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THE FAIRFIED HERALD WINNSBOtO, S. C. Wedlnosday Morning, rob. 24, 1869. DIl lims & Co., Props The Fifteenth Amendment. It is supposed that, the Legisla turcc of almost all of the States be iug thoroughly Radical ti, present, the I 15th amendment forbidding any dis tinction in the right to vote or hold of fiee on account of "race, color, proper ty, education or creed," will pass three fourths of them and become a part of the Supreme Law of the land. It is a direct interference with the suffrage llws of every State in the Union, be o.ause they all require some gualitiua tion of "race, color, property, educa tion or creed" at present, and under the guise of securing liberty, will certainly work its overthrow. if the principle that political pow er belongs of right equtilly to all men, which underlies this action of Con. gress, be correct, then we see no rea son except ungenerous prejudice why the the article of 8ex was omitted in the amendment. Certainly there is no logical stopping placo short. of allow ing women also to vote. Their intel ligence, sence of duty, interest in the welfare of their country, in taxes, wars and internal improvements, is just as great as that of in en. If, then, it is wrong to exclude even the most ignorant man from the exercise of po litical power, for any reason of oxpe diency, surely, it is wrong to ex clude our women. And to this it is coming, if military intervention does rot prevent. If the negroes and Chi nese hope to retain their political pri vileges in this country, ''they must," as a New York paper, a fortni6ht ago, remat ked, "take the women along with them." Thore is, therefore, sound logic and strong senso in our own Legislature instructing the Judi ciary Committoo to report an amend nmont to the State Constitution doing away with political discrimination on account of sex. The Latest Moral Idea. Moral [deas,whethcr right or wrong, whether believed in, or simply hypo critically professed, are these which consciously and unsconsciously control human action, and rule, or rather con vulse the woril. -The idea at, Abo bot tom of the present manhood suffrage movement, when distinctly stated, is this; that every man, by the simple fact of existence as a man, has a right to an equal chance for political power with every other man, and should not, therefore, he debarred of the privi lege of voting or holding olice. We do not understand those who are sin cere advocates of universal suffrage to hold that men are equal, but simply that they should enjoy equal political as well as social mand civil rights, and be left free to rise or sink to their own proper level of political iniluence. It is this idea that gives power to Ra <dical D)emocracy throughout the world, ntnd banish sin, vice and ambition, and we soon muighthavo founded upon it a glorious commonwealth. It must be confessed, however, that this truly di vine idea has hitherto been the mere pretext and stalking-horse that rogues have used for selfish and criminal pur poses. .lforts to extend political pri vileges to the multitude have resulted in despotism. It is rather by being under wholesome constitutional res. traintIs in the exercise of power, t,hat mnankind have attained any approxi mnation to self-government. The po litical as well as thne legal rights of mankind have been better protected by a system that establishes trustees paid for their services, and, therefore, to some oxtent fit to perform them than .by a system wvhichi submits great interests to the direct deeision of those most interested, it is true, but often lcast competent to comprehend thenm. Faith in the wisdom of the masses is the necessary corollary of the idea on --which universal suffrage is founded, bat viewed on the light of history, it is a corollary that well nigh reduces the proposition itself to an absurdity. The ides, in theory, is beautiful, but try i6, and we soon find a remorseless nnd irresponsible tyranny as the re sult. It is the fruitful source of eltange and convulsion. - Gold our Curreney, 'ho Supreme Court lias rendered, svittmin ma fortnight, two decisions wor thy of tihe serious consideration of tbe business meni of the Souther':n X t t.es, ahrico they blaze out far us a fiincial poli'y, which will both keep our espitail at homo, and prevent loss es to us by -.tho . mismannagemnont or -waste'.ofs Federal .Finanes. It has debid ed, first; that 8tate Governments, * n thd'Orogog case, masycollect taxes in *gjold ; 'second,'.that til centracts for gi arogoo.and .oinn'ott be ,settled h-b iianor-. -List oyeryv. - Rat.hun Can tract t,hon, be "a gold contract" here. after, and let every btuthern State 1 Treasury deal only in gold--taxes in gold, and all their expendituros hi gold. Thus will we practically con trol the Finances of the Union, gra dually forcing a universal return to a hard money currency. We are not yet in the ltnancial irredeemnable paper currency maelstrom. Let us keep out and go for repudiation, if it becomes neccesary, as it surely will, unless Grant reforms the Government. [trom the Itoant iah;o ) The Writing >n the Wall Johibert. said that tlero are heads that, have no windows, so that the daylight cannot strike from above. Such are the !.elads of the jourllnhlsts who are on ly jaist beginning to discover that im portant truth about, Gen. Grant.'s future political rObuions which was clearly set forth by the /e,<n n 'atTle as long as last November. Iminediately after the Presi. lential election it was shown in these colnns Ihat, the sitUItion oltle siiCeCIss bil eandidate relalivl"lv to the ext.reu ists of the dominant party was snhi that lie must inevitably either hm ruld by themn or set them at defiance; that, inas i tieh is at the fimle of the CO7mvention, they nrie'le him very much more 1han1 lie needed them, it was unlikely, evetl were he a plastic man, that they could control hiu policy as 'resident ; and that as ho is by no means a plastic mnn, the contrary alterntative might ho regarded as a cInutnty. \Vo have no objection to furnish ideas for the journalists---ctus tom has made it easy ; for the discriti. nating public will hear witness how reg,.Jarly the seeds have been sown by lie Round Table that have sibseuenit. 'y sproitlIl into foll bloom st-isatioiis, .uisai les amid stardin, dvelopments mn the fertile ages of the Ililies, 11ut. we really iliinc their wimdows might havo been sofliciently open to admit, so obviouls and Iecessary an inIerenice .as this about. Gen. Grant, without. b,:ing obliged to take it from s.,cond hand more especially after so long a time that, through its disseminatio among the iiia<tes, the 1i ns.ructIiv e reflect ion I ins cotmi( f"lom below rathvr than from above. Cen. Grant's visit, to the metropolis, at a1 uuomnlet just bef r'"e his inaugurat.ioi selms to have been; instrimi ntal in prodlicing t.his suidden etllighteunmrnl, a mid for reasons not. diflieult to Ilcl. I Ie has for so nm time( been strengt honing nimself wi:I war )eimocrats andl con servative Repnlulic tas, and giving the Railin:als of bothI parties an imp11artial cold shonlbler. This has hieU accoin pliisliel throngh ineans well imderstood by the Iniated, but only dlimnly alppre ciated, throgh results, by the general tpibbc. Floating in the atmosphere everywhere-wlence or how n1onu. could exactly tell--has been, and is, the conviction that between Gen. Grant. and the hitherto ull-powetful Ia:dicals is to be a deathless flml. lBut with the General's visit to New York this has taken a more palpable form. It, is now known that the disposition of those great. bones of contention, and in the mat ter of tleir listribution, I hose unierr ing in.d;ces of policy, the Cabinet, ollieea, lie forg miisioiis, anid he th.ree gra G overmeniit. posit ions at. thle tiet roplolis, will lie sueh as to constit.ute a gunamnlet. otf delianace thr mowna dowin at thle'en-t of' tihladical faicton. It is knowyn th-i lhe Tlresuiry has b eeni olIered t.o Mr. A. 'T. St ewart--an id thait, lie has decl in ed' it.. Th'e Sinato D)epa rtmenit. hias been oll'ered to Mir. Gharles leranucis Adams -and lie has takeni lhe prioposal imo ( serious consideration. Should h~e refu- e, Mir. MIotleyv is the next, choice. Th2me War IDeparmtmuent--andl this is v'ery sig.. mihean' ii "it-ba bueen tenidere'd to General McCeleIim, andmu has so far niei their been niecep' ed nor declined. Ex GIovei-nior I"ishi has the opt ion of the portfolio ini lie latteor case. Tlhe Navy Decpart ment, having been gratefully declinied by Ad dir~al Farraguit. has been offered to Admiral Porter, who is pretty sure to accept it. Strong ef'orts haeve been miade to mduiice the appointment, of Mr. F. IB. WVashburnie as NIiinister to F'raiice, bitt they aro almost ce'rtaini to lini. Tt. is preCt.y wvell decile d thai.t Mr. M. 11. (G1rinnell is to be Collector of New York, and thait, Mr. C. A. Danna will be either Surveyor or Navy' Agent. The last-named geiit leman is almnost, as pop~uilar with DemX.iocrats as with Itepupib lheans, anad hiis ap~poit ntet amid anubse. eineiit career-ablo and n pright mni ihat, lie is--witl no