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Ilk Devoted tothe Disseminat-ion of General Informnati-n. V- - * N WR S -- A 4,- 9 VOLUME: I. *NEWBEitRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1865. NUMBER82~ THE NMBERRY WEEKLY. HERALD IS PUBLISHED AT - NEWBETiRY C. H., 1hos. P. & R. H. Greneker. TERMS, $1 IN SPECIE, FOR SIX MONIS, OR- $1,50 IN PROVISiONS. - (Payment required invariabI1 in advance.) Advertisements inserted at. $1- per square, for first insertion, 50 cents for subsequent insertions. Marr;age notices, Funeral invitations, Obituaries, and Communications of personal interest charged as * dvertisements. By the FrovisXonal Governor of the State. i - of South Carolina. A PROCLAMATION! W UERE ASHis Excellency President John Y son has issued his proclamation, appoint ing me (Benjamin F. Perry) Provisional Governor in and for the State of South Carolina, with pow er to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for convening a Cogven tion of the State, composed of delegates to be chosen by' that portion or the peopte of said State w]o are loyal to the United States, for the pur p of ahering or atnendintg the Constitution thereof;*-and with authority' to exercise withim the lini:s of the state all the powers necessary "nd proper'to enable such loarl peoi-le to restore s id State to its constitutional relations to .the Federal Governmedt, ,nnd to present such a Re p:blican forim of State Govetment as will entitle the State to the guarantee of h.e U:::ed Stites "e therefor, and its people to protection by the United State agaitlt invasion, insurrection aiid domastic violence. . I. g Now, therefore, in ohedien e to the proclani tion of his Fxceliet,cv - Andrew John-,ozn, I'rexi d'nt of r:e Utivd States, 1, BENJAIIN F. Pj:.%RY", Provisioual Governot -of -the St-tte -of Sou.t i C:holina, for tlie-purp.:e of orgunizing a Provisionial Goc.. umint in Sk;dth Carolina, re forzing th'e Ste t'onstitutiou and restoring 6iil aut.ho"ritv in -aid State, u+,der the C'>ititudion and laws of the Ui:.ed.S.atc, d hereby proohiim: and declare that all civil ofi.ces i South C'aroli na, who were ist o;hie when the Civil Goverriuent of the State w-; stpended, is.May last, (except - those arrested or under proscuion for treason,) on takitng tiie oath of'allegi:tte prescrihed in the President's Amnesty. Prolkatnion of the 29th day-of isay, -1865, restuiie the dites of. their Htflces and contim.ue to d.eisehatge !hemi ii-er the Pz ovisizinal Government till furtIver appIntments are mtale. l: nown, that it is eye y of ali :,aI citizens of the State of South Caroli a to promptly go tor ward and, take the -ath of allegiance .tT the United States, tiefore.sonie mng!,tcate or nili.:ry oftleer of the Fe'eraj Covernment, who may be - ualified for adninistering -oaths; "and such are hereby authorized to give certified copies 6 ereof to the persons'respectively by whoni they were made. And auch magistrates or oficers are here by required to' transmit the- originals of" such oaths, at ae early a da.-as may be conrenient, to the Dfepartaient of Stat_, iii the city of. 1ashing tou, D. C.~ And I do farther prociaim, dticlre and make known, that the Managers +f Elections through - cut the State of South Carolina will hold an elec tion for members of a State Convention, at their respective precinacts, on the FIRST _IONDAY * IN SEPTEM,1BER NEXT, ae, ording to the laws of Southe Carolina indfoit~e beftore the secession~ of the State; and that each Election District i the State shall elect as many members of the Convention aA the said District has mnembers' o1 the Ilouse of Representativ-the basis~ of repre EenltatiO. &eing pOpu1latiomL Ed taXaNon. This: will give one hundred and .twenty-four members to the Contetion-a number sufficiently large to represent every portion of the State most fully. E-very loyal citizen who has taken the Amnesty oath and not within the excepted classes in the President's Proclamation, will I e edeftled toyote, -provided he was a legal voter under the Consti tution gs it stood prior to the~secession of .South Carolina. And all Gho argwithin the excepted * classes must take the oatth and apply- for a par dpn, in order to entitle them to vote or become nmmers of tlhe Convention. The members of the Convention thus elected on the first Monday jo Septembei next, are here by required to convene in the city of Columbia, oni WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of Septembe'r, 1 865, for the purpose of altering and am.ending the present Cor.stitution of South Carolina, or remodelling and making a*new one, which will t conforTn ta the great changes which have taken plae .a One State, and be more. in accordance with Republi~can principles and equality of repre sentation. And I do further proclaim and make known, that the Constitution and all Jaws of force in South Carolinag.rior .to the secession of the State, arc hereby maide of force under the Provisional Government, except-wherein they may conflict with the provisions of this proclamation. And the Jud-ges and Chancellors of the State are here required to exercise a1l the powers and per all the du.'ties which .appertain to their reC tive offices, and especially in criminal cases. 