The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, October 10, 1866, Image 1

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- K I. V K I S S. C., WEDNESDAY M*RN1NG, OCTOBER 10, 1~6b'. THE FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PUniatilED wE.KLY BY GAILLARI, DESPOITES & C0. Ters.-Tus IInarALi is pubHlished Weeke ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at $3.00 in A careably in advance. ftQW0 All transient advortisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 por square. [From the IHouston (Texas) Journal.J . The Gallant *Pelham,. Where m there a sobber of the old -army, Who Was on tlie heights of Fi de rick4burg, b--it* can recollct Lite. hero, yonnd Pe'lhiam, fighting his guns in front of Franklin's corps. One thrill of ad miration ran throughult the army, and the great hero, as brave as te was mod est, had his reward .in the general orders of Gen. Lee, of the battle, when he styl ed hint "the. gallant. Pelliam." a uamo that wasqt once adopted I hroughoit the tirmy. 'ie 'sublimity of this compli. mont. is enhanced by a fact lhat he . was the only one. ever mentioned by Gen. Lie in General orders, under the rank of a General. We watched him fighting with unre mitting ardor the gints that he command. ed. No* firing, now retreating. and i lien returning ulnost to the very line of the ret.nrning foe-at each dischiarge it silver line of while would gleam wherq, tht lite of bllte hind before stood. It was a graivl and terrific sight. We could hear all ar .mnd tihe -ihotts of our ietn as they Cried : "Sce how lie fights. 1: Who is if.? What a soldier I It is Pelham I" and cheer after cheer wenlt. up when making his siand near -the cen tre of the fi--id. he fonght titil- nearlv every horse he had was iKilled, and the mnn torn.o fragments b. shot and shel. TIh en we understood his work, for glid ing to the right of its came Stoniewall Jackota's and A. P. H ill's corps, and the lines collided. Pelliam's work was done, and den Lee, in presence of his X corps comrpanders and his StaIf'madb the renmal k, "Is it not a wonder how one so young cian be so brave ?" This compliment benight from him only a blash upoi his beardless check. Brave and heroi '.heart, wo saw hin. f'ill in the front of Averill's fierce tii-, prise.' Ilo . was leading *to the front some stragglers, aiid endeavoring t' rally a broken 1'.io, his fine snl)re 'glis tening in patriotic circles over his head, and his clear voice cheering ip each weary heart to one more hinest effort, when a sholl burst over .his head, and OnG fragmnent went. hissing through hig' brow. I.f fell, and for a moment therb Was a pase. Stuart for a moment ctopped 'and looked at him, and said inl n1 solemn tone, the tears trickling from his eyes, "Sorving on mj stall is. fatal it is fatal." The following narrative of -etity Gilinore tells the rest of the close of this puro good life: . 1Ho was taken from the field by Col, I IHarry Gilmore, laid upon his horse arid 4 placed in the charge of two dismnitited men, with orders to carry him to an- n bulance and call a surgeon. Col. Gil more thus relates in his book, entitled 'Pour Years in the Saddle,' the. subse. quent fate and brutal treatment of otie of the'noblest spitits that perished for the 'Lost Callse. 'On my way to -Culpeper, I oyee ' took, bear Brandy Station, the -tros *men I had placed in charge of. Pelham; ti making their way back to- Oulpaer, with the body .across the lhorse, pia * they had started from the field of:'att , *his head andl hanids Ihaging . down on oi:e side, bjis legs on the other-fdtvp hauitr andl hands soaked and clotted iW~ah mud antd ~lood "Overwhelnmed' with horror, I had him laid on. the gr'ass in the fence cor -ner, and then', to , my astonishment, found him' still alive. Imagine my m . .dignation and vented wrath, when' found that instead -of looking for an ainw bulance, they had mioved towvard OCil 9per, a distance of eight miles, four of iilch they had already accomplished. I firmly believe that had eurgical aid been called to remove the compressIon. of the b'rain, his life iniight, have been raved. "An ambulance wvas immediately sent for him, atid by the time I had dispatch' - di my business wvit~h the telegraph, Pel h Jam had arrived in town, and was ut -once con veyed to Bossie's home, whero the' ladies had all things' ins roaditne ' for his reception. T1hree surgeons wer~e soon in attendance; and after, by -.gepntle hands ha had been washed with warm ,watt.er, his' feet and hatnds swathed in flatinet,.. and some .braiidy poutred in his month, the surgeonsconupon~need tele~ .ing the cout pression on th brain.. Te .piece of shell t):at had'straek.. himni as not larger than the end of n it11.h.1 fin ger. It-enteted just at, the 'curl of, the. Jhair on the banck of thi --head, rakin'g 1hrough the skull withouteeven. piercing~ the brain,- coiming out tavotisches 1ielog --thue point where ii. had -entored. Theo skuli was badly shg'tot-ed between the enttance and the ext. of the shell..' As the surgeons removed the pieoes,140.1 leoted on't as a memento of Dipst gallent an tighmly estA' cers of the Sent hernsnyy He WaS * years of ageY" The surgeons soon 'pronounced:. his case liopeless, and left hint to the date of Bessie and myself-- othier ftsnde .ecrowded in. About I, p. mn. his eyes @pdted-.he turned toward mie in arn unconscious look-closed them-drew a long breath, and died' without, a strug. gle. We dressed him in his best uni form, yand had but just laid hint on.the bed, when the door was gently opened, and Stuart entered, having returned from tbe fight at Kelly's ford. Great tears rolled down his cheeks as lie si. 1'lcntly gazed on the lifeless for-m, and then retired. "Exhanated with- fatigue, Ilay down upon the floor, and slept soundly beside the mortal remains of a companion who had ridden to the field that. morning in usually file spirits; bu.t such is the for. tunue of war." Thu', inde', perihed a great and -good lad. He was carried to his home in Alabama, and btried beneath her loved soil. I it ichmond. his body lay in state, and the ladies of the doomed city not only covered the cofflin with wreaths of evergreens, immortelles aed pure white roses, to designite the puri ty of His life, bit they paid to the form -san peur, sans reorocho-the tribute of their tears. Everywhere on the way Ie was greeted with funeral honors, and the noble heart of Pelham passed into history is the type of that pure chivalry ihat. glowed in the hearts of t1h youths of 'the army, and the loss of whom hath caused much mourning throughout the Southern land. . I wrtte the above, glad of the opp-r. tunity to bear my testimnony, feeble as it is, to the virt.ure, to i lie honor, the peerless cournge o' the subject of this sketch. Yours, Trivoir. Judge Aldrioh's Charge to the Grand Jury of Riohland. We are greatly embarrassed in the mainngement of our domestic affairs. by the presence and interference of' the ('reedmen's Bureau. I believe, if they difficult and d.-lica.e problem of organi zi i Egthe -labor of our former slaves was, entirely left to ti, who once owned tie freedmen, .ind. rg'and their characte and feel for their condition, -things would be so managed as to enable us, very goon, to regain their contfidence and to infusie into their minds a feeling of se'u ri.y and protection, which will he mutu 'ally beieficitk lBut, as matters now S4jdsqr )Pgeng )F :ered, 1he freed. r.uIen arc taught t0 e stielons of their old masters-o believe that their inter ots are antagonist-.and encouraged to distrust their-counsel, advice and "aid ; Wil which would soon cease 'if this inter *4sted and prejiidiced Bureau was remoY ed. It is a great, useless, axpensive and minschievons machinery, which seems h be kept up simply to gritid 'taxes out of the people for the support' of cunning politicians, excited Innatics and political preachers. Our black people. "wards of the nation," as they are callud, whose best friends are the men who reared and d6wned them' would receive little sympa. thy from their new-found' friendg, as do the poor white people, of tio North, Were it not for the millions 'of money 1veiolh the congreso has placed at the dis posal of theiBureau. All that we cain do,-under iresent cirunistances, is to trout then jutatly.and kindly, encourage thm. to work, and .issia, them in every way to better their condition and im prove their education. . The State has ,placed tho" as flly under the protec tion of the l ai as the white residents, and it 14:49 ly qur duty, lut our in Leiest~ toweo hat they receive tis pro tectiot, at~4 are not imposed upon. Here t tju ere, I hav.e no doubt, there1 are instan here~ a feeling of domi tieering Ise miaiife'sted against the negro ; but thesehihstanuce~s are rare, and, I will venture to say, it will he found' on ex ammiation, that the mlen who thlus -out-. -rago public seinient are thiose , who never owned slaveesud -were always' known as bullies and rowdies. Such violations of the lae are not to be en. courneed: The i egro, now, as hw was tu:der the did system, is protected by the laws, and it is our~ olicy, an.well as our ,duty, to see t.hati this protection is secur ad himn. 