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Dc~~'t*~ YEAh,] yOR TIHE DISSEMINATION OVI- USEFUL INTELLIGENCL,[NAIBY NAv~R eve.Y WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1,16. *N . THE HERALDI 28 PUDLIsBBD 7VE tWEDNESDAY MORNING, At Newberry.o. H., 37 THOS. r. & R. H. GRENSKER, MMS, 68 PER ANNUM, IN CURRENCY on PROVISIONS. raymentrequired invariably in advance. Marriage Notices, Funeral Invitations, Obit uarir, and Communications suberving privato laterests, are charged as advertisement. Skating Tried. One of the editors of the Mil waukee News thus gives his expe !rience of this much-talked-of a -musement: Right beneath one of our win ,dows, from morn till midnight, we see youngsters and oldsters 'twisting their logs into all con -Ceivable shapos. We cannot pick uj) a paper but an article on <ska tint9imnts the eye. Everybody -says it's full) and that's till 'very body' knows about it, for we have . tj 1.ist night, about gas light, after ridiFrg-ft-gJving do scription of life on skates, we pro .pared for our first attempt, and sailed forth to join the merry 'rowd. W6 had on a pair of sto ga-boots trowser-logs tucked in. ido, a Robert-tailed coat,. and -white hat. We went down on the ice, and gave a boy a fifty cent <shinlplastor' for the use of his implements: We have confi denvo-even as great as Peter's fqftli. We, with the assistance of C1 .Qn the skates and eipot as a barbor's pole. Encouraged at the sight of some 4diep on the bridge looking at h6 skaters, we struck out. A lslpqt to the right with the right foot, a slant to the left with the loft fbot, and just then we saw something on tile ice, atid stpoped over to pick it up. On our foot again-two slants to tile right and.ono to the left, ac companied with a loss of confi dence. Another stride with the vight foot, and we sat down with fearful rapidity, with very little, if any elegance I What a set down it was-for we made a dent in the ice not unlike a Connecti qp.t butter bowl I Just then one of the ladies remarked, 'Oh, look, ,y, that feller with the white hat ain't got his skates on the -kglj,t place I' Ditto, thought we. Just,then a ragged little imp sang oPt a# he passed us, 'Hollo, Ad titnber-legs ' And we rose sud dnly. and put after him. Three alldes to the right two to the left, anTI awray wvent our legs-one to tbe east, and the other to the wveht, causing another picture of a buttei'4ray in the cold ice I Just then a friend came along, and of fered his coat-tail as a 'steadier.' We accepted the continuation of his garment, and up tlie river we Weh about ten rods, wvhen a shy -t1 right by the leader caused us, the wheel-horse, to shoot off on a ignge.t,.hools up I But the ice is veryeold this season. lV tied it.again. A glide one Wya ~lide and a half the 'other, en .,whack' cameq our bump of to fns on the Ice, of million of stars dan. - eiind our eyes like a troupe d allet gis at the Bowery The atre. How that shook wvent through our system, and up and down our spinal column I Light couldn't have corkecrewed j4n a greased sapling with pdor more exhilarating oe t. 1Boarding-hlouse butter nor abarran.ty deed could not have stuck stronger than we did-and a,4 lads.l@ling at us. ~on we got up, and made sen othera trial, with better. strccess. p v.had skatedl in our gAtfleo, fiftceen feet, when a lun Ieringohap came up bohind, eJ4 .$wi, with bur%fred p 4~w,~lI ~iei Ip; and .he swore at ne iwhen its was all hIs made a debut on the ice-oh, how cold It was I We tried again, for the papers -all say it's fun, and down came our Roman-Grecian nosO on the cold julop material, and the little drops ran down our shirt bosom, and on the cold ice. Once more we tried skating, made for the shore, sat down and coun ted damages. Fifty cents out. Seven lateral and one 'frontornal' bumps on the ice; one rupture in the kneo, ex tending to the bone; four buttons from our vest; a 'fragmented' watch crystal, and the back-ache big enough to divide among the children of Israel. If you catch us on the smooth, glassy, chilly freezing, troachorous, deceitful, slippery, slip-uppory ice again, you'll know it. If any one hears of'our skating again, they will ploaso draw on us at sight for the bi-valves and