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]Josporte5, Williams & Oo~f,! ProvtorsJ1 A Farnity Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature Tri'-30 e nuI d~ne VOL 1. - -~ , .WINNSBORO, SO C.4 WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEABRAY,187 FAIRFIELD IERALD B 13 s U181 WWEEKY & 0. Terms 'v..ais.., is publisl'i nWeek ly'in the Tdin'or witiiburj, at. W3.00 in varaaiy il p</4viqe -. All ,ransioat advurtisemeaM a. U pa vif advano. Obituary Notices md'Tva tes $1.00 per square. [PFoin St. Jame* Mugazine. DEPLORANDA. 'Tis truo 'tis pity, onl pity,'ti, 's tvww/ [.Shdareare. "Tis pity form froma nut , niteould Shotd broak like bis v Tis play Altatring 1Pefu o Stlonl'l. igrO to igrey. 'is 1lay that thIe rioliant s:aile4, rfhioit&rry eyes, The diashing fancy tliat, bogtrils Our tepris and sighs, Sh'ltdifl loso ii.fir lustre one anal all, Fade and depart: As years around tis darkly fall; Alas my heart 'Tis psiy 1ha tho frietils whohnow SLow for as flowers Shoultd greet. tas coldly when Ili, brow Of fortune lowers ; , TIat hearts, in yoith sincere and pure, And freeh as lny, W hettvaaity and gain- allwo Should fail away. 'Tie pity thast. lo brief should te AMe Iuda bisbe . That 1weetes joys should soonest feo; Yet, so it i 1 For a1l bright things arc swiftly goe, Ata-Melt awa4y. - Like sparkling dew before the sun; Ah ! well-a ay I Alas ! for eartlh'si llusivo joys! Alas! Aliaa! For tlos6 ivhto met i heir hearts ow toys, Andt hopes t hat. pass - Like summaaer grans Vike suntaer grass I Appalling Catastrophe. LAST IOUlts OF A '.iZOLE GE.NTLEtMAN aIEC lA.I.Y MFTSlIEs FAiTIC Ycsterday morninlg,.at 1. olook precisely, an nitfortunteyounig man, Charles8 %ugustus Pi pk in, 8ulffred the extreme penalty of infatuation by ox piating Iis attatchlent to Clara Amo ia, in front of the altar railing of St. 14uaby's Chure. 1113TORY Or TaIM CRIMINAE, All our citizens who woro presont at the pic-nic given hU Mointua, soime two yeos ago, will recOllect that Augustus was tfien introduIed'o C laira,an itm dately begnan to pazy her part.iculr attentioni. .Froi that. period their in tilacydates, and it was continued until it erlded at last in tho painful catastrophe of this morning. Poor,ipkin hal nearly aEttainea his twenty-eighth year, but there is every renson to believe that, had not extbote impcunisity- provjatied, hli. svi-gle life would earlier have cotie to an untimely end. A change. for the better, however, Occurred in his circumaandes, Mid Clara', friends wore ixdueed tt pine tion his- addressesN and thus. beame. coessorieq to-the awful calalty whbic has overthrown him in the Iey-day of hi's youth. his solitary achamber. From hialf-past eight to torbiis'huly. eneai writing lettdre.' Nhoit'y af'torb't, I: younger brother, Henry, knooked :a. tho fogrgw~~~igtdoonmtl',nuargo4u. lhim, in a firm vidco, to ' como int. Upon being tasked when ho intended to go to., bedo, he . repliod,"'not.. yet# The-grrestion was then asked him, "hoWy le thought he wet~hsleep;"?'t whleh his. answeo wasy "pretty well' Me then ezpressed a dosiro for a cigar and: a glass of waatct' which Were given to him. Ils brother. now defnhaided eLgs if lie woig4 *.unttanythuiig moro. thatf .ig1)%" fI aid "uothing" in a' fietlolat~ NIia afeotientetorelativa thmin '{o to take h. T'enne wshon'.the 'dcdnod man- considerately advised hijr "to take carg of himself.". At- p'bseIl otle Mbinut& a'tter seven the nort', enorning, the victim rgaa and promptlyr dressed himsetllf, r.1(ahad self-conitrol enough to sl'ave witliotrt tho slighteosf fnjur. for not a single scratch appard on care tio his tbilotte on 'thiso'd ; buttons, and hpe diptnt,. and nu'rkin trouse rd, with ptent, leather botisa..'47i~ a . : - whoroh beeoher a efew. friends "Very welIW abte urtter de mand.us to the't*t of 11 mlnd,'.o4 a id-"ho fet "pr ty suggesuted it o - 1t take "a wtiti~ be?,,e 'tt"weflJ fast wapyg jay , aln poor foflow ate th whole obtett', a slice of toast, t'wo sausages, and three maas wiwdda tha whole down with two large cups of coffeo, In reply to expressions of ls(onislimnoton the part of the company, lie said that "he never felt bettor in his life, Having inquired the time, and as oortained that it waa ton minutes of eleven, hle remarked t hat "it would soon be ovor." Ilis broti, i then ask c tu lmi he could do anything more for hinm, wifen he said lie. would like to have a glass of l. PiAtting it to his lips lie remarked "here's luck,"- and drank is with satisfactio*., Theo fatal monvnt now approohing, ho devoted tho- remainderof his time in diSti ibirting among his friends those articles wbieb he would no leiger want. To one be gave hi. elgar case, to another his tobacco st&ppew, and lie charged his brother Henry with the care of his latch-key, with instructions to