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Desportes Williams & 2o. Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. LTerms---$300 per Annum In dvance VOL. 11.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMIBER 25, 18G7. NO2 FAIRFIELD HERALD US PUIlISI-;t) WF1:I.;,Y lY )ESPORTES, WILLIAMS & 10. Tere.-Tin IIIRAL) Is publislied Week .y in lhe Town of Winnsbor', at S3.00 in trareably inl advaince. "' All transient. allvortiselments to bo .paid int advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per -square. NOT BY BREAD ALONE, DY DR. 1ol.0.AND. 01 not by bread alone is manhood nourish.. ed To its tiipreno estato! By every word of lod have lived and flour ished The good men and the great. Ay, not by bread alone I "0! not-hy bread alone 1" the sweet roses breathing In throbs of perfuime, speak: "'lut myriad hande, in earth and air, are wreathing Tho bilshes for miy cheeks. Ay, not by bread alone I" 101 not by bread alone !" proolaiats ir. thunder The ol oak from his crest; "1ut. suits and istorms upon me, and deep under The rocks in which I rest. Ay, not by 1: read alono I" 1,01 not by broad. alone!" the truth fil singing in vbees of the birds And from a tlnusanl paetured hills is ring ing The answer of the birds. "Ay, not by broad alone ?" o! not by bread alone! for life and -being Are finely complex all, And inerentent wit h elument agreeing, Must. feed them or the fall ; Ay, not, by bread alone I O!-iot by love alone, though strongest., pur That over swaycd the honart For strongest passion evermiore the surest , Detrands oach manly part. Ay, not by love alone! 0! no, by love alone is power engelered Until wititlin the soul The girt ot '-v-ry mo tive has beei rendered, it i n..: strong 31nd while. A, i. - s..v lovo alonw ! o! not by iove alone ise nanhood nourish ad To its suipreml'le estale By every word ot' God have lived and flour ishedl The gool men and the great. Ay, not by love alone! A Timely Warning, Ve have been regnested by one of the oflicera connected with the 1 nt-ernal Revennte Birean to bring tile folloving facts to ie attelition of our merchnnis, especially driuggiSts, grocers, and dealers in Onn' oods. "z. tORTkT TO Sron!-:lsIt:l'! nI Turi STAMP ON tN19'AcTU&ED A Ri cus*('y.-Over 300 .'itorolieeepers in Brook lyn have been complained of by two -pecial inspectors .of the iTterntal Reve. luie Dopartient for not having all ma.n dictired goods. e zposed for sale stamp ed as ithe law directs. The inspecte ors have been ah-int three weeks in overhauling the stocks of druggist, gros. cers, and others and they say that not more than one-hlf the goods Mn1n factured have the revenue stamp upon them. The fuer for each offenoui io.$50, on1ehalf of which goes t\O the .in for mer, and the , other half Lt? the 'Govern. Ini a letter dated Sep# ember 18, 1867, in answer t~o an. inqui ry, thea Commis sioneur says: "Sectiort 1 69 of the net cf Jose 39, 1864t, stiil i'n forco, dieclares flhat any person wh~ > i!i offer or ex. posec for sale any of the articles nemed in Schedule (3, o. in any ,amiernments thereto, whether the art'ic so ofleredj ef sposedi impoirteid, o rc re of oregn or domestic miannifactuire, shudtbcw deemedi the mnufaurerthereof, ed ubec t all the duties, liabilitias and penalties imposed by lawlin regard ato io sale of domestic articles without use .of 'the pr e siamp denoting itie .tax . paid 'iTe law referred to itn gear to arti cies in Sichedule 3 i-s as follows: 'For an1 tupon every packet, boy, bottle,spot, pial1, or oter enclosure, conltaininfg -pil, powders, tmectures, troches, loze-nges, pyrnpr~1, cordials, bit tors, naodynes, tonP ,es, 1/tetrs, hn, ments, salves, ointmaols, ~asLges, dirops, watr5, essencos9, Oils, Bpir ts, or other mediicinal preparations or comapt'i' ons whlatsoever, sold, seffere~ for sao or removed for coneunlptionl wnd sale, by anly person or perhaps ivate ver, wheye such packet, boss etc wygh its ,ontents, does