far to t'fltco the stain lefi. on New YorkI jou ralisii by t he colineut, iin the hitter oflice, of a formeir imeumnbenmt. Other names. inighit be mt.i'iionied mi ct'.mleetioni wit hi impijor'tan lt post sill mioro sharply indicative of Ruadical discomiftittre, anid the onily sop to Ce,rbernus seemns to consist int the elect ion of' Mr. Grieeh-v as Moiisteir to En~tgland-a step1 F'r wlInchi there excep. tionial reasons, and which is now said to be finially de(term ineld tiponi. Mr. Jobhn WV. Forniey has been spoken of foir Mr. GIreeley's lon g supposed futurein niche- -- lie Post olice ; but Mr. F'rney's sinister eonnection wvith let ters ini formier days, wvouldl naturally daiiage his chanc~es. even if his extreme Radicalism did not. All thisclearly indicates thie general nature'of P'resident Grnt's fuituiro poliey. I The Radicnas have not lifted hinm I,o I pdlwer, aind lie (hoes not, mean to show 1 them gratitdo for favors not conferred. lie knows that lie is strong~ eiionglj wit liout them. Moreover, not. because they are lUopnblicans-for D)emocrats int thie hike position wouldh have donoe thee samie-but. because they had the chuance, I the extremists aro so far idlentif'ied withe the schemes of piublic plunder thatt Gratnt'a cherished plans of retrenchmemit adeconomyv must needs bring abont a collision. Thus the hianduwritlig on lie I wall is daily becoming plainler and plain. t er, and there is little occasion to regret t its import.. Thie Radicalfaction ha.m out. ived the t'yt'en that gave it birth qtito oig e-nough, andj the sooner it -draws he drap'ry ofits couch about it and pro )area to ho down to ploasant dreams, ho better for the nation. ['reaties Botween England and the Uni ted States. On Ft'iday last the President trans nitted to Congress copies of three reatios which have just boon conclud 3d between our Ministor at the Court )f St. James and Ea,rl Clarendo. rIhese treaties were submitted td the Dabinet at the meeting held on Fri loy last, and when they reached -the JIeate it was t-v Late to havo ,hcm rcferrr.d to thc p, ;.,er comn :u ii.ees. T'ho first trcat, is in thln form of a protocol, and ,dta to the subj.Aot of naturalization int the two couutries. ''hea reason ai.tig:red for making thi., treaty condit i""ls I i.; tt the subject )f naturalizatiun it, El.:c1:1nd is t6 n:at Ier of common i 1v, t i equi..s the ianction of 'arli.taent hteoro the Ministry can p;el..ia it. T!:c pro Visions of the Irotool are siuilar to those of the tecaty on the same suL ject made by Mr. 1l.uncruft of G(a.ln tly. The second t reat.y rla tes to the lispute about the bonudry of the San Juan bland. The third is' tho draft of the treaty tigned by Earl Clarendon and .lii ,tcr J~hnton on Friday last. Thu ut ticles of the trea ty are eight in t.uub1er, antd ato sub stantially as follows : Article 1. The two (O.vcrnments agree to the settlement. of ell claims and dilffrecues. which have ari;nli since the Convontion of 1853. Article 2 provides for a .commission of four persons, each Government be ing entitled to two ieprsentatites, this Coinltiission to agree upon'a plan of settlement. Article 3 provides that a najotity of the Commi.sion shall decido the questions involved. Article 4 provid.' for cases of dis agreement on the Cunonisson. In such an event the two Governments shall chooso nn umpire. The Presi dent of the United States shall net for the United States, but th ulmpire selected shall not he qualified unless confirmed by the Senate. Article 5 providcs that in the event of the refusal of the umi,iro to decide, the question shall he Settled by lot in presence of the Comris. ion. Article 6 excludes from the juris diction of the Commission all cases arising from claitm: whieh have been tdjudicated by Courts of Admiralty. Article 7 provides tha, claimants hall have first proved that they are British subjects, that they preserved atriet neutrality dliring the war, and aid not aid the South. Articlo 8. The sessions of the Com missions are to be hold in Washing. Lon. A1t ALAnMx; AND Mos-r Uxrtr. Elr:nI:NTFu I'ntom.::mc,u n.-'1'he J'dge field Adertliscr, of Wednesday, the 17th inst., sayvs: The trial of the case c.f the State igainst Ililirly i Iaidy' a' '.cwis h'ree ian (I wo negroes) for . m. urder of Mrs E'lkins, terminated on Thurslay morning of the second week of the late 61"rm, in a mis-trial. the jury having bec19n aibsolutly i:ablet to aigroe upon a verdict.. [The ...ese, like a wiounded0( mala'c, lhad d rage&ri its slows lenegth ailoneg ior more1 thain thre dav ls !iand thoc div. 