'We must letlhim know and* feel that we are his iet friends, that we thus buo hcin to become o tieu membe1'f!4 ety;In .how ofther way can we. mk (hipi-'a profltablo laborer ; in no othk. Way can we hidaco him to assist in developing the resonrpf of the 'country. Jt is true. he, follows, now, his old instincts, and there are frequenta cases of theft, .ihi raust be punishpd, :until he learns the dotlids and- feels the dignity of freedom. In time, -he will discover. that he "it, suoiali th'einsti tutions of society. tiswelfat ,the white man, and that it is his initerest to do so; but, whenogedi oe Ciommit crime, let the'puintshment 'he admuinistoted -in duo counree ofiewj )y thbe proper atiorities, ind hre wll ~soon begin to feel his respon sibilities anf a0 thii disgrage iad' u ishment hioh tollovw a avloration of the lhws cf'the hahd.If a diff'erent course be pursued, and hq aggrieved parties take the .ppnistnihito ut their own hlan de, it-will exchite afelng of. resenf rised a:ind hesility, which wall bring oht colliseico t ~myo e-', bloodshed. The j lctdrpeeaffe-. lioie Who hiau 'aiah frnlataiped good char-. aeeeti 6te'hatd.confl. for the imxofoirant aAt 'np bii$ t thseir race;ad brI'ggal ,Otrp p~ tlle law to jusince. -I Tis is a hih duty whiohithey Wie'4to themselves: and to the country, because If 'tboy -MIril'dt orime anid screen offenders, the disgrace atuackes to the whale race. and afl suf. fer alike in character and reputation. They must do as the white people do ,when the'huws are violated, turn tie of. fenders oyier to the magistrate, let war rants be issued, witnesses bound over, and the case bought to , trial. In (his way, and in no other way, can society be protected, an-1 the character and dig Tity of of the race promoted. I think the black people wvho are trying to do their duty to themselves and to their couintry, will take , this counsel. It is the connsel of wisdom and the advice of a friend. As paupertsni is not to be encouraged, so ought vagrancy to be punished. The laws, if pioperly enforced, are amply sufficient to put down this evil. Let overy person, white or black, who is living on the community, wit hout known or visible means of support., be brought up for exanination ' and if lie cannot give a satisl'actory account of how Ie makes his living, let the laws against vagrancy be rigidly enforced, and tie vagrant put to work for the public good. In this way, the highways and public buildings of the State may be much improved, and the crowds of idle consumers, both in the cities and in the country, greatly diminished. A Singular Character. There are few residents of Mobile who have not seen the Sicilian, Andrea, hobbling through our streets upon his patcheid crutch, and walking staff, or lying on sonic d'oor step basking in the sun, always wrapped in the rags of pov erty-a picture of fihh and patiperism withoul. a parrallel in this or any 'other city. Many report.a are given of his early history, of the cause by. which lie lost his leg,and of hiseccentricities; but from these conflicting statements it is difficult to arrive at. the I rut I; and no inducement can be offered him to speak of his past career. Importunities in Ithis direction are most certain t0 be mta by a fit. of passion calculated to deter the most persevering from pressing the sub ject too closely. But report states that. in his boyhood lie. was one of JaRihfto's crew, and lost his leg during atn action between the Gulf. Pirate and English man-of war. This statement is without any .8inb stantiml anuthority, but.there inach tnujtetrith idwfliN1 . c las just been related to us, by a gentle. man who has seen him idmost, daily . for the last; fifteen fears. About eighteen years ago A ndrea resided in New Or leais, and while one day assisting to put some heavy timber in a vessel under going repairs, one of them fell upon and crushed his leg. Amputation became nesessary, and was performed at the Marine Hospital in that city, and a few years afterwards he came to Mobile, where he'soon becatme an institution. He ias relatives here in good circim stances, who have made many efforts to reforin.his vagr-ant habits, and once pre vailed upon him with sich success as to establish him in a fruit-stand, fitted up for his 'benefit, in which