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Theso thrco companies were consolidated into One company, with a fenuge, to suit the Virginia Midland Railroad, of four feet eight and a half inches, and this is the bompany under whose management the Virginia Midland is to bo extended through North Carolina and South Carolina to connect with the Vailroad system further South. Carolina as to the advantages of their respective localities, each of the delegations being anxious | to have the road extended through their section, and offering material aid in the construction of Ihe road. The board decided to commence the work of construction nt once. Col. J. B. Yates was elected chief engineer. Soveral surreys hare been authorised on the proposed routes in North and South Carolina, the terminal points being'loft open. The Virginia Midland is expected to contribute to the construction of that portion of thclinain Virginia, and the president is authorised to commence the work of construction at once between the Virginia line and Mocksrille, N. C. It is expected that work will begin nt once nt the points most difficult of construction and requiring the largest time to complete. The action of the board was harmonious in every respect, and they undertake the enteprisc with the determination to push it to successful completion without delay. The delegations from a distance have all left groatly encouraged with the bright prospect of the extension of this important line South. The people here and on points of the line located are enthusiastic over Securing the road through their sections, and now havo increased faith in its early completion. AVhcn completed this road will constitute the , most direct and important all-rail line front North to South, and will be a first-class road , with^ steel rail track and iron bridges. The Hon. J. S. Harbour, president of the road, and liis party, leavo here to-morrow en roult for Augusta and other points upon the projected line. ? Cor. News and Courier. I , ? I A Mnrir riiT?* **? ?? * ? ...wv? 1.1 v/UAUk.i iniil. V/UO OTCUlUg j last week our community was startled by the , intelligence that a duel had beeu fought withia | the very limits of the town. Upon inquiry it at their oxpense, persuaded the latter to send a challenge to the other for mortal combat. The challenge was accepted, these two young gentlemen managing to insinuate themselves in the position of seconds. All preliminaries having "been arranged, the balls were extracted from wome pistol cartridges and blackened cork substituted ; with these the pistols wero loaded.? The appointed lime brought all parties on the field of combat. At the word "fire," one pistol went off, doing no damage of course; Mr. 'Plowors's snapped. After some consultation the ^eeonds decided that Mr. F. should have a sec onJ shot. Whereupon he raised the pistol ( above his head, with tho magnanimity of n truly 'braVe man, txhd with the words "horo goes" ( hgaih Snapped his pistol. The question was ( 'then put to each, "Are you satisfied ?" This ( 'having been answered iu the affirmative, one of the seconds gavo tbe somewhat arbitrary order : 1 "Advance half-way and shake hands." Impli'cit obedicnco was rendered, the whole affair 'was extremely farcical. Mr. Allsbrooks knew it 'was only a joke, but Mir. Flowers did not sua pect the fact. Upon returning to town the whole party was badly frightened by a roport that the trial justice intended to arrest them.? 1 flomo of the young gentlemen look pale-yet-, but t?hey are recovoring. ? Clhrention Rnterprtic. -? A Prospkuou* E.NTKuraisie.?The President j of the Graniteville. S. fi.. Cottnn M?niif?rfn?iii? Company submitted a report at the annual meet- i ' ing Friday last, which must prore not only I gratifying to the atockholders, but to all who I hare at heart the success of manufacturing en* i terprises in the South. The Qraniterillo and 1 Vauoluse factories are under tho management of 1 4he Oreniterille Cotton Manufacturing Company, with an aggregate of 34,004 spindles and 88G looms. The product of goods for the year ended first of Mareh last was, in pounds, 4,600,668, and la yards 16,303,660, in whioh 12,383 boles of cotton, averaging 450 pounds to the bale, rere consumed. The profits were $187,105, iffy* iirf expenses, including insurance, taxes, schools., churches, interest, &c., $46,883, learning a not^roht of nearly $01,000, being a net i?aMhag of swtr 16 per eent. on the entire eapiiUl stock. Qt/tol*, $48,000, or 8 per eent., was <patd in dividends, and the balance, $13,000, carried to tho surplus fund, which uow aggregates $168,543. The less of running timednr ing the entire jaar was only tea days end this was on aeeouni of low wiAer, Tbe requisite machinery has been thbrodueed |? the Van class mill for making and painting four sacks And otherkiud of bege, out ofelotk w a tj.u tortured in the mill, end the Preaidest cap e ?tU* ?ip?ri' event bee proved ? complete euoeecc, giving i good proaieo of becoming ? valuable aouree of profit, end en import cut mar Wet for the consumption of a Urge portion of the production 0/ the m*h . 