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DOLR ER]FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENEIlVRAL NAVFE 77- WEDESDAY MORNING NOCE1. .40 ', IDOTV KER* HERALD WEDNESDAY NORINMG, . -- At Newberry C. 1., usies. Y. a R. N. 5.no - PEa AUIX, II Ct3OREXCF - t. oz.oIos. voariab"tasana an drwad as adrerW..ets. A Little Boys Thoughts. JPt m ;aittle boy abeat so many old; don't know whether sood little boy, bunb m afraid 'W" Afo I sometimes 4o wicked and once J eut sister's kit , e :al off with the eboppiQ' .,;Wad told her a.big dog came in bit it otand sw4lHowed .down before kitty- eoald say 1obiosaa, anesister said she ors'y, and ft inu -bare beep . re ghty .dog, but my mo pdidn't believe me, and said -ejousfmrid I had told a lie, and reaid I had ;.so thes-she asked y I knew where liars went to, said yes ; that they wen$ to .Tork, and wrote for News she id ao-they weat o S plae where' was nothin' * )ske of fire -and bri stu, . thea e astued me if I. wVuof -e'to go hre; ,and I said uo ! itPdida't think there'd be math i'ljdin' oa4b at Ike, and : oge 9ouldn't soLwball ba4h :ti Oa shore, and-*he said it. was a * (stkat, just as though t as't bad etotb, for Fd'on't ' wk they can play base ball i then she asked me -if I like to be an An8Ad --l.a harp, and I: said no! I'd a stage driver,.aud have dgum, for I couldn't play t'kohlrthing. So I shouldn't like i angel, their wings must 4 10 hway when tbey go swim -A i- ,ag tag and leap frog .L bde,it must be hard to 8y wwk i aiut tsed to .it Bt it "'we1i be jolly to be-a stage driver, ..4 haw* a long whip and touch ~bJ~j4 ~,~rs, say gelang t'here, asyd r ye doin' on? I shoald *jibenthat much -bettedn flyin' ;. and inte. said 'there was' a .siddfll stage ofesia, and -Brother *L M4ebded, ad. said that he 9gdI.sii ea on it, and then .sho .2 * 1 B and ent as to bed 'aig ay super., nt.I~ didn't *olp Sa'pper, for,1they hadn't smi&' Miii bread and butter for .: 3o6 and I got up, and he i s st thspantry window, a 0innee pie and- a satafult af deughnuts, and tEey : aht it was the cook that stole ,ilesent her a;way the ,ad 3qyb said. he didn't for "sh didn't mie good tie dougbauts wasnt friedanosgh; and sometimes I do Abr I said by golly, the othe dg,and sister heard me and rnttod mothe1,'and mother said ~~bIl boy, and we'eld bring Aa to the grave, and hipewe,but I don't think ber rayhairs any good, and it hjartme, and when I got stasalaidgp& darw- it, but I dids's hear mee,.and .s -eb.- asked me i# didn't a uwseqr wicked, I said I .asid I as,5andI was sorry ag.toldn'tdo so iio more; - ahe.sid Iwas a good agby i~ad toldRe-abont George Wa.hibgtggy a:*o eat down the sadwas caught at it, ~iad he dlid it with his little 1~bO~U5t as thoughel I in~'t s&wrdslt about it bedire, anid didn't laathink he was a big stupid Apjttg wood when they had a ie~ mis about the house, and dullin bis little hatchet, and, be uides, it would have been a good deal jollier to let the trees be so he could bave stolen apples off in the falL I don't care if he was ?ti, father of his country, be wasn't sisart, and Ill bet you the boys in our sdhool would cheat him out of his ua' teeth swopping jack-knives, and i could e;him and not hardly try; and I don't, think he was healthy either for i never saw a good little boj that wasn't always sick, and had the mumps, and measles, and the scarlet fever, and wasI't a ceagbine all the while, and hadn't to take castor-oil, and tarw$tes, ad eouldn't eat oher ries, and didn't have -to baye his fad patted: 'f all the hair. wa robbed of by every-body that eam Meto his mother's, and be asked_ how old hi was, and who died to save singers, and what he had been studin' a school, and hQw far be''d got, and lots of other eon undrums, and have to say his cata chism; no ;-I should not like to be a g6od littW&boy, Pd'just.aslief be an angel and be done with it. But -I don't think I shall ever be a good little boy, and,.other, people dor't think so, too, for' I, wasn't never called a g6od little boy -but ence, and that was- when Uncle Johb asked me where I 'stood itr my ctass, and I told bn it .was next to the head, and he call d'me a, goed. boy and asked who was in png. elass, and wheie I told him enly,ne ;4.apt&er_bey he shook his head and sMid. was 'afr i never wsuahl be-a.gooc boy, A'-Itrnter Ted 'Th-Souttreri bunters tell .so-' derful stories of their adventures in the forest. We woald not care to vouch for them all, nor, indeed, for all of amiy one efthem; but it is prepef to remember that what appears incredible to the man of civilization, seems to be quite pro bable, and vcen comhon-place in -the wetern - wilda. Let us -ielka singletory, to s T their exagerations, w hieh was re lated to a circle of