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rift Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms--$300 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. i.Y WINNSBORO,MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1867. [NO. 24 .f THE FAIRFIELD HERALD m8 PtUnBiSHED WEEKLY BY -DESPORTES, WILLIAMS & CO. Te'rms.-T iH: Ii EItALI is Imblishedl Weok ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at. 93.00 in vareahl/ in adiance. ".f- All transient advertisem..ents to be paid in aivance. Obititary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. Selected Poetry. CHARLOTTE ARCH DUCHESS OF AUSTRIA AND EMPRESS Of MEX I00. Long heavy sighs como drearily on windIs that northward blow, And beating, ol, so wearily, my ebbing life-tides flow; Dim fornis around ine gliding, amid a grave liko gloom. And spectral horror hiling within the haunted room. The shadows deeper falling from night's ap proaching wing. While fearful voices calling, upon tie dark air ring. I close miy eyes in horror beyond all power to nalme, In wild aid maldd'ning terror 1 fly from fato in vain. For now my soul of sadness is like a moon lit hall, Filled up with scenes of malness, all paint, ed on the wall, As though this ghostly chamber I wonder now alone, Where 1 must still remember thy name, Napoleon! Oh, feteh my love, my murdered love, across the billowy soa, For spirits bear from realms above a fear ful tale to .me ! Not one-not one of Cosar's line has drawn the sword 1t) save Now, burning suns will daily shine on Maximilian's grave I The Ides of Marci-the bloody Ides-bc hold his wounds are red I Yet not by Tiber's yellow tides they dug his rnarrow bed, Nor yet by Danube's rolling waves, nor on sadowa's hill. . The *Indiann laid him in his grave besides the purple rill. Arise, ye legions from the dead !-will no Outavius now, Avenge the blood Jtunrez shed, or raise his crownless brow ? Has Austria then no power-the CmOsar no command - That rebels dare the flower of his own "Fa therland ?" I wait, I wait, and anxious rove within this gloomy telfl, That woulI hecome a throne of love if he within could dwell; Ten thousand years I'l gladly spend within the glootnmiest, shaile. With him again mily son to blend--with him froim ca ti to fado. Bit now my soul of sadness, is like a imoon lit hall, Filled up witlh scenes of madness,all pietur eri on ftie wall And fearftul in miy weary fate-a frenzy born. of' care - Ofh ! Uod, beholl iy awful state, and pity ily despair. g ~IlIELAND). .1,mluarex was born in 1802, of poor pa. rent.s, miserable Zopstek Indians. Yet Eulrope looks calmly on1, though this wretch has ineil his hands in the blood of' the Cusairs. t Figural ive. The Ohio Railrord Disaster. FULL PAnTICULAtt OF TME CALAMITY A THMuniL SCENE. TheCininntiCommerchdl of Friday givyes thme detadsof the distressitng rail road slaughter wich:l occuirred on the Cinecinati amnd Danyton. road on Thlurs day evenimng: WV histlinmg the breaks downi, turning its wheels with rev'ersed motion, doig all that it coutld to avoid its fate, the F.ranklitn, an unil..ilingt agent c doath, slid along the wet radla, propelled by he mnomnent-n of' its train, atid pininged half its length into that rear "sleeper." Thew crash was terrible' Insantly ncar ly all the passenger cars were jammend into each other, e td the Stceedman was driven. into the caboose of the freight train.* In two of' the cars people were writh. mng unider the torture of torn litmbs and bodies; but in flhat last car death. was ro g Mr. Allison escaped, but thlero were four wvomon and one man imprisondel hectwe timbers and panels, bleeding, gaspiug, nnd dlying, one wvith her entrails tori. out, and another with her head cut ofT. 1f thlis was terr'ible, that which en su ed was horrible. While the bewilder oand frightened passengers in the ot her cars were being released, the steam scaling hot, was parb~oiling these man gledu victiiims the smoeke was chokiung a them, anid soon there wae a whirl of fire thiroug'. the car, fromt. the engiines hea 1 light or the car stove. thoemonly fire of the train that had not been extinguished as soon as possbie after the accident. The flames crept all over this last fatal wreck, wreathed themselves around five hiumana beings, ate tip clothing, skin, flesh and bones, whilei (ho victims shirieked and screamed for mercy, for pity," for aid andi one fur wafer. Onle of the ladies got bor head out of a wmndow, and an etf'ort was mamde to rescue her ; but it wvas niado in vamin. Only her head and nieck coul have been saved from the tirti, for her body was lockedl between -tunb.'rs, and could not be drawn out. TLhe conductour and engineer nrocured axes and attempted to cut into the car, but failed in this. Rapidly the fire swallowed this car and strode through and over every passenger conch of the train. its progress was unimpeded and its triumph Complete. savo that it