lie continued but a few days, wheni he broke tip his stands and boxes, poitehed his fruit into the dock, and without, giving a word of explanation resumed his uicouth iahit. .He has been repeatedly provided witi good clothes, which sem to di-gust him nore they approach gentility, and a few days will find them torn tip, patched an'd repatched, until all semblance df shape has ben destroyed in them, and Andrea rejoices ia his rags again. -. Strangers, thinking hint an object of charity, some times offer hiim money, which he almost invariably thros~ys back at them in a fit of rage andl passion. When~ driven .by hunger lie will sometimes aisk for a piece of bread, which is never refnsed hiri, 1but;mpre frequent ly enters a saloon or bakerf in whatever part of the city lie mnay'-bs, and helps himself to any article of food desirable to him, and coolly emeorges into the street again, without sayung."by your leave," or "thankt you." At the market lie has been known to take uip a fish, sometimes devotiring it raw, but whoa his appetite gives him leisure; he goes. thro~ugh a proccess of cooking it- pecnliar to him self. Withiotut scaling, cleaning, .or giving it any civilized preparation whtntever, he wi:1l place it oni the coals of s~omo' of the furnaces on Front street, ond per-. mitting It to broil but a few seconds, draws the tempting morsel forth, and instantly devours it. Taking his posi tioti instle atta, dhoe vermin stith ,which liis rage nret popmilated soon wvarm into life and activity, wheni Andrea's ocouips tion begins by an'.onielankht on the gy backs. He will go under tone - of. the docks when the pt'ocess of Abltition be comes a eecesety with: him, wash bis clotihes, an after hiangi."g thenc Oflt to dry, tak~es hula dratolke'andswim to the opposite aide 'of the river rernaltnle'g there until his appatidis sutriciently'dry to be wnen,:h'en he returnis and restumes *his.. peregrinations through the city, sun orin the rain, wherever add- whm. ever fdtigue overtatkes him. Andrea Is. never . ishoiest-ataked nothing withotit being seen, an4 1gevey accepts anythingthat is not, alkselptely necessulty tb the suppdrt'.ot life, -Ths constitution is of iron ;,Ii n ho s. tr,V been sick,.or,,.rather, has nevii . een niged froem thetyrget,,i, esd ,(Iit d) ottiftull efshego; ,wyhou heolio mnorose,' and ippar9'nt .otut, of his :mind, Leftdhffielf holis b ar mless enough ~ut when set uponi by miscShie~ods dyh, Is~ easily worked intoe dangbrous ps k gln~~fbie ax te, South Carolina Ralroador' I The several railroad companieln this State, and all persons who haoe com plaints to make of excessive or nequal charges, or violations of their 4arters by said roads,,will take notice ist ithe following joitt resolution of th Gene. ral Assembly was adQpted . -at he last regnlar session : - "Reolted, That a Special (6mmis. Sion, consisting of two niembern of the Sonate and one froin each Conyession. al District in the House, be apointed to investigate and report to thiejicral Assembly, at its next. regular iession, the 'complaints made of exces-re and unlequal charges by the differentrailroad companies of this State, and tr inquire if and in what minner they han iviolat. ed their respective charters. hat tlie said Commission have power to immon such witnesses and'to requiro ';ho pro ductioni of such' books and ptpers as may be necessary'; and also V inquire and report whmt charters are sibjeot to amendnment, and in those~ cas's where adlendments aie practicable, whit chaaig Ces should be made to protwi! gie inter ests of time public." The Commission appointed wider the foregoing resolution, ereby (nil upon all persons having knowledge of materi al fact relating to the matters unbraced in di said resolition, to forward stato mnts duly authenticated to thit several ieinbers of the Commision Ps herein after indicated. Complaints and charges relating to the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, the Blue Ridge Railroad, the Lairen Railroad, the Spartanburg aa:d Union Railroad, maiy be forwarded to G P. Yownes, -at Gr'wnville, C. If., or to W. S. Giisham, at Walhalla. Charges and complaints relating t< the Sombh Carolina Railroad may be forwarded to M. U. Bttler, Edge-field C. H1., or R. S. Duryea, at Charl 8ton Those relating to the Charlotte antd South Carolina flailroad, and the King' Mountain Railroad, may be sent to B, W. Ball, at Laurens 1.. -. Those relating to the Wilmington and Mancheater Railroad, and