11 be expected of the Federal milit ary au it.ies nowin South Carolina, to lend their .oity to the civil offlcers of the Provisional 1overntoiiiIcfor the purpose of enforcing the laws and prese1rinlg the peace and good order of the State. - And I do further comm!nand and enjoin all good. and lawful citizens of the State to unite in enforc .ing the laws and bringing tdjustice gll disorderly persons, aH plunderers, ro.becp and miaraude'rs, all vagrants.asd..idle personls who are .wandering about without employment or any visble means of supporting themselves. It is also expected that all formver owrners of freed persons will be-kind to them, and not *urn off the children or aged to pe~rish; and the fre~ed. e'.en and women are earnestly enjomned to make contracts, just and fair, for remamnig wnt:: mzeir In order to faciitate as much as possible the application for pai-dons under the excepted se. tions of the President's A.nesty 'roclam;tion, it is stated for information that all applications must be by petition, stating,the excep'tion,' and accompanied with the oath prescribed, -This pe tition must be first approved by the Provisional Governor, and- then f<rwarded to the Ptesident. The headquarters of the Provisional Governoz will be, at Greenville, where -all communication$ to him must be addressed. The.newspapers of this State ivill publish thie proclamation till the election for members of the Convention. - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set. my harid and seal. Done at the town of JL. s.] Greenvilli, this 20th day of- July, in the year of our Lord 1S65, and of the inde pendence of the United States the ninetietb, - -B. F. PERRY. By the Provisional Governor - WILLIAM H. PritRY, Private Secretary. July 26-32., Address of Bishop Andrei to the N. E. Church Snuth. Belnced Brethren.-The evhlts of .the last three months have placed our country ein greatly altered c4:,umstances. Tha foitune of war have brought us agai:l under Federal rule, and it becom'es us to act wisely in our new rela-ions. The stars and stripes again wave over-us-'tis now our national fiag, and fsoud by us be respected accordingly. Our fond :ticipations of a separate notionality have, in the Providence of God, been disap pointed, and it becomes us to submiit quietly to tes providential maward. - We have- main t:inct long at d bloody struggle ; ogr sol diers have fough t bravaly, and although forced to submIit to overwhelmiug .umbers, vet we have lost no ~honor, our enemies bEng the jud:;es.-.ow that our armies have been properly sturrendered, a.nd our brgve - soldiers are 'returning to, their nauch loved homes, it is oir duty to acquiecc quietly in what Prov idence -eeins to have ordained for uy. Let us all ".epcrt ourscives as quiet, p1ace-loving, pe0ce-makini,z CittienS. Let us, as far aspfae ticable, try to forget the wrongs we have euf f,red froIn the Northern peogple, and' hence ff:rth seek to cultivate the spirit"of peace- and gcad neilhborhlooOd. 1h1is i, both oui- duty ts ChrLtizns ind our interest as citizens. We hope that none of our peoplc will for a m,rent yotinteniance bushwhacking or guer ii!a warfrc. The.se .are'wrong in -principle arid praeticq, anid w ./ever apology men may have made for them diiing the war, therecan he none nom. A1 bo 111tnnn, .3 m r cWatte h1is par1.t hy nm mi such en trlprises. The oath on which your- parole was given -was a solemn sppeal t(. God, and it may not he violatel (vithi impunity. There are Federh soldiers atvtioned among you, and this. perhaps, will he necessary for sometim:e. Cultivate kindly feeling towards them. So far as I have. observed their deport' ments, they stcn disposed tobe orderly. Let us not, by oti uncivil deportment towards them, provoke them to a contrary course of conduct. Invite thiii to your chixrches, that they may mingle with you in the services of religion. for there are, no donbt, many among them who, at honi. are remliers of the church and consistent Chilstians. 