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'ft REE DoLLaRs A YEaa,] FOR THE DISSEMdINATION OF USEFUL INITELLIGEC.[NAIBYI DAC VOL, III. _ WEDNE SDAY MVORN INTG, OCTOBR9187 O4. T HE HERALD .S PURLIsRED _ EYM WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., Y TZC.E. . s3 ORENIR. TERS, &PER ANNUM, IN CURRENCY OR PROVISIONS. Paymntrequired invariably in advance. . '. i 3.Uces, Funeral Invitattbns, Obit warlu, and Comunicationa subeerving private i.,I.ests, are eharged as advertisements. T Y ,Y P I G E G iS In Thirty Days. aViA4TIoss oN A PARADOZ. (Coacluded.) - CHAPTER FOURTH. Master Peters - conducted Leon ne of the finest houses in iceadilly. 'Can Lord Lenisdale be seen ?' the-hst asked, remaining respect Ab,hatin-hand, before the laced footuian to, whom he addressed himse, and making a sign to Leon AtVo:the same. 'No,' replied the footman, 'my lord does.not receive.' B ;'e good enough to tell his lord uip,' said Peters, 'that it is some oee' for' the pigeons.' 'Ahf if it is for the pigeons,' said tman, 'you can walk in.' . reteis looked at Leon with a. -t$umphantair.. 'Every thing is going well,' said Leon"thought himselfin adream. 1the footman introduced the two - sitora into a drawing-room. all Iirliint with silk and gold, .and said to them, with a- deference which he badnot previously shown: 'smtnaoing'to tell his lordship.' -Ft the end of ten minutes his 'rship appeared. -.He was a -man. of about sixty, -thin, ad white-haired, with a ognished manner, and the iikof a man who. is accustomed t" patronize petitioners, and -to ans*er them. 1y lord,' said Peters, rising, as 4id Leen, and bowing three or four 4mes very humbly, 'I have come ' persent to your lordship this ittleman. who wishes to compete f the pigeon-prize.' Lord Lenisdale looked at- Leon .as at ataralist would- look at an rsdt-that he saw for the- first ime. M4a .-are a ,Frenehman ?' the noblkman sasked, making use of t6e French Ianguage to address 'Yes, my lord,' was his answer, ) En lish, w hich flattered the son ~And you wish to compete for tbe.pigeon-prize ?' 'I am ign3oranlt.as to what the prise is,my lord; but a quarter of pa Aour ago Iwas on the point of blowing out my brains, when Mr. Peteirs, my host, ca'ge into my room, and, moved. ly the story of my misfortunes, offered. to put me in a waf to gain sixty'thousand fran inone month ; only I have, *not . &able yet to malie him say ?' hat means.' *O~he$j~4 e,tion, Sir, is .this!' the ngan replied, in the ;grave tone 4(a ~diplomatist trea;ing of the m importa3t. political mat ters; 'therris jn TIondon a society of mertof seleej-ofwhich I am preiebt. hissociety, anxious s4Eght s on all scientific quesWishlas effered a prize of sit~lusanid franc&i for the man who *vill eat, -every day-for a miontli, a roast pigson for his dinner. This seems very easy at hjtib, but nobody has been a ie' to accomplish it, and yet uianj -have made the attempt. 86nee gave up the attempt at the tenth-pigeon, others fell ill at the fifteenth, and we have seen three candidates die between the twenty second and twenty-fifth. The prize was at that time only thirty thonsand francs. The difficulty that there was in winning it in. duced us to double it. Do you feel, Sir, that you have the neces sagy qualifications ?' We.give up the attempt to de. pict Leon's astonishment. 'Yes, my lord,' he replied, not elearly knowing what be was say. in~g, ad thinking only of the sixty thousand francs; 'but you will furaish t he pigeons ?' 'That is understood, of course.' 'For my ineans would not ,per. 7nit-me to incur that expense.' 'And when will you begin ?' Prom to-dIay.' 'Be gcod enough to tell me youi name,' said the nobleman, sitting down and opening a large register book, bearing the arms of England. 'Leon --.' 'Your age ?' !-Thirty.' -Your profession ?' . 'I have none; I was employed in a government office, and I left my situation to turn my knowledge to profit in another way.' 'You are a man of learning, then ?' . 'I have received a pretty good education.' 'We have in our society a- dis tinguished Hellenist, Lord Bour lam.' 'I have heard speak of him ; but he has made many mistakes in his translation of Orpheus.' 'We have Lord Gastrouck, the Orientalist.' 'Who has fallen into many errors in- his studies on the poet Sadi.' 'You speak Arabic, then ?' 'Yes, Sir.' "Then we have a great archaeo l-ogist.' 'Lord Storley. If I had the honor of his acquaintance, I would point out to him that he is mistaken two or three times in the dates which he assigns to the Egyptian monuments. - 'Do you know Lord Galby, too ?' 'Tbe.astronomer-?' 'Yes.' 'Perfectly; at least by his works.' 