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4104 THREE DOLLARS A YEAR,] FOR TIRE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL I[INVARIABLY IN ADVA i VOL. IV. WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1868. No 43. a4 iEtHERALD a "- - IS PUBLIS1ED ai3VERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry C. H., ys TaoS. F. It. . G, R* BE8 PER ANNUM, IN CURRENCY OR PROVISIONS. ' etsmestregeIred invariably in advance. eotos, Funeral Invitations, Obit i s4 Communications subserving private' - lwente.re charged as advertisements. n a'Act to Organize the Circuit Courts. Wo publish below portions or sec of this Act, embracing the fea - i 'f principal interest to. our read Ars The State being divided into ei;ht 1 its, the Act reads as follows: ' '- e The Counties of Charleston and Y -th eburg shall constitute the first me X 9 .Te Counties of Edgefield, Barn d ~ CoUleton and Beaufort shall consti St e- second Circuit. ell *-t.*% Counties of Sumter, Clarendon, - 4 il$imsburg, Georgetown. and 1l,irry, -1HiNonstttute the third Circuit. ' '- The Counties of Chesterfield. Marl 9-bis- Marion, Darlington and KIi.haw -aHA constitute the fourth Cii cuit. 3 The Counties of Fairfield, Richland, -. leirerry and Lexington shall constitute M Efth Circuit. 6. The Counties of Chester, Lancaster, k and Ur,ion shall constitute the ti- Circuit. * ihbe-Counties of Abbeville, Laurens ta Spartanburg shall constitute the etenth Circuit. M' The Counties of Greenville, An letoc, -Oconee and Pickens shall con 4s-0te the eighth Circuit. e ttons 2, 3, 4, S, 7 and S. relate to of holding Courts in those Cir evit Section 10 relates to interchange y Cireeits by the Judges, and is of no y- i lcooar interest. The remaining sec *Wsare in whole as officially published. !. - 1. The Circuit Courts in the Fifth -,i euit shall be held as .",-Tbe Court of Ger.er:.i S sioun at ,i'. asboro', for the County of Fair.eld, Movtbe fitnt Mund:y of Ja.n:mry. May tember ; and tlhe Court of Comn at WiusborU',. ftr lhe Cornty -of Fairi rr -a nd"T.~f tberst Monday of January, Ma y and &3eptember. 2. The Court of General Sessions at Columbia, for the C,.unty of Rici-rod en the first Monday of February, June -*nd t*,ber ; and the Cowm t f Conanm" .Pes at Columhia, f,r the County of Riand, on the first Wednesd3ary aftcr ~ptbe ;rst Monday of Fe .rrvry, .J a%, a t1 s.Ogober. - .. The Court of Ge:serad Se-sioos at Aeweber+y, f'or the Couiwty of Ne berry. ioitfturerst Monday of March, .Ju'y au:,i Vdeember-; and the Court of Conitn: ~ In~ t -Newbe.rryv, for the County of* *~~.wbery,on the first Wedmnesdlay after he Bst Moday of March, July a?d ,4 heer. - Sh~e Court of General Sessions at eaimigton, for the County of Lexington, fo k first Monday el April, August M&eember ; anid the Court of Comn monTisas-at Lexington, for the County 4GLavgton, on the first Wednesday -- Aater the first'Monday cf A prii, August .~ ~ the business be.fore the ar eneral Sessions, at any term, etbecopleted on the arrival of the .4I edx by law for the holding of the - Qart t Common Pleas for sail Coty, J~sudge presiding mtry, in his disere .dig djeurni said Cour t of Comrmon J aIii etfr the said business of the ear of enerat Soaeiwer shall have benconciaded. in1nTeeveral Circuit Judges sall ?tb~pWOii'hold speciia.essions Q ith Inad respective Circuits, at any time ~iier discretion, or the discretion of 4 eJif Justice, of which the Judge sig hanl give such notice :y the , nJ~ ti@e may direct, or as ma:.:,in his mojuefnt; be necessary, -should no di * .gzerna begiven.. NTigTcClerk of suci. Court shall, at least wekendays before the commencement oh such special session, cause the timer and 4ihe-for holding the same to be no iid, eattwo weeks sur:ce.sively, in d'oeof the newspapers published genrest.the place where (be-session is to h olden. All processes, wdts n:n. recognizances of every kind, whether . t%ptinig juries, witnesses, bail or grwise, which relate to the cases to be tried at the said special sessions, shall le bonsidered as belonging to such ses i % is h same manner as it they had ~ ssued or taken in reference there }iuie depending for trial at .4j~~~i sesionl shall, at the elose ~bq~,k.osidered as of course re ea to the next stated term of the ~u*t. Said special sessions shall be -be4m pursoanee of an order whieh ~~lbtransmitted to the Cler k of t.he ~ranrd by him entered on the rec ords of the Court. XIIL Petit jurors summoned to attend the General Sessions in any County, ex cept the County of CLarleston, shall also_attend and serve as jurors for the Court of Common