railway company is bound to carry passengers according to it- timet a Ides, and is responsible to them tor losses sustained by all nnnoc ssary delays. This decision, rendi red by the [ most eminent judge on the English bench, will have grout weight in this country us well as in England, and I will form an important precedent. | Centennials ami Milumuiuls. | 100 years ago ? Amoriean independence. 200 years ago ? King Philip (tho Indian) defeated and shun; h.iOeas corpus in England. 300 yours ago?Massacre of St. Bartholomew; Spanish urm.id.i propairing . 400 years ago ? Printing invented; Isabella the coining qm en. 500 years ago?The day of Tamerlane, ihi Turk, and (mincer, tho English poet. Goo year's ago ? Buliol and Urnee; Richard Bacon; Thomas Aquinas; house of Ilapsbitrg fimnrlerl. 7o0 \ears ago ?Richard Cheur do J.ion and Sala Itn, sultan ol Egypt, measuring swords in Palestine. 800 year ago ? William tho Con. que rot*. 900 year ago ?Hugh Capet, tli j Frenchman, i 1,000 years ago?Alfred tho Great. 1,100 years ago ? Cmudeiuagno and f I h i on it \ 1 It i .< ? . I 1,200 years ago -Mohammedanism making lively woikin Constantinople an<l ollu r places. 1,300 yeai s ago? Old Chosroes, lh* Persian, h\es by murder, and ihe pope is made ;t secular judge among kings. 1,400 yeais ago?The Saxons live y in Britain. Clovis establishes u French monarchy, and the Visigoti? conquer Spain. 1,500 years ago?The Itoman empire, having legislated many ye i lavor of capital against labor, b . to fall to pieces. 1 1,000 years ago?The world ens nothing better to do than to b >??. 1 and denounce hereies and get u re. ligious persecutions. 1,700 years ago?Marcus Amv iu.% | Tacitus, and Plutarch. ] 111 Vnft l?u OiO\ I.iimaa IA?%* .1 y* * - . j vi..n lijjV/ *? v; I UU "> ; " y* |t'<l and llcrculaueutu ana Po ;|?iu ? buried. 1,870 yearn ago?All the wor <1 at peace an J (Jhriat born. 0,000 yearn ago?Adam rose ? bt dignity of a huge real eulato *?v? v. but by poor management was dr. v eu into involuntary bankruptcy. ^ ^