'Has he made mistakes, too ?' 'More than the others: while I have discovered a.star, whose ex istence he has never suspected, and which I will show him when he pleases; a star of four times the circumference of the earth.' 'Why, Sir, you know every thing, it seems. "Almost, my lord.' 'And now you wish tQ know if you can eat thirty pigeons in a month?' 'No, my lord ; I wish to gaii:; by any means whatever, so long as it is honestly, fifty thousand frant-s within a month of this, for on this condition alone can I marry the woman I love.' 'Well, Sir, I will do still better for you; if you win the prize, I will myself present you to the king, and I w.ill get you admitted into our society.' Leon bowed in token of thanks. 'We say, then.' Lord Lenisdale resumed, -profession, none ?' 'Yes, Any lord.' aYou ,ere bo'?'_ ' Paris.' 'And you now live ?' 'At the Black Lion Hotel, Horn ble street.' 'Very good. Now here are the clauses of the treaty. Yzu will be free to eat and drink whatever you please; but every day, for a month, at six o'clock, ypu will eat a roast pigeon. Two of us wilf hge present atayour repast, and will draw up an account of'the manner in which it passes. The pigeon must be eaten in its entirety. It you renounce the attemp)t, you will not be able to compete afresh : if in consequence of this diet you fall ill, twenty pounds will be al lowed you for the .expenses of your illness ; if ydu snecumb, like the three candidates of whom I just Apoke to you, you will be buried at the expenise of the society, and the cause of your death will be engraved on your tomb.' 'Thanks, my lord, for all these instructions ; but be kind enough to allow me to put a question to you?' -'Speak.'s - Has your society not proposed a prize for the solution of some scientific problem, either in agi'i culture, or in astronomy, or in history, or in languages ?' 'No. All that has little interest for us. We aim, above every thing, at informing ourselves as to the capabilities of the human body. 1'You understand, my lord, that I would rather have utilized my intelligence than my stomach.' 1'Are you not in need of fifty thousand francs ?'. Yes, my lord.' 'Well, it is y 'ur only way to get them. The y asitions which our scientific men i. 'e reached, are purely honorary positions, in whitc their self-love only gains any thing. So this is clearly agreed on; thirty roast pigeons, said1 the nobleman, insisting on~ this clause,-'rom to-day, the thirty. first of July, to the first of Septem ber next.' 'Where shall I take this meal ?' 'Where you please.' 'At my house,' said Peters. 'Yes,' said Lord Lenisdale. 'And will my lord permit me, asked Peters, 'if this gentlemar wins the prize, to issue proMpec't uses of my establishment, and tc state in them this extraordinary fact ?' 'I will consult the society on th( subject.' 'My lord is very good !' 'Freowe1, Sr;,' the poe of Engr land continued, 'may you succeed! I wish it fervently, for your sake and for the sake of science, and as I think I have already told you, if you succeed, the king's favor will be secured to you, and the greatest bouses of London will be open to you.' 'Come,' said Leon, on his return, still accompanied by Peters, 'it was well worth while to learn Latin, Greek, Arabic, Italian, Span ish, German, English, history, ge ometry, astronomy, agriculture, natural history,natural philosophy, chemistry, and Moldo-Wallachian, to be reduced after all to eating thirty pigeons in a month if I wish to marry the woman I love, and to make fifty thousand francs. o Learning! thou art but a name !' CHAPTER FIFTH. That very evening Leon set to work. A week afterwards, Lord Bour lam and Lord Storley, who had- a wish to be the witnesses . of the dinners for the whole month, re turned at seven in the evening to the house of Lord Lenisdale. 'Well?' said he, to them. 'Well, he has eaten his pigeon again to-day.' 'Entirely?' 'Entirely.' 'A vigorous fellow !' On the fifteenth of August, Lord Lenisdale said to the two wit nesses: 'Well, is our man dead ?' ~Does he still eat his pigeon ?' 'StilH.' Roast ?' 'Roast.' 'The whole of it?' :'T he whole.' 'Come, he has passed the seconjd period.' On the twenty-fifth he went himself~ to see Leon, whom he hardly recogniized. Our hero's eyes were on fire, and be had the fever of~ a horse. 'How are you ?' said the presi dent of the society. 'Very un well,' Leon replied. 'And you persevere ?'~ 'Yes.' 'You are the Wellington of pi (teons!' 