the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad. ' be sen to Harris Govimgton,- at Those r 'rthens Savaninat, ailroad, to . Dnyel,, at Uharles ton. The Commission will meet at Colim bin, on Friday, the 23d day of Novem her wext, to make up their reports, al which time any persons interested may app3 before them, and birnish sich. in 'fornition as may be considered necersa, ry, ralative to the matters tinder conside ration. G. F. TowNF.S, Chairman Senate Committee. M. C. BUTA, . Chairman House Committee. rcoliabi sooth (arolinitan. - Cotton, Dr; Wight has'publialhed a book, in New York, en.titled "Cotton Cultiva tion-Madras vs. America," which gives circumstantial details of tbo etporima;iLa hi qoiton culture, maad in India, and assigning.reasons for their failire. The following are extracts from the book: India, Dr. Wiglit says, is not too hot for. our Southern- cotton plant, since, in theoCarnatic, it had borne unharmed the hot winds of May and' June. But, on the other hawad, it 'a a ceianed that the cultivating 'seduin in 'India is toc cold'i. c. ~the ellinate. of the Carnatio, during the cold months, ichb f'ormed the cotferowing :eneajn in India, ii actually cblder thsrithoenminet in Mis) sissippt." In AmWerica, coiLton I .cuiltivt. ted froin April to Novenbhei, ; in India, fro Se tembe to. Arij. It is well cotton grwnoreiit isoe l others in tigeffm'rjd1 i tljM equable teti perat4re duirpig'a long-inm er.i As regarde-'th~ superior t.,Ameri can Cotton to'r:dian,.D r.3 iht~report, 1ed that the Amutltiieof tyas aboui twent.g pe'r. cet..nopr6 valuible than 1he Indiani of pearly '.am. 5d. 'is 'to 8(4 IAg1in,' tle American 'sed, produoci from f 'to- per cent, more cotton wool thatt 'the Indian :seed ; in other words 1100 pounds of American ~seed yielded from 286 pounds to 80 pounds of clea cotton' wool, while' 100 pou~nds of Indlar eend only yielded about :21 pounds o clear cottoni Wool. Our seed, it' 'woiild appear, Iii no found to suicceed well in the East. Ir Southern; India, it failed on account of thecold nights whIch prevail after the let, of F3ebruary,- kheti .the weathei becomes werel, and'if the ravages of insees could be also a voided, then th< I AmA'IAncotoUn would ewen4 tamire bly; but; in the abece 'of' raIn qithai sgason, Mr. Winnie (Au exteinsiW Indiat 4otton-growet whe is here quoted,) ays ho is af(raid that it ne'9er '*i11 becoab' the staple of India. Nor did he thisi:h the Ameirican cotton gin would ever be aduated to the statives. -Thre is -eering news to ouri pool platers, who ried something to encour a~ 'them, in the'faco of bad' labor.anum thre-e4#te pdud intez'ual revenu It is said that General l ossedu. a determined,. in comipliance withi manj urgent soligitatIons, totake ,,the. stumj in I1ndianasand Ohio-and 'eanvas thee stateos until the elections - take plade T[here are no more 'effectiye *politiod sneakers In th. connter than he . Ex-Govemor Letoher on Bouthorn Affairs. A Plea for Peace. Ext-Governor Lotbehr, of Virginia, delivered an address, at Lexington, Va., on the ocasion of the reinaugu ration of the statuo of % ashington, at the Virginia Military Institute, in the course of which he said : The Southern people . regard the question at issue as settled ': and for ever settled. They accept the result, and are prepared to abide by it in good faiti.. They pledge an honor th t is untarnished,. and 'when bravo and honest mon give such a pled gwho can doubt their sincerity, and who can hebitato to believe that their pledge. will be redeemed to the letter I No gotornment can endure which does Liot rest upon the affections of its peoplo. A wise, just, tolerant, up righ'administration of public affairs wfHl ivin back the affootionm of the. South and etwino them around the pillars that upheld the Union as the "clasping. ivy" ouciroles the majestic oak. kindnesa'bogots kindtioss ; con fidence inspires confidence ; charity and tolerance generates love and at footion. Let all these ennobling vir tues lie cultivded im encouraged. If the scenes of the last four yot1s C.! not be forgotton by either 'ido, lei them be at least forgiven and passed by -hr solenun, dignified aileuce. L,0 I each side cose to remit.