could p find no more lvas to destroy. As sooh as possible two physicians, Dr. Bnnker and Miller, came over from Lockland and attended faithfully to the injured-none fatally, fortunately, savo the unhappy victims of the fire. Des patches were sent to the city, and a special car, bearing Drs. Wood, Lftur phy and Miller. and containing stretch crs and other necessaries. was sent to the scenie of tihe wreck. Whilen the fire had exhausted itslf; 1, tih wreck was cleared away from tho track and search for ilie dead was made. I A headl-ss trunk and a trunk that lack. a ed limbs were found, and thren others wero fuund less mutilated. While the iressing of the wounded was in progress those ghastly remnants of ImInanity were picked out all charred and black. c Dned, and still smoking from he heat, c mnd carefully laid aside. So far as pos. sible, the parts wero placed together. 1 There were remnants of two bodies, however, that amounted to nothing more than several unrecognizablo masses of broiled flesh and broken bones. IDENTIFICATION OF THE DEAD-FoUl SISTEnS KILL.ED TOoETH1EIR. Sinco the abovo 'was written, we I havo como in possession of important t facts-the idontification, finally, of the , victims of crush steam and fire. Ten f pieces of baggage, mostly trunks, were found belonging to the four ladies, all A neatly pack( away for a journey.- b Among the letteia they contained were v iome that fully established the identity t >f the owners, proving them to be four f ;isters of a wealthy famnily of Now Or. i eans, of the name of Morgan, their a 71Ven1 names being Harriot, Rebecca, t sarah and Elizabeith. One of the letters t Vas from General Beauregard, as Presi- ti lent of the Now Orleans, Jackson and t Jreat Northern Railroad, re'commend. 'J ng them to the kind attention of rail- o oad men generally. It appears that b: hey left their home in New Orleans in f hmoe last., and spent the Summer and a !all at St. Catharine's Wells and To. e onto, Canada West. When killed, hey were on their way home, intend. I ng to stop at Louisville and spend a ( ouple of days with some of their ac- n juaintanceos there. Another letter was from Charles H-ar rod, corner of Magazine and Natches i streets, New Orleans, signed as their 0 diectionate brother, and indicating that he was act'ng as agent for their property. 1 l'here was aiso a letter from his wife, V Clara M. Harrod, signing her.&l as < heir affectionate sister, from which it, is - inferred that Mr. Iarrod is their broth- s ur-in-law. Y 1it11 FIFT!l VICTIM-A IREcoRD OF HERo f. I8M. t It has been ascertained thar, the gen. Jleman killed, was Mr. Charles Jackson, I A Boston, who has acelimintances on i .he train and friends in this city. Tiis t man was not scratched. 110 was roast. Ad alive-in the full vigor of manhood 1: -and he met death in the heroism of a r vain attempt to save one or more of tihe o ladies. After the crash lie wns seen antside of the train, oii the ground, en- I irely nnharmed. IL was supposed that, d bie was standlm~g on the platform and uimped ; but when lhe saw the head of , ne and the hand of another of the Ia lies who were imprisonedh in the car / aind appealhng for help, projecting fromt the window, whmilo the steam was scald ing thenm, but before the roasting alive had commenced-hme worked his way r back into t~ho car (hiowi is not known, r unless through one of the windows) in at noble effort to save life. But, lie was immediately choked and blinded by smoke and steam, and sank down be ride Liis fcllow-travelers, and died with them. - AnnmsT ron RFEsisTINo A Cmvri, Pno. OKs.-Lieutenant Cua'nming, ini com mand of a dletachment of tho Fifth Uni ted States Cavalry, has just returniedl to Richmond from King William Con-. ty, whither lie was sent to arrest the ringienders of a party of negroes who threatened to kill Major Butts, of the Freedmen's Bureau, and who resisted tho execution of a civil procecs for their arrest. Hie succeeded in arresting the. man wiho led the mob and who rosisted the civil offcers. WVhon ho was found ho was behind a fence with a loaded and cocked musket presented at the offier in uommand. Ho was prevented from firing rind disarmed. He was then takeni to the Libby ar.d confined to await an ex amination beforo a civil court.