'Thanks for that encouraigement, my lord.' Lord Lenisdale wished to be present at the three last dinners, which Leon coul no longer get through except by stopping his nose, so tainted did he find the smell of the.pigeon. -Who would ever think that this bird, so renowned for its faithful ness, was -so had in the long .runh? On the'thirtieth of August, the peop)le of~ London crowded round the door of Master Peters' hotel. Leon was with difficulty snatched away from the marks ofenthusiasm which -be had excited. . .After having eaten the last pigeon, he was obliged, though in great emotion at. his triumph,, and stifled by heart-burn, to go to the windowv and salute the populace of the quarter, to whom Master Peters made daily harangues. Several men of science had come from Scotland to see Leon; but they had only been able to see him thi-ough the key-hole, and had been obliged besides to give Peters at least a pound. On the second of September the prize wvas won. Master Peters sold to an Eng lish tourist, who had bought the two hundred and thirtieth cane of Voltaire, the coat which Leon had worn all the time that the experi ment had lasted. He sold this coat for a hundred guineas, and the collector would not have part ed with it for a thousand. At last, on the third of Septem ber, the Times contained the fol lowing: 'Our readers have doubtless heard of that young Frenchman who presented himself, a month 'ack, as a candidate for the pigeon prize offered by Lord Lenisdale and all the members-of the Scien tific Society of London. 'We have the happiness to be able to announce that this prize has been at length carried off by the young Frenchman, under whose window for the past week, and at thietery moment, a curious and enthusiastic crowd has gather 'The thirty pigeons have been eaten in their entirety, and the bones have been preserved, to be offered and made over, with a re port establishing the fact, to the Cabinet ofNatural History. 'It will be remembered that be fore this young man, more than a hundred and fifty candidates have renounced the competition, after a struggle of eight or ten days, and three of the number even died. 'This young man must therefore' be endowen with a very good di gestion, and a vast amount of ener gy. Yesterday, the prize, together with a gold medal, was decreed to this young.Frenchman, M. Leon --. Here, then, is an important problem solved for the future. A very fine disco urce was pronounced on the occasion by Lord Bourlam, our great Hellinist. Lord Lenis dale himself replied to this dis course by a very beautiful theory on the Origin of Religions and the IBirth of Languages. We arc hap py to be able to apprise our read ers that M. Leon -is not an ordinary man impelled to this ex periment byi'he hope of gain; he is a man of the first rank in science and letters. Accordingly he has miade this experiment out of pure curiosity. This is proved by the fact that he has given ten thou-I sand francs to the tavern-keeper who roasted the pigeons. The same evening he was pr-esented to the King. His UnJaja:ty gave him a snuff-box set with di:..ncads, and questioned him for a longr tiime en. the different sensations -sh'ch a frequent repetition of pigeoul e:n produce in the human organmza tion. The Spanish Amb=s dor wrote immediately to his Queen, to ask for M1. Leon the cross of Isabella the Catholic. Prince Kourzoff offered fifty thousand roubles to the successful bandidate, if he would go and repeat the ex periment in Russia ; but M. Leon -, whom his family and his in terests recall to Paris. refused the offer with regret, addmng, more over, that he should find a second attempt imp)ossible; what he had to suffer, during this month of' pigeons, being beyond all ex pression.' On the fifteenth of September, 1838. Leon presented himself at the house of M. Lebrun, whom he found. with huis daughter in the same room where a year previous ly her had taken leave of him. 'Well ?' said the fat her to him. . 'Here are seventy five thousand francs,' Leon replied, taking from his pocket seventy-five bank-notes. 'Twenty-five thousand francs more !' cried M1. Lebrun, wonder struck, while Julia's cheek grew pale with emotion and rosy with joy. 'Yes,' said Leon, 'not only hav.e I niade the money, but I have re eived p)resenIts which I have sold,. and which are represented by the twenty-five thousand francs.' 'And it is to your education that you owe this ?' 'Yes,' said Leon, with a sigh; for he did rnot care to acknowledge the source of his fortune. 'Then,' said Julia, throwing her self on the neck of her betrothed, if we have any sons we - must mauke learned men of them.' 'Devil take mec if I even teach them to read!' said Leon to him self. And he married Julia, and he was very happy, and he had two sons, who, in spite of the oath which their father had taken, are already two prodigies, and have entered on the road which leads to the Acdemy of InscWtions and Literature. 