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TO TH/NE OWN SELF BB TRUB AND IT MUST FOLLOW AB TH? NIGHT THQU OANfl'T NOT TB3IN BE FALB? BY JAYNES, SULK LOK, SMITH & ST130K. WALHALLA, SOUTH OAKOLISTA, ?JAIST. IO, 1?K>1, WW 8XUBIB8, ?-Q. 140.-VOLUME XII.-?<>. ?. Sold JExol <J . ~W . B Al CHILD LABOR IN COTTON MILLS. The Manufacturers of this County Put Our Assemblymen on their Guard. To the Honorables Senator Horn don, Representatives Brown and Thompson.-Gentlemeu : Represent ing, as we do, largo manufacturing interests in Oconoo coun *y, we deem it our duty to lay before you ce ?' In .matters relating thereto, which, wo are sure, will engage your attention : .li Of course tho rapid growth of the cotton mill industry in South Carolina and in thu South has lim ited mill extension in New England, and, ns such investments have been muoh sought after in tho pant, the ohange to Southern mill building is muoh depreointed, and all sorts of efforts have been, and, we doubt not, will be attempted to handicap our triumphal progress by unfriendly legislation under cunningly devised pleas. 2. Very recently an agitation has been begun at home, under humani tarian motives, in regard to children in our milla, and looking to future educational tests for relief from what is believed to be a great grievance. As a matter of fact thtro is not a mill manager in our State who does not heartily approve of an agc limit of twelve years for workers in our mills. . This would insure better help and leave the children from six lo twelve to go to school and pre pare themselves for tho duties of life. 3. Legislation aimed at the mills alono to accomplish this result will be fruitless, however, unless parents can also be reached. Our daily ex perience shows that parents insist absolutely upon controlling their re- ! spectivo families, and, unless tho] Legislature can intervene and enact a Compulsory educational law, compell ing parents to send their children to school up to tho ago of twelvo and affixing penalties for the violation of the same, a very serious result will swiftly follow. Georgia and North Carolina have no such laws. It will inevitably happen that when a South | Carolina mill agrees to employ al family, but, according to tho pro- j e posed now law, rejects workers undor twelve, tho family will quietly take thd train and in an hour or two will be in a mill in a neighboring State where all can get work. 4. Wo cannot help reminding you that some very positive social condi tions have to bo known and consid ered in this complex matter. Work in our mills is largely by families, not separate1 y, ns individuals. Somo take their ton yoar old children into Ibo mill to have them under their own oyes ; others carry thom there to keep thom off of the streets and tho chances of bad company ; othors from diro necessity for procuring their oharo of tho family living. With all thcBO ii otu al conditions duly weighed tho Georgia Legislature lins recently defeated similar legislation by tho dooisivo voto of moro than two to ono. Spoaking for our mill investments in Oconeo county, now rapidly inoroasing, ns woll for tho enormous investments in the Stnto at largo, we take ocoasion to romark that it in a condition, not a humani tarian theory, you aro to deal with. Hasty legislation aimed nt tho mills usivoly \yy UKNIGrHT, La, S. C. only may transfer a large percentage of our workers to neighboring States that are free from such legislation. It will be a sad day for South Caro lina if hor industrial progress is ar rested by partial legislation enaoted by her own sons. As Oconee county is on Georgia's border, with partial legislation, as indicated, our mills will be much exposed to labor losses. Confiding in your conservative view of these important matters, and asking for your careful consideration of this proposed legislation, we are, Very respectfully, Wm. A. Courtenay, Nowry. E. It. Lucas, Walhalla. W. E. Cheswell, Westminster. L. W. Jordan, Seneoa. The merited reputation for curing piles, sores and skin diseaaos acquired hy DeWJtt's Witch Hazol Salvo, has lcd to tho making of worthless counterfeits. Ho suro to get only Dc Witt's Salvo. J. W. Boll. Money in tho World. The Director of the United States mint, Mr. Roberts, publishes an' in teresting estimate of tho amount of money in tho world. His figures are baaed upon official information gathered from every available source. Ho states tho world's stock of money at $11,019,100,000, of which $1,841,000,000 is gold, $3,818,000,000 silver, and $2,960,100,000 paper un protected by gold or silver. It is astonishing how enormously thc world's stock of money baa in creased since 1873, tho year whon silver was demonetized in this coun try. The total amount of money in the world at that time was $4,590,000,000, divided as follows : Gold, $1,209, 800,000 ; silver, $1,057,685,000 ; un covered paper, $2,322,545,000. Since 1873 there has boen an in crease of $3,631,200,000 in gold monoy ; $2,760,315,000 silver, and $637,555,000 paper ; a total increase of $7,029,070,000. The stock of monoy -lins increased much faster than population and the world's per capita money circulation is greater now than ever before.