--Cor. N, Y. Herald. Out of one hundred negroos on Buck- i horn plantation, near Millikon's Bond, ~ Louisiana, five-sixths have died with. in the past ten d ays of cholera. Tho ~ disease is Baid to have boon brought on by eating fish taken from low muddy i streas.C ChalesLeamlisthe mao wito said that i ' a New Englandor's Idea of hell was a place a where overy body had to mInd hIs own bu siness;" which Is as crIsp as Macaulay's saying that the Puritns hated boar baiting d tnt because It gave pain to the bear, but E because It gave pleasure to tho speotators. A boar, weighIng 18r0 pound, was kIlledi in Forsyth cntni N. C., a few danya acm.d. [From fho Montgoenory Advrtisor. ranco aud Her "First Grenadier," and the Convention and Alabama Dead. EnIroins Avn-rTIsrni : In those :lorious days of France, when a man the peoplo crushed down the power f kinigdoms and her arms and her tonor shone brightest, there was a >oerlesi band of soldiers-her grona licrs. And among tliem wia ono vho was the "first Grenadier of .;ranlue.'' Time and change came. The un ion had boon overthrown--the cause or which the "First Grenadier of Orance' gave up his lifo was crushed 'y banded Europe! And yet history oils us, that oven then, when powe'r old high carnival midst the ruined nd orushed hopes of a people-that t roll-call of the grenad iers then un [er another flag, Latour d'Auvergone's mino was still highest on the roll of onor-and that at each evening roll all his nate was first, and a surviving o mrc(e next in honor and rank uswerOd-"dead upon the field of onor." Neither the bandei tyranin, nor the mstor of Frnce imposed by foreign nyonets-dared to attem)t to eraso his ame from the roll of fame aid from the f'ections of France I Latour d'Auver eo was not tie first grenadier of tLte topublic-or of the Empire-but the i0irst Grenadier of France." All 'rance loved his name, regardless of he cause in Whichi ho fell. - His name mas one of the iames that survive a illen cause, and shino but brigiter in lie darkness of disaster. Tihe t.vrnllts ho1 held France asked not her affection tit her obedienco. It was worse thian ai to strike at the he-art of tho na on and drag out its love and veneration >r its slain sons by legislativo enoct. tents or Ole laws of Iorce. Alabama id hter grenadiiers! Melt who belong a history-to posterity I Great in all at is nobhlo-grand t all that wich ry men's souls-thesC ien belong not. > Alabama alone, but to the worbl! 'hey stand out ill history irrespective f the cause they advocated - niiaffected y its dowiifall ! Alabama loved them )r themselves. Torn and wrecked by dverse fortunes, they are the oiily jew Is in her onca proud diadem I Believing all would delight, to honor -orth, Alabama zave their names "scant mead of glorious worth") Lo ew counties. Alabama know that tho rorld would would feel this to be a just ritbute to departed worth-and that all n would delight, to hionor the names t men. Alabaima was but calling tihe roll of fr "First. Grenaadflr" antd an admirimie "orld at.sered--"dea upon ! iie t f honor!" Arc men ol the s:une lood -children of fhe same Alal:ni I a hiarers of the same destiny- willing to -o faither than the tyrants of Europe ? h.ti they take upoi themselves the in luny which was too alfa mOns evei for It despots oftlhe old world ? The deimoni of hate may prevail. Jegislative eict.mettts may striko from )e statite book their names--hut can iey strike theta from ou liearts I infanmy may crowit the n:tite of Col ert wiLh tie epithet of Browilow athiless power may crush out tlie names f Jone., of I3nllock, of flaine, or I ale, , of all Alabama's glorious sons ; bitt 't the people take heart, for it has been ecreed "Rise14, IBabel I'erismh, liabylon! rem ruins like these rise the fnnme wh'ich sh all Iasi, .nd( IIoaveni, to hii up thte future, oft sBaters the past." A Aani MrJA. VTe filal scenes of Garibldi's insuir. eclion partake of the heiici m and the idiculous. H is htst, f'uthlt, was i eribhl.. F'or five hours the battle ragedl with right ful carnage, until thte ground was trown with (lead bodies. Garibaldi nld his son, Menotti, fougt.side by ide, along wnth their troops, in the hickest of the battle, antd would certain y have perished in the horr-ible mmlee, itt for the timely exertions of Colonel dissori. This officer, whera the day vas almost lost, make a dash with three muidred volunteers, resolved to save Taribaidi or perish in the attemopt, and~ ucceeded in extricating htim and enta dling him to make a sanfe retreat. (4.mii maldlt alppears to have been utterly dis sartened, as ite w.ell m'ghlt be, by his~ efeat, and desired oniy to returin to iis 1h0m11 at Caprera. Ho was gratnted , special traiin anid a safe- "otiduct to "iorencee, when hoe intended to take a teamler ; butt at Figlinoe the train was topped, and Ito was arresteod by3 ordoer ' the Governmtnt. Garibaldi ~protest. d that he was guilty of no crime gainst tiho Italian Government, tin.t e was an italian deputy, a Rlomant eneral, atnd an American citizen, and ssortod thtatIto WOuld submit only to arco. His friends prepared to doefond im, bitt lhe regnested them to desist, nd, refutsina to movo a stop, was pick. d up by foir soldiers and carried itnto ho train which was in waiiting by order f the Government, Titus closed the ttle paragraph in Roman history ,hich Garibaldi intende~d should occup'y volume.' 