'Now that Leon has no longer any need of his knowledge for a living, he seeks to make it useful. He has al ready published his trans atoofthe Arabic songs, which has gained him a name among translators, and brought him in thirty-two fr-anes fifty centimes ; his agreement with the publisher being to the effect that he was to share the proceeds with him, and the book having already produced a net gain of sixty-five francs. Does this story prove that we ought to despise learning ? No. It simply proves that you must seek from it only what it can give; toil always, renown sometimes, obscu rity often, fortune never. Do we despise love, which re quires still more, and yields still less?' Does it prove that we ought to despise the freaks of the English ? No. For, as we see, the freaks of some cau subserve the happiness of others, and all the roads which a man takes to reach happiness are good, provided he reaches it. 'Then what does it prove ? It proves nothing. Ah! yes. It proves that pigeons are heavy diet, and that Provi dence uses all means to come to the help of those who have nothing with which to reproach themselves. HOMIIDE.-We learn, in a quarrel be tween John Burgess and William Maul din on the 6th inst., the latter was kill ed by a blow on the head with a rock by the former. The fatal occurence took place near Enoree Factory in this District. It is said, that Mauldin was pursing Burgess with an open k nife. [Spartan. Venezuela. The following letter is from the President of the Venezuela Emigra tion Society : PORTO DE TABLES, GUAYANA, VENEZUELA, July 6th, 1867. J COLONEL RUDI EK-Dear Sir: Our party have just returned from a most thorough exploration of this country. The lands on the Couri, and between the Couri and Caroni-say one hundred and twenty-five by two hundred miles -are the most beautiful, fertile, healthy agricultural lands I ever saw. It is a vast prairie, wooded and watered, and will produce wheat (spring), corn, tobacco, cot ton, coffee, cocoa. This is the ag ricultural region. This place is at the mouth of the Caroni, three miles below the-falls. This is the commercial and manufacturing point. Between the Caroni and Sapata is the mining region. It is a dry, mountain savannah, inter spersed with spot3 of the very ric::eN;t lands, with heavy timber, but it can never be a ;ariing see -ion, though it may make cattle firns. Ti' lands on 'he Oronoco are overfio'in for about ten days in each rainy season now, but are adapted to corn, sugar and' riee. They may be said to be the best sugar and rice lands in the world. '1 he whole country is very healthy. We have seen but one snake, four alligators and two tigers, though we have traversed the country everywhere for hundreds of miles. The gold mines, owing to rain and exposure, .are very sickly. Pro visions are high and scarce, from the influx to the mines and de mand for food. Emigrants must all bring flour, biLcon, l-rd, furni ture, and especialy agricultural implemcnts. The classes who will do well here and make fortunes Splanters, blacksmith', brick layers, carpenters, machanists, merchants, with .capital, survey ors and engineers. The soil and climate has more than realized my expectations. The people are kind, very lazy and indolent, and anxious for us to come. iantcrs can make double here what they can make in the States, with one-half the la bour. They should be sure to bring seed wheat (spring), Cotton seed and garden seed, as the change of Cotton seed has proved highly advantageous. With proper cul ture the Couri country will prove the garden -of the world. It is navigable high up, and everything can be shipped with ease.. Good roads and railroads in this region can easily be construct'ed. This reion onldy coutains eight hun dred. inhabitants. Bolivar is a large city, very flourishing, but too high up for conmmerce. This will be the future commnercial cen tre. as it is the point of shipment 'for all the iiing region. We now have three settlements ; but nineteen persons, including women and children, have become lissatisfied, and all these were' Yakees, except two, who smug gled t jemselves among us. Every Confederate who went to farmmng and trading has done well. Out of the party who wvent to the mines, all wer sick, and four died. They have left the mines and gone to fanrmin'g, and all are healthy. I never sawv such a river for fish as the Couri ; they literally team in, somewhat like our shad, from twelve to fifty pounds; eatfish from one to five hundred po)unds. Strange to say, not a seine is run, and they still rely on the barb spear. I shall settle at this point, and will return here in November, but have selected my land on the Couri. Your friend, HENRY M. PRICE. REsUMiPTION OF SPECIE PAY 3ENTs.