-Atlanta Journal. ?>--*>?? A sheep killing dog up in Maine has eaton up his master's farm and died. Tho dog killed a neighbor's sheep and tho neighbor proposed to settle tho matter if tho dog was killed. The owner of tho dog would not have his dog killed and a lawsuit followed. Tho owner of the dog had to mortgago his farm to pay cost and damages, and tho noxt thing was thc surrender of tho farm to pay tho mortgage. Tho do^'s master is ho mel csu and his dog is dead. A TEXAS'WONDER. Hall's (Jrcat Discovery for KU icy and I Bluddor Trouble Ono small bottlo of Hall's Groat Dis covery euros all kidney and bladder trou bles, romovos gravof, ?uro s diabetes, seminal omissions, woak and lamo backs, rheumatism and all irrogularitiou of tho kidnoys and bladder in both mon and women. HoKulatoa bladder troubles in ohlldron. If not sold by your druggist, will bo sont by mail on recoipt of $1.00. Ono small bottlo is two months' treat ment, and will ouro any oaso above men tioned. Dr. K. W. Hall, solo manufac turer, P. O. ?ox 020, St. Louis, Mo. Sond for testimonials. Sold by all druggists. _ St. Louis, Fobruary 27, 1000.-This Is to certify that I havo usod ono bottlo of Tho Toxis Wonder, Hall's Groat Dlsoov or/, for kidnoy and rheumatic, troubles, I and cheerfully recommend it to others. I Mrs. M. Kodoll, 2,030 Olivo street. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS. Interdenominational Sunday School Associa tion to Meet In Newberry, 8. C. Thu Executive Committee of tho South Carolina Interdenominational 'Sunday School Association has called the annual convention to moot in Newberry, S. C., on February 26-27. The officers of the Lutheran Church of tho Redeemer has tendered the chairman the use of their ohuroh for the sessions o? the convention and the invitation has been aooepted. . The call issued by Dr. W. E. Pol hani, Chairman of the Executive Committee, says : "Tho Exeoutive Committee is pleased to state that wo will bo fa vored at all the sessions by the pres? once of tho following named interna tional workers : ?Prof. H. M. Hamill, D. D., of Illinois, field secretary ; Mrs. II. M. Hamill, teacher in primary work; Mr. Marion Lawrence, of Toledo, Ohio, genoral seorotary ; Prof. Ex cel!, leader of song, and probably other international wprkers. We have the promise of all of the above named, who will be there in pursu ance of the great transcontinental tour in tho interest of the Sabbath school cause and representing the international executive oommitteo in their work. "It will bo readily obsorvod, there fore, that this oonvention should be no ordinary occasion, but on tho con trary one that should enlist tho hearty co-operation of every aotivo well-wisher of the greatest of all oauses, that of tho Sabbath sohool. With suoh specialists as those named tho work of the convention must necessarily be both instructive and interesting. Wo fool freo to say that the Sabbath schools have never before had such opportunity for en largement and improvement ns will then bo offered, and it is to be hoped that the consecrated men aud wo men in all parts of South Carolina, now engaged in this most useful arm of ohuroh work, will seizo the occas ion in order that great and perma nent benefit may J derived there from, in renewed c Jn) and greater efficiency to the individual sohool. Tho programme, whioh will be pub lished later, will cover every phase of Sunday school work ; the ad dresses will be helpful and all parts of tho servioes will bo spiritual and devotional. "Tho Sunday sohool workers of South Carolina owe it to those who will be our distinguished guests, as well as to themselves, and to the youth of our beloved Commonwealth, to make this the most successful con vention year in tho history of the organization. Tho good peoplo of Newberry, ever ready in their hospi tality, will Welcome to their happy homes all those who shall come. Wo invite every Sunday school in the State to tako this matter up at once, to tho end that proper repre sentation may be had."