1 ?e*aa, by a vote of fifty-four to thirty* ouo in her legislature, has deelared ag.iinst the importation or manufacture of alcoholic drinks in that State, cxcopt boer and trine. ? ??> "Papa, how do editors get in free at all the shows?'' "Well, *>007, as a general rvlc, they giro five dollars worth of adver* living for a Ifen*; fire pent field." Prohibition in North Carolina.?Raleigh, N. C. April 27.?The Prohibitionist Convention met fit Tucker Hall at 8.30 P. M. to-day. About 450 delegates were present, representing every county in the State. The personnel of this body is notable. Among tho members, besides many distinguished clergymen, are many prominent politicians and public men of both political partics and both races. The officers of the Convention are chosen from both races. Mnjor J. C. Mcltne, of Fayettevillo, is president, and there are twenty-five vice-presidents. Many cnthusiastio speeches were made by both white and colored delegates. Kx Senator Mcrrimon will speak to-morrow. At a mass meeting held (o-night the hall was densely packed. The convention has appointed a State oommittee to arrange for tho appointlively and aggressive. The convention will probably adjourn to-morrow evening and the campaign work be begun. A popular vote on the prohibition question will be taken on the first Monday in August. A Traveled Letter.?Some weeks ago a letter was mailed at Winnsboro, addressed to Mrs' J. 11. Palmer, London, with the direction that if not delivered in ten days it should be returned to Colonel Rion at this place. On reaching London the letter was forwarded, as requested i.,, \r_. i>.i i. ?!?i. ? . ? i uuuci, iu uinrruz ana mence to liayonnc via Paris and Calais. At Bnyonno tlie letter remained Tor ten days, and wnB thence returned to Winnsboro, via London and New York. The 8afo return of the letter, after passing through so many hands, is an evidence of the perfection of our national postal system.? Winntboro Herald. MORAL HEW ENOLAND. The recent debate in tbe Scnato of the United States has been a terrible exposure of the boasted laud of moral ideas and free suffrage. In Massachusetts there are 139,000 udult males disfranchised on account of illiteracy, failure to pay taxes, pauperism and crimes ! There are, in tho prisons of Massachusetts 4,550 convicts for every variety of crime?adultery 45 males nud 18 females; drunkenness, 650 males aud 241 females; idlo and disorderly conduct 75 uialcs and 100 females; larceny, 853 males and 76 females; robbery, 123 males and 2 females; vagranoy, 205 mules and 5 females; arson, 35 tnalos and 3 females; murder, 21 males and 3 females; rape 16 ; forgery, 47 males; and some of every other crime known to tho law. South Cnroliua has near enough the same population as Connecticut for comparison, wimes J lju tnnt'Of \MHnecticut whites 610,884; colored 11,428,) and has ouly 1,413 tunics over twenty-one years who are uot voters by law, while Conuccticut has 22,916 who are not voters ! And yot Northern Senators are talking about a free ballot and a fair count. In llhode Island about one-half of the adult males aro disfranchised on account of foreign birth, want of property, illiteracy and other causes! In all of the Southern States thcro arc few adult males who aro njt entitled to vote ; whilst in all of tho Northern States there aro from 20,000 to 139,000 in each State disfranchised citizens ovor twenty-one yoars old ! Not one-half of the voters in South Carolina would be allowed to vote in the Northern Slates! And yet their Senators are traduciug and abusing the Southern States for not having a free ballot and a fair count! They aro slaudering the South too, on account of the crimes and outrages committed hern, whilst they havo iu their own States three times as many criminals as we have ! There is another beautiful specimen of frco ballot and fuir count in th? Iti-nnKlinor. States, by means of gerrymandering their election districts. In the city of Philadelphia it is arranged so that it takes 75,000 Democrats to elect one member of Congress, and 94,000 Republicans are allowed to elect four mombers of Congress. In the whole State of Pennsylvania 407,428 Democrats are represented in Congress by eight members, aud 444,704 llopublicans are represented by ninctocn members. In Connecticut Democratic towns with a population of 30,000 inhabitants elect two members of the Legislature and Republican towns with 1,000 inhabitants elect also two members of the Legislature 1 This is nil fair with tho Republicans, and is "a free ballot and a fair count 1" Nothing can bo moro disgraceful in politics than th? frunitnlnnt ntwl r. .wmh.vuw uuva V?