1 have iioticed wiilh pain that some of our estimahle ladies sem to take pains to. exprcss in the bitterest- ternis.of reproach theit- cbn teuipt for the "Yankees." Now, this is un wise as well as.unchristian. To, sum up all in a few words, God seems to have ordait-ed that we shall iive together in civil .compact with the North rs formerly, and the sooner we can bring about a state of kind feelings between the two sections, tle better for all concerned. - Finally, let us pray for the counitry and its rulers, that God may over-rule and- direct them both in their le~gislative and~ executive acts.' This is necessary if we desire, to lead quiet and peaceable lives-in all godliness an8 honesty before -God. And~ifow may the God of all grace gour upon as all the abundance .of -His Spi;it to guide us into the ways of truth and pere. I am, (dear brethren, yours -affectionately, * JAMES 0. ANDRE W. . PoLTIrs.-We see ~that the wire-pullers at the No'rtlr arc already engaged in concocting chemnes wherewith they hope to instal themi selves and friGnds in gobd, fat ofBeces. Manly of these gentlemen; doubtless, have anr eye to appointmzents at the South, but weju'dge from what wve can learn of affairs in Washington that a large maj~ority <,f ofdie seekers will be disappointeud in their Southern- antic:ipations. While the political warfare is being waged. at tbc North, we sincerely trust ascenpof words, and speghes, and violent contentions will not be entered upon here. We want quiet. Our people desire to peaceably engage in their ac custometd pursuits, without being compelled to take part in an excited and angry political discussion. It is time for us to think of poli tis when civil law and order shall have been fully end-thoroughly restored throughont the State. Of course, we will eventually be called upon to dc~cide many weig1ity questions, but now is not the time to drag those questions before the people.-Chrestom (urior, -1t. BEArTImU Co3fPARrTsoN.-Tn an imDaginary conversatioi1 between Petrai and 'Boccaccio, from the pen of Walt!er Savage Landor, th'ere is the following passage. ~"The damps of au tumn sink into the leaves, arid prepare ta for the n-ecessity'of the fall; and thus insensibly re we,,as years close round us, detached from our teriacity of life by the genial pressu're - o From the Iittsburg Post. A Woman's Op#nion. Mrs. Jane G. Swissheba, %na her extreme radi ical opinions are well kuown in this city to nee< any introduction-from us. She has been residin in Washington for some time, and we find a let ter from her in a cotemporar-y 'garding Mis Suratt, which will' be read-with int est ; it show that she possesses i-large amount of womant sympathy.- Mrs. Swisshelm says : "It is customary to represent Mrs. Surratt a! a monster with an unliThited amount-of cunning and cruelty in her face ; but. she is sim'ply a rep resentative Southern . .woman, no better o1 worse than the majority of Southern women I kifow those who have known het As the belle and beauty of her county, the petted, bpoiled fa vorite of friends, the idol of parents, husband arf children. Her face, and indeed her wl .La figure while on trial, was soft, /ouaded, tender and nio therly. Her large gray eyes alone-gave evidencc of reserved strength. 'Her behavior during tha; long and terri6le ordeil was All of delicacy an dignity. She _ade no scenes,-as a weak or vair woman would have done. " When her daughte came, into Court, and with quivering lip ,an< streaming eye, appeared to be on the point o breaking down, she, with i gesture of comman< and entreaty, restrained her. ;During all the lonf hot days she sat with her hb.vy mournig vet .down, and a large, galm-led fan held betweet her fac'e and the-crog ds who gathered and crush -ed and struggled to gaze at. her, as if she ha< been an alligator-hundreds of'persons in thesi crowds making the most insulting remarks in hei hearing. - Describing the Court room, the corresponden states: . "Man arid woman stood on tip-toe, and stretch ed and strained, or having gained entrance; stoot coolly ar4 made such remarks as 'Where's Mrs Surrat?' 'I want to see her!' 'Oh, -goodness just l6ok if she isn't pretending ro be -modest! I wisd" Icon d see her face better!' .'Isn't she , devil?' 'She looks like a-devil!' 'Hasn't she I horrible face ?'- 'I hope they'll hang her-tee bee, bee !'- All these remarks, and more such some of them again and again, and often accomn panied by coar laughter,; I icard during th two hours and 1f I sat near her, and she mus have heard them as distLedty as I did. Thel were evidently meant .fr hee,' c "It appeared to me so cruel and. cowardly thu to insult a,prisocer in ch(us tiat I could n-ot re frain from answering, and several times said 'She has not a bad .face. S'=e bas a guod face and if -she had not it is cowardly to insult her ! "She dropped her fan and looked at- me w;t such an expresaion of -ratitude- as I shall neve forgCt. I -coked full into her,eves; r.i_ne wee filled with heavv tema Several asied me if was a friend of Mis. Surratt,' so strange did an CONFLICT OF AumoRIT IN TE ESsEE.