-Newberry Observer. Suoh little, pills as Dewitt's Little Early Risors aro very easily taken, and they aro wonderfully effective in cleans ing tho liver and bowels. J. W. Boll. It looks as if smallpox was becom ing a national disease. It prevails more or less in three-fourths of tho States. In New York thoro is enough of it to bring about a mill ion vaccinations. In some counties in Kontucky ti <re are many afflicted with it. Out West it has sproad rapidly and seems moro fatal than in tho East. For eighteen months it has boen amongst the Indians of Arizona and many of thom have died. Tho wood-cuttors have boon stnmpccded from the lumber camps of Northern Minnesota and in Michi gan it prevails in many counties. Tho contraot for tho construction of tho first of tho largo buildings of the South Carolina Interstate and Wost Indian Exposition, in Charles ton, has beon awarded to MoCarrell Sc Sloan, of that city for $14,060. The structura will contain 14,000 feet of space. In it will bo looated tho offices of the exposition com pany, and it will bo known ns tho administration building. Tho con tractors will bogin work at once. Killed a Negro. Selma, Ala., January 10.-llryan Craig, conductor of the ?Southern railway, shot and killed Bryan An drews, ? negro. The shooting took place on a streot our and was the result of Andrews knooking Craig's hat off during tho streot fair. --m?? A dispatch from Vienna, January 10th, says that the Turks havo mas snored 62 Greek Christians, at Sa l?nica. The bodies ot tho victims wero ohopped to pieces and thrown into a woll. South's Duty to Dcmocruoy> ? Whether there shall or shall not be a reorganization of the Democratic party and a return to ita old princi pios ard traditional polioles depends, in my opinion, almost entirely upon the aotion of the Democrats in the South. Of the 166 electoral votes secured at the recent election for the candidates nominated by the three allied politioal partied only thirteen were chosen outside of the Southern States, and those thirteen were chosen in only four States by popular majorities aggregating less than fifty thousand. The Southern people have thus separated themselves from the great body of their friends in the North and West and attached themselves to the mining States of Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Nevada, four comparatively small Statos, whioh havo, or tbink they have, a special intorost in tbe free coinage of silver and the other Populistio poli cies promulgated for the first time in a national convention at Chioago in.1896. On all these questions the true in terests of the South are identical with the interests of the great indus trial and commercial States, whose votes have been cast on the othor sido, and whioh will continue to be cast tho same way as long as tho samo questions are agitated. Suroly, tho two overwhelming de feats sustained by the party since its new doparturo at Chioago in 1890, out to be sufficient to convince the most obstinate mind that further offorts in that direotion will be use less, and that the party must either retruco its steps or cease to bo con sidered a formidable power in na tional politics. There aro other questions demand ing immediate consideration, and if wo can bury the dead issues, and unite upon the living ones, the ulti mate success of the party will be assured. So far as I know or be lieve, the Democrats who refuse to abandon the principles of tho old party and join the combination made in 189? will not expect or want the ofiioo. All they ask is that tho ques tions actually decided by the votes of tho people at two national eleo tions shall be considered as perma nently settled, and shall no longer be made tests of party allegiance.-Re view of Hon. John G. Carlisle in St. Louis Republic. --???? Give the Rank and File a Chance. Among the important questions that will come up before the present session of tho Legislature is thc Behool question. Superintendent McMahon in his report hos asked that an appropriation of $200,000 bc made for tho public schools. He suggests that thc improvement most needed in our educational system ii the improvement in the country schools of the State. The' town? have their graded schools, tho dense ly populated rural communities have their school districts with speoia school taxes, but tho distrhts fa: from town and sparsely populates havo mado little improvement ii their educational system. Wo be hove that the timo has come