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VOL II. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2G, 1866. - - THE HERALD IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOf,NING, At Newberry (. H., By THOS. F. & R. H. GRENEKER, TERMS, $3 PER ANNUM, IN CURRENCY, OR PROVISIONS. Payment required invariably in advance. Advertisements inserted at 51 per square, for first insertion, and 75 cts. each subsequent inser tion. Marriage notices, Funeral Invitatior, Obitu aries, and Communications suaserving private interests, are charged as advertisements. Special and L-gal Notices, $1 per square each insertion. Eloquent Extract. The following ar& the closing remarks of the Hon. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, in the speech recently delivered by him in the city of New York, and in which he re viewed the intolerant action of the Con gress that recently adjourned ; "The historian of Rome draws some thing from his imagination when he pic tures the proud Queen of Palinvra, Zen obia, arrayed in purple, yet loaded with golden chains; to aggrandize the pro cession in honor of the conqueror of Asia. It needs no imagination to picture the Fite of eleven States, not of foreign origin, but of one blood, language history and religion, following with downcast eve the triumphal chariot of Gongressional power! States whose area is over 72.5,000 square miles ;larger than England, France, Spain, Portugal, and all Germany : having a populatic of 10,000,000; whose annual product from a little pod is greater than the wealth which the Roman bore in his stately galleys to Rome from the golden and jeweled Orient! Virginia, too proud, perhaps, but with such a glandeur of great names on her rolls; the Carolinians, weary of their wnvwardness, but still the homes of the Pineknevs, who trave the Constitution to America and those who, at Mecklenburg, anticipated the Declaration which, at King's Mountain, consu mated our independence ; Geor gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, whose feet are kissed by the waters of a thou sand rivers, which rolling through the valley of the Mississippi, gather their volumes of wealth from Minnesota to Louisiana-these are the subject States led in fetters at the car of the Imperial Congress. Such exhibitions dishonored the greatnes of even Pagan Rome. They would not be tolerated by ambitious France, which takes Venetia as a gift from the Kaiser only to set it as a jewel in the crown of a United Italy. It might fnd its counterpat :is thie great land ani mal of the North-Russia-in whose em brace prostrate Poland groans. Forget tin hr wn grasp of Ireland, England assumesro be horrified at the spectacle. Even in Turkey, the policy of strangling brothers by th~e Sultan no longer makes the traveler shudder as he crosses the Bosphorus. But fur this Christian land of America the people do not ask such a mockery of triumph andl such a degrada tion of lower. 'lhey will write the epi taph of the Congress which proposes in letters of fire :"IIere lies the fragments of the thirty-ninth American Congress, which, star~ting with a furtive conspiracy against the Presidenit, with opportunities nlever before vouchsafed for blessing, post poned Union ; and putting the na tion in peril of another civil war, it died under the just indignation of an aroused people, and is damned to an immortality of infamy !" THE SUEZ C.A-A---AII along the mari time canal the greatest activity prevails. Nor are the accessory fresh water canals, meanwhile, neglected. At the end of December 80),Q00 Egyptian workmen were busy excavat,ing the line of fresh water canal between Bulbeis and Abassie. In clearing away the heaps of earth beneath which the Rocks of Chalouf, in the desert, have been buried for ages, there has been discovered a quantity of marine shells. Remains of fish, and more particularly of the shark tribe, have also been brought to light. It is generally known that a passage between them'has been effected, and that it is the intention of the Canal Company to throw it open to the comn merce of all nations. Of course, for the present, until a depth of twenty-six feet and a width proportionate to that depth are obtained, only the smaller class of vessels will be able to take advantage of hthe opening, and the Mediterranean ports may find their commercial geographical positions suddenly changed and brought almost face to face with countries now the most remote from them, that is to say, to the harbors along the Red Sea, on the Asiatic and African side. The Raleigh Sentinel says :"Mr. R. Rogers, of Monroe, Union County, wishes information of his son, J. A. Rogers, who was a soldier in Ripley's Brigade, on Sullivan 's Island. H e was last heard of inst prior to the battle of Averysboro, in 'in this State. after which he was missing. Any intelligence concerning him will be gratefully received