accompanying docu ments. We have got through skating. It's a humbug. It's a vexation of spirit, of business, of flosh, and toarer of trowsers. It's a head-bumping, back-aching, log. wearing, dangerous institution ; and we warn people against ska ting. We have tried it, and shan't be able to walk for a month. Skatihig clubs are a hunibug; and all the rascally youngsterls wish to get the ladies at it, that they may may see if they, too, don't say 'the ice Is very cold!' It's no thing to us ; but the ladies will do well to let skatos alone, uinI6Bs they aro younger and more elastic than we are. Oh, how cold the ice is! We can feel it yet I A WEr, MERITED COMPLIMENT ro A CHARLESTON MELHANIc.-The Atgust a Chronicle & Sentinel, pays the following deserved tribute to Charleston mechanical skill : VO saw yesterday a sam.ple of Moina Cotton, ginned upon Hen orey's improved McCarthy Gin, which, in length and silkiness of fibre, appeared almost equal to the fine Sea Islands of the coast, We learned from Mr. Echols, who has just returned from Charleston, that he has procured for his own use, one of these gins, and that from experiments conducted under his own eyo while there, h is satis fled that with the use of this gin, his cotton will bo increased in value from twenty-fivc to fifty per cent. With the power of two horses, the gin will clean from four hun dred and fifty, to five hundred pounds of lint a day, and costs in Charlestori, one hundred and ten (d0llars. We had submitted to our inspec tion also a package of the seed as they camne from the gin and we found them moderately weoll freed from the lint. With some slight imp)rovements suggested by Mr. E., he thinks that the seed can he as thoroughly cleaned of lint by this gin, as the common saw gin now in use. Those farmers who have raised the Moina Cotton this year, will best consult their interests by giving this improvedl roller gin a trial. The gin referred to, is from the foundry of our fellow-citizen, Hlon. William S. Henerey, and has of late come into very wide and ex tensive use.-CArl-esto n Courier, The general reader will be glad to lear.n that a protective against insects has boon discovered by Jager. Hie says that a tincture prepared by macorating one p)art of Pyrothrum rosin in four parts ordiluted alcohol, and thoen thi ned with ten parts of water and applied to the skin, willl protect one at least twelve hours from flies, mosquitoes, ants and other insco,ts.-Ohar-leston News. A female paraded the streets of Lafayoto, the other dlay, exhuibi ting above a pair of stout anoles, a skirt upon which the Indelible brand of the miller was still visible, "ninety.-six pouinds, extra super ftinn--warennttrd." Affairs in Washington. WASHINGTON, Fob. 10.-An ap plication wasmade in theSupreme Court for writs of habeas corpus, for the Tortugas prisoners. The Court took no action. A.t 1 o'clock the Senators, arm in-arm, cano to4the House. Wade took the Chair, and Colfax was seated near him. Senator Conk ling and Representatives Wilson, of Iowa, and Prim, acting as tel lors. Prim read the Democratic votes; Conkling and Wilson alter nated, reading the Republican vote. All went smoothly until Louisiana was reached, when Will iams,.of Tennessee, objected-de claring no valid election was held. The joint session separated, and the House voted 126 to 67 to count Louisiana. The Senate,. after a seVer struggle todraw in extrano. ous matters, voted to count Louisi ana. Both Houses again met and proceeded with the count till Georgia was reached, when Butler objected, because the Georgia Col lege had not voted on the proper day, and for other reasons. Auch confusion ensued, which Wado ended by ordering the Senate to its own chamber. The House then voted 150 to 40 for Georgia, not to be counted. The Senate after a most perplexing and laugh able struggle, declared that in the face ofthoconcurrent resolution, concerning Georgia, the objection in the joint session was out of or der. Both Houses again met, when Wado ordered Georgia to be read as directed by the concue rent resolution. Butler objected. Wade would hear no objection. Butler appeald fruoA W&WWa dU cision, but Wade would allow no appeal aind.ordered the count to