'Te Now York Tinmea acknowledges the leatrous effect of ignorant suffrage In ihn Loutht andl says that If an ediucational unlificathon had boon roqulred of the Con ention delegates, "t ho ConstItutIons omas. mating from1 them would be more likely to ommntd rmeset and to be reseable."n Important Lotter from Montge inry Blair, The Washington correponidnitt of the Dostou P'o4 pubilies the l,1iowing let. - Si.mio, Mfox-r;o.er Co'N-TY, MAnYL.* Ni), November 2, 1867. (entlemen : Youir invitr.tion has jutn colm I:) hand). I regret th1 .i f Cannlot b.- with you at your grand ;ierification meeting on Sattiday. Nover had the friends (if popular government Radical caucus, despite of the consuimmate art with which they continued to load the friends of I lie constitution wit! tIhe odium if the rebellion, have been ddmted,and thanks to their eagerness to make sure of tlieir gaies they are so Iod to thu schniom of usurpation which haa just been emphatically conlemnedpu by the people, that, there is no possil-l escne for them. They must be amhilatLd next year. I have apprehiended, with their doom thus clearly foreishdowed, they wouh bring on var al: use forco both North and 'S.>ith t> hold Power. The rits migatd by thert at New Orleans last yeair llow.1 Ht . luiser-n. p :.ous dexterity it. con'.rivn:; pretexts lor usurpation. Ljet the Democracy, which now em bodies the great mass of tho conserva tive men of tile country, invito co-opera tion from IIal love.s of the coiistitution to arrest tihe plots against the peace of tho country engendered by tho usurpation faction and they will not dare to proceed with their sehenme of forcimg ten milita. ry an( negro-governed comionities into tihe fellowship of States, to dominate ove.r all the States, and subvert the governient of tle white raco in both sections of the countrv. Nothing but the heats of partisaI controversy can1 blind any portion of t-he white race to tle deadly blow at their power which the i nt roduetioni of thiis controling iigro element would 1 %.e. Now is the time, therefore, for tihe truly great an11d pa. t ri. ote nuen of le D.-me.clracy to open 11he Way to co-operaoion and conciliaiion hetmwen ihe cotiservativo men of all parties, for the sake of preserving to all tho free institutions (if our fathers, and to prevent our lanl from that fir ther baptism of blood by a war of races which Senator Wadu seems, by his con versation with the corresponident of the Commerc ds, so anxions to uring about. "1Let them fight it ou," ho says. I ant sire the honest masses of our countrymen, of all parties, ablior this selin iit , and it can only result from the blhndering of the poiltical chiefs of the C(onser aiive men of the country if they (10 not harioniizo in action amd arrest the bloody orgies which the ladical oligarlchs are preparin to cel brat es on the connmnmaticn of their imegr1mo ti olitary u iovernment.s. I have beei hinge and t.'Pt op rd, that Gnerld Grant will, by declaring openly for the const ;titition, pit, an end to these dan geroums usupations. The attempt of the isurpeis to take refuigo uider hi.i skirts enables him to deter them from a firther prosecution of their revolutiona. ry designs by such a declaration, and he owes it to the country and to his own fanmo to give this assirance of peaco. If lho fWl, it only imposes the greater obligation uponi oiler less distinguished men to endeavor to Ilin5:s the peoplo for the preservation of their government. and the prevention of a stiil more horn ble strife than that, through which we have passed. I ame, gentlemen, very truily yours, TPo Menssrs. HI. A. R.,1tterdanm and others, Cinicinnat i. Lo's Army. Henry Ward Boeehier says, in the concluding chapnlter of his novel: "lie (the hero of the story) had had part in tho last graud battles, stormed Lee's lines, earned every stop by des porato endeavor, and after overy. ad vantage, fotund Lec still firm, defiant, desperate'. No one so well know that incomparable skill and bravery of that now wanling army of Northern Virginia as they who for four years had fought it, and niow, in the hour of its stupremno disaster, were grinding it to powdler rather than forcing its surrender; and when, at length out off from its lines of retreat by that l ion of the battlefield, whose r'almg cavalry lay crouched across his only p)ath, hiis art ilhory gone, lhis tra ins taken or destroyed, his am munition expended, his chief oflicers slain, or wounded, or captured, his men reduced to a handful, overwearied by nights withont sleep, and days, taxed to the tmost, bee's army yieled, Genera[ Cathcart, anid .every other brave man, in their admiration felt that , die heroism of Leo's army was the oinly worthy measure of the peraoverance And brave. ry of the Army of the Potomac. In overy generous bosom rose the thought: Those are net of another nation, but our citizens--their mistakea, their evil cause, belonged to the system under whbich they wore reared, but their mill Lary skill and heroic bravery belong to the nation, that will never cease to mourn that such valor had been expend ed in a better cause, and that the iron pen must writo : 'Tha utiiioat valor tmisdirected. and wasted.'" The piers of the bridge over the MIssissippi river, at Omiaha, are to be built of atone quarried from the 1tocky monnains. oenoral Shormuan Spoaks. General Sheraun's speech at the anniver wiry celebration oft I h ollicers of the Army Of tfi Toiesseo, oil lie 13th1 inst,, is in austrkel u-oatrast with the Radical fulmainn. 