'rs poimics of' v idece ar eising had been h s'essedl by cotensel, ini presence of Judge Phoit t, thr ioughe all thle staeges of 'ply,. r'joinad;r, rebutner, su rrebrai ter', Sic., in fact almost ad infinitumi. A aid after all, it,c en minat ed, as we lhave chovo stat ed, in a mi s tria!. Incdeed we maedy say ini worse thliatna mis.t ieml ; ina:smchi cees on Prida v Iast thle p)risoniers . ctic he aest onislhmion t. ancd inidigntionc of aell who imidie finltest icenini: ance w ith Iaws, woe - releaesed I roumjail uipone ahoer own c recogn iz/ance by iiu-.hoi ty' ol Jucede Plat t. Our comnm iity,~m na'cnisi omed to I.his novel, spee ed ace miqulitois mieth. cd of' general jail deli very, evoen whler r>lfenerseic w%erc imiprisonei(d foer mincor >lences, wvas, as a matter of' course, sheocked to lean act imt two stal wart ne gr.'o fellows, indicted, imiprisoned and irraigened for muerde'r, reaidered incde'ois.. Ily heineotis b)y suspicion oefn rpo, had beene tumrned locose unohiiplt. of' just;gice, ipons their simpl1)e and sole r'Cegi. Wer v'entuare to sax theat the records of Souith Carolinca wd'l'cot, disclose a ' parn dd e ase. Im ei((d we have never hieardl t imtlmnated beefore. thacit a prisoner ini licted for inreri 'oiuld he relcesed sav'e iponi recogmze'.lio wilth apuproved suire Lies. Nor is ,t. lhkely denht. Hdle'ry Ilardy and Liewis Freeemnan, 11md t hey 3001n whijte men0, woul leave bos n thua released.- A and if ae bis is to 6c0 dieemed c precedent. in lhk,ecases. old Ecdgefiield hvoniid do well to . considier the question >f(setting her houei in order'. En viiew of' lee mncifol restilts in vol v. 'd inI thli r'evuchninahry wa'cr n mCuba, lhe best couirse Gien. Girant canc purse s the one taken by (Gen Jackson inc re. ardl to Penscela acnd ho Spanmsh po)s. Ossionls ini Floridia--iako pososieon of he country, anid setule the matter by aegotiation w IhI Spaicn aifterwards. phis step would cut nll t.he knottyv cointi in the Ctnbanc qulesi on, anad be the est nd ev.ent nally the most sat.isfaictory or every intereat involved thereine-tho 3 iited States, Spacinc. Cenha awil civili altion at large.--N. Y. Herald. A young gymnast in floston - boa3s hat after practicing three years% . he an raise himself with ettther arm rein thie "dlead hang'' six tiie in siue ossion, with a fifty pound weight in he other hand. [A million francs change owners in arseyigtn consequence of heogambling carried on there, and hie cards used cost eight thotaand ranos a day. - . -- '- = m a~ a 48 hA h I IiT ATflNf} ITSELF--A PAARAL .'Tho disorderly soenes '] i&hoeIduso yesterday afternoon du- n ring the opening and counting of the o rleotoral votes for President and Vice-Prosident were a repetition of 6 what oceurod when the votes were t counted in 1821. Then the northern b memborsof Congress insisted that thQ b vote of Missouri should not be count pd, while the southerners deolared r that it should be. A compromise t was finally mado, which resulted in ( the passatnYof a joint resolution pro. a viding that the vote should be an.- n nouncutd -as it would be if the -votos of MissYuri were counted, alud as it woulij bD if they were not 'coutred. Notwitbtitanding the passage of this joint reuolution, when the President of a the Sonato cane to the vote of Mikou ri, Mr. Jiver:aor, of Now hampshire. t objeted to its bein~g reived ont the L'round that 3lissouri was not a St ate f The Sjnate withdrew, and a debate V ensued in the IIcuse, during which s John lutdolph made one of his deli- I ant speeches ; but the Iluuso atood by 1 ils joint resolution. When, however, the P,e.ident of t the 8enato declared that "if the votes e of Missouri were counted the. number f of voks for James Monroe would be a 231 ; if they are not counted tht.num ber of votes for James 3Iunroo is 228," Floyd and 14,ndolph, of Virginia, be gan to protest against this partial d recognition of Missouri, but were called to order and made to take their seats. Order being restored, the l'residont of the Senato announced the vote, when Randolph rose and be. gan to declaim with gr3at vehemence. The President of the 8enato proposed that the senators should retire, ,whiuh thoy did, leaving the excited Virgin inn to conclude his protests. It is evident from the accounts that had it not been for the firmness of tho pro siding ofiiceor there would have been a regular row.