deliver It to his landlady with duo soleinity. - Tie clock at lergtih strmk eloven, n0, he was informed int ia ctb was ai .1m duor. Ho merely said , '1 nin ready' anil was-cmducted to tihe vehiele. Ar riving aS tlhe tragiel spot, a abort deRy took plmac',. w-Omn they were j ined by theludy, wish her friends. lAttle was said on either aide, but Ularn, witI cus tomitry decortim, ehedt tears. liipkin onideavored t-p;'asorvo com poenre, lant, a slight swi-rebing of his .moti t and eyebrows prmel'immd Ilis . . wnrl agitatioip, Tim victim. now wnlk ,ed sidai by side wih Clamr, with a .firm stop to. the altar, Ho surveyed the im posing preparations with calnmtrea, and gazedmimoyed an time clergyman, who waited behind tile railing. -SINAI, 80ENS.1$ - The preliminafies irmg godte through with, and the pmseribed imelmcholy: for mahmties finished, th.e tatm q'ustion was plit, Wilt homt have this Wenman' to be L-' w'dded ivife ?" To whkih t]6 mdisa P.iahle .outh replied in' 'disfmiic it-e, '"'will."H" then'ptit'the fitmal ring on 0I ara's Pngpr, i be. by enial nose, wal adjitstvd, anid the poor fe-", r Ivie luuh. cd in: to mat rignoy, The Connootiout Domclazatfo Convention. Thbis reamark leConvention, ,bold in mid winter. of 7@1 or 800 Delegates from almost every town,'n tie Stato, is a that tihe Domuyracy ''its lif(i' The following are tihe Htosolutions in ful, and they are sound, conscsri ative, and elspeaO : n ssoineos,. Whorre'-. It begemes a free and intelligent people,'jumtly Jealous of their liberties, to frinmkl and fearlessly assert their views u1pont4 eigroat, and ItupQrtat' pW%4IO ques tions : and, Wheres,' When AWnad resiAtAncee t(o si authority of, the United States densed, each of the soveril States thi had been inan tagoomAU'to the Government heoan'e, by 'the iiierent forae of the Constitution and ths fundapo nttl, principles upon wMI. our eyr, tem of Cvasamet ie hnsed, roinstated and redtuun' tb the ritsi an& privileges; and Whereas, Tihe i'resident of the United 8tates, ) virtue 9f the authorfty v'.wte4 lt him.iy the Constitumion of the Uiited Statey arnd the lawe'in puisuance thereof, issued his pro lamation deolaring tihe WAY t ai !V. ,in The Congress df the United States' dawdnded and scoopted from said States tho exercise of one of the highest duties devol ving' upon States, to wit, an alteralont of and amnedment to the Co.._'. tutibu 6f the United Statoes; and Whereas', Tho Supremo Court of tihe Uni led States has declared "That if military Govermnuent is continued after time Coutsts astrfnstated, i is a gros usmu'pator af pjowvei: Martial rule can never exist where time Courts arc open amid in.'proper and un-l ohstructed exeriso of, their jurisdiotimon." ThorSero Reoked, That egoh and all of Ihe 86ate. timal #eve argaye i~ in s'rmed oppositioni to, ihe'authorfty et'ithe United 8tamesy haiving 'cedemd suchi opyceltion, are now emntiled. to; keietnaimninm time Congroe of the Unit. 61' tue~an girlege apilortamning to the Reaot'ed, T.o. C he Conress of She Umd , d *$tales In its persistent exclusion of time Senatous and Rtepresenitati yes of said States ; lueite opem and avowed deteredtimion .Seoh destroy the organlention and subvert the autshoviales efues4id 8tates, violates and us] dormines' thm Sonetitution oS the :United States, attacks th, very principio.9 that lie at time f'oundatiotr of our syntom of govern. ment, alndl strike, a fatal blow at the floan-. cial, eorsmerolal andi industrial'infereata et~ the etlire people othe Union. Resolved, Thastthe.Congress of thme United t~mes'-i alI its legislation ; In its -set, levy in'g ltinsi-an tales mrpon all *ime 2tates, In 'ituding mime said States expren'dy by name;' in Its aets. preseo'ibing the niuriber of Regu'e., semntatives in Congress for' all tkoe States I In, its act In submi ting.- the' Constitutonab Amendm'nt abolakhing -Slavery, to all thme. States ; In its last session, aubmittin g an-' other proposed Oonstimutional. Amen'I ment, to all the 8imates ;.ial itS joint, -resolution, pa.ssed wit hi almost entire unanimity, declar ing the ohijeet of the waar to beo"to- defend quel oeaintain'thes mupremwey of' thme Cbnsmt&-. Sutione and1 to preserve the Union with al~l h le dignuity, eqnalitr and rights of th's-seve. la -unimpIred; 'and in othier Acts, hia niformly, from the commencement of the civii war to the present, tine, In the most delbesa~sediawner,.meccgnised. said States -n exisaingStates gad as States i1: the Union.rm' Rholeead, Tihat. the Exequtiie Pepartment .of the United Stafe,by ft.