Pleas next ensuing in anid for'said County. XIV. The Judge of the Cirenit sha:ll luive power to direct any Circurit Gourt ia his Circuit to be adjourned over to a .tuoday, designated in a written order fleMb Clerk of said Court, whenever Th&e is a dangerous and general disease oplace w'hero said Court is usually SXV. The Judges elected and qualified by taking the oath prescribed in the thirteenth Section o f the Second Article nf tha C'onstitultion, which oath, to the Judges under the first election, shall be administered by the Governor of the State of South Carolina, who is hereby empowered to administer the same, and to the Judges under any subsequent election by one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, shall forthwith enter upon their duties; and all cases begun a:d pending in the Courts of Common Pleas and Sessions of the Pre,visional Government of South Carolina at the expiration thereof shall be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the County Courts having jurisdiction of the same, established by this Act, with all files, records and property pertaining thereto and to said Courts ; and all pro cesses, writs and recoglizances of ever y kind, whether respecting juries, tiitnes ses, bail or otherwise, shall he con,id ered as belonging to the Courts herein established, in the satne manner a.s if they had been issued %r taken with re ference thereto; provided, that no cause shall be tra:nfe! red as aforesaid not cog nizable in the Circuit ,ourts under the Constitution on original process or ap peal. XVI. Th- Gircuit Courts herein es tab!ish:d shall be Courts of record, and books of rnc',r'd thereof shall at all times be subject to the inpecti.., of any per son interested thercit. XVII. The Clerk tlected ir. each 'ointy, under the pri iions of Section 27, ..f Artid. 1V, of the Coastitution, all be C e.k <f the Courts of General 'e io:us a.d C.omuon Pleas, and may %ppoint a deputy, who imiay perform the Luties of Clerk, for whose acts such Cle.k shall be responsi:,e, and a record of whose appointment shall be made in the Clerk's olfice; and such appoint ment may be revoked at the pleasure of the Clerk ; and in case no Clerk exists, the Judge shall have authority to ap point a person, who shall perform the iuties of Clerk, and said Deputy Clerk, ar the 4o"e appointed by the Ju-11e, shali >e r.quired to gi t.e usual bon)td h. re entei iog Upouo the duties of the of XVIlII. All .i:s , inqity depending I the Coarts of .- have y, :,d not fi ia:liy disposcd of, antd the pro;wrty and eeIrds relating thereto, on the first day ,f Jan:arv, A. ) , 1S69, shall be trar.s erred to the Courts of Gm (mona Pi* as in " d for their res:e tive counties, ar( -hril be entered uptn the dockets o -ati .'ouarts fr the stated term there"f next nsui::g, and thereupon shall be ht-ard, ied and deter:iln-d, t ith all it eveted and p)reserved, in the sam :rau-r as if o)ilil.tt'y bright. thtre,; y<( e d. Th-t m> cauo e sha he trans ai to the dockets of the Co-:s, as ftOrCsai.. not ctignizWle therein urder he C.onstitu:ior: ': ovidel, further, l'hat :di ruses depetdi rg as :foresaid, irni the prOpe: tc aml records pertaining lhereto, c(gnizable under the Constitu ion. i the Courts of Probate,. shall be +II- ferr:ed to sai Court-. X!X. All books of a cord, all files nu ali property of wiatsoever kind of he co:Jris of c hancery, ex'ept as here :Ihrefore provided, oal, on the tirst day f Ja:inuarv, A. D., 1869, be tran'ferred :o the courts of common Pleas for the ount ies having jurisdiction of like uses; and the several clerks of the icuit corts shall receive the samze rom the ouitgoing clerks anad Masters of aid courts, and receipt thjerefor, and 1o enater sail receipt upona the rec' rds f thei re-peenive courtS. XX. All wr iti !:eretofore is-oued (or .hich, before the. ratiti:-ationa of this Act, 4::.l! have bee-n issuaed,) and tmade re L'ra::b!e to the te rs of the coui ts of ommorn Picas, as heretofore established y law, shall b.e retuirn:able to the terms ,f the said courts which shall fir.st issue n each county respectively, under the >rovisions of this Act. XXI. At the term of the court of essions anti couuaw Pkas whair ,alib hirst en.sue in such county anLer rtifica on orthis Act, it shall be the duty of he Judge presiding ta call the dockets > the latec Di-trict court-, and to pass och orders proposed by the So!icitor onr he Sess.ions, or by the pilainitiff s attor Iievs irn civil causes, as in the judgment ,f~the court may be proper .to transfer he unfinished hbusiness to its proper ribunal for adijudicattonr. An Act to Determine and Per petuate the Homestead. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ilouse of Representatives of the State of South 4arolina, now met a-nd sit ting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, When ever the real estate of any head of a family residing in this State shall be levied upon by virtue of any mesne or final process issued from any Court upon any judg ment obtained upon any right of action, whether arising previous or subsequent to the ratification of the Constitution of the State of South Carolina, if the same be the family homestead of such person, the Sheriff or other officer execui ting saidJ process shall cause a homestead, such as said person may seleet, not toi exceed the value of one thousand drilars, to be set off to said peso in the manner fllowing, to) wit: IIe shall cause three appraisers to he appointed, one to be named by the creditors, one by the debtor, and one by him slf, who shall be discreet and dis interested men, resident in the conta -nr shali be adornl by 0 Justice of the Peace to impartially appraise and set off, by metes and bonds, a homestead of the estate of the debtor, such as he may se lect, not to exceed the value of one thousand dollars; and the said ap praisers shall proceed accordingly to set out the homestead, and the set-off and the assignment so made by the aprai.n s~ hall be returned by the officcr. :g with said pro cess, for recorid Court ; and if no complain -:l be made by either party, kfurther proceed ings shall be h ainst the home stead, but ti r i:ae of the land and teancun:: . ' he head of the famil-, if ay 11,m1,re or other he shall have. liable to at taclhmenit. t .t:: -ale; Provided, That upon good cause shown, the Court out, of which the process is sued may ordor a re-apprailsement l and re-assignnent of the home stead, either by the same apprais ers or others appointed by the Court; And provided further, That should the creditors or debtor neg lect or refuse, after due notice from the officer executing the pro cess, to nominate an appraiser, then said officer shall appoint the same. II. W henever the personal prop erty of the head of any fimily re siding in this State is taken or at tached by virtue of any mesne or final process issued from any Court, and said person shall claim the said property or any part thereof as exempt from attach ment on account of the same be ing the annual product of his or her homestead, or as subject to exmpt)ion) under the Constitution, and the creditor and debtor do not agree about the same, the offi i cer executing said process shall cause the same to be ascertained, aud all exempted property set out by appraisers appointed and sworn for the purpose, as provided in the preceding section for setting out the homestead, subjcet to like limitations and provisions, and the residue, if any, shall be sold, which proceeding shall be stated in the officer's return of suc-h process. III. The exemptions of sectionsi l and 2 of t his Act shall not ex tend to an attachment, levy or sale on any mesne or faal process< issued to secure or enfore the< payment of taxes or obligationst contracted for the purchawe of saidl homestead or obligations con tracted for the erection of im povements thereon :Frovidecd, The Court of authority issuing said process shall certify thereon that the same is issuedl for some one or more, and no other, of said I pUposes: Provided, further, Tihe I yearly product of said homestead shall be subject to attachment, < levy and sale to secure or enforcei the payment of obligations eon tracted in the production of thei same; But the OCurt issuing the process therefor shall eertify there on that the same is issued for saidi purpose, and no other. IV. The estate or right of home stead of the head of any family ex isting at his (leath shall continue for the beneiit of his widow and minor children. and be held and enjoyed by th :m until the young est child i.s ;:nty-one years of age, and a'il the marriage or death of i. e.sw, aind be limited to that peri,d but all the right, title and interes of the deceased in the predss in which such es tate or rigt ei*xists, except the es tate ol ii. -seO:i thus continued, shall be( vjctL to the laws rela ting to divise, desen dower and sale, for payment of debts against the estate of the deceased. V. When a widow or minor children are entitleg to an estate or right of homestead as provided in the preceding section, the same may be set off to the parties enti ted by the Judge of the Probate Court, who shall appoint three disinterested persons