Sonthern men in a Mississippi steamer, .and did not - seem to be dnbted' as an autheetie incident by any-one of them. The peecary is a-ereatare of.the hog species, and is utterly fearless. It pays no regard to rise 'balls an lesa they hit i and never hesitates to attack any one and every one; whether man or beast, thit comes aeross its path. A relentless war is waged against it by the south erg kantqrs, as much for their own safety as frotsi any- love of the sport. It has won the reputation of being the ob('y wild game the eperienced haster always. runs fromn instead of st&pping to fight. A Texan said.thatonce when he was shooting in a swamp he killed a couple of peccaries. (This crea ture roams in Blecks numbering from ten to fifty,) In an instant the whole company turned, upon him, and he at once ran to a tree and sprang into its branches. One, two, three hours passed, and yet no help-came. He was separated frm his friends and did pot4are to stir from his position. - -etting "oneasy both in body and mind, he moved a little to make his seat -easier5' and losing his. balance, fell. L.eckily,- he said, he dropped his riSe, and caught.hold ofa lower branch Qf the tree and -elung to it for his life, with his'feet within a cole of yards ef"the sile." "This," he .added, "was very okkard, and I could see the pecca ries jumpin' aip to catch hold of ry feet. Fertngtely they couldn't reh, and I thought I was safe; but onily see the cinnin' of them critters! Several of them lay down n their stomachs and others got on their backs, so 'as to form a platform,the head peccary got on it, and jumped up and seized me by the heel of the right boot. I kicked at him with my left foot, like a horse, and when we were strugglin', the other peccaries roll ed from under him, and left him hangin' on to my heel by his tusks, while his friends were a grumblin' away like mad all 'round. 'They made a most dreadful nize; and my arms were gettin' tired; and I began to inake up my mind that I'd have to fall and try what a r.sh wonld do among them, when crack went a rifle and down went the biggest peccary. It took me so by surprise that 1. dropped to the ground and saw that my friend had some up. But he was soon in as bad a fix as I had been my self. The peccaries made a rush for him, and he was glad to do as I had done-drop his rifle and hist. bijngelf up a tree. I had made for my rifle and loaded it and fired; when the pesky things turned on me, and I had to drop itegain and run up the tree double quick. Then my friend he come down, got his rifle, and blazed away at them agin-.then they went at him full pelt; then I come down and fired agin; and we kept on, firing turn about until-you may believe me or not, as you, please, stranPer we done this fifteen times, and killed the thirty peccaries between us." - This story, vith occasional va riations and additions, wastold as a true story of a Texan hunter's life. Whether it is true the reader ean'determine for himself. SThe- fbllowing correspondence plait fself. 4a oaderation for t1e modesty.of some of the parties;we give only initials_: NEw YORK, Nov. 10.-Generaf J-n M. -c-Dear General: For-' rest says I am "a liar, poltro6n and scoundrel." What do you think about. it? Truly, &c., JUDsON KILPATRICK._ .CmzcAo, Nov. 14.-G-oneral Kil patrick-Sir: Yours received. I think so too. Yours, &c., M. C-E, Maj. General. NEW YorK, Nov. 8.-General W. T. S-n-Dear Sir: Forrest has published me as "a liar, pol troon and scoundrel.". W hat ought I to du about it? Very truly, yours7 JUDSON. EILPATIICK. CHEYENNE, Nov. 16.-General ,Kilpatriok-Sir Ithink you ought .to call out Forrest for- having lied Ahout y-n-that is, for having told only half the truth. Yours, -W. T. S-N, Lieht.General. NEW YoRY, Nov. 8.-General U. S. G-t-Dear Sir: Forrest, of Memphis,.has published a card, in which he say& I 'am "MCliar, pol troon and peonadril.'! .What .ado you think should be done with an unhung rebel who thus vilifies a loyal soldier?i I am, my , dear Geheral, your most obedient servant,. -JUDSON KILPATRICK. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-Gene ral Kilpatriek-Sir : I don't know. Let us. bave peace. I have no policy on such matters. Havejust had a present of a splendid .bull slut. Truly, -U. S. G-T, -General. New YoRiK, Nov. 10:-General B. F. B--r-My dear Sir : Forrest, the infamous butcher of Fort Pil low, has published me as "a liar, poltroon and scoundrel." Wbat ought to be done ? Very truly, JU~PgoN KIL?ATRICK, MAss4causETTs, Nov. 13.-Gen eral Kilpatrick-Dear Sir: I think he ought to be impeached. If you cannot impeach his veracity in this matter, borrow his spoons and don't retarn them. Your friend, B. F. B-R. There are several more letters in our possession upon this sub ject. They are mostly to the point.