'lns of the diy, iniasnucl ats it displays :100o of tho vindictive feclings or revolu tioanary derigns which the leaders of that plrty loset u' tpj)rJtu'nilty of exhibiting. I]- .appeah l a t h good feanso and good teciig 'it' i. ounrym'ien il belhatlf of the resitoraiion (t Ihi) oti forms nud theories of goveriuinait. I' slavery i; hebil to bo (te rel oause or the late war, thenm GenernI Sherman, himself bornk of New England parents, 'honestly balieves (bat. the people of Now lnghliad, in common With all the great North who shared in the original e:ncitsi aid enjoyed a large part of the pro. fits resulting from cotton and slave labor, should be charitable and liberal lit the finatl distributioni of the natural penalt ices." He proceced : ir childrenI must inherit Ilhn sins of lite fat lieru, even in lie t hird and fourth geno. rations, then none of us who traeo our ori gin back to the earlier days of this republic cia escope this matheimatical and philo sophical conchsion or, in tlie laigage of Dr, Draper : "Guihiy, t hen, both of us in thc sight. of Glod, let us not vex c'atch other with mutual caliniat iq, but hear our pun. ishmIuaent with huility." low hl's this punislnent been partitioned by the results ot' Ile war? We of ti North hive to tiiuailarn thtic los of fiatIers, i'irothers, Sonls, uiad ftieis, ai'd aro burdi'lclel with a vast na:ional delat biualing ol If-- iI tact, inl L-.. , and inl lotnr, never, I h1au1 , I b e in..i ed by any hontrablo tinan in A mrica, till every cent is paid. Look to (tie :South, and you who Went withli te through thst land can best say if they, too, have not be fearfully punieied. M ourning in every household, destlution written in broad1 chiaraioters ncross the wholo face of their country, cities in ashes and fields laid waste, their commiluerco gone, their system of labor annihilated and destroyed. Ruin, poverty ani dist ress everywhere, and now postilence adding the very cap-slieaf to their stack o' misery ; ter proud men begging for part o and appealing for permission to raise ft o I for their children ; her five muillions of slaves free, and their vaiuo lost to their former iasters forever. Now that slavery is gone. and gone f' eveer, with its uniha ppy wrack.s leti behiln-1i an-I nil angr is .-s d of ainy Set. (A' imen aigAi aptilp:-.ahng Io War wIe Ithey ha cve co:irts to Vecrtla their right. ad reaess their wrongs, I woahfl trust. our na:1110 .:t I destiny again to those granad ol I nia rol ha s Which raised outr country t hroagh the lao1 g tediols Vassalage Lf c14aolnization I; whi. I carried uts 'nfely through the brdan of of r ltevolutionanry war, mado our taitg f aatm s on ithe high seas in 1812; led otr ltqmn. Ing ariy Lo the gatcs of Mexio' ia 1847, aid huas borne ls gloriously th rough four years of as hard war as over tested the mitanhtlood ofanly pjeopIo. l.ot us revive, as fat' a. lies in our individu al power, that. sysa om wliach, Bana. cr.aft tells us, gniided our ftiahers before the Revolution- ltho system which had been revealed in Juadia -tle system which com hines and perfeets the sylnbolic wisdom of *ie Orient and (he rellciive genius of Grieece-lie system con forming to reason, yet. kindling Wi(th cnthlsiasm ; always has tenli tor refrolm, yet aIlways cols 1rvatives rla' mainag abaso'ute' eanriali ty ta anong men, yei. not saddtlenly nholishiig the inequal inst it ut ins uf sanciet ; ga.arant eeing abso. lute freedoim, yet. inlvoikiing the iaaaXa.rablo rel riet i'ons of dlaly ; ia Ilo haighest degree theoret.ionil, yet in ale highest degree prac tical ; awakening teh inner man ta a cone sciousness of his destiny, aa.t yet, adaipteal with exact harmony to the outward world ; ait once divine and human. This system was professed in every part of our widely extended country, and cradlod our froo d1otm1." With such a spirit pervading all our coun . try once more, wit.h our population increns ing t hirty-throo per cent. every ton years, with our national wealth developing in even greater ratio, with our frontiers pushing back in every airection, with farms and villatgos nand cities rapid.ly covering our vast dlomain, with mines of golad and silver and iron anal coal pouintg ouat, wealth faister than ever did the cot ton (bIds of the Southi, withI forly thousand miles of finished rail roads anald othetr thttaads iln rapiad progress, can any o doubalt our present strength, or csiaculate our Cntuare deost i ny ? Andia no0w in1 enntaSi, my1 frienda, T