-Ti Nashville Dispatch- says that a scrious conflict o authority has occurrced-at Columbia in this State between the military and - civil athorities, ii which the "irrepressible i:egro' figures as thi principal. It seems that a negro had been ar rested by a civil officer upon-a charge -cf misde ineanor, or some petty :offense, we believe, an< taken before a mggistratc, by whom he was con jir' ted to the jail to await his trial before.th< 1ircuqCourt at its*ext term. The negro -wa subsequently taken f~om the, jail he militar: and turned over to the agent of Freedman. Bureau. The civil. authorities waite.d upon Vol Macker, the commander of the post at,Columbia to protest agaiit this pro.eeding on the part'o the military, and it is reported that they wer jnformed that the civil oflicers must not in futur< Iarrest any negro for a violation -of'-the lawrs o T ennessee,.but moust repor't such violation to th agent of' the Freedman's Bureau, .by whom th case will be examined, and if it be thought 'o per, the negro will then 1>e tu'rned o'ver to th civil authorities to be dealt with according to th< Slaws of this State.* .'he eiwil oficersg th'ereupoi held a nieeting and resolved to suspend the civi functions until the question of.authority was set tled. They sent a deputation to this city to la: the matter before the.Governer, and'to call upot h'rn-to assert and inaintaiin the supremacy of thi civil law. The detegation arrived, bu'i the Gov ernor being in Knoxille, they Were brought t< "a stand still" for tle present. Subse uently Gen. Thomas ordered the miiliti ry-not to interfere with the civil authorities. I .GES.. LEE's FORTHcoMING Boo.-General R E.Lee, havingvalled Casar with his s'word, is it appears, aboWt to rival him with his pen. H<! is, according to the Richmong Commercial huh letin, engaged at present in writing a history o his campaigns. With all the ofliciali pa pera of hi: operatizons at. his .disposal, all the plans of i topograp'hical engineers, all the, reports of hi brigadicrs, general of division and lieutenan generals, all the returns of his otlicers of thi medical staff, the resources at the service of th< history of GeneralI Lee must necessarily lend il the greatest po8s !!>1e interce.t. When to all these are added the recollections of the General him. self, and of the officers attached 'on the field t< his person, the fullness of his information on .th< subject, from his point of view, becomes comn pete. The high capacie', the soldierly skill, th~ unimpeachable truthfulness of the man w-ho un dertakes, with all these sources of full and exaci knpwledge of thi facts, to give to thec world na.rrative of the operations of tile Army of Nor thiern Virginia must be held proof positive tha he will have made, -in the production ol that nar rative, anjnvahiage addit.ion to the truth on subject which promises to be one of the miosl congitng testimotny in Americatr h. istory.-2e: Yoric Daily News. A Cinciimali jewel-er.sent some valpable Jew elry to the Burnett house the other day, to ac commodate a bland and elegant gendJemani whosi wife had sprai'ned her ankIe, and was under med ical treatment at the hotel. Th a messeniger de: livei-ed the artieles to thegliberal cstomer, wl; took them into the room to show his "wife. Clerk waited long timQ,or his return,'-got s picies-peeped.Lhrong keyholet-opened door nobodyv. thiere. Sold, A SECRET KEPT.-A French actress, whos. youth and beauty appeared inexhaustible on the boards-never would tell her- age. Of course, the more she wouldn't tell it the more curious people. were to know it. A woman can't keep a secret ! She Kept that. By good luck-as the multitude thought she was summoned as-a witness on a' trial. the gossips rubbed their hands and chackled. A'Aa ! we shall know it. She must tell, or go-to prison for dntempt of court. She won't go to prison ; she will, therefore, tell.' The court was crowded with open-eared listeners. In French courts of Justice the wituiess does not stand- m a bo? to give evidence,- but sits' on a stool in thg middle of the floor of the court irf front of the p'resident's desk, and with nobarrier or'seperation.between it and himself. The lady Was usijered in, raise; her ;ight hand to heaven,'took the oath to speak the truth, and then seated herself on the wit ness- sool. 'Your name?' asked the president. I 'Angelique - Toujours-fleurie.' 'Yeur profes sion ?' 