- bro'otainationie ;Its admmidstrative action, apd it; itsdIio. mmtI4 inteitio'n wIth foreig l'ow4re, " ittlformly rasww~reon ~Satates. ab $tite th Jtato Dpat tet of the United State., itnuuig t~e gtue eeolved, That, t ~tl 1 Go ee x liuion o~ thus Stat oitrning thmenm and taxing them w thoutn rmfraentatian, 1434 nal i a vinlailan oft he Fodeval Constitution in its most ossen-! ttil part, and tyranny as defined by the beelaration of ladepeudene, but a mositl ilngt'ant breach of publi faith, aliko prejut dicial to the best interests and to the liwer of t le co1ut ry. Resolved, 'That in the Sitpvenyo Court of the United States, we P1ssess' a tribuna that may be justly terwted time bulwark of Repubiavon .iertyr at*riw the' language of Its oninent 3urists ' "The Constitution of the tfn-iXt'tatos is law for rulers anI people, equalltin twer an* in peace, awl envers pvatla its shield of pro t..-oion all ebn--*s of nen urader all ciromtin. stanesn. * 9 No dv'otrlino involving itore. pernioicus dousetbnoes was ever inventctt by the wit of nian, than that any or its pro visions can bb suspentded dur . taty of lii great exigeneies of gonen:I)('t. Such a doctrine leads directly Io a-utrehy or despo tistia. Dut the theory of at*eqity, upon which this is based. infalse, for the govern inen Within the Const-itsilont hs the pow ers granted to it whioii aye' neoossavy to preperve it.s existenoo." Tius, the-Supreme dotort. of Oike uilted States in 1806. vindidates and iptnains the positions asutmed andf mivrrounced by the Detnooracy or tonnecticat in convention In 1863. Resolved, That after solemn d'ulimrntions, it is ths opinion of this Conventiim rhat the uggestion o our conservative brethren of Kentucky, titat a Convention of the Demo 3raoy and all Constitutional Union nen of Lhe . tiirty-six tatos slioulti be called wit-%. Put delay boy the National Democratic Uoim nitteo anti we respectrully suggest that hat Convention meet in the city of New York on the 4th of March next, to advise ind of-uisel upon the great quec.ions that toir agitate the ptiblic mind ; to protest 1gaiis the revolutionary and unconstite. lonal acts of 1io present majority of Con gres; to aniounce tife tetermination of thn )onservalivo men of tie Union, to resist, and >ppose by cons; kutionar exorcise of power he aisorganization of States and the des rultiot of State authorit.y. Reelved, That the tha'nks of every patri itio bitisen are erinently duo the Presi. lent of the United States for his repeated )xerise of the Executive power fin helilf of the Constiutionand the rIghts of tLhe 8tate ; nd we pledge to-him our support in all his ruture efforte to the sime noble end. The retolutions wore unanimously adopt ed. Literary Originality. Ori;;inality, as it is called, is in popti lar eaitrion, a first tnerit in at writer but then origiialii.y nav either actract or repel. fin itself oriiinlit.v is not. nc ussuvily a merit. The color-blind muan i. original in a world of men gifted with nortmil powers .of vision. To a sane idividuial t.hro is nothing nore' frighit rnily origiial than tho seething braiin of t l'riuntli or madanln. Otir dreants are more origtiaf tian our wnking ilomenlts but tLev nre,' on tho whole, less wise. rho feeling of at rangeness with which ono occasionally, for the first time perusos a book does not nunally go for raK. It is freqently the nre foreign louking husks and wrappings of i hit iat Ler-ti-e wninrmm belt and icalp-tatft of Lite Pwime,Indian, the bear au1 snow shoos' of the Nqtnimtx-rat hrr than Lhe matter itself. The highest benutv Lloes not not duasle at first., it fre(t ily seemA a sitiplo plainness. Th A who strilse yot As- origina? arl vre dler Wiginal) enoig , just as the man sirikes rour as.onning h as not been ounning mough to hide his ctmning. All the colors sleep i a. beam of puro white light. The genwration of books are like the gonerations of men, the ono bogels the other and not nfrrequently the featuresi of an ancestor recur in a. do wcendant of to-cdAy. An abohi-ite origi. mil, bok wokti rosomnhlo rhe seettery of ItOon, It would be a world with ont an atmosphere. .Ina readinlg sueh a :moe would be raft awaty front thec mighty ei of associaion and tuse and want. I'n tihe sense0 of newness and strang.'ness Austraia is the mosat original country a the planet, and it is the lest, in'tor-' iatinig. In the saime sense, Asia a'nd' ilimrope are thw l'east origmnal and the ~m interestin. Thle stranige kanga.. roo of tihe- one colitinent is bothinag. to the hmomnly sparrow of thes othetr,. whief lioe been manda compion and chiirpei' m hie-thntladuring si-x millhwioens. Ini poetry the gaudy parrot is isnn g withr the brown' lisk .It i0 anroiinir when one roffhete upon ft, to- whyt fenw tand simple root ideas the~ entire poery' 4fthe world meay be -traced. I am, r was,1 lovo,1 halte, r sfll.ryl anm glad, [(must die-those lie Kt the Bbttota of all hong. A fter the dealth of A bol, t~he list family bad- pretty nearly gune therowud of all. possible ex perience. in ihn primuvnl' el'ementev of liman expe nenc