by his distressed lather. "Will the press please circulate this notice ?" Thisman,Brow iilow. This man, as black of heart and as foul of tongue as any creature that ever prowled in former days through the stews of Alsatia, seems desperately bent upon provoking strife and bloodshed. He has already brought about a state of things in East Tennessee which exists no where else. lie has sedulously fanned into flames hatreds and animosities which would long since have smouldered into ashes. He has actively hounded on the spirit of persecution and Iurder, and is now malignantly goadilng unresisting men to the la>t point of desperation. If he only interlaryded his prayers to ieaven with curses and fllschoods against his fellow-men, he might he safely left to the same contempt to wiich mnyV of his co-laborers in the Convention [ave al ready' been con s1n ed. But he still wielIs the , ower whicb he so frauldu lently and despotica:lly seized, and that power Le is actively ~exArcising for the gratitication of his ajbolic1l passi "ns We have before us a piteuis lett:r from a iady of East Tennessee, applying for aid tor the chiiren of a Confederate soldier, who, inl an aho 'st (lying^ condi tion, was driven from his home in that part of the St:ite. After refr: in, briefly to th' reign of terror which bas been I1iainItained there by Brownlo, slW :(ds: "Even now are scattered o'er these hills five Iiund(red circulars issued at Jonesl)OrO' by the Governor of the State, a few days ago, advising the Radicais to horn every fence rail, and re(ie' to - bes every Rebel home, an1d exterrn.'nate every Rebel in the Su.nth.'' How long are men to be expected to permit this mad man to pursue his (cStl uct ie career? How long are the Anerican peIle to tolerate the continluance it l;o? er of this shameless ruffian ? There is no po litical question inlvolved in this natter. A tyrant is perseeuting ad oltragig a defenseless people. How shall they obtain peace for their familics, protec tion for their prop rty, and security for their limbs an(d lin- s ? Th-se are the simple questions v. liih the people of Tennessee are called (' to < answer, and it is clear they cannot remain long mn settled. Froi the most degraded race on earth, Brownlow's antics would soon force an answer, It cannot he, then, that the once free people of lcnnessee wili inuch longer he silent.-ialtilore Gazette. Ta ) .x 1'rI: M .ux, or the great stone face, the in oflie ini the Fran coma Mountain, which standS out fromi a rocky preCipice t owein g a thioi5:itd leet above the beautiful like near the Profie House, is nioticed in the "Jour-nal of Comm ierce," wiebc s:ays: "hhe for-ehe:al(, 1; ,e, umuth,i chin, andl even A dam's appl Pon the neck, all are perfect. Many a man -ani be seun whose face resembles it. The strange fahct -ihout this profile,bhos~everi, nt genaera lly known, is that the etieet is produc-ed, not by the edge of one rock, buiit Si imlyI by the social accidental ronIinlg of vat o0s rocks, so me more (dist a t thian o ther:s. 1n fact the fron t of the~ t op of the arecipice is a group of reeks about eighty feet high by a~ hurndred in breadth. The( nose is fo:tv feet west of the for-ehea~d. The miou th, wIihib seems1 an) oplenin ofO two thin lips, is a sidlcong chasmn or breakPn of fifty feet in Cx tent. iewed from the front, the face vaniThes, while the :ocks seeml inaccessible as they pang in the air over the precipitous decent below. William B. Swett, a deaf mute, and nloted for- his wandierings, educated at the Iartford Asvlunm, a car-penter by trade, during the past summuer, has produccd a veiy remarkable work, being neither mor-e nor1 less than a faic simile in plaster of the gre.at stone fac-e. Ihis measue-tiC men~fts wer! e ac-cur-ately made, not without great risk and dauring exposure. The w' rk is fram red, ubout i8 inches square. The fruit view shows the r-eggedl, rocky face of the precipiee, whtile a side view gives the prohle. A curious fact, dis coveredl hr this work of Mr. Swett is that the view from the west, never- seen by hu man eiy es, beca u-e i :acessibl e, gives am ost Its g' od a pro fie as the wvell-k now n view f'rmn the vast. The permianentC guests at thle Prille lluse, (en inIg the~ last smnnl:er, raiVedl a stilm (If mlonley as a testimonial of their :appr eci at in, andl mi vised 1him to go to >tme cityV where lie cold have it retroduced ini pilater copies for sale. A sublsCri ptiotn book was opened, and duingl) t he seasbon a lar-ge nuber of silbscript ions for copies, at a price not to exceed 810 each , w ere obtain ed. llis a(dres~ is IIenniker, N. II. A Nr:w Iinu w'rn A Lox; Num.