-The New York Herald says that a plan has been tranms mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury which it is understood meets the approval of bankers and financial men who have conferred on the subject in New York, by means of wvhich it will be practi cable to accomplish the following imortant objects. It wvill be practicable to resume special pay ments in five years, retire all the n)ational hank currency notes within ninety days, substitute greenbacks as the sole currency of the country, give commerce and the West ninety millions increased bank .circulation (green backs) and reduce the coin interest debt three hundred millions, and all in a man ner satisfactory to the banking and financial mnterests of all sec tions. Seven tons of butter was ship pedi from Corry, Crawford county ea) ta N -w Orle-ans ma wek. Threats of Resistance. Some of the hot-heads of both parties, says the New York Jour nal of Commerce, are going too far in the use of threats, and should be rebuked, Take a few examples as follows: Let these traitors, or their rep resentatives, dare to carry such purposes into execution, and the wrath of an outraged nation, al I ready approaching the very verge of forbearance, will sweep over them the besom of destruction, Washington Chronicle. To which the Intelligencer re plies: If by the word "such purposes" is meant that form of treachery to the constitution which usurps power by acting "outside of it," then we need not bespeak what of vengeance will come to pass on the part of the people. If rebels and rebel sympathizers have -not had enough of strife and blood they can, in my poor opin ion, become easily satiated by stir ring up Johnson to assault Con gress by military violence; and, indeed, I am not sure that in the long rua such a mad attempt would not, as leading to a final and con clusive suppression of the rebellion, by the condign punishment of their fomenters, be a decided ben efit to the government and the na tion.-Senator Howard. I declare upon my responsibility as a Senator of the United States that to-day Andrew Johnson med itates and designs forcible resis tence to the authority of Congress. I make this statement deliber ately, having received it from un questioned and unquestionable au thority. I cannot point out the occasion on which he may at tempt. to use military force.-Sen ator Thayer. Do these men suppose that the people will now permit them to act in a real trial of impeachment ? Do they suppose that the revolu tionary programne of suspending the President from the exercise of the functions of his office during trial, his sure sentence by such a court as the present Senate con stitutes and the foisting of Ben Wade upon the country as Presi dent, by such means, is to be qui etly proceeded with ?'- Washing ton Union. From day to day the politicians go on with their discussions, work themselves into a rage, indulge in threats. and retort with accusa tions of "disloyalty," traitor," &c. The people had enough .of this in former years, and know too well the consequences in the misery experienced all over the lan~d. It would be fortunate if. at the pres ent time, before the opening of an other electioneering camnpaign,-the popular voice could be heard as that of one man in denunciation of the violence of political moun te banks andi scribblers, wherever manifested. Agitators of what eve'r name should be ranked with tlie public .enemy.-Ch4arleston Miercury, Steam Cotton Gins. A Selma correspondent of the Mobile Times says there is a steam ginnery on the plantation of Mr. George 0. Baker, within a mile of that city, which is the first of the kind, to his knowledge, within the State. With a small engine loca ted in a fire proof house, and a simple arrangement of ashaft and wheels, he is enabled to run two gins at o nee, capable of turninig out daily from fifteen to twventy bales of cotton. Mr. Baker had the misfortune to lose most of his mules, but finds steam a much better agent in ginning cotton, thegreat points being the economy of time and labor, and the undoubt ed improvement in the quality of the staple. One of these ginneries is capable of ginning for several plantations, and planters in every community by uniting together would find it more economical, convenient and profitable than the old method in use. Discarding another "old fogy" idea, Mr. Baker determined to cul tivate a smaller area of land, in order to do it the more thorough lv, and the result is, that almostI i~n the suburbs of Selma he has a crop of cotton equalled by few that have been seen in the cane break section, thus. realizing all and mnore than the advantages of a large breadth of land poorly culi tivated. Dr. Hermann Kohn, of Breslan, has exmined the eyes of ten thousand school children and found that moure than one in six were short-sighted.