thtero'i not hing trite-+ep~t to. r~be rite ; ati the oily -f.ithiful'original. ly conoes otat of anm entire and -noble api prehenstow of those prinaordinaul eh-ments itnd the mnrtt who oca~n to that nobe ap,. [otmt andt a sulkhient lv osiglinal ,ne,'tOOr. >al Upurposoee- The .g 'n-ration of iingtg~buds pues bitt the nic~ of thte Spring mornings goes on, although it haa hatrdly changhed a. nmo stuco Adam, )riginalhtry is not a ting~ whi'ch- am itit put on elike A' eloak to htasquterde ii, It Is, If we inte It at allatie pore aittente'of his. personality-the elearu snob: enfed, unobstructed 'it, e'nne of his sature-~-im 'which-is to, himselfj eial kndt peconlar,.like the tone of his y sie andl the. plAy of hIs eMuros, an sundelia, ble soroethinag of *hfeb 'he is In the most. stofoUniensootstieset bu by which' &s INenigde reenfgtlisable pi sat a1 paI thmai'theirigiai .- th4 heat .oone etu4ed beiigoriginisW Aid the un.' dieAkmbes~oehig whish site A man' wnet fronv his klhio~tl ithe most talea d*.V o ' eiogoteoasttmI~m htk netainany more thant youa an aneio.'n[am enlar, L'nanaao ha in. itated, it can never be forged ; no coin tefoit by aniy possibility can ever pass cirtent-and yet every man and woman is born it tho world with sone pro portAin of it nmre or lhss. To this pure, clear, natural note of tho slY- a w ih gvorid liteins, for i whtitn grove of clbv er nocking-birde nto one cares. c Naturo mnkes she Koh-i Noor, and ilirmingiam will turn out a bushel of i-mttioniS. - And it is this speetal' and individil s4onetihing in great writers which above all things, staiaerves a '0noble ent ttwo-. 'i'hese nell bring a 0new thing inlt, 111 world with them, ami wher. they die thoy love it as an inheritance. &ou, writes, and the historite past. ik s ibnger pale and cold, buO warm an~d makny coj. ored. Wordsworth writes, ad ever lifter the solitariesa ylien Irteaties all mitere cnntentment,. and to the thougi. ril man ther is 1n0 such, thing rA n4.ter loneliness in the. world. l-en't w-rites aid the coldness of Greek marble is faintly tinged with p.a ition.- In nid'rn cllttln al1 the poet- !resented by their best.-Argos,' From the Londou 'i .i, Januavy 10. ao RadioaL' l)a ipm.Jhment, n3RITISH VIEW OF TiiC 8U'xNI Afl4tUCAN R1EVOUTION. "La lM?,voktion, Ka bien P' The dis. pa'tcries which pour upon tis through the AtlaLtie telegraph show that the well kiuwn phritase of 1im may be applied in all its meaning to the course of.event.s in A-merica. A revolution is in pro gross there. The Hose- uopresenta Lives has taken the fivib step towards the removal of the P'resident ft-ir.office. Mr. Johnson stands iii the wa:y or tile Reptiblicai party. Ile is the "onsieur Veto" of the Union, and 1e must, be got rid of. le has been gc-iby of thu crime of frning an opinion, for himeif, ard, and that opinion does not conform to-the Rentiments of the majority if Cogress. Whether the opimion was right or wronig, just'or unjint, it is not ft4 sia to iinnuir. The imporint pilitits ai!' that I it was an indeiendeat opinion ; that. Mr. Johnson thought he was a Pr-sident with well defined duties aI r(ponsi bihties, instead of a constittItionnil(ing bound to accept and follow tho *tvioo of Ministers possinng the co f'dnibln df a regisla-tive assembly ; that the inde pendent op.nion formed in the pursuit. n lie thus conceived, of his dyt.y, con. flictis with tihat or Congress; and tiat, a popular assembly will not brook tile ex 1steelo of a perimaient obst.acle to i: S will. Accordingly, Mr. Juhlnlon is to be impeached. * * * * Duing tihe el-ct iols and up to 1.e bgiiling of December nothing appored more chim erical than all attempt. to impetmclv tko President. No respectable organ, of opinion, no person in any posidion of responsibil.ity, advocated it ; and the Repnblicani leaders depreca ted any sig. gestion of' sich a proceedings as a slin. derons aspersion upon the inoderation and sagacity of their party. But Con grios has met And tested its strength, and,. ftished with a sense of power, hurries on from one position to another, until lit last.it boldly declate that no obstacis shall be permitted to thwart tle complete execntion of its will. Whoat was prononnoed imjossiblo has become a filet, and argumeintes reprobated ivith, indigttion' are accepted and acted upon. What is a clause of the Consti .tutioni that it should bar the way of tho representatives or tihe pole ? A ma jority some ei gilt years since pretetnded to exact laws limuiting thl.power' of tho maojority of to.da-y. Can any p'retenee, it is asked,. be more Ariwt or idio ? Andi the sophsam pases; oiaren1, av s.'phisms will which ju~tify the excesses of thlose to whloml they are adlressed. Blut tile popne~frity of such reasoning makes the nmpeaohmen' of the Presidentt remarka bbas evidence of