- i ish inylon Repubi. Some persons looking at the course of General Butler, in Congress, think c that he has some important public aim, and that it is to put down the Senate and subject the entire govern mnct to the control of the llouse of ltepresentatives. The Senato, as a rival power, stanis in the way of the supretacy of the m:oro popular branch of the legislature. The Seiato desires to control the M:cecutive notion in regard to appoint ments, and arrogates to itself the riglit of dispensing the patronage of the Government. The House resists that monopoly, and therefore Mr. But. ler's mesure for the repeal of the Tenure of Offico Act was passod by t In lrge..majority. The next House of Reipresentat ives will, no doubt, loan towards a paper :mor.oy system, and will he antagonised by the Senate on that subject.- Butler has put himself forward as tla champion of an exclu. sivo paper currency, aid of course iu-t contend against the fin ancia l con servatism of the Senate. Butler, as every one must notice, is likely to be the leader of the Republican party in the IIouse, and through it of the on. tire party of the country.- Wttshe. Cor. Uutiu'er. FIiT/ Am-EAnANIC OF TlE ELO CiP'EJE IN CmiIRL.sToN -"XVbat's it 1" "WhIere's it ?" PWho1m's got it ?" 1 "Whol~re did it coine from ?" "IIave I you seen it ?" "There it goes !" p "Wlioop) ! don't it fly ?" "Break lie c neck durreckly." "Do debbil in datt samen ting." "The ghost of Tami O'Shanter's mare." "Any other borso. would get as thin that cat as ~ as ,little."' Snoh were seome of the hy'riad 'initeir.gatories and renmarks made by .the 6rowd yester day on the I appearance of a "veloesip.hde in the ~ streets of tihis 'olt. The Savannah Ad'eid4~'s' that;Savanniah is not I behind thle wvorld, b)eause somebody has an agenoy for velo'cipedes for I Georgia andi South Carolinta. Well, ~ we acknowledge that Charleston is & sonmc seconds behind Pauris and New ~ York,'but she has a veloeipede of tier own manufacture, and she intends to eatch up. The one that created such ' a sensation yesterday was made by Mr. D)uo, and expert tinner, ini con-. junction with Mr. D). B. hIIaselton, the sewing maclino ma111. C(C'hrleston .Nos. WONDJERFUI. Es$.AP,.:-Ono of'tho t most thrilling spietacles ever witness.. ed by man, whore life and dea1th seem. ed weighing in the balance, was seen d at tile dlepot on Thursday morning ~ last, a little-after midnight. It seems that ar"gentloman fronm Water Vamlloy ' wvas waiting far the up Express train I to take hinm homno. Having boont C awakened hurriedly, Iho wont toward ~ the stopping point, taking the v'ery ~ center of the track. 'The train a11 ? this tme coming toward him wvith the I almtost certain aim of death. BHnd. od by the drummnond light,- and proba bly believing hinsel f on -the' "oil' track," ho0 rushed onward tovai-d the ~ eniginea. All of a sutddeni they' camne I together amnids the thrilling, cries of' the by-standers,ujump froim the track!, r ajnmp fromt the track 1" but it was too late. Luckily, 'bowever, the train t had almost come to a stop, and as the oow-catchier struck him, lie grasped thme massIve iron tie holding on for life r ar death, while the engine dragged I him along fully twenty feet, amiddst I the most soln suspense. Finally [ the engine stopped, and he wais helpedi off, badly but hot dangerously hurt.- I Grenada ,Sentnam, A wife joinli g lier 'hushAnd in a e otveyaiioe of roel estate; was asked a by the judg9 lio' examined her in r rivate accoordirig to.theo'aot of' asst. ~ slf, whether ahe acted without corn- ' sulsion the part of her husbanid. he atuok he, arms akimbo, and re lIi 4,' "'e corg modo-mor twelity bi ek~ hi." -- a M As M AM JA At x JOHN RAN DOLPii's BLACK COLONY. 'he fairest experiment on any scale of tagnitudo that has been made in this Duntry to test the capability of a ne ro community to maintain itself, was to notable one made by the celebra sd John Randolph, of Roanako, who, y his will, emancipated a considera lo number of slaves, who were subse. uently settled on good land in the reo State of Ohio. The latest men ion of these negroes we find in the inoinnati Enquiirer and it comes from gentleman who resided for some time ear John Randolph'scolony of blacks. [is statement. is that the original :- tlers were extra-iutelligent no roes ; that they ivero 'established on uins having good houses and fences; nd well stoeked with domestio ani a', itnpletients and requirements; hat their condition was bettor than hat of the small, even moderate, nrmners of tho ncighborhood, but now lhat remains of them and their do Cendants are sunk into a state of arbarism, shunnod by their neigh ora, except Quakers, who still extend harity to and coninuuicato with bem ; that their houses are dilapidat d, their fences roted down, their