/l upb Uttl ? gain made by the Republicans in the Senate with the renegade -Democrat Mahone. It is to bo hoped that Senator Butler will prove to tbo American peoplo this corrupt bargain, as he bus pledged himself to do. The Republican party bavo professed to be horrified at the repudiation of public debts, and yet they have sold out the officos of the United States Senate to a repudiationist, a rebel brigadier, and a renegade Democrat, to make Virginia repudiate her public debt, and elect a Republican Seuator ! Will the peoplo of the United States tolerate such barefaced corruption and fraud in their Senator*? And will they continue to support the Republican party '( It is to bo hoped not, by every honest, reflecting man. And it is also to be hoped that "tho dead lock" in the Senate may continue till Doccmber, rather than deliver, as a Senator said, "the stolen goods" bargained for by Mahone.? B. F. Pilar.?fn OreeitviUe Newt. . - < Good in iti Plaor.?Whiskey is good in its own place. There is nothing in the world like whiskey for preserving a man when he is dead. But it is one of the woret things in the world for preserving a man when he is living. If you want to keep dead man put him in whiskey. If you want tq kill a living man, put whiskey into bin. REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS CAUGHT STEAL4*3 $34,000 A TEAS. > Washington, April 21.?A caso that illustrates the boldness ot the fraud systc$iati? cally practiced during lite pust four yetra in the management of the star postal route is furnished by tho route known as No. 10,104, and running from Mineral Park, Aritnna, to Piocho, Nevada, a distance of 232 miles. This route was let on July 1, 1878, to Miner, Peck & Co. at $2,900 per annum for a | weekly service. In August or September, 1878, the route was sub-let by the contractors to Isaac Jennings, ot St. Thomas, Lincoln County, Nevada, at $4,700 per annum, or $1,800 nioro than tho contract prico. S->on after receiving tho sub contract 1 Jennings was requested to get up a petition for tri-weekly service, but refused to do so on the ground that the proposed increase T115 rciuSUly now6fIVJ lu vH# A^riMAliMMI to secure increased service-, he was surprised to receive from Washington a sub-contract calling for tri weekly trips, and raising the ?? ?ia con "" t>uj M viw,wu JH.T annum, inis is explained by tbo fact that in April, 1879, the original contractors, through their influence with the postofficc department, secured an increase to tri-wcekly service, and hud the pay raised to $22,300 per annum. Thus it will be noticed that Jeunings, who was performing the service, received of this increase only $12,000, leaving $9,700 to bo divided among the principals. lu July, 1879, or about three months after the first increase was made, the service was still furthor increased without any solicitation from Jennings, and without his knowledge, to seven trips per week, and the yearly pay was raised at the same time to $52,000. When this last increase wa9 made Jennings was ordered to put on daily service, at the rnto of $28,000 per annum, thns leaving $24,000 per annum to bo divided among the principals, llefliro the route was increased to daily service the contract was transferred from Miner, Pock & Co to J. W. Dorsey. When the change was made Jennings was not iuformcd of tho fact that the department, in additiou to directing increased trips, hud also expedited the servico. About throe months after the transfer to Dorsey Jennings was informed by M. C. It i rwl nl I # hot = I ivuv.I vnav viiu BUIIVUUIt) IIU1U I1BU DCCQ uhortencd to sixty hoars, llicd :I1 was the clerk and agent of Dorsey, and in order the more effectually to carry out the frau dent purposes of the Ring, Dorsey made a contract with Riedell at the full contract price named above and filed this agreement at the department. After making the nominal Otintract with Riedell, Dorsey made on actual contract with Jenniugs for both tri weekly aud daily servico, specifying that ho should bo paid $12,600 for the tri-weckly nod $2$,v j 000 for the daily service, which was $9,500 per auauut below the sum fixed by the department for the tri?woekly service, aud $24,000 below that fixed for the daily service. Jennings acted in perfect good faith, and was ignorant of the transactions betwocn Dorsey and his clerk. The agreement made between Dorsey and Jennings was forwarded by the latter to Representative Daggett, of Nevada, with the request that it be filed with the postoffice department. Mr. Daggett, immediately upon receipt of the agreement, left it with J. L. French, chief clerk of the contract office, tequesting him to place it on file. For the service of the first quarter uuu?i kmc ui-nccMj vuuimut o en mugs received his full pay according to the terms of his contract. At tho expiration of the next quarter, however, ho not only failed to receive the pay due, but ho received notice from the department that fines had beep imposed for tailure to perforin service, and that insoad of the