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MME as the n?jhi the day, thou can'?t not then he Jaine to any man." VOL, IV..NO, 26. POETBY. ?hadows.! Shadows flitting past tho starlight, Shadows darkling in tho air Blindons in tho ort Aying tree tops, Shadows gliding everywhere. Nights like this ?re born of shadows, Everything lo weird ?nd dim : Shadowy ghosts haunt every valley "With a presence dread and grim. There are times when every honrl-lhrob Seems to summons shadows near, Waking ghosts in every ohambor Of the heart that's dark with fear, Ghosts that trend with noiseless footsteps, Qa/o around with mournful eyes, Clutch our bauds with bony fingers, fill our souls with tears and sighs. Kvory heart must havo Its night fall Shadows como with every ni ht, Musted hopes-old dreams of glory Aro tho ghosts that step so light ; Thronging tho heart's dim chambers, Where they rove! with delight, Till we shudder at their presence, Palo and trembling with affright. After night-fall comos the morning, And thc golden beams of doy, Waking joy in every vullcy, Drive thc shadowy ghosts away. Every heart shall havo its morning, ilopo will shino with cheering ray, Then tho ghosts that como with heart-throbs, Powerless, will fleo away. "VARIETY." [From tho Charleston Daily News.] A Willing Witness mi LIBEL OP TUE aOVKRNOU OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPON THE PEOPLE 07 SOUTH CAROLINA. We make some extracts from the sworn testimony of Qovcrnor Scott in tho Third Congressional District contented election ease. In roply to a question by 8. L. Ilogo, Governor Scott says : 1 am Governor ll. K. Scott, Governor of tko State-was so in July, August, Septem ber, October and November, 1868-inaugu rated Otb July, 1808, and havo been (Joverli er up to tho present timo. During that time the political condition of Newberry, Abbe ville, Anderson and Edgcfield, was one of great exoitemont. Tho laws could not bo enforced, and wore not enforced in these counties. The obstruction of law carno from ibo faot that political organizations sot at do nanoo the ofliocrs of the law. Tho organiza tions wero tho Republican and Democratic parties. The Democratic organization was arrayed against the law. I received the in formation os Governor that thc Democratic party was orgauized for tho purpose of pro venting tho officers of tlu law from enforcing the law against uny of th'.ir partisans, and fbr tho purpose- of coutio?ng tho elections lo take place on tho 3d November, in thc in terest of that party alone. These political organizations armed themselves in ordor to oarry out tho objeots and purposes of their organization, I was informed by men who claimed to bolong to Doniooratic clubs that they were providing themselves with sixteen ?booters aud Winchester rifles, with Ibo declared purpose of first controlling tho election by keeping tho negroes away from tho polls, and if resistance was mode they would shoot tho negroes down, and thereby prevent tho more timid from attending at all. Thoy did with my knowledge bring into tho State tho Wioobcster rifles in accordance with thosedeolamations. There was no elec tion for Congress in Edgcfield County, Third Congressional District. Thc reason why is this : Tho law mado it my duty to appoint three commissioners of election ia ench County; two of these I first appointed were white mon and ono colored mun, of that ?uunfcy. Tho whito mon objected to aorvo, bocauKo that particular colored man was a mombor of the board. I nooordingly appoint ed three othor commissioners, ono of whom XRM a Mr. Hoot, a member of the pr OHO nt HOURO of Representativos. Ho replied to me that it waa impossible for the board to sorvo bcosuBO it required nil of his timo to oavo hin lifo.. That ho had beon shot at twioo in his own rcsidonoo, had escaped from bis houso undor cover of darknoss, and was then writing to mo from hi? plaoo of qonoonl. mont in tho swamp, It> waa too Into thou to appoint any othor commissioners of election, as tho law requirod a notioo of twenty dayn boforo on olootion could bo held. Tho gen eral condition of political affaira in that eounty, aa far as tho Republican party was oonoovned, ai regarda thoir safety, I ean only ataba my opinion, based upon roports of oiti gana living ic tho county. (Mr. Pope ob jected io tho opinion based upon such infor mation.) X think there waa acarooly email received in; fte Executif o Department during tho months of ?ontowbor, Ootobcr and No pember). 1>808, tb aa I cM ?o? got ene or mere fcctt-ra, i porting tho murder of citrons- ol {tye eounty, am) claimed in theao lottert fo bc murdered in oouflcquenoo of thoir ?oUtloa.1 ?pinion, or other outrages committed on force to tho comity to givo protection against lawless nico. Q.