resident in the county, who, having been duly --rn all proeerd to appraise Putting His Mark on Her. One of the real old Mayo gentry, t feet four inches high, stout in -opotion, rugged as one of his ountain bulls, and proud as a reton, had attained the age of: rty, and was still unmarried. o was a constant visitor at the mse of three ladies, nor over rdened with money or blood, t the youngest of whom was ssessed of beauty and skill in tort. Every one said it would a match ; but years rolled away, d the decisive words were not oken, though other suitors were irned off by significant hints >m the formidable but undecided r. Blake. One evening he called returning from the fair of stlebar, and he found the ladies re having a few friends in' an promptu d anee. There were me ofieers lately arrived from dia, whose regiment was at tlebar, and a certain Capt Gra .i and Mir. Blake's lady, as she is generally styled, fast locked that half embrace the schot he permits. The Captain was adept at "houldimg up," which ish and a grcat many other ladies nsidcr a partner's bounden duty. Blake's idea of waltzing was as ejdiced as Byron's ; and he had ugly- scowl on his brow that >uld hive frightened many men, the lady passed him with a ght nod ; however, the Captain ly pressed his partner the closer. "I am s:uri you will like the ptain, for dear Mabel's sake ; and rely on you to make it pleasant him while here," said the eldest ter. Mr. Blake was standing with back to the fire, 'and drawing ;in his poe:et a small branding n, used for putting initials on e horns of cattle by the par aser, he gave the turf a quiet ke, and left the lettered end in e hot ashes. "Your honor's lost her." whis red Pat Casey, the old servant the hou.,e, as he banded negus and: "the captain's less tadious an (or ho:ior in love-making.'' ''Well, Blak, you're done," said *. Brhowne. "WXaited too long, . boy ; and the captain there 1 carry off the finest girl in "By heaven, then, he shall find v mark on her !" criedl Blake; d, as the waltzers passed, lie ew the brand from the fire and pped the red-hot letters on e shoulders of Miss Mabel, just ove the low dress. Of course rc was a deal of screaming and as, ut the lady rccovered ficiently to become Mrs. Blake, d I hear, never regretted the et which at last compelled her rer to speak his mind. A friend of mine told me, some ne since, that he had been stay with the Blakps, and he could er' that Mrs. Blake still wore gi dresses on all occasions. Matthew Canon, of Wicomico unty. Md., is now in his 63d year. the 4th of July last be walked n miles to a p)ienie, and has since Pered to walk for a wager against man 30 years old, to Sailisbury d back, a distance of eighteen iles. ie is at present in the en yent of excellent health and ver used tobacco in any form, and s always been temperate in the e of spirituous liquors, lie has t taken a drink of water for a ar past ; used cold coffee instead. e voted for the elder Adams for 'esident and expects to vote this 11 fo~ Seymour and Blair. atch hi m."-E'astern Siworeman. HoPE.-A bright and beautiful rd is hope ; it comes to us mid trknss and storm, and sings veetest when our spirits are sad ist ; and when the lone se'ul is eary and longs to pass away, it arbles its sweetest notes, and .htens again the slender fibres our hearts that grief has been caring* away. and set out, by metes and bounds, such homestead, and make return thereof to him. If no complaint si: shall be made against said ap- pr praisal a:d settiIg out of the m homestead within twenty days B1 thereafter, by any party interest- fo ed therein, or any good cause ap- H pear to the contrary, the same h( shall be confirmed by the Judge' bu and ordered accordingly. bu V1. Appraisers appointed to set PC out the homestead under this Act re shall receive as c,ompenlsatlon two be lhlars per day ch for >.uch ser vices, and the same shall be paid sp by the oficer executing the pro- w: eess out of the property of the f; lebtor; or in case of the home y stead set out to a widow or inor in .biidren, out of the estate of the C. .ieceased by the executor or ad- W4 iitlttor thereof- in In the Senate Hfouse, the ninth Kso lay of September, in the year of II >ur Lord one thousand eight hun- Cj dred and sixty-eight. L. BOOZER, W: Presid't of the Senate. il FRANK. J. MOSE S Ja., tis Speaker House of Representatives. Approved: IOBEiRT K. SCOTT, Governor. THE L.tRGEST ADVERTISING CoN- co [:ACT g .iven out in 1868, and pro )ably the largest ever given to pr )mc adyertising firiml at one time, an that of the proprietors of Plan ation