for i complete ohange in our system iron top to bottom. We do not meai til nt tho system should bo re verset and tbo bottom put on top, but wi boliove thoro should be no bottom and that tho whole system should bi symmetrical and complete. Less at tent ion should not ho paid to highe education, but more attention shouh bo paid to tho ?ducation of tho boy and girls who nover seo within tin walls of a college. Tho timo is ripe for a change, radical change. Tho exigencies o the incoming century demand thn Bomo great forward movement b mado in our educational mattere Tho country nt largo is prosporou and our State is sharing in tho prof pority. Business lifo 1s tho all nt so rbi n g lite and to make a success o business well equipped minds ar best fittod. Never boforo in th world's history has so muoh bee expected of tho individual, and fe ono to mensuro up to the times th Stato must pr?vido a liberal systei of education. The country boys and girls aro th bulwarks of our civilization. The aro tho most stalwart, tho most mon and tho most useful of all the boj and girls of the land, nnd for th Stnto to refuse to hear their ory, t fail to hoed their call, is a shame an a crime. Improve tho conn ti schools, re-arrange the system, gh the rank and file a chance and thei v/ill be raised in our midst a oitizor shin educated, cnoblod and glorifie -Greenwood Index. Wo look so far for happiness it is oft hard to got baok homo and find it. liSH PROCEEDINGS. BY ROBT. A. THOMPSON. Columbia, January 8.--Editors Courier t The General Assembly con vened to-uay. Stevenson, of Ches terfield county, waa eleoted Speaker by a largo majority ovar Prlnoe, of Anderson, and Weston, of Columbia. Mr. Hamer, of Marlboro, was re elected Clerk ; Mr.. Wilson, pi Lan caster, Sergoant-at-Arras, and Mr. Withers Reading Clerk. There were .three "ball o ta" for S orge ant-at-Arma. The HouBe adjourned without completing its organisation. Much time was consumed in swearing in the members. The Senate organized early. Nearly all of the old officers were re-elected. Lieutenant Governor Tillman will not preside over the Senate until he is inaugurated. The inauguration of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor-eleot will take place next week. The speech of Speaker Stevenson on taking the ohair was brief and pointed. There is much speculation in the press and lobby as to what will be done. Tho dispensary, enlarged ap propriations for free schools, aid to the Charleston Exposition, pensions, etc., will olaim attention. The decision of the Supreme Court adverse to special legislation is far? reaohing in its effects, and the oura tive remedy is yet in tho womb of the future. The terms of Cirouit Judges Gary and Townsend are about to expire The impression prevails that they will suooeed themselves. Ooo of the most interesting eleo lions is that for State Librarian. By oommon consent this position will be filled by a lady as usual. There are quite a number of candidates-somo advanced in years, and some in the bloom of youth. Altogether this is an interesting spectacle. The candi dates are modest, leaving to their male friends the real work of the oampaign. * # * January 0.-This is the second day of tho session. The organization of the House was completed and some business transacted. A bill was introduced appropriat ing $50,000 to the Charleston and West Indian Exposition, at Charles ton. Tho first reading of the bill took place, and the measure was re ferred to the appropriate committee. An inquiry was instituted to as certain the whereabouts of some forty-one thousand dollar bonds en dorsed by the State before the war. The intorost is larger now than the prinoipal. The objeot of the inquiry is to saddle the paymont of these bonds on tho taxpayers of the State. The Governor's message was read. His Excellency presents the affairs of the State in a plain manner. This excellent State paper will be read by your subscribers with much in torost and profit. The Governor's recommendations, in most instances, will meet with hearty approval. The recommendations requiring the ex penditure of monoy may not meet with universal approval. In the Senate Mr. Sheppard, of Edgefield, has introduced a bill to reapportion representation of the various counties in the State. Your readers will be gratified to learn that this apportionment gives to Oconee three Representatives in the House, instead of two. We make this gain by increase of population. A num ber of tho counties lose one or moro Representatives, as tho whole num ber cannot exceed 124 