<-What woB the condition of Abbovillo as to outrages ; also, of Newberry ? A.-The same as iu Edgcficld. In Abbe ville County I have reports ou filo of ninoteon murders. Thoso murders were also commit ted before tho November election. Judging from the former election in April, and mak ing due allowances for natural changes and influences that might legitimately hare bcon brought to boar, judging furthermore by tho statements of men from tho county of both political parties, io my opinion that tho Re publicans wou'd have carried tho county by 1,800 votes. I mean by Republican, Hogo's majority for Congress. AB to Newberry County, in a fuir election, I can only judge of it from tho samo information I had as to Abbeville. Tho majority in Newberry could buve been from ten to twelve hundred, samo as for tho Legislature. Thc violcnco iu New berry was not to the samo extent as in Abbe ville ns to murder, but tho sumo intolerance existed as to colored mon voting. There wcro two cuses of murder in Newberry-Leo Nance and a man by the uame of Johuson Glasgow-prominent colored men that I re collect. Examination by J. D. Pope, Esq., for J. P. Reed : Q.-How many white mon of any party in South Carolina supported you for Governor, do you think ? A.-I bavo no means of knowing. It was a matter of indifference to mo whether I was voted for by white or oolored men, nor did regard it ns important to tho result, so loug us there was a fuir election, and the voters had tho right to exorcise tbo privilcgo guar anteed to them by tho laws of the country. Q.-That may be true, but was it not the fact that you wero eleoted by oolorod voters almost entirely f A.i-l bavo no moans now of knowing tho relative number of white and colored votes cast for mc, but I know ns a mattor of neces sity that I received nearly all tho colored votes onst iu tho State, as thoy wcro Ropub lioaus from necessity, and voted for tho llo 'pulicnn caudidntcs. Q.-During thc canvass for Congress wcro you at any time or times, and bow often, iu tho Third Congressional District out of thc County of Richland ? A.-I was never out of thc City, Columbia, to visit any portion of tho Third Congres sional District during thc canvass. Q.-Were you in any of those countios be fore thc canvass ? A.-I never was. Q.-Have you been since? A.-I have not. My dutioB hore have rendered it nmost impossible to ^vc tho Capital. Q.-Your iuformotion then, is derived from others ? A.-Yes. My information is dorived from information of oitizens living in these counties, from civil officers of thc Stato government, and military officers who wore on duty in these counties. Q.-You say that thc rcsistnnco to thc laws was entirely by Democratic organizations. Who gave you this information, DcmooraU or Republicans ? A.-Both. Many men of the Domooratic party wcro opposed to these Domooratio or ganizations for tho purpose of resisting th< Inw and setting nt defiance tho authority o: tho Stato government. Q.-Pray nnme some of tbeso Domocrati who gnVC you this informntion f A.-I nm not nt liberty to nnmo thora, ai fhoy enjoined confidence, claiming that if i was know? tbftt they gave tho informatioi wboreby the parties rtfi?ht bo brought t< justice, their PWD Jives opd property would b< ill danger. Q.-You say thnt Demoornts told you tba sixteen shooters wcro imported to keop tju negroes from tho polls, Nnmo some who tob you this ? A.-Mcmbors of tho Domooratio olub toh mo this. It don't follow that thoy aro De uioorats because they bolong to Domooratii dubs. A numbor of Republicans joined Do moorotio dubs in ordor to discover what ob 1 ject they bod in importing thoso destmotiv weapons. I do not for precautionary reason ' fool juBtiilod in giving thoir names to th publia. Q.-Would you: fceHcvo tho toctfmony" c any man who. boen mo a, member of a Dornt oratio olub ?btv the pnrposo of oommunioatin jj to outsiders what ho there saw and heard ? A.;-Whou surrounding circumstanceson ' results corroborate testimony fully, I woul boUovo thoim I Q.-You flpoko of wbilo men betag armor: Dp you not know that/ there woro armo I bands of negroes in Edgcfioldi and Abbevill! l" end wore you not applied to. frequontly 1 did you do to provcnt it? A.-I do not know that thoro wero suoh armed bands in tbeso counties, nor do I now rocoiicct of any report of suoh armed bands beiug mado to mo from Abbeville. It may however havo been mado, as there was a general rumor of armed bands of npgrocs. , Q.