- the other of the disagreeable incidents that occurr ed during that sad but eventful pe riod. Lot us, then, be of good cher. Let no one be disheartened or discourag ed. We must all do our duty in a faithful, independent and manly way, and then we may reasonably antici pate a bright and happy future for ourselves, our.posterity and ofr coun try. It shouM'be the policy of all to in culcato a spirit of conoord, and so not each to the other as to advance the common interest of all. We should do everything in our power to secure the prosperity of the nation, augment its wealth, develop its boundless imi eral and other resources, arouse up its dormant energies, multiply its chan 0 munication, encour ralturm, mechanic)a and manuieturing industry. This is duo to ourselves as well as those who are come after uts, and who look to us for the adop'tion of a poliny that will place them b-foro the world ih the most ad vantageous position. Lot us deal can didly, fairly, honestly, justly and charitably one with nnother, and then, kneoling around the altar of a coin mon country, let a united prayor as cond to Heaven "God bless America." Ourious-If True' - A foreign newspaper, which devotes. much attention attention to the mo tives and movements of. the Empress Carlotta, relates that when she was on the eve of leaving, Europe for Mexico, where she expected to reign and* whence ohe did not expect to return, she nald a viit io her grand-mother, the old ex-Queen Aniolle, widow of Louis Phillippe. at - Claremont, and dutifully asked her ancient. Majesty to give her a blessing-which was. done, with a great deal ofsolemnity, many tears and several pious exclamations. She bmle adinu to her uncles, the Princes of Qptleans but observing that the Duc d' Auaa to whom she was 'fost-attaohod, was silent, if not sad, gently rallied him on~ his retidenco. He amdwored'",WellI;my. faig'nieco, whiafehall 1' say to you? You' wish: o'ouya throne. You have it. 'I *pgay God that yot umay keep it-but .in.op fa'iily thamt is not the cus tom."1 ittis gott on bither sido of the Orle.ansI hoiuse. ILoitis Phillijpe died in eille. His eldest son Was ki Iled by a fall out ofaoharlotf and his holi-, now Count do Paris, has not the slightest chiuice of ever' reigning ini France. Queen NIrio Amelie was a Neapolitan prtin tess, and Francis II.~ %x-K ing of Na plo: gb. ho is .boueiri to her children, is nefab poo that heo'-aan' no longer af ford'to liverin:Rome, where he is ex-, .peeted' to' asintain a. sort of royal 'Athito. Wheni he tittedn Naples, in I 1860, be bore with himt a very large amount of private pr-operty, but he lavished most of this upon the gallant but fruitless defense of Gaeta. WVith his wife, a member ot' one of the junior branches of the royal house of Bavaria, be had a dowry of youth, beauty, and ----ten thousand. dollhats I ~ At presenit the atmost income of' these "monarchs retired from busIness" is thirty thous and dbilars a year. Th euld live 'I 419. Se it ini fingana, andt ro'niy in America; but will probably remain Sin Europs, waiting for ."domptiiin@8t~ turn up." i#4~ King of -Hanover, wbo its vi'rtally ddpiosed, is said to have madeptwple .provision for what Dr. Frankli i calls "a rainy day." Desides having sent the crown jewels over to London, wherl, his fathr had let't 4$8,000,000 invested in tha ritish fmxide bid~otVi savings, also seirohlf r hmvoted 'aVe sad to amount to 85,. 000,000, which anakes him wealthier than even i. careful cousin, Queen Vtoxla. m 0o4. Patton f Alabarna, h as to. ~td~4o I~ap td.he re-issue of ' lu ite~ Freednion's.Brea, a" og 'titt0,600 to080000 an States chle4y W!lbws I an or ha, *r A&ring for thse Tar. Woowccrt'$ FOnESIo'T. "The woodpecker in California is a storer of Aevimns. The trees Ih selects are invariably of the pine tribe. Io bores several holes, differing slightly in size, at the fall of the year, and trheh flip* aWay, in miany instance to a long' dis. tance, and returns with on acorn, which Ie immediatoly sets 'about ailjustinig to oto of tho holes prepared for its recep. lion, which will hold it tightly in posi tion. Buti he does not cat the acorn ; for, as a rule, Ito is not a vegetarian. 11i.4 object, in storing away the acorn exhibits acute foresight, an'd knowledge of results more akin Lo reason thaii in stinct. The eucaceding winter tie acorn remains intact, b1t, becoming saturated with rain it pre-disposed to decay, when it. is attacked by maggots, who seem to delight inv this special food ; it is then that the woodpecker reaps the harvest hia wisdom had provided, at a tie when, the ground beind covered with snow, lie would experience a difll culty, otlherwise, in obtaining suitablo .F patIt.ablo food. It is a subject of speculation why the red-wood cedar or sugar pino is invariably selected: it is not probable that the insect, the most dainty to the wbodpeeker's taste. fre. iuents only the ontsilo of wet trees; ;,t. so Ui i t, in Calaveras, hiuriporee, a1d other districts of Oalifornia, trees of this kinid may bo frequently seen cover ed all over their trunks with acorns when thero is not an oak tree within several miles."