-Chicago Times. An exchange praises an egg which it, says "was lasid on our table by the Rev. Mr. Smith." Mr. Smith seems to be a layman as well as a minister. The New York papers -published an account of the muurder of an infant, by a hired girl, near Corning, in thait State. The fiend stamped upon the child and held it over a hotatore until it was terri bl. burned, .nd then smntherad it. Congressional. Both Houses organized on Mon. ,day. In the House,.-on the 8th, bills were introduced, electing the President and Vice-President di rectly by the people ; removing political disabilities; abolishing the ftinding privilege; to contin ue the freedmen's Bureau in cer tain States, etc., by. Pomeroy. The President was requested to give:information regarding the relations with the South American Ri-epublies and Brazil. A bill was introduced, extending th'e juris diction of the Court of - Claims over Arkansas and Louisiana. December 9.-In the pause, a bill was introduced submitting I the'Virginia Constitution- to the people of Virginia on the seven teenth of January. The House passed the bill re lieving Judge Moses. -Contrary to universal custom, it tabled the message, instead. of referring it to Committee of the Whole, and passed the bill directing the Vir ginia election on'tbefourth Thurs day in May. In tite Senate, a bill relieving the political -disabilities of Judge Moses, of South- Carolina, pamed. Sumner introduced a bill relative -to Georgia.- The title was read. WASHINGTON, December 9.-The Senate refused, after a few para graphs, to hear the President's Message read. Sumner's -Georgia bill is as follows : After premising that the Leg'slature failed to com ply with the Reconstruction Acts, by omitting to exact the 'required oath, and did things utterly un justitiable and requiring the inter elares the existing government provisiona; only, and in all re spects. subject to the paramount authority of Congress, to abolish, modify or control the same, until the Legislature complies- with all the requirements of the. Recon struction Acts, and adopts the fourteenth amendment, and sub ject to the fundamental condition that no eliange be made infrin;in-g on the rights of suffrage of any class of citizens. The bill directs that the Governor elect shall call the Assembly at A tlarita en or before April next, excluding, un less relieved by Congress, all who cannot take the prescribed oath. The Governor is also~ empowered to suspend or? remove from office State or ynunicipal officers, and appoint-others in- their stead. Fi nally the President is ordered to. place at- the disposal of the Gover nor such portion of the army and navy as may be necessary to .pre serve life, property, peace and free expression of political opin ion. The Reconstruetion Committee rparted.a bill relieving from -po litical disabilities some twenty in dividuaia, mostly Virginians, in eluding Gen. - Anderson, formerly proprietor of the Tredegar Iron Worksa. A REMARKABLF EsoAP.-A re markable account is given in a late English paper of the escape of a conviet from prison. The sell in which he was confined had an iron door, with a loek entirely on the outside. The only implements the prisoner had were a wooden spoon, some bits of wii'e and a needle and thread. Out oi the spoon he hiad made a key; by means of the needle he passed a thread over and under the door; bits of wire were pushed through the inspection hole, and fastened to this long thread extending out side from top to bottom. The key was also pushed through, and being fastened to the thread, was brought opposite the keyhole by dexterous manipulation of t he slender line, worked gently in, then turned by means of the wire, and the door was opened. This is certainly one' of the greatest exhi biions of skill and patience on re Moral Courage. We received a communication recently prefaced by this slightly astounding question : 'Have you the moral courage to publish the following.' We answer that we have the moral courage to publish any thing whatever-if we choose to do it. . Moral courage is usually one of an editor's weaknesses. He generally has so much mor al courage that he is constantly getting into trouble. If an editor'can cure himself of moral courage he may congratu late himself. Horace Greeley never cured himself of it-he had even more than the average to begin with, perhaps-and so he is,always call ing some one a blockhead or a falsifier. He can't suppress his moral courage-it is one too many for him, and always has been. Moral courage is an epidemic among editors. Every young editor has his first attack just as be- had the .measles:andWbooping-cough when he was a boy-but he never gets it entirely out of his system. 