elds grown up in briars, and their nirnals and implements long since one. Senator Perry, of Connect ient, having enied, in solenn conclave, that he Nutmeg State was independent, his olleague, Mr. Dixon, t efreshed his temory and morality thus : "The State of Connecticit provides i her Stale constitution that her clec ors, before voting, shall take such oath s shall he prescribed by law ; anJ part f the oath prescribed is in these words: You, A 13., do solemnly swear that on will be true and faithill to the State ,f Connecticnt. and the c matitution and overnent thereof; as a free and in Iependenl Slal,' I took that oath, nd the Senator took it, but he seems to mve foeuotten it." Even the classic Sumner was ignorant f this provision of the old constitution f 1818, which has never been repealed, nd FIerry, if lie knew anything about lIo organic law of the State ho claims o represent so conspicuously, for. ot it. contumaciously. If Ferry was ilenced by these threats, equally-discou. erred was the mighty Sumner when f r. Dixon read from the first Constitu on of Massachusetts the following rords: "The people of this Commonwealth ave thin sole and exclusive right of gov rning themselves as a free, sovereign, u(] independent State." Warit a bit. The chickens hatched y the .war will come -home to roost. Tme JocRNexY. oF LIjrE.-Th cele. rated Bishop lurgess,whose sayings are uoted as replete wih sound judgment lid beantiful ideas, says of the journey f lif', "that ten thoneand human beings et forth together on their journey. lfter ten years, one-t.hird. at least have li,appeared. A t the middle point, of ommon measure of life, but half are till on the road. Faster and faster as he rank ' grow thinner, they that re anined till now become wearv, and lie lown and rise no more. At three-score id ten, a hand of some four hundred 'et struiggle on. At ninetv, those have ieen redueed to a hanidful of thirty t.rem ling pat riarchs. Year after yeair they all in dimiiimshinug numbers. One Iin ers, perhaps, a lonely marvel, till thme ettry is over. We look again, and he work of deat h is fliishied. We believe that Gen. Blair is the nly Democratic leader at the North who comp lrehmends thle full nm''aning of he late election. WVe ink thait with iin we can iifor'seo -comnpliations in the "'deral G4overnmnent the like of which his generation of gret. hlistory..mlakers ad nmot direa med of beholdhn. W hat isiust tihe Sout hern people do ? lemamn united above all else; aind iiil we have our way wewul r a ie al te tue meninto a secret. ueiety, sw ire to uphold t.o the last the ainse of' their race ; to keep in cheek, g'ith the damgger if necessary, the aggres. ions of the JIacobin adlvenuturers mn our idst ; to be prepared for whatever mergenicy"rmay aise5(, and it is coming, n take p.osoen once more of our The Baltimore Gaze tte, speaking of he hightoned morality of Congress non, says: i$utler, in writing to his correspon ents, intersperses his letters with eriptural quotations. Wilson puts on solemn visage as lie talks of the Rook of Ages." Yates makes tem eranco speeches. Harlan discourses f the beauty of holiness and the bles ings of a well spent life, and from a onditlon of poverty suddenly acquir a great wealth. Pomeroy becgmes resident of a couple of railroads in ~ansas, and of the saubsidy granted by ~ongrePn to one-of them puts, it is eserted by Gen. Boynton, one hun-' red thousand dollars into his own ockets. One hundred millions of cllars Mr. Jenokes tells us, are an ual ystolen from the revenue, and Ir. Wells to a great degree confirms he statement. Br.oony CONFLICT BIETWEEN A NC)y. r.n oF Ciii NKSt AND TiHE CRisw OP AN INot.tsu GUJNnOAT.-Ljato despatchee 'on China report that a Collision took lace at Swatow between thme Chmnese ihabitapts and the crew of the (British unboait Grasshiopper. The fight was batinate and bloody. The sailors )tghit desperately, but were overwhuelmn. di by the natives, whose numbers con antly increased, and were compelled to 3tire to their ship with eleven of their timber wounded. Many Chinsmen 'oe killed and wounded in the all'ray. "Let's fusel,"' is the way the people iLynrchburg, ask each other to drink, ad a drInk 18 nalle 'a fu.oi..o. TIE NEWS FROM CUDA.