-A. B. Baron. DArTIs OF TN' SK.-A French journal saysihat the soundings eflected with referonce to the new trans-Atlantic eable have eibled comparison to be made of the different depths of the sea. Generally speaking, they are not of any great (tepth in the neighborhood of conti ients; thus the Baltic, between Germa. ny and Sweden, is only 120 feet deep ; and the Adriatic, between Venice and Trieste, 130 feet. The greatet depth of t he channel between France and 1ung. land does not. exceed -300 feet, while to the southwest of Ireland, where the sea is- open. the depth is more than 2,000 feet. The seas to the South of Eurbpo are milch deeper than those is the inte rior. In the narrowest parts of the Straits of Gibraltar the depth is only 1,000 feet, while a little more to the East it is 3.000 feet. On the coast of Spain tihe depth is nearly 6,000 feet. At 250 miles South of Nantucket (Sou',h of Cape Cod) no bottom was found nt .7,000 feet. The groactst depths of- all are to be 'met with in the R4 'ern Ocean. T 0te West. of tho Cape of Good Hopo 16,000 feet, have been meas tired, and to the West of St. Helena 37,000. Dr. Young estimates the aver age depth of the Atlantie at25,000 feet, and of the Pacific at 20,000. To MAkId Cows Givic MIx.-A writer who says his cow gives all the milk' that'is watued it' a family of eight persons, and from which was made two hundred and sixty pounds of but ter the year, give the following as his trtitnient It is chetp and worth a trial: If you desiro to- get a largo yield of rich milk, give your cow three times a (lay, water slightly warm, slghtlv salt. Ni, in which bran has been stirred at, the rato of one quart to t wo gallons of water. You will flid if you; have rnot tried this daily practico, that, your vow will givoiwonty-fiv . per cnt. Are milk immediately under theo effet of it, and sho will become so attached to the diet as to refuse to drinkl clear water unless very thirsty, hut tlhis moss. sihe will dunk almost any time and ask for Atore. The amount of this drinik nee essary is an ordir'ary water pail full ea'uh-time, mtorninig, noon and night. 79ua amnmal will thben do her best at dliscounting the lacteal. F'our hutndred pounds of butter are often obtained from 5ood stock, and instances are mentioned wvhere the yield was ovens at a higher figure. Tiui IaMRaCsS Evuoisaru.--Napoleon is doing all that he possibly can to pro duco popularity throughout France for the E~mpress, who is deostinled to be re gent, and th~e young P'riince. who is to wear the Imperial Crown. HeI puts the 10mp'i-ss thremgh ft good deal of exorcise, aind makes her travel a great deal,.in order to mlke her beloved by the 1)00. ple; a thing wvhich this graceful autd gracious lady can 'do when elhe se about it. But It is hard work. For ,example, after v siting the cholera, hos pitasls at Amietns, when she returned in' the evening, she had searcely' time to change lhar dress when she WAS summon. dtsist al A . 9%)~liI of ministers, where ehd hd to sit for two hiourW n a h'alf, .trying nlot'to sleep. A fdew days af'ter ahle nmust, go to Nancy. A grand fete was to be given, and sehlad to meet many bishops and mayors, under go many addresses, and tnsake,answer, receive many bouquets from white robed girls, and make many compliments in return' had to attered a solemn dinner every Aa, both at Nancy an.d on the 'route 'hither, to say nothing of the regular ball each evenning, where sho had to dance with prefect. and mayors. It roth, she was overywhero 'received with e~eshted enthusIasm the stately city of Nanoy,.whiose .pp.pplation is less. than fifty thtousaund, contained on the occagion a multitude' of two. hundred and fifty thousand ; It was *ereywvhero ttdorned wtth t'lhimphal arches, and all abloom with flowers,; the U1IVass es of people cheered themselves hoarsh' end still, time to time, shouted Amiens I Amiens / thui celebrating the benovo lent aution of her Majesty in visiting the cholera patients. 