-Do you know that the importation of arras into tho State was brought about by the fact that every negro man in the State wes the owner of a fire-arm, and the white mun almost entirely unarmed ? A.-On tho contrary I know to tho ro verso of that. You would scarcely meet a white man who did not havo ono rovolvor if not more, and a double barrol shot gun. It is truo that many of tho colored mon were armed with shot guns and old muskets, but not moro than a large minority of thom had cvon tbeso anns. I wish to say that I gavo tho whites of tho Stato tho orcdit with moro intelligeuco and kuowlcdgo of tho negro character than to believe that it was necessary iu any cmcrgoucy io provide themselves with tho dostruotivo weapons in a limo of profouud poaoe. Q.-You think then and testify that the sixteen shooters were imported to kill no groes ? ( A.-I believe from ovidcuco that I dnro not regard ns worthless that it was tho belief of a party or a largo number of men in tho Stato that Seymour and Blair would bo clcot cd, aud thereby a decision would bo given ngaiu8t thc Reconstruction polioy of Con gress, and it was tho intention of those to in augurate civil war and overthoW thc govern ments that bad been established in the South. I will give os ono reason for tbis belief: Con versations wore not uncommon among thoso who were most activo in importing these arms, they oxpresscd fully and openly their plan of operation, iu which they stated that they would bring about a riot j in this evont they would bo prepared and kill off tho lead ing Republicans, both white and black, and that it would bo an easy matter after they wero desposed of, to control tho rest of tho negroes, with tbeso guns in their bands. Thc State officers disposed of, they would call a election, when they would have tho whole matter in their own bauds. In answer to an inquiry whether they did not fear that they would bc called to an account for this whole sale work, they said : ''Who over heard of any body being punished for a riot," and ro fcrrcd to Memphis, Camilla, and New Or leans in 1860. Q.-You think then tho sixtoon sbootors were introduced for another rebellion nod a new secession '{ A.-1 think it was intended for another rebellion, but not a new secession. TI?B'NKYT COTTON CROP.-Tbroo million bales of cotton this year, if tho season bo fa vorable, yielding, at present priocs, $100,000, 000, will be tho contribution of tho cotton States to tho material wealth of the Union. Hero is a prize worth contending for by tho great oom merci al cities, and Now York, from present indications, will seouro so largo a shore as to make up for tho dulncss of thc last season. Freights to Europe will rule high, as a mattor of course, and wore it not for the insano polioy of Congress, shipbuild ing would icu mediately rovive. Our groat meroantile marine before tho war was mainly built by tho ootton trade. It oan be rebuilt and enlarged now by judicious legislation. We clip tho foregoing prognostication from an exobange, but we find the opinion very general among Southern cotton dealers thal tho orop of 1808 will show tbe maximum, ne matter whit may bo the efforts to produoo t larger yiold. A heavy and universal falling off of labor in the fields is reported. On thc other hand, we think no duo allowance if mado for an inoreaso in tho striotly wbito la bor produot of Georgia. This, wo boliove,, will bo Wry considerable. Then wo muni also allow for a considerable increase in thc crop resulting from tho diminution in thc oom oulture. This will bo large generally Tbo roports from all points in Georgia indi oate that very little corn will bo planted. On tho wholo, with a good years wo expoot to nee-three million, halos produocd. [Jitocon Telegraph* TIIB TJSNURK or Omca BILL,-Or Wednesday, in tho Senate, Mr. Trumbull from the Jodioiary Com mit too, ro port cd th< . bill to ropoal tho ton?r o of offioo aot, with ai amondmont in tho nature of a substitute. I proposos a repeal of the first and sooond seo tions of tho ton uro of offioo bill, and a substi tution of clauses allowing the President mor* testudo im tho matter of removals, appoint monte and suspensions. In dismissing it Senator Spraguemade another of his startlibj speeches, in Whioh he especially argued the tho country, was* politically ?nd' socially oi the brink of a preolpioo. The repoit of th 1 committee was adopted bys vote of 87 to If taMoMiism?.??.i.1111111 [fron. the Lancaster Lodger.] Agriculture Tho man, who produces two years of corn, whore only ono grew bcforo, is a publio bene factor. And he, who raisos two bales of cot tou on lands, which yielded only one before, is a private