-'The intel ligence from Havana published in our telegraphic column is of a very impor- I taut character. It will be seen that Count Valmaseda, who is operating in the Eastern Department, has been forc ed to send a portion of his column to St. Jago to save that city from capture t by the Cubans,while in the Central Do partment there is a significant Inaction on the part of the Spanish troops. A c new and formidable movement has broken out in the Villa Clara district, I involving all the sugar region of Cien fuegos and Trinidad. At Cardenas several arrests have been made, inelu ding the -British Consul. But the ap pearance of insurgents at Guanajay a and San Cristobal, places west of Ha- u vana which have hitherto been quiet, and the advantages obtained there 2 over the Spaniards are of groat signi ficance. They prove that the revolu- t tion has acquired a new impulse, and indicate that it will speedily involve all of the Western Department. t The feeling of hatred between Cu. bans and Spaniards is acquiring great er Intensity, and the youth are leaving the towns to take their places in the ' field. This feeling has its dark side v for our own citizens resident in Cuba, e and a representation has been sent to Washington stating that Americans 1 are being arrested, but no measures can be taken in their behalf because Captain General Dulce denies to the Consul General of the United States diplomatic functions.-N. Y. Herald. s LAID ON TIHM TAm.E.-Ben Butler's resolution in referenco to "Old Ben Wade's" invasion of the rights and o privileges of the House. "Old Ben," a by his binndtring, had got the question into such a snarl that even Big Ben t could not unravel it, nor Schenck, nor s Shellabarger, nor Bingham, nor any of I them. And so, with a spread eagle F speech from Logan in the way of an apology 'for "Old Ben's" blundering, J the snarl was laid on the table. But the afftir, as between the Senate and the House, is not settled for all that. It will break out again, after awhile, on some other question. A Scoth engineer has discovered a method of producing intense light with common coal gas by mixing it a with atmospheric air. Under ordi- c nary conditions the introduction di- a minishes the illuminating power, but t greatly increases the heat of a gas c flame. In the new plan the mixtures of gases is lighted after passing through a tissue of iridio-platina wires, the metal soon becomes heated the flame a disappears, and a vivid wLite light is f the result. It will burn, it is said, in t a gale of wind without protection, and a downfall of rain will not quenohiit. CALIFORNIA S.rAr.Pox.-The peo. ple of California are afflicted with small. pox just now in apparently a very viru lont form. Thig they perhaps owe to the Chinese. Disease.i of this class n affect differently the different races of c men. Smallpox, for instance, as it sfhcts the negro or Indian, is more ter rible than the smallpox of the white, and white men taking the disease from these r taWny races seldom survive. Doubtless r the Mongol is ano.ther instance of this differe nce, and the disease in Cnlifornia K is perhaps of the Mongo! typo. Tuxi Flirri.--Our late Spring weath er, says the Con.stitutionaligt lias great. ly diminished the chances for a fine fruit Crop) this year, in this part of the State,t and it would seem that even farther 1 North similar apprehensions exist from the same camue. Our Maryland ex chaniges speak of thes probabilities of a total failure of the crop in that State, a and we fear that the first cold weather we have will end all our hopes for neaches this year. The Empress Eugenic, according to t Figaro, has recentlj become a convert to spiritualism, through the influence oif a clover clairvoyant, M'lle Elise Gullotten, who calls herself the "Light of the Future." The Empress has recently attended almoht daily the seances of this woman, and even Louis Napoleon is said to have consulted E her. PHa PArPEn.-Experiments recent- s ly made in Georgia prove that-good pa- e per may be made from okra, the whole c pant being utilable. The Mob>ile Reg- r isser has seen specimens of good'printing, writing and wrapping paper made from t tis phiu t. Thi. discovery is expected I to re'duce the price of paper. r Below will be found what is deem ed a proper text from which to p reach the funeral sermon of lBen Butler, j from Jeremiah 11, 19: . '"And the basins, and the lire pans, anid the caldrons, and the candlestick, ' and the spoons and the caps, that which I was of gold, in gold, and that which a was of silver, in silver, the Captain, of f the guard took away." v a ANOTHER VWro.