-In arecen t numbo1 enr of th le (Courier des Ett U nis,w learn of the existence or aL new 'lln erh ilS avory dish low bJeing en] jyd by e11~cilinre at F-ra nkfort, Geirmanyx. TiL.le icjial inIgredienlts are 5tsanssage, Irish poIdtameS, sotir krout and 1blo(1( pdding. XV e w ill do thle spelling of the word, lealving 01ur readers' to prThoonne it. He[re is the xv d of thirty- two letters: a,aucsnkartoffelbro.ssourkraut A New Cmnven'ion. The Richmond Dispatch suggests a new idea, under the presert threatening aspect of afiairs. It assumes, and upon good grounds, that the rump Congress will attempt to impeach the President; but is no less confident that the President will not recognize the authority of the [louse, as now constituted, to impeach him, or that of the Senate to try him. As we have frequently predicted, the Dispatch sees the inevitable result of this action, and that is another bloody civil war. The President will call upon the military for support; Gens. Steedmar, Fullerton,' perhaps Grant, and hundreds of othcrrs-of the best generals in the coun try, will rally around him. Perhaps an eqtinlly large number will sustain the pret ensions (f Congress. Civil war, then, cannot well be avoided, unless one or the other-of these partie; surrender. When such a terrible conflict opens, it is evident that the bonds and treasury notes of the United States would become worthless, and therefore capitalists are deeply interested in preventing such a result. The Dispatch, therefore, sug gests that the capitalists of the country hold a convention at an early day, and agree upon a plan of combined action, to defeat the radicals at the coming elec tions. We think the suggestion a good one. Capital, so very sensitive on the approach of civil war or political disturbance, ,:Louid put forth its power while it can wiCld it, to prevent a catastrophe which would undoubtedly swamp it. It can ex ercise a powerful intiuence at the North ern ballot-boxes; and if t e radicals should be defeated, there il be no danger of any disturbance.. The ad vice - is gocd to the capitalists, and it will not fail to have its influence on even the more humble holders of Govern ment securities. We believe further, in this connection, that the success of the radicals at the election, even before they resort to any definite action, will largely decrease the price of public securities, and in the same ratio advance the rate of gold. Those who were fortunate to have plenty of (Government obligations, will doubtless stand from under the antici pated crash. VinGINIA.-The star law and other questions connected with the indebted ess of the people is exciting no little at tention in virginia. A writer in the Rich n1ond Whig, of the 11th, has this to say onil the ubject The present .stay law is miierelyV a thin veil, which stands between the debtors und utter hopeless (desti uction. It is the hair by which hangs the sword of iamocles suspended over his head. Re move it, and the wail of desolation will be heard at many a hearth-stone. Large numb ers of our noblest families will be thrown out upon the cold charities of he world, and their places supplied by the Yankee adventurer and the miser able Southern speculator, who has coined lls gold, in the great time of his trouble, from th12 blood of patriot martyrs ana the sacred tears of the widow and or phan. in order to avoid this extremity, a large class of people will, in future, and are now miaking deeds (a proceeding, to say the least, of qjuestioniable morality, b)t thrust upon themn byv the force of cicumIstanices over' which they' had no control) conveying their property to trustees, in trust for their wives and a few favored creditors who have treated them kindly and lenien tly, thus securing the conting~ent rig~ht of dower, but in fact virtuall repudiating the great body of their liabilities. Is this right, or is it wrong ? Let moralists detcide as they will, tile world, in a great number of in stances, will sanction the proceeding. For myl own part, I neither recommend nor endorse it, and yet it looks as thiough it were a matter of self defence.I A Row A IoNGrin: CH ERCnFls.-3r other Ieechers one hlundredl-poulnder has kick ed up a t remnendousi row among the churches. Cheever is going to pitch into him to-mo(rro w; but this irreverent anite! will get thle worst of tihe dliSCusiSSon, as poor' G reelv did thle other day. TIhere is a fire ini iiro1 iher I eechler 's rear, Ihow ever, niot so easy to silence. The parson employed to ocen]py Beecheir's pulpit durn hi s vacation Iha:s been preachmiiig agains5t hun ever si ne his famous letter, andl there will probably be a split in Ply mouth chu rchl and in all the other churches except the Roman Catholic, which never bothers itself with politics. If 1)r othier Beecher gets into trouble we will have collections taken up for himnin the Catholic churches to build him a new church on Fifth Avenue, and present im with a lot of groundl( for a private residence at Fort Washlingt on, where he (en 1timaie himself in the Garden of Eden, barring thle serpent and the flam ing swo:d---N. Y. IILerald. The Aulguista ((.a.) Chromecle says that Governor Jenkins will probably suspeCnd the coIIection of taxes in thlat State for the present year, owing to the imnpover The ?Onnditionl of the people. Mexico. During the President's pilgrimage, he has been faithfully attended by the minis ter of the somewhat shadowy and intan gible republic of Mexico. In recognition of his devotion, the President dropped for his consolation a few words of comfort in one of his recent speeches. "Hiow about Mexico?" asked one of the sovereigns, in the midst of a speech of the President. "Wait until we get all the States back into the Union, and we will take care of Mexico," was the President's reply. And Grant, silent as the grave upon all other subjects, never hesitates to express his opinions in favor of our interference in the af'airs of Mexico. But what shape shall this interference take ? When Maximilian leaves Mexico and rejoins his Empress at Miramar, shall we leave Mexico to the prey of fierce and greedy factions? What shall we gain by the masterly di ploniacy which has at last resulted in the triumph of the "Monroe doctrine," if we look on while rival chiefs cut each other's throats and render the lives and property of all foreigners insecure! Unless we propose to use the shadowy republic of Mexico as a sort of John Doe or Richard Roe, wherewith to acquire a good poss essory title, what use have we for the Mexican Minister? When the Austrian decamps, we must lose no time in the acquisition of Mexico. The terrible passions which are hurrying this nation to perdition must find vent somehow and somewhere. Provid:nce seems to have wisely provided Mexico as the "sick man," whose case demands our immediate attention. As a Christian and highly civilized nation, we cannot permit Mexico to remain at the mercy of brigand presidents and guerilla chiefs. Our speedy intervention is indispensably necessary to prevent Mexico from falling into far worse hands than those of the amiable Austrian prince whose speedy exit is predicted with so much certainty. We see no hope of peace and union for the South until the attention of the North is withdrawn from Cuffee and directed to the management and improvement of the Mexican.-Richmond times. A G.AMBLER's TELEGRAPH.-The Den ver (California) News gives an account of a signal machine which was found in an cid house just pulled down, and formerly used by the sporting fraternity for gamb ling purposes: "It consists of a long lever made fast at one end by a swinging joint to one of the joists upon which the floor rests; about eighteen inches from this joint there is a pece of board nailed to the top of the lever and reaching within two inches of the boards of the floor. Into the end of this board a nail is driven, through a hole in the floor, large enough to admit of its playing up and down freely; when down the~head of this nail is level with the upper surface of the floor. At the other end of the lever a string passes up through the floor and between the walls of a partition, subjected in some way to the control of the hand or foot of the gambler's confede rate. "The mode of operating was simply for the gambler to sit on one side of the table, with his foot on the head of the nail pre viously described, the pigeon to be pluck ed sitting on the opposite side, and the amlers assistant behind or on one side f him, so as to see the c'ards in his hand. Then by a jerk of the string he could cause the nail previously described, to lift the foot resting upon it, and by a series of this kind of taps, could accurately inform the honest sportsman just what he had to play against. It is a beautiful arrange ment for the purposes desired. Thbis lever is p)added where it would strike the joist below, so that in signalling, not the slightest concussion or sound may be p)rod uced." A NoR~TH ERN CoRREuSPoNDENT'S ACCOUNT or GENERAL LEE.-The correspoudent of the New York Times, writing from Lynch burg, Va., says: The living Lee is, however, a misnom er, for his is rather a life in death-in a less degree holds the affections of this peo pe in the hollow of his hands, for simi ar reason. No man more courteous than he, none more high-bred, none more generous, none more kindly in his inter ourse with his neighbors. And Lee lives a peaceful, cheerful, unobtrusive life among these mountains. So far as he himself is concerned, he would pre fer that his name should be dropped from present talk and current news. H-istory must mention him, he knows, but that time has not yet come. Lee holds him self utterly aloof from the disputes and passions of the hour; and here is a proof. On Saturday night, he was at Rock bridge baths. Stalwart and erect as ever, white-haired and rubby-hued, his eye still briTht and kindly as of old, lie sat among the ladies of the neighborhood, chatting as any other man might do; hut with him, with his past and present hanging