government owing him $7,000, he was debtor to the Government by reason of tho fines imposed in the sum of $700. These fines, it seems, were imposed bccauso of Jenuing's failure to perform tho service on tho expedited schedule, of which he had no notice until iuformed by llicdell, as above explained. Not comprehending this method of doing business, and being startled by the largo pecuniary loss which threatened him, Jennings at once proceeded to Washington. Beforo leaving the West ho obtained a number of signa> turcs to a protest against tho frequency and expedition of tho service ordered by the department. There was no necessity whatever for this increase, as tho routo was through a wilderness, and the number of letters carried over it at any time did not average three per week. Arriving at Washington, Riedell ascertained that Jennings intended to file this protest with the department, and, in order to prevent such damaging testimony boing made part of tho public records, ho gave Jenniugs $3,609 uot to place tho protest on file. In the meantime, however, Kiedell received from tho Government full pay, less tho penalties, all of whioh were charged to Jenuings. For the two following quarters Jonnings was paid only $330, his principal claiming that the balance was consumed by fines. Jennings having been thus exhausted, tho routo was told by the ownors to Saulsbury, Gilmorc& Co. Jennings remained in Washington with tho expectation that he would oblaiQ justice from the postal authorities, not supposing, of oourse, that tllA vpr* rwMpna fwim !.? J J .1VUI ifUVUl ICO OAjnJUlUU protection and redress wero parties to the practices by whioli he had boen defrauded, lie had no rights whatever wbioh the postoffice were bound to respeot, for the reason that he Was udknown to them, his agreement nevor having been placed on the files of the . department. The contract between Jennings and Riedell, wbioh Mr. Daggett left with Chief Clerk French, Was not plaoed on the files of the department until Maroh, 1881, and then only upon the peremptory demsnd of Mr. Daggett and the t*o senators from Nevada, whom he made acquainted with the injdstlee done him?N. Y. Timet. UUAHO, CORN AND COTTON. Mcstft.- Akhtora :?The questio i, "Docs it pay to use guano, and to raise cotton to the exclusion yf other farm products," has been discussed, lor a loog tiuic, and no definite conclusion has been reached. 1 do not propose to go into detail and discuss the above fully, lor it would take up too much of your spuco. I will only give you a few geuoral remarks on it. Our farmers from \car to year arc using More and more guano, and raising more cutton and less corn, wheat &c., making it upfear that guano docs pay, but I aui by uo taeaus convinced of this fact. More cotton, if the seasons arc good, /ill bo made this jear than has ever been uiade before. Every laborer and every horse is busy and tho^o is a demand for uioro. Our farmers teem to be of the opinion that guauo is ,manHfcptured so'oly for cotton, and they Col. It. E. Mason, our boss guano agent, informs us that be has sold at Westminster, up 10 ine in? instant, one huudrcd and seventy five tons of guano, and that the other agents there buve sold at loust two hundred and thirty tons. Scncca City sells more guano by several hundred tons than Westminster. Taking tho above as a basis, 1 do not think that I make an over estimate", .vhen I state that two thousand aud five huudrcd tons will be sold iu Oconee for '81. It will require two thousand and five hundred bales of cottou, averaging four haudrcd and fifty pouuis, at ten cents per pound, to settle that little guuuo accouut, which foots up the nice little sum of one bundled and twelve thousand fivo huudred dollars. This amount of indebtedness rests upon tho shoulders of our farmers before they put their seed iuto the ground. They begin each year's journey loaded down with a houvy debt, and it is increased at every turn. liaising corn and wheat for sale, or even home cousumptiou, is numbered with the things of the past. Naturally, we have to buy all of our supplies. Our coru and wheat come from the West and Northwest, and so does our bacon, our plows, hoes, and in fact everything that wo use have to be imported. Iu the* full our guano money goes to Charleston, Richmond, aud other places, nudktho rest of our money falls glimmering to tho faco of the earth, to pay for our other wauts. Like the ghost in Hamlet j uTis here"?""f is hero"?"'Tis gone," and we find ourselves left high and dry, ready to go into debt for tho same commodities and to como out at tho cud of the following year still worse off. Corn, whc it, oats, and a part of our bacon, if not all, must be raised at home, if wo desire to make fnrmin{ ^ro&taUa. There is do man under the *uu that can make money by farming; and pay the heavy perocutngc consequent upon the purchasing of his supplies. The coru that we buy comes from the West