under the Constitution of 1805. STATK OP OHIO, CITY OF TOI.KDO, I LUCAS COUNTY, J ' Frank J. Chonoy makes oath that ho 1B tho senior partner of tho firm of F. J. Chonoy & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and Stato aforosaid, and that said firm will pay tho sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and ovory oa80 of Catarrh that cannot bo ourod by tho uso of Hall's Catarrh Curo. FKANK J. CHUNKY. Sworn to bofore mo and subnorlbod in roy presonco, this 0th day of Deoombor, A. D. 1880. ( % A. W. O1.KA8ON, \ SKAT. > ' -~ ' Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Curo ls takon internally and nota direotly on tho blood and mu cous surfaces of tho systom. Sond for testimoni?is, froo. F. J. CID?NKY A CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75o. Hall's Family Tills are tho best. Kidnapping In Atlanta. Tho Atlanta Nows last Thursday afternoon published a letter from Prof. Thompson, of the Technologi cal school, of that oity, in whioh no states that Bass Frazer, who was re ported "kidnapped," was doteoted cheating in ol nos and confessed. This apparently is the solution of tho kidnapping mystory. Prof. Thompson says Frazer confessed that ho cheated beoause hp wanted to be expelled from school. Reapportionment Bill Passai the House. By a vote of 166 to 102 the Na tional House of Representatives has aceeptod tho reapportionment plan proposed by the Burleigh bill which inoreases the membership of tho Houso during the next decade from 857, the present membership and tho membership proposed by the oom* aiitteo or Hopkins bill, to 886. The /esult was largely brought about by tho influence of oertaic Senators from several of tho larger Northorn States who threw tho weight of their in fi uenoo in the soale ia favor of the larger membership. When it became apparont that these faotore were at work against his bill Mr. Hopkins attempted to compromise by giving an additional Representative each to North Dakota, Colorado and Florida, but his adversaries refused to com promise after completo victory was assured. The Crumpaoker proposi tion to recommit the bill for the pur pose of ascertaining what States abridged the right to vote to an ex tent whioh would entail reduced rep resentation, was defeated 180 to 110. There was no roll oall on the vote, but a number of Republicans voted with the Democrats. Under the bill as - passed no State loses a Representative and the fol lowing make gains: Illinois, New York and Texas, three eaoh ; Minne sota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, two eaoh ; Arkansas, California, Col orado, Conneotiout, Florida, Louisi ana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin, one each. The bill provides that whenever a new State is admitted the Repre sentatives assigned to it shall be in addition to the number provided in the bill. It also adds a provision, never hitherto incorporated in a re apportionment bill, to the effect that Congressional Districts, in addition .o being "contiguous" shall also bo 'compact." States whioh are al owed additional Representatives by he bill shall, by its terms, eleot ;hem at large until the Legislature mall redistrict the S tato. Tea Industry In South Carolina. The successful experiments of United States Commissioner of Ag 'iculture Lo Duo, followed by the successful planting and manufacture >f tea at the Pinehurst Farms, Sura nerville, S. C., has attraotod North an capitalists, who will go into the iusiness on a large soale and who ixpeot to raise 800,000 pounds an nually for the American market. 3ol. A. C. Tyler and Major R. D. Trimble, of New London, Conn, ind the Baron J. A. Von Brunig, ormerly of tho'Gorman legation at Washington, aro the leaders of the mterpriso and have already bought 1,000 acres .of pine land along the ino of the Charleston and Savannah ail road, 15 milos from Charleston Messrs. Tyler and Trimble were in samp at Summerville during the war vith Spain and saw the success of ea oulture at Pinehurst. Major Trimble, will, it is said, bo the activo mad of the company. It is said hat Dr. Sheppard has had this year wice as many orders for tea as he sould fill. Charleston Gets the Naval Station. A dispatch from Washington an lounces that tho Rogers Naval Board has reported to Seorotary Long in favor of removing the dry look and naval station at Port [loyal to Charleston. The dcoision >f the board is final, and Charleston s to got this splendid enterprise vhich involves the expenditure ibout $2,000,000. of Pain back of your eyes? Heavy pressure in your head? And are ?ou sometimes faint and dizzy? a your tongue coated? Bad taste in your mouth? And does your food distress you? Are you nervous and irritable? Do you often have the blues? And are you troubled about sleeping? Then yourliver ls .ll wrong. But there ls a cure. 