precoed. Butler then moved that ( lhe Senate have permission to re tire, and insisted that they should control their own hall ; ruled out. of order. Amid the most intense excitement Wado ordered the count to proceed. Conkling commenced reading the result b'ut his voice was drowned by cries of order. At this time th noise became deafening, when Speaker Colfax sprang to the desk proclaiming that the Vice-President must be obeyed in joint session, and or dered the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest the disorderly pcrsons. Colfax was ordering and appeal ing probably two minutes, dturing which time the Sergeant-at-Arms had distribu ted his men all thorugh the House before, partial order could be restor'ed. The reading of the result and the proclamation followed, wvhen both Houses sepa rated. The Senate i mnmediately adjourned. QUERY AND ANSWERI.-A writer in the Philadelphia North Ameri can, relates the following: The late Charles Floason, who was a judge formerly in the Court of Comnmon Pleas, and after ward a judge of the Supreme Court, was presidling at a trial of an eject ment, and John B.-- vas onme of the jury. This gentleman had been a jusHtice of the ,poee, and also gave advice, as a sort of a busy lawy-er, and thereby contri buted largely to the litigation *of the county. He, it seems, had been engaged by the defendant, and had told him that there was no dloubt but that the result, would be favorable. The judge, howvever, In char'ging the jury, laidI down the law entirely in f vor of the plaintiff, wholmleupon John B.--, in the pride of opin.. ion, jump)ing up, exclaimed: "1But Judge, quero as to the lawv," "Si lence, sir." said the Judge, "you atoe a fool, and of that, at best, there is no quere." This (double judicial decision end(1ed forever, John's influence in the county his occupation was gon,"- -. Seventeen Mississi ppi towns are preparing to build cotton facto. PIN0O The Funeral of Governor Plcken6. The funeral of this distinguish od citizen and statesmaan-so pe culiarly honored and beloved in this, his homno--took place on Wednesday last. During the Tuesday preceding, the body, ar rayed in the splendid uniform which he wore as Chief Magis. 'trate of Carolina, in- her day of hope and pride, lay in state at Edgowood, whose walls were rich ly and appropriately draped in niourninig; and friend after friend, and citizen after citizen, went to look, for the last tiine, upon the noble and rolored dead. On Wednesday, our town and District poured forth their inhab. itantu to do honor tW the sal oc casion. So nuch so, that not only was the church dewded to its utmoot capa.ity, b t even the church-yard and aea in front wer thronged wlth sorrowful friends and follow'-citizeuis, all anxious to show their deep appro. ciation of the departed patriot Carolina's t r ue ) incorruptible, faithful son. The male citizens, with the teachers and pupils of the several schools, formed in pro cession, and received, uncovered, the funeral cortege upon tihe pub. lic square. Moving fro'm thence to Trinity Church, the procession was met by ]Rev. E. T. Walker, officiating clergyman ; and as he read the introdu'tory sentonces of the sublime burial service of the Episcopal Church, the grand, solemn strains of Beethoven's funeral march, Sula morte d'un JIIs, resoundod through the sa crea eninco, minguag its monij! with the bitter plaint of human woe. So mUIch of tIe service as is fp pointed for the Chuirah being over, tile vast coligregation SaIng, With one accord and deep feeling, that hymn of CoflAl't and asSUrInce, "How firm a foundation, ye salits of the Lord ;" after which, the pall-bearers, nuinboring.sixteen of our most promising citizens, passed down tile aisle, bearing to the grave the illustrious dead, while the organ sobbed out its low .Mi serere, and the mourning concourse slowly followed. After the conclusion of the ser vices of the Church, time coffin, covered With evergrons and flow. ers, wts loverod, and outr tnhappy Statn recoived into her bosoni all that rlemaineld of the great, the true, the loyal boeart,' that had lovedl and servedl her witih a devo tion evenI beyond the sacred pur ity' of Roman patriotism. [JEd gefield Advertiser. Goon RuLE oP CONnUcT.