--President John son has sent up to the Senate his veto of a certain bill concerning the color ed schools of the District of Columbia, ~ and this time, even on black men's rights, we think he has Sumner on the hip. The leading apothiecarios of Massa.. I chusotte have petitioned the Legislaturet for the passage of a law to prevent any ' one engaging in tha't line of busioess, unless he had received a special educa. tioi for it. TecyofRome itself is said.to be ' invaded by- bandilti. Hotels, andr. vate houses are contrnually rob bed. Twenty thousand francs worth of.,jew- 8 elry was recently .taken from one lady. Chicago i to have a city telegraph for the transacticn of local busitiess-prob ably to counteract the effect of divorce( suits by pnting husand o n closer Local Items. rew Advertisemen:s. Good News 1 Good News 1--all on add Bros & Co. Dry Goods, &.-Ketohin, MoMas. Dr & Brice. "No Mulo."-E. W. Ollever & Co. Masoulo Meeting-S. B. Clowney, eo. ire. One of our merchants report the arhamville Female College, near olumbia,'a heap of smouldering ruins a he passed it on the ears yesterday orning. Accidental. iporah Oottjn Seed. The attention of farmers is direoted o the advertisement of Mr. R. S. )esportes, with the above beading, in o-day's issue. Fodey's Lady Book. This mirror of fashion for March, is pon our table, and, as usual, is filled ,}th the latest fashions, besides inter sting matter for everybody. Inoonstitutional. The Charleston papers print in . full he opinion of Judge. Carpenter that he Homestead exemption is uncon titutional. Fen. D. H. Hill, Of Charlotte, N.-C., called at our flio yesterday in excellent health nd spirits, though grown grey in pa riotio service both with pen and word. Long may be live to contri ute his full share to the fame and rosperity of "The Land We Love." Luother Ohange. The Charlotte & S. C. R. R., as it fill be seen by this morning's issue as again changed its schedule. The own mail train arrives at Winnsboro ,t 9.28 a. m., up train at 3.42 p. m. One of the gambling establishments ,t Baden Baden has offered Mrs. Lin-. oln ?2,000 per year to remain there a the guest of that establishment for hree years. The offer has been ao opted. [She failed in the "old olothes" sarket, also in her petition to Con. ress for "pin money," and now we ad Mrs. Lincoln, the wife of a mar red President, betting her last chip t "draw-polker."] 'he Old Blacksmith Shop. This old shop so long known as the Aiken Blacksmith Shop," has recent. r undergone a thorpugh overhauling, pder.tho special supervision - of cur nterprising townsmun, Mr. Geo. H1. IeMaster. Where stood a few weeks go a delapidated old blacksmith shop ow stands a beautiful store, and is ow occupied by Messrs, Ollever & Co. Would we had a few more of the leMaster stripe in Winnsboro. eouthern Almac fo 89. We have received from Messrs. Valker, EDvans & Cogswell, Charles on,8S. C:, their Southern Almanac for 869, it is interspersed with ruled fly eaves which makes it an excellent uomorandum book. Every family hould have a copy.e lobaoo, The following communication which re find in the Phoeniix, is of interest o merobants, and will explain itself : TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OPINTERNAL REvENUE, WVAsINGToN, February 10, 1868. SIR:i In reply to your letter of 'ebruary 6, in relation to stamping obacco and snuff in the hands of deal rs, I have to say that as the law now tands, after February 15, 1869, all ne-cut chewing, smoking tobacco and nuff, and after July 1, 1869, all oth:. r manufactured tobacco in the hands f dealers, not packed and staimped as equired by the Act of July 20, 1888, rust be so packed and stainpod at he expense of the owner or the holder, >eing sold or offered for sale. Very eso Tfu HOMS HIARLAND, Acting Commissioner. A. S. Wallace, Esq., Collector 3d )istrict, Columbia, 8. 0. DELICIOUS MiRDIINAL..--This is thel un ersal .verdiot, pronounced upon PI,ATprron iTERs by all who have tried themn.grhe roll-known health..promoting ingredient. reon which they ave made. and their lava! able merits as a remedy for indigestion ad all its consequent aignents, and the'pre entive qualities agait,t diseases arising rem climatic changes, miasmatic influences ad imsperfect scret,iens, are so widely * nown and so honorably endorsed, that we ruse no one will forego the advantages of Iheir use, MiACNoLrA WATua.-Superior. to the hest nported Germnan Cologne, and sold at half li price. feb 18-tal Ziporah Cotton Seed. SHU8IEL ZIORAIH COT'TQN gNED Jelected.withb care by Cal, I, . Pa For sale at *8.00 per single bus.hel, or 2.50 by the quantity, (fur o,r sin bushels.) Ootler. grown from this seed is seling at l@85 Genii in Ohaplestont. Address U. 8. DESPORTS, feb 28-t1xl Ridgeway* 8. C. Onfon Thuttons, NIN,rihPotatoes, CorD, dearden )BOed, &ro., for sale at fe 10 JOUfI MioIN'1YE & 00.