'Artiste dramatique.' Your age 1' You might-have heard-a pin drop, or the hair grow on the bystanders' heads. Every eye l was bent on the lady., She was driven into a corner at last! . Foolish Parisian public to tIink so' An gelique simply rose from. her seat, walked straight up to the president's desk, and whig pered the secret in his ear. He nodded, made the entry in his private notes, and siling, continued'the rest of his interrogatory assoon as she had -resuned her'place on the sellette. The public retired with feelings of mingled disgust and adnmiration. The trial had lost all further interest ; and the presidentwasknown. to be a man of honor and gallantry, -who bauld never let a pretty woman's cat escape frgm his presidential bag.-All the Year Round. ADDRESS TO TME DERocACY OF T ,; UNITED STATES.-The Herald's special says -an ad dress to the.Democracy of the United States will be published to-morrow, fi om Charles t Mason, Chairman of the Democratic National As.ociation of that District. - It is intended - more as a platforn for.the future organizatton of the party 'than as 'a call for inmediate, con cL.:ed action. The address starts out with declaring that at.the beginning all Democrats believed that peace and union were compati ble, and could be sccured bf concilliatory r measures, and that after the war commenced nc great mass of the Democrats acquiescedin *t s an unaroidale calamity, to- be prosecu ted for the-sale pur ose of restoring the Union St T t t wr gt t cease . -taU strong ground against- conferring upon the f negrocs thte rights of citizenship, -on the ground that they are unqualified by educa tion, and as a rate so greatly inferi*t t9 the white race as to lorer th-standard of average intellig^noe by interminglipg. . This is declared to b. the white man's Gov ernment; and the negrdes are sa foreign ele. ment; which cantnot >a successfully assimila ted. The immediate readmission ofhebellious States to the sacred cirl.e, with all their rights and priviliges unabridged, is-also. urged, on the ground that the Federal Government can not exist while States composing it- are free, f another portion virtu}lly enslaved by military government. The address declares unlimited confidence in the wisdom, -integrity and de muocracy of Presiden.t Johnson, concluding .in eulogistic ter r?. . THFEEND OF 'THE XWORUD.-ThiS is what the Londlon Spectator says of the end of the world : 'Almost all Europearf writers, whatever their subjeact, politihks or society, now tacitly ps sume that the hutaan race is to progress for even, or to state their latent- idea more strict y,is to advance steadily' for-an indefinite pe riod towards a nobler life and a higher civili zation. The .idea of afixed term .of history, which so greatly influenced the middle ages, has utterly disappeared, thc semi-religious be lief of cataclysm to occur at a distant -but vis ible date, thoug* stilentertainied. has ceased to be professed by anyb'ody but Dr. Cumxmiing, and does not influence him.. The reverie of the politician is no longer absent from the .great minds of the first four centurie-but of a comning mnilleniumn, when all mankind shall he alied, and the motivo force of 'the Eur~o pea.z, and subtte brow of' the Arab, -and the deft hand of- "the Mongol shall all be- cm pioyel -together in m~aking earth more lovely and more convenient for its people." MfrDwER.-Dr. Thos. Byne, residing near IIopeful Church, in the upper part of Burko -County,~was bratally murdered on Thursday, 13th. H le was shot early in the night, 'and according to the confession of one of the "for mer .shtves of his brother Henry Byne, Esq-i the deed was done by a combination of six or seven negroes, 'w-ho foolishly supposed by kiling him they y'ould get the land. Five ofj the ncgroes are now under arrest, and will probably suffer the full~penalty of theaw. " [ Aura.ta. CoOn'SitUtionLalit, 24~ They kill pigs by steam in Ctiicago. A, great iron claw, with five- fingers, hooks -out th iswhich are quarrelliug in the pen be lo,an ifts the porkers to a gibbet near by, fwater. By the machine fifty nes -ar killed,, scalded, scraped; cleaned, splt .and hunig in rows ready for saltirg. within an houir. The work on. the Pacific Railroad is pro gessing rapidly. The road w (R be completed to Topec, tw'enty-Slve ipiles West of Law rezxe1 by1he 1st of NoTeinber. Sp_rVMcE OF %VINS, THE MICHIoIA FARRICDE. -David F. Bevins,. who, ,it will b .remgmbered, killed his aged parents, near Adrian, Wichigan, to get their property, and his, own young wife, about to become a mother, that he might marry - a lover in Grafton, Ohio, has been sentenced to a the Penitentiary of that Statd for life-this.eing the severest punishment