about him, it seemed like the leal past holding converse with the Muses. Presently, there was the confu ion of the nightly arrival from Rich mond, and one gentleman, oeing acquaint ed with the General, greeted him, and, after the commonplaces, tendered him the newspapers of the day. "Thank you," said Lee, '-but I never-read any of them." Manufacturing. To show unmistakably the importance of devoting more attention to cotton manufacturing at the South, it is only necessary to refer to the immense profit resulting from the investment in cotton factories in Lowell. The aggregate capi tal invested by her ten large companies is stated at $13,000,000. The amount of cotton consumed is one hundred thousand bales; the number of yards produced, ex clusive ofyarns,something over a hundred millions; and the number of operatives is twelve thousand. The operatives are mostiy women and girls. It would re quire at least thirty thousand field laborers to raise this cotton, and yet it is conver ted into yarns and cloths by t.:elve thou sand operatives. The process for manu facturing the cotton, about doubles its value, and the average dividends declared by these companies is thirty-three per cent. When we consider the saving in freight, and the advantages which the local buyer has over the agent for distant companies, it is manifest that with the same efficient management here which characterizes the Lowell companies, a profit of nearly fifty per cent. could be realized on the investment. This leaves out of view the general advantages re sulting from such enterprises-increasing our population-erecting local markets, and diversifying industrial pursuits. It is strange that the manufacturers of Europe are not induced to transfer some of their capital to the South. They would thus outflank the tariff imposed f'r the bene fit of Easterr manufacturers, and save the immense amount expended on freights and charges. BIGAMY.-We are informed, by aletter from a reliable gentleman in Robeson County, of the particulars of a recent villainous outrage. It appears that Mr. Harvey, of Richmond, Va., a railroad contractor, worked on the Piedmont Road some months ago-having in his employment one John T. Price, of Buck ingham County, Va., as a blacksmith. Price became acquainted with Miss Fan ny Whittemore, a respectable young lady of Rockingham County, and married her last March, while thus engaged on the railroad. Soon after Mr. Harvey moved his business and hands to the Wilming ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad, in Richmond County, where Price and his newly married wife lived until a few days ago, when it transpired that Price ha~s a wife living in Buckingham Coun ty, Va., or elsewhere. Upon this being pub licly known, Price absconced and his whereabouts is unknown. The young lady thus deceived and injured is intelli gent, amiable, and possessed of excellent character. It is greatly to be hoped that the villain may be arrested and brought to punishment. Let our young women of all classes of society take warning- Many similar oc currences, within the past two years es pecially, admonish them of the danger of formi ng matrimonial alliances with stran gers of~whom they know and inquire nothing.-Raleigh Sentinel. Tun SoLD1lERs' CoNvENTION.-CleVe land, Sept. 19.-The Convention adjourn ed last night. Gen. Gordon Granger was appointed president. Resolutions were adopted by acclamation sustaining the Philadelphia (;onvention of August 14th, and declaring also the object of the sol diers in taking up arms to suppress the late rebellion was to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all its dignity and equality, and the right of the several States unimpaired and not in any spirit of oppression or for any purpose of con quest and subjugation, and that when ever there shall be any armed resistance to the lawfully constituted authorities of our National Union either in the South or in the North, or in the East or in the West, they will take up arms to maintamn the Union. A dispatch from Memphis signed by Gen. Forrest and other ex-Confederate officers was read, expressing their sym athy with the purposes of the Conven tion,~and declaring that the Confederate soldiers are entirely willing to leave the determination of their rights as citizens of States and of the United States to the soldiers of the Union, and on our part we pledge our life, security of life, person, property, etc., freedomn of speech and opinion. To all a suitable answer was returned. Wagg went to the station of one of the railro'ds one evening, and fi nding the best car full, said in a low tone, "why this car isn't going." Of course these words caused a general stampede, and Wagg took the best seat. In the midst of the indignation the wag was questioned: "You said this car wasn't going ?" "Well, it wasn't then," repliea Wagg, "but it is now. -Tndiana Journal.