11- TO AVOID TJE COTTOrN TA. The Itoit Radical Congress, with a view to further burdei the cotton, plantor, laid a tax of throo cents per pound on tile staple, which mnw be paid before cotton leavos the (. *' - 0 tion dkitriot. But the ta.x .j elargoaflo unless the Cotton is forward for sale or shipment. Now, the way to save the tax is to iautfac, turo-cotton where it is grown, Thore will be double advantage in this, not, only in the tax of $15 per bale of ,500 pound saved to the producer, but the ianufactured article will bring hi twice the money that the raw naterial will. By forming aosociation in Oeery country, the planters have thus the op portunity of doing themselves as well as the country, the greatest 'scrvico, Lot'thomz profit by th6 opportuniy. We may add to those wise words of the Georgia Citizons that'every manu facture w1 recently met on the Border echoed similar advisory expressions. iThe largest 'cloth 'manufacturer in Maryland, a man of' pure Southern blood and lineoge, said : "Toll the people of the South that inanufactur. I mug their own staples is the proper wvay to be rovonged upon the Yankees. Nothing will bring the New England or to his senses so amazingly ; no other vindication is so worthy of a great and magnanimous people. They can boat us in abuse and trickery ; lot us boat them in arts, science, statesmanship and honest craft. Nothing pleases your Yankee so as give hin a chance of ribaldry or ridicule. Be still vigilant-industrious--self-austainig - those are winning trunis." GENERAL LcE's HoUS91moLD EMCTS AT A HLINGTON.-Under au order from the President, the household offiet left t the Arlington mantision by General Lee, or rather the fragments11)ao re remaining of them, were yesterday de. livered to the party authorized by.G4., Lee to receive them. It hppears:.th. nearly everything of value had Metl stolen. Many valuable heirlooms.SfI cluding some of the family portraits, had been purloined. The po-traits were ti ken from the frames' packed in bo*es and stored in the upper loft of the 13r1n4 slon for safoty, in 1861. Thmesooe. 6-s had broken open and everything. of va). uetakeln away, iud thm 00 Wters aidi pr(. vate papers of General Lee ecqtered over the loft. A lady friend'of the Intamo ily, with Mrs. Gray, the old and faith, fill houehold servan were -yesterday looking over and gathering up the fr'g ments worth preserying The furniture, including .seVeral-bd steads, a considerable-nnmer of cditm moii chairs, twq.or three sofas, se'eral tables and bookoases, a sideboard, bureat-, and some half dozen large ancient ricmnre fraies, and avariety.of other drtictos vy the ,ldad,.wer6 tunble I tgethr, br4k'i bruised, an'd its a most vandalized condi tion, in the sut$p of rooms orece nsed Ia - parlors, o4, theo f flor,' 'preparat try to being shipi'd Ahwiy' The only ar. ticles renlainig th)re from Moinit Ver non were thr ookVaSes awid A M od hll chl1 Tlii f, hj I lie i 1u', n" Wre irthe nlsr, an1 blo con imf, m b -n -c. mn a rumumoila ,mantier tny enrt e ters, thim rad volvet. con-tmieir ad having in this way more itan one .. taken, off. It would seem to havm, bee'n only ldw performance of clear dut-y (on m le piuru-of the authorities whe~in they t~ook posda sion of this property, a portioin ci .winch was historical and of some cnsiquene to the nation at lar 'e -to have provided for its careunl p rydtovion-Waona Intdlagenoer Odoe n Tuzx A TT EMP'TED AsuAsnuNA'xbONM-~ The Indianmaponlis Ilerald publishes a list of promineont c itizens, officc-hold era and others,- who avro engaged in the recent: disgraceful ~riot in that city, by wh loh the President was pro. vented from' speaking. It bolIdly charges thiat the rio4 was incited in orM der to cover the issassinatoa of Mr, Johnson. .Ono p-stol shiot evidently aimediat him, struck - within'-a' :pw feet of his head. 'The eviddcqa a youth is given to the effoot4 ~ie was paid five dollars to hurl s tdMnd at the President, tid further proof 1s ad duced that despomete qheracoues worse brouglit fromi others pla.cos to ekmoh in tho . rlof. Thre ate were e o~~ made for several daja ibefoeq tho ,i' of the Pre ident thad hoebhuld not leave Indi anapolIs alim Suoh are the legitimate fruits of radiosy~sm nila ~ era says "Some tinme sa wo, we lishodh at-.tfeG request of a frlqpdj i *roeeltg to Guil oe v rmonia, (n anx'onc to be take'ateed on 6 and the ade regtdis~sl tra~ j at interyold of live ininutes, W pain be niof fo1ello.ed t nee ~trF a doxen diffdhuitnbersons hav~es aq trl~dlid'idelpt, aundin 07 oeg an Immnediate outeV6 d es ot~ one, the sufferey,:a lpdy, t*0 & . ,feoted for more U a w~iei4 sufferings, whmeu .%lt4i% ingonii ii oamphor *at*r ne1ivd in a-.ew Inute