wvill say that. sincte owiar dlosed, nothing has given me the maost perfect satistnet ion tt to see the slairit you have all manifested since you east asido (lie solalier'sa garh. Go on, I say and enuconrage honest indus try everywhere. Form anti express your 110nest opinions like free meon, diso-namnge that system of personal abuse and detrao floan whtich has grown too amnch inte a hab it, and is assain Ot one' natioatl chtar'nteri frown upon violence, come from In what qutarteor it may, have unbounded faith In your counatry and its flaug. andI you wilt win for the Army of die Tennessee a fame in peaceo equal to (hat. whaich you fairly won for it In war ; anal ie who htolds thte tale of nations in the palm of hlis banal wilt see that your labors ar'j not in vain, anal that, the glory of your' country foar which you battle in war, atnd laborodt in peace, shall. not be tars nishied by an insidious toe. F~or the benotit otf thte few whites who vot -'d tho lisadical ticket in a lis city stays thle :'.'ibtinagtta ,S't' of' thla 21st. hnrt . , we suhiolin tie fotlowmig hieco of innchinoi poetry whtieb is goinag the rounis; u-s very nearly expressing their caditiot, ad stad. "Failso to your coutntrymenm anal your s-aee, Shtunnedl by true men in every plaoe, Dark at heart, though whilit face, Sold to the btaoks-to their disagraco, A terrIble trngedy hasia occurred In Aute triana Tyrol. A farmer after affectIng a heavy insurance on hals hocuse anid barans set fire to the latter, but wats discovered in the aot by one of hisa sbephterds. Hie therefo kIlled the sh ephmerd and muirderedl his wife and Infant son, finishing by cutting his own throt., PraIrIe fires still cent inne to rage in near. hy all sections of the West, but htavo been particularly sevet'e In Western and Northern MIssourI, whets Immense amounts of pro perty havo been destroyed. The prairies are said to ho buring along the lIne of the liinois Central Rail-oatd f'or a dhrttance ot 100 mIles, and in Unioni county, lilinois, (the flatnes extnd Into the woods. Ini Madisot, Fla,, a btoy of 14 years was tuarriod to a widow witha fye chili dren, (Correspondence of the New York 2Yines.] The Hurricane in the West Indies, TulS HUnnIOANB AT PORTO RICO. HAVANA, Saturday, Nov. 10. Tho hurricane at Porto Rico was muel more destructive than it was at first sup posed; fifly towns are known to have stif. fered more or less, and it Is feared that the .remaining sixteen, when heard from, will ily swell the list of horrors At Cidra, niuoty-six houses was destroyed and four persoi killed. At Loiza, twelty-seven hutises.were destroyed. At Agnasbuezins, all the buildings were destroyed and soven porsons were killed. A t Rio Grande, elev en persons were killed, forty houses blown dcwn, nearly all the cattle killed and the crops entirely ruined. At Corozal, fortY. five houses were overthrown. Fajardo was entirely destroyed and tlhirteen persons woro killed. The plantations in the vicini. ty have lost overything, cattle, farming im plemeuts, crops, &o, At Tabucoa the hurricano was of but short duration but the damago was im mense. Forty-eix familios are homeless and have lost everything. At Piodras thero are soventeen houses in ruins. Two tires occurred thero, but they wero speedi ly extinguished. At Patillas many houses wore destroyed and two persons wore kill At Ceiba seventy.sovon houses and the church were destroyed. Maunabo is a heiap of ruins and the crops are all destroy ed. At lumacao all the houses including the church, governinent house, military barricks., iaid warehouses are in ruins. On hlie prntatIions the cropis as well as tihe sugar-houses are destroyed. In the harbor the schooner 1-iabell 11. was sunk and seven of her crew perished ; these and ono person in the town were the only ones to porish. A To Deum was sung on the 31st. The Spanish war steamer Vasco de Balboa, which was at St. Thomas during the hurri cane, and fortunately escaped, though not without suffering much damage, arrived Wednesday via Porto Rico, bringing as passengers Don Pedro lesano, who comer commissioned by the Captain General of P'orto Itico to represent to the authorities hore the lamentable position of affairs, and ask pecuniary assistance from the Cubans. Before leaving lie had visited a greater portion of the island, and status that thero are over 3,000 familIes rendered entirely destituto and depe'nding for the present on charity. Over 200 persons have lost their lives. The sugar aid coffee crops are en tirely destroyed, and not on1' are the sugar a ad coffee factories in ruius, but in many o me the machinery, steam engines, &c., are completely lost. Subscriptions had been opened in all parts of the island, and thus Ifar the results had been very satis ftactory. In Port o Itlo, $2,316 were sub scribed the first day. There had been a meeting of the authorities, and it had been proposed to furnish farmcra withl seed for corn and potatoes free of oharge ; to do dway wlth duties for six months on beet, flour, codfish, rice and corn meal, and also that one year be given to the owners of plantations wheroin to pay taxes now due. A proposition was also made to admit American flour duty free for two months. The Captain General has all these matters under consideration, and was to act upon them at an early day. Directly after the arrival of the Donor Rosano the Captain (heneral called a meeting of the different editors of this oity and informed theni of the nission of that gentleman and its objoot, requesting them to use Ihe influence of their respectivo journals in its furtherance, an torizing them to receive subscriptions. 