'It breaks out every now and then even~when he gets a old as The editors of the Post have been for many years. An editor has moral courage if he hasn't got anything else. Our greatest difficulty is to find one that hasn't got too much. Whenever we get a young one, he always has it badly. He is anxious to attack every thin- within his reach, and unless we watch him lie does it. Moral courage is an. editorial nuisane. We've got more than we have any use for ourselves. It's lying all around our 'office. We have plenty.to spare if any body, wants any. As to our correspondent's ques tion, we have simply to say that we should pu'bhsh h[is article-if we choose to. We don't choose to. We, outsedges, have learned to suppress eour moral ~eourage-ex cept i hen'we see some good rea son for letting it out. The article in gpiestion would hardly induce aniy one to purjeh the' editorial hread-vend for any advantage short of this it isn't worth whil'e to.get our m. c. un der weight:-New York Ecening The Destr-uction of Fort La fayette.. - NEw YoRK, December 3. A thrill of joy passed over liber ty-looking New York yesterday when itA>4eame known that Fort Lafayette was no mQre. The[ American Bastile is destroyed! Perish with it all the horrible re coletions -of those black .days of desptism, when in the name of liberty, and i the madniess of the the hour crimes were committed that history, it is hoc ped, will for givinigly overlook when the true story of our1 civ il war'- is to be written. There it stands to-day, t the. entrance of the model Re publie's greatest harbor, a black mass of ruin and desolation, ut terly useless and too ugly to look it. There may its ruins remain, never to be rebuilt far purposes such as have disgraced the great ational fortress during the past ight years. The cinders from the smouldering ruins are hailed with delight, not only by those of ur citizens who, in a time of ter rr, were unjustly incarerated in that fort, but also by the thousands to whom the very existence of tbe rort became an eye-sore ever since it had been turned into a despotic bastile by men charged with pro. teting the liberties of a free peo. pie. Circumstances so willed it while the fire was raging, that not a sin gle human hand was once occu pied in Ahaing the neogress of advantages to accrue to the coun try by the completion of the Pa cific lailroad can hardly be ppop. erly appreciated until actually ex perienced.-Charleston News, A Georgia Negro's E.x p e. rience. One William Smith, a Conserva tive negro fesiding Somewhere in Middle Georgia, con eluded, a. short time ago, to travel North and tell the people the truTh with regard to his race in the South. Apart of his, experience in Washington is given in a letter to the Macon Tilegraph, from which we quote When I got to Washington I was tired out and wanted a dram. So I went into a bar-room, as I -would do in Macon, and asked for' one. The barkeeper lo6ked at me, raised his eyes, and said, says' he, "No niggers are allowed.to .drink at- this bar." Says I, "I axes your pardon-I am a stranger a travel ing about, and I wants --a drink mightily, and would you pleae teltme how I-ean get one?" Says he, "Th'r's a perlhceman at.the door, and . if you give hirna the' money be will buy one for you." Then I went to the door and pulled of my bat and stated what i wanted. "ys he, "give meffty cents," which I did. Then says hie, "you stand here." Then be' went in and soon brought out a little whiskey in a tumbler, and I drank it in the street. Then I stopped a while to see if there was any change coming, and he.says, says he, "what is you waitingfor?" Says I, "a little change if you please." Says he, "change hell we don't wait.on niggers for noth: ing up here. Then .I ncxt encountered a gpn tieman in a high place, holding an office of both trust and honor un der the United States Government, and I assure you he talked very plain. Says be. "We Northern people have no use for. negroes; We are willing you should be free; and , have freed you, but as for. equality notions,-they are all stuff and nonsense. Do you reckon you' co'uld'sct at my table? No, you cordd not come inside my gate: You negi-oes~ must learn to keep your place. The Sotste.best place for you to live ~in. If.you come North you will -starve, for' we have~no place for yoni.here." R ESUMPTION OF SPECTE PAY M'ENTs - -There is a powerful combinab now forming in t his city, heaided be Jay Cooke,- for the purpose of securmng an early resuniption of specie p'aymeati. The Wdn bin ation is said- to embrace a large number ofthe (blest men in the Republican ranks, who repudiate the proposition of Senator Sher man to pr'epare for resa1m tion two years hence. They express the determination~ to have specie pay ments at a much earlier day, and the purposejs to press for an imme diate resumnption. A le adhisgi politician here, who profeSes to be in the combination, says 'that the scheme is fully endorsed by Gen6t"al Grant, who will throw the *hole weight of his influence in its favor, and who will take an active part in its success.