-Tlho rule of contduct followed by Lord Erskine--a man of sterling indc p)endence of p)rincip)le and scrupu louts adherence to truthi-is wor thly of being engraved oni every young man's hear't. "lv was the first command amnd counsel of my eatrliest youth," lhe said, "always to do what my conscience told me) to be a dutly, and to leave tihe conseqttenco to God. I shall carry with me the memory, and I trust, the practico, of this parenltal les son to the grave. I have hitherto followed it, and I htave .no reason to complain that my obedience to it has been a temploral sacrifice. I have found it onl thme contrary, the roadl to prosperity and wecalth, and( I shlall pomnt out the path to my children for their pursuit." And thero can be nlo doubt, after all, that the only safe rule 'of- conduct is to follon~ imiplicity tile guidance of an enligh tened conscience, No tintg is safer than right-doing, anld whoever violates his con soience, atnd p)arts with his lhon esty and purity at any prios, will find that lhe has made a Wretched biargain, no matter how savory his f'mess of' pottamgo" has been, or how large tihe wages of' unright coonanna8whinI lao na ,.ecetivd Ritualistic Troubles In Eng land. On Christmas Eve a midnight oelebration was hold at St. James', Brighton, England. The church was partly filled by a respectable auditory, the building itself pro. fusely decorated with laurels, holly and flowers, many largo crosses being formed by the same. The altar was decorated with flowers, and on a side-table was the usual light burning, but oil this occasion surmounted by a carved figure of the In fant Saviour. ''he usual display of embroidored dresses, &c., Was4 exhibited by the, ofliciating sriests and choristers. The pr,oceedings conimenced with the imposing procession, during which and throughout the entire service incense was freely scat tored about. In faict, notwitl standing the recent decision of the privy council, lights, incentso bowings, &c., Wore upon the usual excesivo scale. Many slightly supprossed sounds of discontent were heard throughout the sor vice, both within and without the building, but at the commence mont of' the offertory sentences i man at last cried out ; "It is por fot bosh ; I say perfet rubbish." Immediately some of the vergers, with their oakon staves, rushed to the pOw in which he was sit. tillg ; the priests looked agast, and the choristers and the congro gation seenlMI terror-stricken a13 the gentleman pronodeo to say, when efforts were made to expel him, "I expected this ; I am not afraid to repeat my words ; it if perfect rubbish ; leave me alone : r wn FS^ a W11.1vt,b lbAtp 9 The vergers again attempted tc tako hold of hiil, when he again sai(d, "It is perfect rubblish ; I came here to worship God accor ding to the tenets of the Church of England, not of the Church of Rome ! This is all mockery and rubbish, Mr. Purchas." The liast words he uttered while crossin'. the church and nearing the altar, On reaching the first (inner) doorm of the building, two or three over. earnest vorgers rather pushedl him into the outer lobby and(] theice into the street. The ser vice was then resumedl, (hough the voice of the officiator wa very tremulous, and sidelon glances were taken by lhose inl tie choir it every m1urmurin sound from without. Many per. qoiis immediately left to. build. ing ; seome ten or a dhoin onily ye. mfaninlg to partake of the Holy Communion, in the celebration of wiich excessive bowvings, ligh t ings and incensings weiro mo1st fireely indulged in. The congre gation separated abouit one o'clock, but owing to a detachment of po lice that were stationed withoumt, the crowd offered no personlal vio lence to them as they dlispersedl. How TO R ETATN Y(oUTnl.