'Tis They ?ct directly on the liver. They cure constipation, bilious ness, sick headache, nausea, and dyspepsia. For CO years they have been the Standard Family Pills. ' - Prk? 25 c?nti. All Dreglttt*. "I have token Ayer'* rills regularly for Six month-. They have eurea me of a BO vero headaohe, and I caa now wu iii from tvr? to four mlle? without totting tired Or Outof breath, some th lng I tia ro not been able to do for ninny year?." LS. fe. WAI.WOBK, Joly IS, 1809. ?alom, Maua Redj?trlclln'g th? State. Unless the South parolina delega tion ha^ve a great deal , more influonoo in Colombia than they have in Washington, the Stale will certainly be redistricted before another elec tion cornea round. Hut this is the question : Can members of Coogross apd their politioal supporters pre vent this much-needed work? Wo| shall see. Now, since it is settled that the | representation of the State will re main the same, there is no exouae to postpone the matter any longer ; a bill, or bills-for there will probably bo soveral-should be introduced at onoe, that thero may be plenty of timo to divido .up tho State in the most advantageous way. It can be taken for granted that it will take a lot of hard work to get any redistricting bill through tho House and Senate, for the reason that there aro so many conflicting ,politioal interests involved, and it will bo impossible for them to agree. Tho matter will simply have to be | fought out by persistent and continu ous effort on the part of members j who are more interested in the real welfare of the State than in tho schemes of aspiring politicians ; and it is hoped that such Members form a majority of the House and Senate, too. Besido tho time that can bel oredited to dilatory and filibustering taotios in order to prevent any ohange in the districts, some time ought to be allowed for a full discussion of the matter on its merits, as in a matter that concerns every seotion of the State there will necessarily be wide differences of opinion oven among members whose only desire is to do the best for the State at large, and who have no schemes to put through and no friends to serve in the redis tricting. A redistricting bill should bo in troduced at once ; either the old Pat ton bill-whioh is about as good as can be devised-or some other.. To delay the matter is to seouro its de feat amid the haste and confusion of I the dosing days of the session. Qroenville News. CONG?MPTION . y> Race Trouble in Indiana. The sequel to an attempt made by ' a mob of white men to drive from Newburgh, Warrick county, Indiana, a negro whose wife is alleged to be a white woman, may be an attempt to lynch the negro, says a dispatch of last Thursday. The negro moved into the village a few days ago. The report that his wife was a I white woman aroused indignation, and he was ordered to leave. He re fused to obey the order, and a crowd of thirty or forty whites went to his house and commanded him to come out. The negro fired at the whites and the shooting became general. Sixty shots were fired, but nobody was wounded. The mob finally re tired. Tho Sheriff of Warriok county came to the scone of the trouble and unsuccessfully urgod the negro to leave, the latter dedaring he would stay in his house. Five Killed In Collision. Morgantown, W. Va., January 8. -A head-end collision at Anderson, on the Baltimore and Ohio, this morning, resulted in the death of five men, William Bowman, John Devonny, Mike Dinton and Frank King, all trainmen, and an unknown tramp. Two others were badly injured. A misunderstanding of orders was! the cause of the acoidont. The freight met a light engine, both running at high speed, on a trestle. The wreok tore up the traok and broko down the trestle. More Fighting In South Africa. Williamstadt, Island of Curacoa, I January 10.