th- length- to which tile 55wohiiot hlae goneW, a411 h~4i. of Thoe adiotth'aerb ntaking gebtrd ad'o over (1Wltre00on deot~raatioW of-6% ~ii~ seitot, aml aolrogafe unto thmnje' es w great, many airs Vntisame they have boda sustained by publio semrtment. ' - It lant't always anIy great. ori to a1 man' to be sustalined bypube .. i:menS-for l6 Is a Rekte tilng, to say t: , t , and itt of-~ ted found sustaining th ,, 'Tog. Pubhio sentliment Orle d thu Saiviour, and set.irrahae, tha rehb'ir, Cre. Pubilio sentiment stonid Ilhe Apostle Jamen- todadeth-. Puhlio sentiment. biwned .r l.m Rogers at the1 stake. Publi sentiment drowned innosent Voe meun in E~nglands% as witohes.. Pu#11ei senthiment in New England bored htoles through the tongues i f tihe Qhnakera. Pubtio' sentiment mobbed these samte URadhoils a few years'sage for preaching the same doctrine t hey now pforesi, and it 1s a graal pity theyada&'t hug.every mOthtor'S eanm of them. *Publ~o sddtimeiit is * qtue thing. It profeutes Chrisutianity, and :elects infidele and blaspb6:nle1s tr oineo ;- professes hontes ty siapui I# tileainty int'o ihe- hands of tiog'rensst set o4 ieves outeids' af the f81tat prIsos ; pr, ese be the ohlampiop of freedtom, and sttaitis lh greatest fiEt f tyranits that ev~wesea ed assassinationt Ifpale senthisn1 dop'I, h!ng diese thed 4 teshatfl begtly mietaken, hed e of~it e ajulegdbcadsie '4thoutigtt W, were John1 Sun at 'Froul the 0hadesitoa Neiws. Nil Explanations of the Murder of Colo nel Steadman. Wo havo received the following lettei fron a most respectable eitien, giving iho particutsa' ii regarrd to th abwo.o unfrotu dato af'air: To tile Editor of the butily Nels .' COL J. M. 14.eadmA., in tie vigor of his naVinhood, and inl tihe midst of his usofutl, 1ess as one of thu best of citisous, Ocami sundunly to his death uinder the followling bewart. rnhing ei cniit-anoramCesr illust rablin t-he deploaable State of aff-iati to wiCh oti aoe peaceful and happy coutttry has emeo Engaged in morohaandizing in a pata 0 Loxinagtonl District, where Since tihe terini. nation of tle war, ia Ioewtmi neessary Io guard against the .depredmalions- Of buarghawt he'adink 41 little famsivly occupied'apavnlinentm wit lin lils store.- On the nigh-t of tie 8t 1 January, as they were etting. n.otmd n bright wintor's fire, tIhe doors and windows il holted or looked, seenuing to give suouri. Ly to all wltht the dogs, as faitltal. senti. nele, gwe- evidence of apptonchiag dungi, w'thout. fhle Colonel arose advanacod to wards the front door, whea his wite, bak-ing .ouncil '-from her ferars," from information Atha duay derived fron a nogro woman, of which shte had- also advised" the colonel. amonietrvted. w hil hhs U mAai's the wiprui tence o4 opening it, bogging hn, instead, t gO' tP fitatairs anel look out at. tla winadow; Mit this fearless man, having faced dangu )n many a bloody field diring the ,ate war, uow that. peace prevaied Yeirding itt at iveaknoss not to feel souro within his own mafatl, liervd-nctt botr gantlo admonition. Ile had barely opened thu door, wihen hit :levoaed Wife's worst fears wore fully reall &ed by tihe raiport, oftle ga., Oe on4lre load froma it having lodged tit her huAand Jody. ito still, however, retaining a pro per pwesenco of *naind, had barely tinie tu aloae and bolt. thu door lvfore the vile as. 5assins-thrco negro nieou-wae thundoring It it, to force an utranuo. Tho Golorvl aalled for his gun; liho resolute wife hastily lianded it to him. He waried the amaii. MtS tha.1t So sure. as they entered it would shoot themw. ktill they knocked, kioked ama pushed tle door to opei it ; the wouunded Uolonel and his feeble, tsouagi re. solute wite, preauing in retul i to keep it ,losed. hat an awful iminiont I The solonol, boinj no longer able to stand or use his gun, laid hii dying body lgainmst te rout ot the door, at ill to aid his wife in keep. ing it olosed,direoting her tat Ihe same tiane te shoolt them if they ontarod. Declaring iiaid ler purp:>sao to-do so, she otled tI b atme of onn of the fiods, the supposed liader of the band, andjold-hin to go away liat irnioney was what'they wero nifter, tely 3ould get nonet-three, as all had been sent, nyay. This, perhaps, with the fear that h) Colonl was .atiltble to, resiet. - and would unto deal h, caused them1 10 deila, rmAa further efforts. The Colonel lived %bout three hours afeato rooeiving the fatal wound ; his wife and twio little children, vith perhaps ia nurmo, being Lite only wit. lesses of tihe awful scenes within that Luleagured house, not knowing how eon it wvould bo soifon fire, and that then they would have to choose bet ween being burntae dive or mot ting death by tIhe violent hands At the murderers of tite husband and father, there lying a corpse. 