-It is a matter of no little conlcerni among men--and women, too-to preserve thle bloom andl( freshness of their youth. Cosmeties, plum pers, and the whle offsprinlg of artifice and decCopt ion are resor~tedl to, in the effort to stay the fur rowing ploughlshlare of ti ino. Ex ternal app iances callnot reach or rejuvonlate the decayinig sir its of thle man11 Or w~oman1l whIo wilfully andl mllliciouisly p)erpetrates a glar ing wrong upon a fellow caturie. Something must be (lone to quick. enI the vitality ofthe "inner man," if you would preserve thin ruddy glow of healthl anid l'otund form of youth, An easy conscienlco is tile all p)otont remedly for thatt elasti city of spirit whiichi gives Color and beauty to tile huiman face, aind activity and energy to the p)hysi cal body. hear an old man sing: They loll mne I nm hnndsome yet, And all the indles ay "Do look at him I the dear oht man - Grows youngpr evory i ay." And wihen eacih frienti RsIU "At your ago How came you free from 'lIla " I always anewoer:'"In my voeuth I naid my niintr', bill.'U The Punishment of Silence. Mr. James Groonwood has pub lished in London a frightful ao count of the silent system, which is in operation at the Holloway Model Prison it) London. It is an offonce for a prisoner to speak one word, and he is never addressed except in whispors, so that -he may bo in the prison fbr two years without hearing the natural sound of a hunan voice. Tho offet of this is so terrible on the mind that, prisoners will speak out in desperation, and at the risk of any pulishmeilnt, ratther than endure that horrible silence. Theo prisoners never see O1e another, but reinal in perpetual solitude. One poor wretch, drivon to dCSpOrationl by nlineO mon0thi' solitudo and silence, recklessiy broko out in Mr. Greenwood's pres ence, in these words : 'or. God's sake, Governor, put tue i attotlher ,ell ! Put me somewhere else ! I have countod the bricks ill the cell I atim in till my 3s0 ach !' Tll reque-it, of the tortured wVretchl was refused. Thero is a fino bolo in ehtell cell, ald as th0 wvardels wearv Shoes of Ildia rubbor soles, the prisoler can nover be suro he is is alone. Those condenined to the tread mill have to ascend twolvo lin dred stops every altornato twenty minutes for six hours. And this ill It placO 80 lot aid close that prisoniers often lose in pterSpiraltionl throo stone in as many moniths. Every (lay the prisoners are taken to a chapel so arranged tlat they can see 110 one save the chaplain, and him only through an iron grating. And this is tile order of devotion observed. 'Wardens aro constantly o1 the watch, lost for a single instant they thr'ough the whole of the serviyo, (10plrt from the rigid rule, 'cyes right,' Thoy must look steadfalstly at the preach or ; must raise and lower their prityorbook with their elbows squared andt all it once, likm st.ldiers at drill. They may not scropo their fbot with out havinig after ward to explain the movement. They may scarcely wing an cyc, or sign, witliout dalnger of' rebuko or ptunisiient. God, help tihe poor wretches. TEi TIMoN A TO A I A I 1. It 0 A I, I'll E,8iDIENT.-Ve learn firom1 Ilie Charleston Courier, tiat at the regular quarterly moting of' the Board of' Directors of, the Soth Carolina Railroad Company, held in) the City of Charleston, oni the evening of' the 20th ins.tant, L. . D)eSaussu ro, .l&q., pre.widing as Ch)aitrman pro temn., tile followingo Preamble and Resolumtions) were unanimously adloptedl, and orderecd to be en)grossed as a part of thte Minultos of tihe mt)Cing: WIIER1EAs, At tihe termlilationt of the late wvar, the property of' the Comnpanty was int a rm'ntouts eontdi tion--its r.easurty was emI)pty, anmd its financos dIisord(ered ; and W H En EARs, Tihe Board of iirec. tors will now have tite sat isfac-1 tion of submitting to th)e Stock. holders at the approacintg A nnu, ali Conventi onl, an aecoun lt of' their prtop)erty, htigh ly satisf'actory as to its prtesent condition, and egnal ly promising in r'esp)ect of its I'u titur p' sofcCts,1 Resolved, unanimously, That thle Board r'egar'd this imtIpr'ovemen t as (1u0e icily to tile mable adm1tHinistra.. tion of' tile Pr'osidenit,--Mr. WilI iamn J. Magrath. Resolved, Thlat, they take o leas nyel' in expressin)g thir senmse of' his zealous devotIon to the initef' ost of this Comnpanty dutring the i long per'iod of' twenity-thre'CCycarst, I iln which hte hais beet) in its scr. I! yico, and of thle eminitent ability and( success5 with whlichI he has adlminister'ed its affairs since lhe was elovated tothte htooranble post. tionm of President. A Gloop Oi.n Aos.