-Details have readied here of an inoident that may oauso complications between Colombia and Venezuela. Under the eyes of the Venezuelan authorities on Deocmbor 14 a troop j of 2,000 men, composed of Venezue lans and revolutionary Colombians, invaded the territory of Colombia I and attempted an attaok on tho town of Cuouta. The invaders were well armed and had two oannon. They wero routed by the Colombian troops ; 160 were killed, 800 wounded and 250 prison ers wore taken by the government | party, including 62 women. ? ??.??. W. D. Douglass has retired from the editorship of the Winnsboro Herald and J. F. Foosho has taken control, Twenly-Elflht Orphans Peri$hod In Big f\t*, Roohestor, N. Y, ' January 8. Twenty-eight (load bodies Ho at thc morf ". and twelve others; mote o? lop rioualy injured, lt? at the dtf t hospitals in tho olty to-night as ino result of the terrible holocaust wbioh ocourred early this morning at the Rochester orphan asylum; Of the dead twenty-six Were child ron of both Boxes, ranging from two to* fourteen yearn, while the remaining , two were adults. - Tho iiro, which was diaoovered about 1.10 a. m., and was doubt!caa oauaod by an exp?o* sion of natural gas in tho boiler room, adjoining the weat wing of the asylum, apread so rapidly that many of tho 100 inmates of the institution wore overcome by tho flames and smoke almost without warning. Of all the fatal fires in Roohoster? none oan be found which can equal thia one in its general horror ; in the/ pathotio soenea in which so many HVCH were blotted out ; in the gal? lant sacrifico of HVCB of the attend ants in whoso euro the children were? and in the sad scenes at the hospitals' and morgues. That so many children were saved from the west wing of ; the building aeoms little ?hort of miraculous, and when tho ruinB were visited to-day one marvelled that the death roll was not even larger. The soene fol lowing almost immediately upon- the discovery of the fire and the accom panying explosion, was one which turned the stoutest hearts sick. The windows of the west wing were filled with the terrified faoea of the tiny waifs. Working like men pos sessed, tho firemen struggled to release them from their perilous posi tion. The rooms of the dormitory were filled with the smoke of the fire, and the little ones were hoing slowly suffooated. Most of those rescued , were lowered to the ground by means of ladders from the aecond and third storiea. The ambulances from every hos pital in the oity reached the soene almost as soon as the fire d?part mont, but tbey proved totally inade quate in providing for those resoued. Many sufferers and the dea*d were removed to the houses in tho imme diate neighborhood. There were awful soones around the asylum at this time. Most of those resoued from the building were unconscious from the effects of smoke. It soon became apparent that the building was doomed. A general alarm was Bent in and the entire fire depart ment was soon on the Boone. The fire waa atubbornly fought from every available point, but it was over an hour after its diacovory beforo it was under control. The rnoBt soothing, healing sud anti septic application over devised is De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. It roliovoa at once and cures piles, soros, oozonm and skin disoascs. Beware of imitations. J. W. Bell. What the Negro Has Cost Us. The following ia taken from a copy of The Keoweo Courier, published Soptomber 8, 1864, and it will no doubt bo read with interest by many : Somo of tho Northern papers are getting tired of the war being waged for "nigger freedom." The New York Herald oven relieves itself of the following on the aubjeot : This war to free the niggers has raged relentlessly for three years, and what ia the result ? There were at the commencement four millions of niggors in slavery. It is estimated that tho war haa made one million free. But even all of this million have not been able to stand the ordeal of their pass ago from slavery to freedom. Two or three hundred thouaand have perished meanwhile by famine, disease and bullets. But say in round numbera, one quarter of the niggers have been made free, what has it cost us as friends of humanity, to free this million? North and South together have paid well for it ; for in tho armies of both sections thovo have been killed or disabled, or have died, not less than one million of whito men-a fair balance, man for man. A white man dies for every nigger that is made free. But this is not all.. The dobts of both sections make up the sum of fivo thousand millions of dollars. Thus, for every nigger that has been made free, in obedienoo to tho clam ors of tho friends of humanity, the whole country has given five thous and dollars and thc life of ono white man. At thia rate what will be left of us when wo have mado free the whole four millions ? Will it not be like tho Kilkenny oat fight ? Will there bo any more left than tho tails? -. Abram S. Howitt says the rich have not done their duty. He holds on to his own, howevor,