'lhe day after tle murder a jury of in quest was properly empannelled by thc aearest, magistrate, addi euceeeded' in, dra w. ng taut such evidence from various witness us as justified the rendering a verdict that Aoy believed the deceased ctane to his dealth by a wound from a gun, fired fromI the bands of one of the party of three negroe -Henry, niery and Joo-known -to have been prowliug about the neighborhood do it.h nisoluf, and all of whom time jurors xforesaid beioved to have been parties to this infamous crime of murderwith inton. Lion to rob. The two fortuni' wa t offwivth' Sierman'e army and had- but'rocontly returned to this part of ithe country-ontirely too lazy to vprk for an honest living, and fully imbued with the Radical idea of equality, boasting ly telling negroes of thn various mur-ders Lty had comninltted, auodi'n'lfng that they hatd papers fromn tihe "ayuumkeei 'which would protect, them from hatrmt, do what they would, should thte white people here uttemptato molest them. Of odturse thmey found but few boljeversm inthmeir miraculeus stories. Still It appears they suodedded i rnaklng a dopo of the-fellow Jpe, who be same involved with thoeut-in thais, taheir last mad) transaction. ThIs Ipresumec, Is not thme only inst ance nf whiech rot urnofi "loyalIsts'' itavo. auncoed xd int workhaig'uapon the emi passiotie oh hose'who,. having ~ituck to t-hee "manor aorn," woutld have been sat isfied, evena ou. i'er the elhanged systeom of things, ohmaive 'earned.' their bremad by the ta~est - of tlheit >r0w"' I aeeglad, hQwever,- to b,. a~Io to mssut'b fort lhnit' iat tise aeanoe I tietee re ,aaed "loy~aistg& have eheuetod ne eyhIpaa by from any of that eoloredl. ragqe, except, lie too eaait.g bo~ltHd' Joe, as aliready ,hted. Ott the contrary. theilr "'A milon 'ellowmohiteas of A't'rlant desent"': have nanitfested a lhaudible di sposhibon' tio' ferret >tnt their Iodglmig tabucee and hlave theni sroutght to- eondigna. pflnishmenmt-many dhet mlaaiing that baiujug te dualb woutbj bo b.t, a Jttet dlAnartlt fortLi4eIr infinouts r'itte. Great ayis the ozoitemnittwhoinuheiilgh. >ory anpd tends of the dsoetedl assenibied lae day after the inarder - and learned it1 he ineideatg attendIn'g it.. The 'dond-sae nuoeh esteee ,y . aul.-,oould noi be brouagh again to lite and usefulienss; isat 'oW to avenge the infamauous' Oth es of hais nurderers, lto . destt'oyera , of' thae bright sopos wag the aul-absorbing qtaevbien 1. it was aseortained tr6th a hnegro'tihat -the' il' ala Emtery, wha perhaps- bubh- the' otitia, tad- iled earliy its ,tieto iglit,--shpa'Lly afaer ilho' 'eptwa oft :he'gun tias haeard -forAiked. A~ctive,.enerettio, deltntil yong lonn were soon staarted' lb pursuit ; tt thes elg trio spark, from Qaaattlbaum's Mifla-attae utearest.,tjahegraephloe fifies---ad1 .nheady pocoomplshed the goost wut;k, itn part, beter~ dIh' ta ivab Whotizens, "*hohkad the nsews sona 4ftr, secur4d ie naap- s. Iner. : 1.1 9emo fistectjt, tal, b~ ,tol where lenry.htgga fwnra1 y rod, *ds. soot leb-ur'id, ad noel li etga rng tidfgtuga arnd 'bh Fjo~di - themmonI ratha-~ dod td gu4.4-ii ee. 49gI hals-nop4 bee ~avipiefe ~qse~fas E V p4e krb tie r~.4 ea hi'em 'h ton~og~e0 fleuaeVb berenved VMma4s VN* f> hieiosaito~ ban soon arhed away,.towardi Lexingpon I-jil, in. tars. I knoW gothia furthst of thia -t'er. Thi muc. I Iititik is str icily rite I hurti hcard other ritm1tors, but rumors wilH no always justity beiti r*ecordled in riutli. I had written the- tost ot I fth articlo he fiore I saw t11he nConlt II, f teli sane tinuedor it tvne wit oper of tihe 1tw h, pijei fromt Iin Edgeticid .ivCtiser, a pale:1r fene1raI'lly cor, rel in its st atemotis, btti not nit o"ether q( inl tit is onse, as regi d tomc oftho l'cidents Coninect ed with th1Is fol Itrdhr. Louisville, January 20, 1807. I'. Q. (F-ronm the Char!ice Democralj Su1GFimm smo, York i)ist.. 8 ( Jaiitu:ry 18, 18417. M11ai. EIuI-ron: I 11ice tihat ty name secms to be associat ed with an, advort iscinenlt of G(ianlo, inl a late n11itnh1 r . of yoitr paper. Thext th-e publio may not be raisled- by thec itunlat'atmy pbdttotiont f (joiou Was ex. cers'ive; i beg to.avai.ii myselfof the occasion to say, (lint eight aures of1 Cott-n, to which a ton of Pacific (aino wats ipplied at ithe ra'6 of 250'Ibs. VI brrel) per aere,'ylelded an averago of 6081 lbs. seed cotton per acre; 400 lbs. of which, however, I estitiae as dtio-thte virtue of this fortilizer. of 100 aeros plinit.cd, yiMthng only tho third of an av~eao crop, thesi eight toes coistitLted4 from tle s.vtmc sead, the only good StAnd I posseseid ; and hit4 th-o senson beoa' pro. piticw, Would tmiless liavo yielded, oue ithotisil poiids secl cotton per ncre. In tlie production of coto n, thintno'eoms best ad.;pted to a bht, sands or porous a ("11. Th, lite"Rn (1% a ity1 i; said to be den-. liet i. is ciiorpanteiit. parts wIth1 l'ornttvinni except ihn- whiit t lo's III. auntatitI the sitame floi Iunt of :linmenhOtti,. it plssesses lrge. ly tibe advaitiage in tho lhsphiiae of Litte; hence, i' at b e, it is reasunalle to infer tat it. w oull be less 'iiffeet ed' by drotigfi, gi1ing less sitp Io- ti 1ir1'o1h oF th Of pinnt. There are lower gtrados of' Gitano, etadh as iC Mexicart. 