Bitters to George P. Rowell as t Co., Advertising Agents, No.s 10 Park Row, New York, on the Oi Sth of September, for 810,77G.2t . Messrs. P. II. Drake & Co., have cak or years been among the largest, t f not the largest, advertisers in fo merica, and the contract, men- -i1 ionecl above is but a small part of heir expenditulr in this way for hi; he present year. It is only those fr( vho have tried the printer'e ink nost extenisively that are so firm y convinced of its efficacy. ch The Advertising Agency which s sending out this order is anoth- tI r example. It commenced busi ess less t han five years since, and ,i he fact that it now controls a oF rreater advertising patronage than ro mny similar establishment, is with- th )ut doubt to be attributed to their mving e'xpended more money inM Ldvertisin)g themselves and theirm eiities within that time than all w ythe advertising firms put to ;ther, since the establishment of he first agency a quarter of a .entry sinice.-ew York paper. a PasTonAL LITJvyn.-A pastoral di etter frm Aehbishop Spalding cl as just been nublished, in whicht e find the followingparagraphi:a. Inl their pastomal letter to th ti athful, the Fathers of the Coun 'i admonish them to abstain in s 'uture from certain fashionable ar lances, commonly called waltzes,e round.( or German dlances, which, to is recently prlacticed, are shock .ng to every sense of delicacy and langerous to morals- Tie more H ffectually to carry out this warn. a; Lg, and to remove all pretext for hi sie wing such dances as. harmless, we have strictly enjoined that they be neither taught, nor even OC practiced for r-ecreationl among those of the same sex, in any of t nur colleges, academies or schools, o vhether conducted by Catholics ' - an or laced under Catholic auspices.m 1 m~ The authorities of Jaszebereng. 3J' Iungary, attribufte the shocks of~ fl earthquake lately reit there to the h oaths and blasphemfies common u1 among the population. Such ini- n quities are now prohibited on pain of a flne of' twenty-five florins, together with twenty blows with a stick. No offender is to ho ex empted from the infliction of this "* punishment. The "Grecian Bend" hasreached hi Charleston. The first young lady ~ seen with it was surrouded, in less s' than five minutes, by about 17 d young men, each armed with mus- W tard plasters in one hand and a ' bottle of Jamaica ginger in the Ih other. They thought she had the o: GooD BEEDINa.-I blieve this matter of good manners and good breeding to be chiefly in the hands of mothers. It is as easy to teach a child to say "Thank you for the bread," as "Give me some bread ;" as easy to accustom a family of ^hildren to bid their parents good morning upon ordinary as ex traordinary occasions. Let there be no "company manners." Con vince children by example, as well is by precept, that the best they save to offer in matter and man ner should be laid before those they love most earnnestly. A boy taught at ten to enter the parlor and bow to his mother's Friends, will do it with ease at twenty. For what, after all, is >ase of manners but politeness )eing long practiced and incor - orated as an unconsciou5 con tituent of the individual ? It may be well for us to remember the orginal significance of gentle nan, gen tlewoman-terms which, [ fear, would never have grown >ut of the blusteoing carriage of a argo class of moderr gallants. Gentleblood," and "noblelineage"' vere synonyms in thoso old days. 'Suavitter in modo, fortiter in re." as the Latin proverb, and it has )ften occured to the writer that we of the present generation are more in danger of forgetting the mildness of manner than the ?trength in deed. How A PECK OF CORN MEAL IS TAXED.-The Gallipolis Dis patch, in answer to the charge that becausc a man is poor he can not be taxed, thus shows how even peck of meal, purchased by apoor man to aid in feeding his family of it tle children, is taxed,to aid in pay ng the interest on the untaxed bonds. Says the Dispatch: The corn from which thatpeck of meal was made raised on taxed and, plowed by a taxed plow, ira'wn by taxed horses, hitched ith taxed gears. It was hoed with a taxed hoe, cultivated with taxed implements, gathered with taxed wagon. drawn with taxed horse:, thrown into a taxed crib, shelled on a taxed machine, mecas nred in a taxed measure, taken in a taxed sack and ground on a taxed mill, sieved with a taxed sieve, nixed inl a taxedl pan, stirred with taxed spoon, salte'd with taxed alt, put ito a taxed bake pan, baked in a taxed stove, laid out n a taxu(d plate, cut with a taxed knife, and lastly eaten by a pretty heavily taxed man. To CIA:.NsTOVEs.