liowa'to the law of tbt State. His love of display did not desert him to the last. He made a speeth to the Court; re. questing that whenever he died "they would bury him by the side of Eis 'n4her,-withhispy ens circling her waist, as it didyears ago, etc." The Judge was not nioved, h wever, by this "flial fondness," and proceeded to state to him the cir cumstalces, showing the. enormity of liis crimes, concluding as follows: Go from among men into. your solitary cell. - The walls of your (ungeon wi$ yield you at least equal sympathy and commiseration to that e bibited by you to your victims. Mankind is en titled, by the verdidtin your case, and the~one quent-protection of law, to be delivered from the danger of further depredation%. You ase 'sen tenced td solitary confinement in the State. Pris on, a Jackson, during the period of yoar natu ral life., - Count Albert de- Revel, ias, according to a Parisian 'correspondent of 'the A enaam, been. left two thousand a year bn an -etric uncle, - on the condition that, within two years, he shall marrI a tall, thin lady, of baimoniop proper tions, .with long. and thiek golden hair. Shd rnust-have an open fgrehead, blue eyea,-a bil liant white,skin, a well-made noeb, a tmallzorth graceful limbs, and she is to be full ofgrace; and her character is to be slightly shaded-witb_a po etic languor. Albert admits that the' condition - is not a hard one, save in the d>lculty of $h1ng the peerless beauty wito is,to bhare his ?2,ooa year with him The Wilmington Eerald calls attentioo to the'fact that notwithatanding advertieetitts for labor are kept in its columns &y after day, but one or two .hare responded, wbile crowds of men, black and white, are to be seen loafing- about theoatreets. It suggesf. that if gratuitous rations were-stepped there would-be less trouble 1 finding laborcts The Agricultural Bareait has re"eived re' ports from different parts of the cotiztry!iicf represent that the crops of iay, potzttee," aSd corn,, will be larger than any preioua4yeari The bay crops will be fully one third target than..ever-known before. Oats are .also res ported to be very.superior, and a l*rger crop grown than for years previot . are more or less given to iron-y..and -some what addicted .to rice. 'Carpenters, for the - . most part,- speak plaue-ly ;.but they will4 ned el when thiey can get a chance.a Not unfie quently they are borce and oftha andoy soea with-tbeir old sats. A Frenchman once saw a gentleman walk up to an open snuff-box. i thoiaa(s ,-of 4o thera'nd take a,pinch-of 1oniff, having pre;, faced'the.act with.the words, "May I -take the liberty ?" .On the next day the Prenhan f went in'to a tobacco shop and asked for a half pound of liberty - A fashionable yotng lady, in mfale attire, it is said, has been winning the_ hearts of her own sex, at Saratoga, astonishing'the.lawyer$. -. a Ballston, an%d-hoaxing people generaly .)lI - round about those regions. .Her fathbr cana after'her, finally, when the deception was . made known! - a A Blacksmith at Versailles Is said to .hde discovered a compositiorn almost -asebird i.s iron, which can be 'applied under thre hoo. without causing' the horse the -slightest pain and costs-seventy-five. per cent, less than or - dinar~y horse-shoes. . - - 1 The Herald's sppcial says &Stiling~ Price, the tebel Mis2o0Fi genera?, will probabty go to'Mexico and engage in silver- mining with -- his brother in-law and othes, who are extin sively interested by the pur.chase of valuabj mines-in that countryr: 4The hens ina one portion of California aie liaving a bard time. lit is reported that at Vallejo,..where there is a Government aa-tillery ground aufe the firing of heavy guns, i*s com~ mon, eggs-eannot be batched. - A little child being at a- sermon, -and ety serving the minister very- veeet, in his words and- bodily.gesture, cried oi--"Moth er, why donit the people let man- eut -of the box.?" . 7; A friend -of ours says he is either head- or heels in love or else.he- has got the clholic; and be.can't tell whioh,-as he- is- -not certphvr which ha tasted Jaat --kiss or -ater-mel The London Saturday Rleviewr says that~ Jefferson Davis is tio inore' gatIty' than Wish ington; or Kossruth, or Garibalda.-Uozrperi - 'PLscrE's Mr.5"AL PfIILOioirT.-What. is. mind? No matter. What. is uaUter ? Neveer iaind. What is the nature of the soul? Its is immateriaiL. -- A wonmn ei@bty years okHeitin the.I)hd& -- Island State Prisoit for pisuag twoht of the Spottswood Hoetel- nf sevesi other - buildings in Richonod, $ot much ootton win.h b r4 e)ida this year, but the egn'etedy wiI eisdt Folly n(ot per cent.. f thei esaons laeypatented are of'labor saa mthines a. e * a+ -