and Northwest whore it is worth about twentyfive cents per bushel, first cost, and to-day, in Oconee the same corn is brought hero and sold tor from one dollar ten to ono dollar and twenty-five ceuts per bushel, making a profit ou first cost of about four hundrci^ per cent. The merchant, too, must havq his turn price, and to save himself from losii must add on to his regular cash price, about thirty percent., if uot more, and such is the1 case with everything that we have to buy on time. With cotton at nine or ten cents, and :ul tho face of the above, I do not see bow we oan contend that it pays to use guano, to ruiso cotton exclusively j that we may pay from seventy five to two hundred per cent -ii l " uu an we purcnasc. Some tanners tell mo that they are in debt and that they are compelled to roisc cotton in order that they may pay their debts and meet their curreut expenses. Just let them look back over the past four years, and they will Gud that they have been going all the time from bad to worse. Farmers in this condition cannot immediately make a radical change and go back to tho old proGtable way of farming, but they will have to do so by degrees, and tho sooner they begin to inaugurate a reform, the better. They have become so much involved that an immediate change would ruiu them Gnancially. Thero is no two ways about it, wc are compelled to manure our lands, but can wo not do it in a cheaper and more durable way than by tho wholesalo use of a fertilizer that acts upon the soil like whiakoy on the human system. Guano stimulates and excites. as it were, the nervous system of the earth, and when its effects die out, leaves the soil debilitated. Cow lot, stable und Other manures of tho farmk last for years sud keep tho soil in a healthy eondition by supplying those clomonts that it aotually Deeds. The same amount invested in this way is equal to thrco or four times the amount invested iu guanos. If we eunnot raise corn and whoat for market it certainly would pay most handsomely to raise enough to supply the home demand. I look around and what men do I 6ud making money on their farms ?"? Why, those men that raise their supplies principally at homo. A fow years past wo shipped coru from this county?now wo import it by the car load after car load.? Enough wheat, at the same time, was raised for home consumption, now it is shipped to us in quantities. Only a short tiino since, for s merchant of this place to sell either corn or flour n?r?r? iK?n l??J 1 _W ?. y ?WW ?M?u 1 mxjj uuu IU&UU IU | in tho way of barter, was unkown ; now speculation in corn has beoome a regular and barrel after barrel of floor is d here. .. More cotton sod less corn aod wheat are being raised orcrj year, and just in proportion to the decrease are oar farmers falling baok. This a fact that cannot be contradicted. Cotton it a good thing aod the backbone of the Southern States, bat it mast be bandied properly or it will raiu us. When improperly tampered with it proses " - gqg j , at . j - . ? 1 a sure phantom to lead us on to ruin, financially. Every farmer strives to make money and tries to find the quickest way to do this. He hopes to become rich In a short time by planting eoiton exclusively, but too late' he finds it a delusion, and then the cry comes, "I am involved and must raise cotton to moot my obligations or I sink," and gradually he siuks by following this course; he floats on down the stream until he finally tumbles over a financial precipice, his credit, farm and all gone. The farmer that raises his own supplies, has fat horses nnd good stock generally, a good credit, is happy, and his bulancc at the bankers is slowly but6uroly increasing. There you find joy and peace, while in the other case you will find unrest, unhnppincss and anxiety. The experience of every day life teaches ino this. Our lots in this world depend upon individual exertion and energy, nnd we sh >uld look well boil inocdeclthat we tuny, avoid breakers, in the ocean of life. Our homes nro just what we mako thorn, and where there is debt, anxiety nnd trouble, there can be no hnrniness. Therefor* h?l n? sfi-iv* tn mnl-n our homes happy by having everything that we need about us in abundance and not depend upon the West or Northwest to supply our wants ; and last of all let us avoid debt, and we can do this by raising corn, wh <at and oats, and also bacon, instead of cotton.? Cor. Km wee Courier. Rabies.?The letter published by us some weeks ago from Mr. E. M. Quimby, of Morristown, N. J., and referring to the supposed case of rabies iu a strange dog, which ontercd his yard aud made a savage onslaught upon his setters, has attracted wide ettcntiou. We have made the disease as it is knowu in man (hydrophobia) considerable of a study, as also of the disease, its aluiost counterpart iu the different characterizations of attack?tetanus?aud shall shortly give to our readers the result of this observation