8 %w it Ish mu. , now licitg otferel upoti the i- ket . at very ri'otlircil prices, as Iw na $210 per ' ton. I have to dout ite to. Invest. liese 1i0 It the a'umniti i wiielh tit .srotgly chiarmctetrizes t40. pitre Peirvian, by thor'oughly Iti tig with 1them1 a certntin per cent. ot' , he latter, as lately ecomanitilca by Prof. Shepliird, 'io0 Chaile1t on, vond provo a cheip and- proft. table iIt''nesbnIehIt-.I this, hving vom. younded his own -mat crials, tie forme wiculd know the chtaratcer of then. Tuiere canl he no d'rtibt I1liat lie nieCessary reirnm inl the agietttf the country Can11 oly be produced by tihe redi-tiot- of the aIt n p1ant'el. its tht orouighL p1reptt01146in atnd mioll ure, antd the upj'licailon of' fer'ti!iters. I am pleased to let-n thatt a well known nm1l reliable firil in your own town has received the agency f'or lie .ste of fliets- fertililer.s. It they will effezt an arritngcneit for their sale onl it-io, say to (lie lat Novelibei- nod othoewise, .upon as favor-able teims nas ,In he! el hwroe ".d !A4!,y-.v~ nd lets should receivo tt.; encouragemncit n14 piat.ronago, of (lie surouiding country. liepecotfully yours, A. D. &i'lamNos. . Govrnnon11 OUR IN. WASHnto-raN.-afhe visit of Goevernor Orr, of' Soud Uarolinn, attil sYveral othe' protninintt Souitern Actn. tlobnen to the metropolis has rovived speci lation as to conpromises. 1- .m far from thinkin; that the Ratdiicld leaders could be iiiIted to favor any practical plan of' Set tling the dittiultics which now. dist rat t the cointry. Their purposes ar' i'blely diflc. ont. Every not a0und-wo'd of- thidr' pokled: ly exhibIt rather a firin dtormioation to interpos -voer$ .obstacle in the. wily of' a peanut'l H1o1tltion-of he exist itrg '6mburra.. sed sectional reiations. Thelle can ,be no doubt, however, of the great, anxiety of the South Clint perfect Union and hi in-onv shouldboi'restored to the whole o(uitry, to' that they would be willing.to sactrifice Inich to bring about s, desirahlo .-a esnit. It will be recollepted 1lia 0 udge 0anse, in,n Speehh'It mad "n hladelphia soni- r6onf hs ago favoring the addation of tho ftiots "constitutional amendient, stg 'eswed tie propHely ef sombi olr by lY S"u'h, a]l that about. the sane.time ha propostd' li the President a plan of' tlj ttA wiu*ent bnsed upon tie proposition. contMhei in tlitt arnind mnent, with tho suibstitittioni of impan'rtnl sitf.. rage for fth'iscocondi al t hir' Sect tont. I umltei'stnndi t hat genftecti- now ' here. ivho are known t o have rho' "ecoindon'o of' tithe great body of theo Sotihorn peuoit, r'eprq sent that thIs proposiioi 'of' tte chief Justice would beoliherfully-acceped- in' aiy for'm whiech Congtress should ptr.tailbe or rtther (-whicht embacedl flu nddthionail con. ensiott) thatt thiO Soiutht 'wonall accept as the etlitioni'of universal 'atinnesty and. utros and r'eprosentation according to the voting popultthlor. U nenlioni there iets~ tnt in fi.'heo litat n pr'adticail''esub is iti theo slightest degr'ee ptrobable, hitt. nier'ely to. aJh'y tie peopl'W er the'Nb'th the tic afti tutle'of'tho SouslyI so that-i thtey~ may -con. ftnas It with the feUVolutionarliy pgautimmo of thme De~truotll'e s "-"-- Bll/. O'ez. Tate %Isaaa1.s ts ouva lhrts.i n the bodyr~t vnri welII'hi-g1 potradi, thtere af'b Ahtbb7&' juoumdh bf'ifineraltma:ttr :-cotn aiting of' phospliatte of(ime Inpo C n )(tijh, 13 olingos I carbonate st' lime, 1 pottid; salt, P, outneos, 3.T7grinus,.sot'rbxlde of Iedn, 150 6 ounces and. *i/ gtuenios-with nmitutte quar' titletl'ifpotaal, clot'ioand soieitil otei stubstancees. .Lft he est: of' ,lko teystem itt comn josed of oxygop1 hydirogn-i, iitiyogeni and ciarboi i Y pottadsh of ie diygen and hy:,drogen' belng'comullsedu in- the form of , 1'Tugh (hte qutatity df i-mo' of thieso suabstanceos ts very sinnri, It is found abani iutely.eset'iiId to'tlhe henkhj t hat this small etnantiuy shoulid lie sup iad thene the lnt portance of a- indihety -of food.'. It -wo fur ulsh tnaturite withI all th Itnoatorial requireud, e will select such as the system neo'eds, anmi always Jiist in tit lirgit[;iuatities. ---Th;elfglog~ing lf t)'o le( qer frotni Jhe. JMj or xif (ivektten.' w idh-' ahlett'~feit i etter~ious treply from i G otirqigi lteridin, -Iv4.-ve wnidMOfiel.11td~klb nt luA e'*W t n 6 inI h ig isi I o ortn 'i lodI Lr t hot'' 0194it#in'ede TE:NAIrY or [ui.