't'he subscription lists were at once prepar c'l, and the Dirootours of the Dairo de la Marina subsc-ibed, is the name of that ,ournal. 1$100. Commissions will be ap. pointed to call at the houses of the citizens, anld the governors of the different towns have keen instructed to do the sane. 1?. TUOMAs. The loss of life was much greater here than was at first supposed. Ono thousand is the number now announced, but as seven hundred and sixty three have already been wvashed ashoro by the waves, my impression is that the total will greatly exceed that number. It. was found impossible to give burial to all, therefore huge fires have been built, and many of the bodies are being burned to prevent putrefaction. Of the eight. steamutrs lost, six belonged to the lioyal Mail 8teamnship Company. The loss of the company is osttmnated at $12,000, 000' During the htnrrieane two distinct shocks of an eakhiquake was felt at St. 'Thiomas. Some of the edifices show the effects of it. All the streets are mor-a or less obstraict.. ed by the d.:bris of the houses, trees, &c., fiat wore leveled to the ground by t he force of the tornadi~o ; not a house in the town butt has paid tribute to its violencet houses that any one would have supposed eble to withstand any weather were denmol Ished as If they were built of cards. Pil lars oftsolid masonry, t wenty.eeven inehes square, 1Were prostrated by the wind, and in some oases, entire houses were lifted from their foundations, and carried a oon uiderable (distance. In the Cerro Frances the destruction was terrible, The district, called Guiriqul is a miountain of rins. The house of Senoer Moroin, which is of iron, and built very subst antially, was one of these whicha suf fered the most: the reef was carried off, and the wrought Iron pillars supporting the gallery was bent,. The pillars had been manu facturedl expressly of wrought iron. Of the bat-racks nothing -remains but the ruins, and the Governor's Garden has dis. appeared The hotels ni-c all destroyed, ntud thme gas-works stuffered severely. Io fiat, i', wnuld be an endless task to attempt giving all fihe details pertaining to the alamiity. The markets are almost. entirely bare of provisions, vegetables and fruits, and prices have risen frightfal. Thousands wander about. te streets, witheut horacs; clothing or means of subisfattee. Those houses which eseapedl total destruction have been thrown open by their owners or ocon pauts for the acconmodation of he suffer era, arnd are filled to repletion, th ugh net one-quarter of the destiu. are provided for. Ever-y effort ls belo . made by thme authiorities, atdit ItsI h6e that in a few days none wNi be witiosi ahelter. The Island of Vliguios did ne8, esoape; all the vessels. in thbe harbor were either driven ashtnro or sunk,' andI houses were blowit down or unr-oofed. The gart-istibi aided by thme citizens ad crews of the res. sels, gave what assistance they could to tbe dirowling and persons whose house. had bet% destroy ed, and the Governor and his deere tarylyelded lip their residences as a refuge for the sufferers. To add to the oorist-na. tion a fire broke out while the Jiurricane was at its hiei~zht. and. at one ima m..,a fearful proportions. It was, however, finally subduod. TORTOLA. The Island of Tortola suffired severely not a house remains, treos torn up by the roots and crops destroyod. Lator advioos state that it has been visited by an earth. quake, and that it Is completely stabinerged. If this be true, the loss of life must hayve been awful. The island has 10,000 inhabi tafits. MIARUTINIQ(UE5. On the nii fht of the 7th this island was visited by a turricane, which, although not so violent as that which prevailed at St. Thomas and Porto Rico, yet did considera ble dainage. At Fort do Franco the ship La Molaine and the steamer I e Rone woro driven ashore, and five smallor crafts were totally lost. At St. Pierre the French brig Cefiro, sohoonors Anemono, llubis and Dart. were driven ashore, and several lighterit and small boats wore smashed to pices. No lives wore lost in either place. QUAsIMoDo. RIESULT OF A TiIAL By MILITARY CoA MIssIoN.