-Washington Letter ni Bati more Gazette.' Awell-known wealthy Parisian has had himnself painted, by an eminent artist, "as he was. " "as he is," and "as he will be." As he was, represents hi.a, at the age of twen ty-five, a poor devil in ragged gar ments, with his toes peeping through holes in his shoes, sin king, half-famnished, by the side of a wall. "As he is" figures him fat and jolly as an alderman, well-dressed, with gold chains decking his waist, coat, and diamond rings.blazing on his fingers. And in "as he will be," he is made a rotting, hideous corpse. Not the least single feature of such a singular freak, is the fact that he has the paintings hung in hig daming-.rnm the devouring flames. Those who had been left in charge of the fort, as well as the workingmen em ployed in repairing the roof, ran for their lives, fearing the instant explosion of the powder magazine, and left the horrid building to its well-merited fate. And a clean work was made of it. Not only all the lumber piled . in the 'fort which first caught fire, but every thing except part of the mere out ward walls has been consumed. Even the shells and shot exploded in the air one after another, while the lurid flames beautifully lit up the great hrb-or. Not a thing, is left that can serve- any purpose whatever, if tho're still exists in the minds of somne,.a_desire to re enact the scenes of the past, which God forbid! Tbs Gove-ninent loses a- valuable fortress, but its very destruction may be a fore runner of better things to dome. The families -that resided at Fort Hamilton have liot' all returned yet to their abodes, the fears of explosion not having entirely yet vanished. Fortunately no lives have been lost by the constant explosion of shells, which contin. ned dui'ing tlhe entire night, and which made the passage down harbor rather perilous at ono time. -- Correspondent Charleston Courier, A ToUo SToRY.-Tbere is a place in Maine so rocky that when the natives plant corn they look for Grevices in. the rocks, and shoot the grains in with a mus ket ; they can't raise ducks there no how, for the stones are so thick that the ducks can't get their bills between them .to pick out the grass-hoppers, and the erily way the sheep can get at the. sprigs of grass is by grinding their noses on a grindstone. But this ain't a cir cumstance to a place in Maryland -there the land is so poor that it takes two kildeers to cry "kildeer," and on.a clear day you cau see the grasshoppers climb up a mullin stalk, and look with tears o\er' a fifty aerd field ; and the bumble bees have to go d own .on their knees to pt at the grass'; ifi ~he musquitoes died of starvation, and the turkey. buzzards were obliged to emigrate. But there- is a coun try in Virginia wh,ich can beat that. -there:the kand isso steriIe when the wind is nor-thwest they have to-tie the c.hildre.n ,to keep 'em from being blov&n away-tfkre it takes six frogs to raise one- croak, and when the dogs.bark they have to lean- against the fences-the horses are s'o thin that it takes twelve of them to make a shadow, and when they kill a beef they have to hold him up to knock him down! The Paci f ailroad, we are told, will be completed by next July, thus placing thie Atlan cic sea board within six day's commnuni cation with the Pacific. One of the first great results achieved by this great enterprise will- be to di vert the European travel to and from China, Japan and India across the American continent. The time1 now occupied by the Eastern route is about sixty das and it will be reduced by the completion of the, new road to thirty-five days. It will be a long time before the march of iuprovement in Asia and the East will be able to overcome this advantage. In the meantimae, the United States is destined to reap a vich harvest, incident to the new route. A vast increase n the ocean 'marine of the Atlan tie and Pacific ports will be among the first of its resu'lts, and a pros perous impetus will be speedily ivn to all the large cit.ieb lying an the direct line of commnunica tion, A more thorough intermin ling of the American with the European population will not be among the least important changes twill bring about-and one that is lestined to have a gre~at influence pon our social as well as political relatione. The full measure of the