-''the oldest person certainly in Flor'idta or tn the South,diedl in Pensacola, FIa., en thte 29th ult. The decceaseOd ws a colored Batptist Preachter 'I familiarly known as "Uncle Jacob" and 2 ahltoughm his age cannot be accurately g arrive4 d~ e,ol citizens of thte place by l making calculations have agreed thtat his h ago could be bitt little shtort of onec a huntdrecd and twenty venrs.-- Courier., VicKsBURU AND CHAI,EdTON, Just tlink of it (say the Vickol burg, Miss,, Timie of the 28th Ul timo), the one mighty city qitpa ted away East, washed by the salt waters of the great Atlantic, and the other historic, brave little Vios burg-resting on the banks of, (aa Hr. Calhoun called it), "1that groat inland sea," connected with one another, linked together by one long line of railroad, over which Glhe iron horse speeds his wity onl t unbrokon road, and ill almost as many' hours as it formerly would have taken wooks. Yesterday we had the pleosuro Df meeting in the most completOly irranged, clegaut and sunptuous 'ar that we over .saw, . T. Peaco, Esq., Goneral Superintendent of the South Carolina Railroad, the P"astorn terminus of the Palmotto linle, Captiain "Jim" Meredith (and it meriry ".Jim" eh is), train dir patcher at August, Thomas Rig by, Vice-President, and Colonel K, F', linwort.h, G 8nr 1nSuorin Lenlent., and Capt. (,o. D. LOW retc, Mlhaster of' T1.1knsportati Vicksburg and Meridijn Itailroad, Om met, togother with our friends of the Jkerald, to break a bottle over the success of this important and longthy line. Thie complotion of this line of railroads Is well deserving of re joicing. It puts us within loss than seven days freight eonneo tion with New York, ad plao us at l1ald-shaking distatllee with all the large markets of the East. it gives us tran8poitation for our cotton direct with all Eastern and foreign mnarkets. Vicksburg aspires to a 114valship with the Croseni City, amI to her railroad coimUmeations mho musr look for the meatns to build her Ip, and we Viow the Completion of the great Palmetto line us a long strido inl the work. .lDEP 1.OUoHINa,.-WO have al luded to the propriety of Or far mers trying th experhiont of (leep ploughing and deep seeding of wheat. amy of ouI itrmor h11ave controverted this thd(OI'y, as sorting that wheat did not require it. We are led to alludO to the subject again by a report of one oxperimont ma(le the pio8ont seas on by a farmer in Collin County, who is a practical mah. Last Fall he broke a piece of ground and harrowed inl his wheat ; he then turned in another piece of wheat with a single horse plough, and the third ii ed ho ploughed -the seed in with two' hionies, juat, n dleep) as ho dodlhd jhit il In. On the first field there is no tW heat no0w to be soon ; on thle secdnd there is aLbout one tilid of stand and ona the last, the wheat thoroughly mattedl, and( without any acoident wvill make an excellent crop). It is pro~por to 511y that the grasshiop per's injur Iedl the first field, but it is the opinion of the owner that it wias the enobl. weathor that dhe stioyedl it. It is also pro~por for is to further' add that the last picoe of w heat named above, has i full Northern exp)osure, and if iny should have been hurt by the God we ~s~at.her, it should have boon .his: ,His theory is, that (deep. plothling andi deep) seeding ar0 oe hest proventlives, both aga1inst oseots fi13(d freezing weather'-a id it .is our' op)inlio too.. (JlIktsi HJer(ld. FA'rar, A ND D).anIAC5ner, Ocosgn Ir (IIAxrxnIT'ylI..-N'ear: Qranitevlle, n Hraturday unight, ten days ago, wihlle' n nesembled~ coinpany were eunjoyinug hemselvss, at a ball, certnin maen left ho room and(, for causes unknown, be. an firing p'ro~misnInusly into the compa y, Hefore the affray ended, Mr. Ed. )inikin, was shot through the boweIs It Is thought he will (lie) and Mr. Johr1 'rescot, through the ahoulder. The 'erpetrators of tils unheard o.(' grocity, re still at large having defied all at, emlpts at capture. (lEdgefield Advertiser, IIiUTENANT BIIA IN NOT PA IIDoNBp. 'he Washing ton correspondenit'of the low York World says: "The paragpaj oing tho rounds that Om ptain J. 0 Iraino, ex-Confederato Navy Ca ptMn1 as been: pardoned is untrue, IIe i uill in prison. TIhe President has domj othing- whh the C3nka.