-There are four times as many short sighted children in the town ais in the country, and the vil increases just in proportion to the amount of study exacted from the chil drn. Two Young Ladies Burned to Death. The telegraph has made brief mention of a distressing casualty in east Abington, in the burning to death of two young ladies in their dwelling. The unfortunate persons were daughters of Jairns Keene,. a furniture dealer, who spends much of his time in New Orleans, where he now is. His wife and two daughters--Abby, aged nineteen, and Lucy, aged twenty one years-resided in a story and a half cottage, the mother sleeping in the lower part of the house, and the girls up stairs. The Boston Traveller thus tells the sad story : About 11 o'clock Mrs. Keene was awakened by the noise of her daughters- running tround their chamber and screaming. She rushed immediately to the stairs, but the passage way was so filled with smoke, and the stairs them selves so entirely filled with fire, that she could not get to her chil dren. She then ran to her near est neighbor for help. Dr. Under wood was the first to reach the burning house. Finding it impos sible to gain access to the cham ber in any other way, he procured a ladder, and at great personal hazard got into the window. The room was so filled with smoke that he could live in it only by crawling along the floor. Feeling his way, he found the bed, but it was empty;. he then felt around for the bodies of the young ladies, but could not find them, and was compelled to make his way out as soon as possible, his hair and face scorched by the flames. This morning, the charred 're mains of the two accomplished and esteemed young ladies 'were found among the ruins of the burnt house. It is not certainly known how the fire took, but it-is surmised that it must have been communicated to the closet of the back chamber, where the ladies hung up their Sunday dresses. They had both attended evenilg service, and returned home an4 retired between nine and ten o'cloek. The fire probably $ad been smouldering and burning in the closet and the back chamber until it had filled the chamber with so dense a smoke as to bewilder and suffocate the poor girls on be ing awakened to their terrible danger. Later information states that the grief stricken mother has be come hopelessly insane on account of this terrible affliction, and, is now a raving maniae', constantly shouting, while in her fits of-deli rium. t1he names of~ her lost daugh' ters, both of whornm are reported to have been youngladies of rate beauty and intellectual culture.' Important Order, CHARLEsTON, September ,29.-. Gen. Canby has issued General Order-No. '29, as follows : "1. Numerous and well-foiid ed representations having bed made, that illegal and oppressivre taxes hav.e been imposed in diffe ens sections of the Statos of North and South Carolina, it is ordered tht the collection of taxes -bcAus pended in the following cases. j Whenever any tax is or shall be imposed otherwise than under th authority of' the Government. Qf the United States, which, by -the. action of the public authorires thereunder, shall aply to any property or rights partedl with, or any transaction made and com pleted prior to the adoption of the act authorizing the same. 2. Whenever the powver of Cons gress to regulate commerce with foreign nations, a nd among the several States isimpugned, by the imposition oif taxes, discriminating in commercial tr'ansactions ini fa vor of the resident citizens and against the citizens of foreign na tions, or of other States of the United States. 3. Whenever any tax is; or shall hereafter be, imposed for the purpose of discharging any obliga tion contracted in furtherance of the rebellion against t he Govern ment and authority of the United States, or to reimurjjse the public treasury, or any local body, or public officer, or other person,.for any expenditure on account of any such obligation or pr-etended obhi (ation. Commanding officers of p)osts are authorized to suspend the col lection of any tax embraced in paragraph I., reporting their ae tion and the grounds, and all proofs relating thereto, to these Headquarters. A merchant's advice in selecting a wife was, "Get hold of a nice of caljco that w-ill -whl