benefactor. He is putting an ex tra 9100 into his pocket, at an extra expense of not more than $20. But tbe question oc curs, bow oan these publio and private bene factions be secured ? I answer : First-By deep plowing. If you oan pon ettato 20 inches into tbe earth it will be twen ty times bottor than more skimming. But you are not to plow dcop all the time, but at .o right time. Thc right time is ia the ear ly Spring, whoo you are breaking and pu pating your lauds for planting. After the first courso of culture, surfaoo plowing is bet ter. The fibre roots or small focdors should bo disturbed as littlo as possible. Tbeso branob out tu ovory dircotiou, porvadc tho ou tiro soil out by the plough, tako up its nutri tivo properties and oouvey thom to tho plant. Aud tho less this proooss is disturbed, tho moro rapid and vigorous tho growth of the plant. Those farmors, who nut tho roots dose, and tell us tho plant will sond out oth ers, rouiind us of a Surgoou, who will tio and sovcr an artery because nature will in tho pro. oess of timo form a now obanuol to supply that limb with nourishment. It is true, na ture will do tbis work. But whilst tho pro oess is in progress tho limb is wasting-it is losing in size and strength. Aud as tho plant losses by tho doplotion of oloso root-cutting, its yield is proportionately dimiuished. Do nothing to chock or retard tho growth of your plant. Force it all tho timo from germina tion to maturity. But before the oulturo of tho crop oom. meneos, plow olose and deep with long nar row tools (if you have no subsoiler) so as to loosen up tho earth, but not turn it over. And the deeper you plow, thc moro your pl nul will yield. This deep plowing ia a good ventivo against land washiug; it causes tho moisturo to remain five or teu times longer, aud it increases tho space from which these feeders procuro tho supplies they convoy to thc plant. ???ta? Second.-Ly thc use o/jj Bp^0< only sound, perfect seed ot TW^ffl?^mt alsc thc best varieties. When a judioifflflyitalk grower whisbes to rcstook hie imffifi Icots from the best breeds. A gootPrWWb Essex requires no moro attention and fooc than low bloods. Plant tho most approvee varieties and only tho choice seeds of those It is a very great desideratum for tho farmo: to secure a healthy, vigorous plant. Cottoi seeds should bo .selected from the Ootobo opening. Moro of tbeso aro perfoot. TUB} should bo two years old when planted. Bj tbis means, the gorm of tho weekly or dofeo tive seeds, is dostroyed ; aud tho oleaginou substauco of tho perfcot is in vigoratsd, am I produce? a moro robust and vigorous stalk. Planters will secure to themselves an impoi tant advantage, by procuring as rapidly a praotioabio tho Dickson variety. Third-Apply Fertilizers. After you hav used all tho fortilizors you could mnnufaotur at homo, select from tho market such foroig articles ns may bo best adapted to your soi With a largo winged shovel run in tho mis dlo botweon your old rows and baok again i tho samo plaoo, oponing and deaning out trcnoh as deep as possible. Thon tako a lon narrow plough and run in tho bottom asdcopt you ono loosening up tho earth but not throv ing it out. Away down there deposito you fertilizers ; and throw on thom as high a be as you oan. Lot this bo dono as recently b< fore planting as practicable. You need nt bo afraid tho roots of the plant will not find buriod so dcop. Tbe notion of tho tnoistui air and sun will soon diffuse its virtue through the soil. Morcovor, there is a vog table instinot ns woll ns an animal. The no born babe instinotivcly seeks the lacteal foin I tain whioh sustains and dovclopos its power i By tho same principle, tho vogotablo germ ' immediately drawn to that vivifying deposit ry whioh hos boen providod for nourisbin and porfocting its produotivo capacities. When your fertilizers aro buriod deop, thc is loas los., by evaporation. And in a protra ted drought thoso highly stimulating agon will not fire tho plant. And in tho matur it season they will argo on tho cotton so rapidl it will all bo oponod and housed whilst tl weather in yot mild; and none of tb? li will bo stained and' its-salo injured by tl frost. After tho' lflttd is prepared and ma nur deposited lt requires no moro labor to till yo ground than if no for til i zora bsd boen pi ou rod. Now 920 expended in fort il ??ora ai a littlo extra labor in preparing will secure yiold of two bales whore thoro would ha boon but ono without it. What ia tho pr its on ibo $20 thus invested ? The han per half annum. If your merchant would oharge you suoh an enormous profit on dry goods, you would think him