-Gonoral Orders No. 118, Issued from the lHeadquarters of the Second Mili tary District, at Charleston, under date of the 16th Inst., gives the charges, findings and sentences passed upon William J. Tolar, Thomas Powers and David Watkins, who were lately tried in Raleigh for killing one Archilo Bebee, colored, who had comnintiot a ra1e upon the person of a young lady, rj sident of v'ayet tevilie. wo ot hers besides those naned above, namely : Duncan G. MelInae and Samuel Phillips, were also held to bail for the sam6' offence, but In their case a nol/e prosrqui was entered, and they were discharged. The plea of the prison ers was 'n6t guilty," and the finding of the Court is "gnilty." They were sentenced 'to be hung by the neck intil they be deadi, at such tume and place as the proper au thorities may direct, Iwo-thirds of the nom bers of the Commission concurring theroin." The proceedings, finding and sentence of the Court are approved, but the latter is mitigated frotn death to fifteen years' m prisonment at hard labor at Fort Matsoa. Charleston News. RrnUCTIoN or Titinovaii PIItGs TO NEw Yonic.-Thursday last Messrs. Ma grathi hand Peake, the President and Super intendant respectively. of the South. Caro. lina lIailroad, and representatives of the Georgia, Western and Atlantic, Atlantic and West Point, Montgomery and West Point., Nashville and Chattanooga, and Memphis and Charleston Railroads, and several re presantatives of the steamship lines plying between New York and this city, met by ap pointment in Atlauta, for the purpose of agreeing upon some reduction of iaugh! freights by the steamers. It was finally concluded to reduce the through rate on cotton from one cent per pound to sixlty-fivo cents per hundred pounds, whioni was imno diately put in operation. An effort was also -ade to establish a fast through freight, line, and to- form a tariff by which corn could be shipped, on charges made per car load, lustead of forty-five cents per hundred as heretofore, but no agreement. was reach. ed, although it is altogether probable that both of the propositions will prevail at no distant day.-Charleston Courier. liluo.-Gentlemon who arrived by yes terday's Macon train informs us that the negro, Bill Smart laiss, the murderer of the lamented conductor, Jitke Cozartrowas hung at. Butler on Friday afternoon, at, 5 o'clock. lie kept up a bold fiont to the last., lie spoke a few words to the largo number pres ont. Alluding to the murder, Ie saliho did what he believed stay man In the situa tion would have have done. lie never had any idea of being hung. lie had called himself -Smart" because he had too much quoknoss tobe caught in his doings. Thus ended the life of a notorious thief and mur derer.-Columsburs Sun. CONVENToN I'IFVATVM IN CUALrsTON -DsTatoT.-Corrected returns show that Ix this District 4840 votes were cast on the question of Convention. Ali votes but one wore for Convention. The correct ed return of registered voters is, whit es 8688, and blacks 5192; total 8830. It was necessary that, 4418 votes, a majority of the registered votes, should be east to carry the qjuestlon of Convention, and the Convention is,there fore, defeated by '76 votes-Charleston, DI:ATII or Aaorttsa Ortt Ot-rsz.n.-~An other of our oldeost, most wideoly known and most tuniversally respectead citizens, one whose fam~nily has been identified with Edgo field fromr time Immemorial, has departed this life :-Wloey Olover, Esq. On Monday last, while ini town,. Mr. Glovor :was strick en down by paralysis, was convoyed on a bed to the residence of hieson, Mr. A. A. Olover. near this village, and died og the same night.- Edgefeild Advertiser. The ravagov of man-estineg tigeri in CeR tral India are so serious that elephant. have been placed at the disposal of the district ofiioor~s to enable themi to dlestroy them. Qr.. dinary tigers do harm only to Ltbocattle, aid tihe reward of 50rs. is snffloIent. to inito na tive hunters to pursume them, liut wit h man eaters the case Is different. One suoh brute kills Its ses of human beings In a year, and no ordinary native . eportsmau dare at tack It. Major General Ord, otf District No. 4, has arreste~d the friends and rela tivensof Colonel Robert A. Smith, late of the 10th Mississippi Con feder--~ ate Rlegiwsent, who were about to place on the grave of~ the dead soldier a small nmonumenit senit by hsa broths or from Sootlanid; The M'ississipps editors are dusting Gopneral Ord's jacket in a liveoly style for thmia potty piee of tyranny, - A trn adverlised for a wif4, afud requesf. ed erich c.andidate to enclose hof ftr/4, ds ri1t8A sprited ~oming ladyw~eoe teb 4d-not eteohe mycarte, forQweg Tievrei some anthority or pwijiga .oar( before a horse, I know of otis fur rmut g ohe be fore anh ass." -Gelnora3 )- Krby Sm ith arrived ire Naahvillo on the ud int ant. a.'nsi noe conneeted with thei otstadrn Teletaph Co Itpansy, of wbdhe ty I Baltimoro is to have a sk.tI*g park thin winter.