and study, such us it may be. Among the many letters we have receive i upon the subject, we take the following as a sample : Richmond, Ky. Field Editor Turk, Field and Farm. ?In the issuo of your journal dated March 11, is a letter from E. M. Quimby, of Morristown, N. J., giving an account of the sad misfortunes of his uetteis; also the comments in your department upon the subjoct. In looking over some scrap-book matter I find the inclosed slip, taken, as you will see, from one of the journals of this Stute.? Thinking it might possibly be of some use I take pleasure in sending it to you. These experiences are often worthy of further trial. The plant alluded to is, I think, a variety of the one known among us as the everlasting flower. My friends, C. L. Allen and J. M. Thorburu, can, no doubt, put you in the way of obtaining it, if you should think desirable. Mr. Allen is n thorough botanical florist, residing, I think, at Garden City, L. I. The various departments of the Turfy Field and Farm aro, to my mind, thorough, although I miss sadly froui its pages the communications of its correspondent, tho lato Carl Neosou. Americvs. The clipping sent us by our correspondent n-A *- ' 1 1 Ixinoll?flnil{ ke every one who docs not buy from that they loose money. prc \re going to keep nil that the people want (jer3 , II as cheaply as the same article con be ^ jj in any foreign market. (jie WE TAKE A POSITIVE ? sure in Showing our Goods uue iiunciiuu cases 01 men Dttten by rabid dogs with tho Xanthinm Spinosum, he has never in any of these cases failed to ward off hydrophobia. lie gives some startling examples : During tho Crimean war, a family of twelve persons had been bitten by a hydrophobic wolf. Six of them entered his wards in the hospital of Oischanka, government of I'odolia. district of Balta. They were treated with infusion of the leaves of Xauthium, and all recovered. The six others, who were treated by the actual cautery and the daily use of Genista tinctoria and other drugs, died with hydrophobia in the course of twelve to sixty days. lie recounts many other facts not less striking. For an adult, the dose is sixty centigrammes of the dry powder, repeated three times a day, and continued during six weeks. Children uudcr twelve tako half that quantity. The dose for animals is much larger. A herd of thirty oxen had been bitten by a mad wolf; eight had succumbed with symptons of hydrophobia. The commissary of police came to Dr. Grzyvala for his ''antirabic powder." He gave thrco ounces of the powder, with bran, daily, to eaoh of the animals; none of them suffered from the disenso. Those are oxamplos of which, Dr. Grxyvala says, be baa a hundred others. Fiat experinter.turn. We havo hoard too often of apeoifios for hydrophobia not to regard this last claimant with sorrowful suspicion. But tho horb is, at leost, a harmless one; its ordinary properties seem to bo mainly Budorifio; and since animals suffering from rabies are only too frequently at hand, and the routcdy is ono winch grows plentifully in the middle regions of Frarce as well as Podolia, let us hope that our French oollesgaes will lose no timo in putting this prophylcutio to tho test; and perhaps tho prof.-ssors in our owa veterinary oollegos might help to set at rest tho hopes which this positivo and detailed statement is calculated to excito. Oron-on ha* hit nnnn n now - o? r? " "v" "? keep her citisons sober. Every uiao who drinks is required to take out a lioeose, $5 a-pieco. Unless ormcd with this document he oannot get bitters at any hotel or saloon, for it ia a penal offenie for the proprietor of these establishments to sell to any person without a license. Evory six months tho names of the persons who take out these licenses are to be published in the local papers, so that tho publro may know who are Iand who aro not authorised to drink. Klcctrie belles?female telegraph opera* tors sLoaunrcs nr tbs oarats. We arc told by the Senator from Ohio and other Senators that wo have groveled at the feet of the Senatir from Virginia ? Mr. President, it is uot true. I deDy it emphatically and distinctly. The Senator from Virginia said in his opening address hero at the commencement of this sessiou that he had been invited to our little tea party/ If invited, it was unofficially ; if invited, it has not by the Democratic caucus. I statd were, without divulging any secrets of tho party, that I for one, with certain other gen-* tlemcn that I see around me, persistently opposed any invitation to the Senator front Virginia, and I denounced it from the beginning; I denounced it in caucus and out of caucus. I say, if that Senator was invited to a Democratic caucus it was done by an individual and not by the official action of the caucus to which I belong. No, sir ; - ha was never invited there by tho author- > itativc action of tho Democratic caucus? never. Mr. President, wehavo witnessed remark' ablii