-A writer in in Eunglish magazine proposes, instead of blac:kleadinug stoves and grates; that they should be painted with water glass (silicate of pot sh,) colored with pigment to har monize with the coloring of the apart ment. Before this is applied, the iron must be thoroughly clean sed -from grease, and rust spots must be rubbed off with a scratch brush. T wo or three coats of th)e paint may theni be put on and allowed to dry, after which the fre may be lighted without fear finjury to the color, which may, indeed, be exposed to a red heat with impunity. Grease or milk over the paint has no effect upon it, and it may be kept clean by washing with soap and water. Dutch ovens and other similar tenls may also be coated with the same material, and the labor pent in polishing them may thus be saved. A good coating of this paint it is said, will last a year .or A little boy was bitten by a rattle snake, in Anderson District, a few days ago, when th~e father killed the reptile, dissected it and applied a portion of the entrails as a poultice The bitten boy recovered.' This is an old-fashioned remedy. A Kentuckian calculates that he has che wed 1,825 lbs. of tobacco jn forty years. Great Discovery for the South. The pamphlet on the use and merits of the Ramie, Roezl, con tains all information necessary to those interested in this valuable discovery-and describes this plant, with all its advantages over Cotton a.id as a substitute for it. It is conceded, by the re sults of Eminent French Botan ists, that this plant possesses the fbllowing advantages, (and ma chines are already patented for its preparation:) 1. That the fibre of the Ramie is stronger than that of the best European hemp. 2. That it is fifty per cent. stronger and better than the Bel gian flaxen, or linen fibre. 3. That the Ramie fibre may be spun as fine as that of flax, and that it will be double as durable. 4. That the plant is a vigorous grower and will produce far the greatest amount of textile fibre of any plant hitherto known. 5. That it will produce within the belt, in which it flourishes, from three to five annual crops, each equal to the best gathered from Hemp. Good Move--The Orphans. We learn from the Jourial e 3essenger that the Messrs. Apple. ton, book publishers, of New York, have given Bishop Reck with the sum of $20,000 for the purpose of building and Orphans' Asylum in Macon, under the aus pices of the Episcopal Church. Two or three acres of ground have been purchased front the city, upon which the necessary buildings will be erected. The ground lies immediately in the rear of, and includes the old Ma con and Western depot, just this side of Vineville. The Apppletons are members of the Episcopal Church, and dona ted this handsome sum at the so licitation of Bishop Beckwith. It is designed to erect such buildings and make such improvements as the funds will warrant. Perhaps others will make contributions, and a sufficient amount be raised to build a mag.nificent home for orp)hans. The city sold the ground for $20.-Augusta Republicana. Don't Be Ashamed. Don't be ashamed, my lad, if you have a patch on your elbow. It is no mark of disgrace. It speaks well of your industrious mother For our part, we would rather see a dozen patches oh your jacket, than hear one profame vulgar word escape from your lips. No good boy will shun yo-a because you can not dress as well as your companions; and if a bad boy laughs at your appeaiance, say nothing, my lad, but walk on. We know many a rich and good man who was once as poor as you. There ismour near heighbo, ia paticular, now one of our.wealthy men, who told us a short time since, that when a child he was glad to i-eeeive cold food from his neighbor's table. Be good my boy ; and if you are poor, you 'till be respected a great deal more than if you were the son of' a ich man and addicted to bad habits. The fires in the woods of Oregon are described as producing the most terrific scenes. At Yakina bay ashes and cinders fill the air, which are as black as midnight. Children were lost at a short dis. tance from their homes, and moth ers were wandering around in search of their infants. In the Wal lament Valley, the son in the morn. ingand evening was of a murky red, changing as the day advanced to crimson and violet. The stage dri vers could not distinguish the road beneath the wheels of the coaches, nor'could the pilots on the steam boats see the opposite banks of the river. Chinese are flocking by milliona to the newly discovered gold mineQ at Chefoo.