extortionate. Yet you may make it fairly and honorably by your farming operations. No man oan now eomplcte successfully with the /armer in ma king money. He has found a gold mine on hie own plantation ; and only a little, simple machinery is necessary to work it. Nothing is in thc way of his independence and opu ulenuo but a little capital aud labor judioious ly expondod at tho right time. Countrymen, tap the fountain and woalth will flow in till thore will be no moro room to contain. ENTERPRISE PROGRESS & Co. Marou 20, 1869. The Population of the Oiobe. Thorc are on tho^obqjb^^^^000,000 190,000,000tw^^S^5>iau raoe. 176,000,000 aro of tho Malay raoe. 1,000,000 aro of tho Indo Amor?o u raoe. Thore aro 3612 languages spoken, and 1000 difforout roligious. The yearly mortality of tho globo is 333, 333,333 porsons. This is at tho rato of 91, 651 poi* day, 3730 por hour 00 por minuto. So eaoh pulsation of our heart marks the doooase of some human oroature. Tho avorage of human lifo is 33 years. Ouo fourth of tho population dies at or bo fore tho ago of 7 yearn* Ono half at or boforo 17 yoars. Among 10,000 porsons ono arrives at the ago of 100 yoars, ono in 500 attains the age of 90, and ouo in 100 yoars iivos to tho ago of 60. Married mon live longer than singlo onoa. In 1000 persone 65 marry, and more mar riages ooour ia Juno and Dooombor than ia months of tho year, thth, of tho whole population is s oxorcise a groat influonoo on Tgovity. In 1000 individuals who arrive at tho agc of 70 years, 42 aro priests, orators, or public spoakors ; 40 aro agriculturists, 33 aro workmen, 32 soldiers or military employ ees, 29 advocates or ongincors, 27 professors, and 24 doctors. Those who dovoto their lives to tho prolongation of that of othors dio tho soonest. There aro 334,000,000 Christians. Thcro aro 6,000,000 Israelites. There aro 60,000,000 Asiatio roligious. There aro 160,000,000 Mohammedans. There aro 200,000,000 Pagans. In the Christian Churches; 170,000,000 profess tho Roman Catholic 75,000,000 profess the Greek faith. 80,000,000 profess tho Protostant. ' -i g TUE "Now York World" says; "Tho rad ical papers ou all sides are beginning to opon ly express their dissatisfaotiou with Grant and his appointmonts. Thc grumblers give place to growls. Tho composition of tho Cabinet is dcclarod to be largely bosod upon the subscription lists. The Nation permits a correspondent to say that the nomination of Mr. Stewart tho day aftor he had prosontod Gen. Grant with a ohook for 965,000, for a house given to him by a number cf gentle men, of whom Mr. Stewart was ono, was very malapropos; and 'tho appointment of Mr. Rorie, who subsoribod to the puroboso of a house for Gen. Grant in Philadelphia, is open to similar comment.' Editorially, tho "Na tion" oondomns tho appointment of Boutwoll. Tho "Springfield (Massachusetts)' Republi can"" deolan)* that tho appointmonts are made in a mannet which does not strengthen tho new administration ia tho hearts of tho poo plo, v ~o 'oaro very little about Gen. Groat's relatives and porsonol friends, but a groat deal about tho seleotiou of good mea for tho ofticos groat nud small.' Tho editor of the ..Republican," by-thoby, is known to bo warmly dovotcd to Sohuyler Colfax, who has not been fortunato ia getting his personal frionds, Dofrcos, for instauoo, into office But this gonoral dissatisfaotion with Grant,, looks as if 'tho man oa horsebaok' had sud dottly booomo smoothing such an object of ter ror to tho radicals as Commondators ia mado to appoar to Doa Giovanni." PENDLETON FACTORY.-Wo had tho ploaa? uro duriog the preseut wook, of making a flying visit to this flourishing faotory, near Pendleton village, and receiving tho polite nttontion of the gentlemanly proprietors, Mr. Perry and Capt Roberts. We wore shown through tho onUv<v establishment, and had tho gratification of witnessing the msnufao taring in Its various stages. Tho oiaohtnory 1B of the nowost and most improved1 descrip tion, making the best fabrica with the toast expenditure of labor. They ruo? two-thou sand spiodles, and the profits for one year were ??oh aa io "enable the proprietors to doable tho oapaoiiy of the establishment. We would bo glad to see the day when our Dlsttlot will beast of a faotorr profitable to its proprietors, snd so beneficial to tho pub ?Sac.i ..'