-A remarkable instatice of the preservntion of life with. out sustonanco for a lenghened period lis tiely occurred at Protnikau. near G .1o-nIhay II, in Saxony. On the 8th. of Deccember last two borothers rm med! Mtfiebter were engaged in diggirf ai deep well, it'11 1111 ani fell In and turitd im'ii. A third brother wont dowir 1inmediatelv.. but was not. able to per. caire the Slightest Sounid. Some minlers vere then sot to woik and dug for sev. ral dav, but without 8CCeISs, andI it 1as so generally believed that. the poor lows ciuld. not. possily be alive that orders hind bocir giveni tit, utilOs3 theY relatives insisted onl proceeding further the well .shotld be filledt uj)'and a mon umtelit to- the memory of to Utichters elected over it. Eight. days had already elipsed, but tho mother of the eltomobed would not give u-p all hopo, and soma fresh hands bogan to work again, thougiv only in the expvetntion or lining tab' corpTses. 'O their astonishment, how ever, -they suddenly heard fro'u helow the vords "Do not strike so hard.'/ A. converation was commeucei, the woric was puebed forwaid with renewed diii.. gence anid at longth crowned with suC. cess. On the 1 0th of December, afier hind Ibeen eleven iiys and four houi in t is living cave, the two M.\f ichters were ros cued and brought to ti a rface. The earth Ihat lhadt failln inl had left a 'Aintd of cave abuve them. 'heir ouiv sustinanco during t his long period had been tihe wa. ter that had oozed thionght.ht earii.. Ilttd a littlv tobacco which they htad ceitwed. 'hey had a watch witit thmt whih. they had' wound lip regularly, mnrl were therefore ab'e to keep a. ac couit of the time of their burial. At first they lighted lucifer matches to see the time, but when these'were all used they fo.k the ha-nds. Thoy itad heard the con versatioit above them, respectmtg the fining i, of Ite wvell, and sioutei but could not mako themselves heard. They had tl-o suing .hyins togetlier, at'1 it peoplo ti I i te stirface lid heard it, fainilv, hut. heing not a lit te sutersi tons had.attributed it to angels in. te ni. AiPfMcs IVARn--Tsis artr.-Ar. 1emu01m Wnrd gives the folowing choicw. adeirdat utobiog'aphiy in'n ha t nul mu bur ot I'och . I am fifty-six years of age. Time, it I his reh-nthtlss scythe, is very busy. Tbc inxt.o gathers them in, he gathe'rs thiem itt. 1 keep a pig this yea-r. T was born in .tie otatn of nnino of parents As ant infant I attracted a great deal' of attentiuii. The imhrs'ivould-stand over MY eradl'il for houirs and say, "hlow' b)right that litlo face looks I Now much its nose !" The vnng ladies WonI carry tio rouiti in- t heir arms,. 'Ryhig, "I was mozzer's berry daring,. 'nd1 im sweety leeth, litfil -sing." It was nimco though I wasn't o'' enough to pronerly pei~cat it, I amta' hieblw old darl. imnt tiw. I have allars sustained a good1 moral cltaractet I was never a raiV rad' d'reotor io my Mie. Akho id early life -161 confine nyself to truth ii 'my mill bIlls 1 lhave eien gr.aduall grow III, ropectabler every 3ear. I 'lv my, clildrein and 'naver, inistake anothtr bnahIAife for 'tny OIV. T 'a'AM t)Ot a' imenber "of any meutin-hoises, end' *.Shtot1ldd't f"I slife to ta'ke a (ose f''lau d(t nd A down in thi streets of. viitag' lihat hand noneh with aI. tihousatiid *illhare in rmy pocketr. My temperiimetu ;is hilhtous", althIough f dlon't 'oWna doli iar in the Wbrld. I anW an early riser,. but moy wife~ is a I'rogsbyterian,. T' n'ay add that fam Ifaild hundeds I' koop two-' cows. Alioobundov', atfter giving one of the scho0lar5 .a soutid drubbing fur spea~king badI grammnnor, sont him to thes othp9r.otud of the roomt to imfortn'anotly. or boy that lhe widietl to si 6'mk- with. htitm, anid,jmt tho~satneti'opriig fo J'peat thbq 'o o if lhe spoke tingramn. maitically., T1ho youngster, quite-sak ilfied with whtat he lhnd got~etrminm ed to be egnet, and thue addressad his f'ellowv pupil: "Thmere i, v onuibon a-ibstal ivo,:Of to'm tsaculijtne ge*-or s uangular',numbeor,.niomuinatiyo easyi, and in an angry miood, ithat siks pehed upon thgo.etninewoo atthe odher side of 6tetOemO~l, awid' wide to, articulato 'a fow. Sontonlosa to, y'ouin~ 4t' resc5Ub~ tgenso." Tim.ls f(s'r IND~kt'tNDttNT MA., T1h'er'e I tno uspan moro ipdepentIdtnt thait theoontof i 'w4'l cuivated tbim. Ris Ibs8t beshIolij to popufar sentimour, a amure sutppurt beforse im wilhoukt colg ,ithlt~l It op~ipiolus or' rol7, upoi, t.h ent6ml Otnyi .one. Tlhefoe is a qoney mn9rkbt, for atlfthe surpualto cani produgo aniudhle obfalni for iL the oni'rnt pri~e af '"Vh're cftn bm~ tio hrter' timte~ very' ghiat imnpbetd C 'of th~r~ 1if)~tl ' a idtigu edrn orcof Jyst '. i(~ afunk&W sitflkihede of clomni til64 r ha.L'brfig tdited to 'stidl a tht ilbnutd tbn ig " 4.hegroift fhtj 4,n t ttiind DtI4afl'nt soeto sell to your less fortuttlite neig~v - tbur