KOt?iic<j in thin r.li-inikor tliirlilo.'ll montha ago the President of the United States declared in a speech in the State of Ohio that he would never, so help hiui God, extend his hand iu friendship across the bloody chasm to any man who had been engaged iu rebellion who ilid not openly express his rcpcntanco for it; never would he grasp in friendship the hand of any man that struck at the life of tho nation until ho publicly and openly declared his rcpcntanco for that great criuic. The Senator from Massachusetts has ru lg the changes on it here over and over again?the junior Senator. Wheu did the Scuator from Virginia repent ? The other day we saw the Senator from Virginia stand in the midst of the Hepublican Senators and in omphalic accents declare that for his part in that struggle ho had uo repentance to express, no apology to make. 1 have no apology, he said, touiake to any mau for my participation in that struggle, aud then after, this heroic declaration, he fell hack into tho amorous cmbraco of the junior Senator from Massachusetts, and they billed and cooed together while the air was heavy with the fragrance of flowers sent here from the executive conservatory to grace the wedding f.'ust. Two years ago almost I said on this floor that there was not a Confederate brigadier, rocking as they called it with loyal blood, spotted and stained with treason, that the Republican party would not take into its ciubracc if ho would only agree to vote the Radical ticket and give power to the lladienf^party. Sir, the waters of tho Jordan, ail the medicinal springs from the days of Hipocrates down to this, have not the heal' ing virtue of one single Republican ballot; it covers all sin, hides all iniquity. The chief recommendation the Senator from Virginia gives to your candidate for Sergeant-at-Aruis is that be was a full fledged traitor befor j he was eighteen years old, and commanded a company in the Confederate army. That is his chief recommendation; yet to day all is forgotten ; you take him into full fellowship and communion without any examination by churoh or session. lie is ready for the New Jerusalem, the temple not made with hands, 'eternal in the heavens/ Mr. Presidcut, whero is tho consistency of this great party thntcoutrols the Government ? Gentlemen, you have to day, by an accident, control of the organization of this Senato ; you have planted the flag of Democratie Virginia in the midst of its hereditary foes. Sir, there is a legend among the Northmen of the olden time, of a Danish king whose banner had waved in triumph over a hundred stricken fields, till a*, last ho fell in defense of it with his fierce warriors around him. His hereditary foeuien seized that battle flair and bore it off in irL uu'ph, and at night, with wine and wassail his foes celebrated their unexpected victor*. Tho wine flowed red and the song rose high around the flag that hung mournfully and sullenly in their midst. Suddenly a hush came over that band of ro.elers. In their midst stood tho form of the dead kiDg, and his spirit had seized that flag aBd tore it away from his hereditary foes forever. Sir, if the gallant living of Virginia (and she has thousands as brave as any that ever rode through shot aud shell and saber stroke) do not iu the coming full redeem this flag, deaf to me as my own honor, because in Virginia rest the ashes of my fathers?if her gallant living redeem not this flag from where it stands to day, polluted by the grasp of thoso who havo always traduced and siandorcd it, I would expect, under God, that tho awful majesty of Jefferson himself, father of the Demooratio party, would darken this lluil and with spirit-hand wouli wrest that ban-' ner from thoso who havo always hated it and give it to loving hands.?From Senator Vett's spcecA, April 12th. ?? vjsnoeance upon a m(jle.?Old Slfa9 was a very revengeful roan. Now, Kila* owned a mala, and one day flie ntule raised his hind legs and smoto Silas, wheredporr ibo old man sat upon tho barn floor and wept. Suddenly he smiled, and seising a train sack ho filled it with sand and rooks, and tied a ten (her apron around it. Then ho hung it down from t le beam right behind tho mule. A shudder passed oter the animal, but he nerved himself and let fly. Ho sent (he bag to the roof, hot the recoil struck him with surprise, not only onfco but two or three times. The rnnle Wat astonished, schockeel Ho wasn't tfscd to being kicked back. Old 8ila? toughed trntil tears ran down his erheobs. The mater -v kicked again and the hag kicked backThey kept up tho contest all day, and towards eveniug the uiulo showed . signs of weaken iog, but old 8ilna was not satisfied yet. lie wont to bed, and during the night ho hoard the mule braying for mere/, but his heart was hardened. When ho W< trt to tho stable in the morning the sand bag was as fresh as ever, but the male had laid down in despair and was dead?died of a broken heart*