.i.!. sae ,i._,_i Easter Sunday. To-day oloscs the Lenton Season, and will be commemorated in tho Catholic and Kpis. copal Churches as thc anniversary festival ef our Lord's resurrection. The feast of Easter is thc regulator of all the other great movable festivals of the year, t nd has always been cele brated in the Catholic Church with the greatest solemnity, as the first among the fivo pi 1 ipal feasts of the Christian religion. Tho Jewish Passover, called by them Pascha, was kept by the Jewish people in memory of their miraculous dclivcranoe from tho bondago of Egypt, by the slaughter of all tho first-born of tho Egyptians. Tho Darno is derived from thc Hebrow vorb, Pasach, whioh signifies to pas;-, or leap over, because the destroying an gel, who slew the first-born of tho Egyptians, pased over tho houses of tho Hebrews, their doors boiug marked with thc blood of tho Pascal Lamb, which was a type of Christ's great sacrifioe on Calvary. Tho Jews kept this great feast on thc M th day of thc first month of thc colcsiastieal or sacred Lunar year, oalled by Moses, Abib, but by Esdras and the lator Jews, Nisan, corresponding to tho greatest part of our March and a portion of April. This was thc seventh month of tho oivil year of thc Jews, whioh they follow ed in all computations in scculiar affairs, ?md whioh thoy began from the month ?Ym*, or the autumnal equinox. This great festival, the true Christian Pasach, is oallod in the English-Saxon language,. Easter-Day, and is commemorated on the Sunday after thc 14th of the moon of Maroh, whioh this year, was on tho 13th instant. In the beginning of the Church, tho Jewish converts, in some places, kopt this solemnity ou tho 14th day itself, tho day on whioh tho .lows celebrated their passover. The apostles allowed thom this liberty, to show that tho Qospol of Christ did not condemn tho Mosaio law, whioh it had made void by fulfilling it. But the Christian Pasohal feast was, in goneral, ap pointed by the Apostles to be kept on tho Sunday that followed the 14th day of tho moon of March. Tho Roman, and all other Churohos of tho converted Gentiles followed this rule. Tho Churoh tolerated this obscrv anoo among tho convortod Jews until about tho time of tho dcstiuotion of tho city and templo of Jerusalem, A. D,.TO, after which time it was gradually abolished iu tho Western Churches, bul still observed in some of the Oriontal Churohos until A. D. 825, when tho general council of Nuo ordained that all Churches should celebrate Master on the Sun day following tho 14th day of the Maroh moon. Tho Emperor Constantino caused this dcoroe to be published throughout tho Roman Empire. Those who adhered to tho- oki praotioe wore looked* upon os schismatics. In the sixth and seventh oonturies, tho Irish and Scottish Churohos wore aooustoraod to koop Eastor on the 24th day, if Sunday fal) on it; but, in all other years, with tho uni versal Church, after somo discussion, thoy woro brought ovor to porfoot conformity, A . D. 700, since whih time there has boon no difforonoe of opinion on tho subjeot among tho different branches of the Christian Church.-Columbia Phoanu, 2&th. SOME amusement was created by a scono which ocourrod in thc Senate Chamber, rc ooutly, after tho adjournment. Mr. Sumner was engaged in oarnest conversation with a friend, wkon a dapper young African, dressed in tho height of fashion, and accompanied by two females of the samo "race and color," gorgeous iu- feathers and silks, approached, and'touohodi Mr. Sutnnor on tho fihouldor,. olaimod acquaintance, and immediately pre sented his- fomnle- friends to tho* great ohnm pion of their raoe. Tho damsels woro delight ed to sec Mr. Sumner, and each took a hand and sottlcd themselves for a little talk ovor matters and things. Mr. Sumner did not seora, however to appreciate their attontIonr and, with tho best grace ho oould command;, withdrew his hands, and, turning his back, resumed tho oonvorsation whioh had boen interrupted. The party wcro not at all picas od with their reception, and ono of tho tadio* remarked : "Well, I did not think he would' bo so oool after all his beautiful talk about us; but whito man is very uncertain." ?JV?S/K C?r. Savannah licjmblican. BltUNKENNWSS AND CRIME.-Mr. II ay nos wardon of tho Massachusetts State Prison, in his valuable book, rooontly published, says that during tho oloven years that ho has been oonneotcd with tho institution, twenty-one persones'have boon imprisoned for killing their wives,.two for killing their fathers, and one for Wiling his mother. Of these twenty-four, all butrono went) not only habitual drunkards, but aotnally drunk when they committed tho ?timo; and ho also remarks " these wore nott bad mon, oxoopt when under tho influence off* Honor; tad yot/iustioe ono make no dlsttaa tlott^ but holds him equally guilty wh? bom mira crime uodor snob ci rou m sun oca as the one who sobprly and with inU ,oot nnoloudior|.