not exceed T'?t retailspsico op. valuo, thle sum of twenty-five cel14), elle 0nlt," (and dne cent for .ovjey t wenty-h'.ye *cents additionAL) N. B. Offlin l preparations aniied n mixed or, costlppounded- specially for any person accordii g to the wri~n. preseniptionl of any phyra eian .or trgeonl *are exempt. PEJWUMPjRY -ANp pOSMEICS. "For attd at ote evogy packet, box, * bottle .Lt ial, .oy ( atherseoono conaningan ec~ e ,Lo ilgUt water, osm to, ai.oi p'o~a hair dressing, hair dye, tots leash, 4ohtrflee, ..achous, or any .similar-artic1s, the5kne Ic rate as for medicines' Soaps of all kinds :e it f'romT stam~p "No stamp tax is imposed upon any uncompouided Inedlicinal drug or cheini. cal. nor ipon any medicine, compound ed according to the United States o-' other nat.ional pharmacopcoia, or of which the full and formila is publisied in any of the dispensat-ories now or hiltherto in common nse among physi .cians or apothecaries, or in any uharna centi eIljom IoId now issued by any in corporated collece of pharmacy, nnless sold or offered for sah-, or a(vertised .under some other namo, form or guiso than that under wnlih they are several. lv denoininated aid laid k>win in sueh pharniacop'oia, dispensatories or join. lifUis. .No stamp tax is iuposed tion i' e1ines Sdld to, or for the use of any pr.. son, which may be mixed and comipl'InM Aed for laid person Iccordingr .o tie written prescription of a physicla' or surgeon. But. all ' iediciia l articles, whet her simple or compounded by any rnao, anthority or formula published or unpublished, which are put up in a style or manner similar tIo that of pat ent or proprietary medicines in genral, or idvertised in newspayers or by putblic iand bills for popular sale and ise, as having any spl'cial proprietary liim to merit, or to any pteiliar advai i .0 t ruode of prepa ration, (ak lil, t I or Fect, w'h-thor such e1 1n be r oal or Ir enth-d, 1are liable to the1( tax. "Whenl propri-tary miedicine., anwi )rcparations, perfinery and emm is ire staniped according to their r ! prices or valne in the imnidiate viini ;y of the place of manufacture, no addi. ,ional stamps ire necessary upon tIhem, whatkever may be the prico at which they tre offered." TO OtLOCM119. Canned meats, frits and vegetable pir no stamps, but Canned Fish, sar te'Ics, suces, syrnp, prepared mustard, ams and jellies, are liable, and should C wlka o.iria tely stamped, i. c., One cn, 1, or every oan, etc., not exceeding two )oinnids, and one cent foi every addition. i po-zad or fractional part there. I The Assessor for this District, Mr. Tascall, Iis ihe Regiatiois inl regard o Stamp D ' r grat itons distribu- r .i01. Sln JouxN FRANIZrmi.-Our brother Ia t. a 11!Is proscu 1 ig his search for v ho remains of his late and emiient bro her, Sir John Franklin. It appears V hat, having been disappointed in ob-- ' aining a teaml of dogs, Captain Hall I lad started on a sledging tour, in th :nnirse of which lie met a party of hos .ile H&qinimanx, froi whom he learned lhmt aboutl tie time of the loss of Sir 1ohn Franklin's vessel sone white men c >arried a dead body or ehore, an biilt v i brick vault, which they carefully co- 1 1 mented, and in which they deposited it yorpse, afterward covering Mthe vault witlh heavy stone flapg. This body Mr. Hall believes to be the body of Sir John Frankln, and his iitcntioeu is 1.0 visit the locality, an.1 satisfy himself fpon the point, ii possible. Since, how- C v,1 this region is mnhabited b,, hostile natives, Mr. Hlall has thought it neces- I 5ary t.o take with him a small force of whilo men. To seenre this lie ofiered $500 in gold each to any five men from the whaling fleet who would accompany r him. Ofcourso he secured his men, to C thatt it is not impirobabli that noet-aunm- I met we may roceive definite information 1 as to the resting-place of Sir Johni I F'ranklin. Captain Hall has secured many valuable articles formorhy owned b~y Sir John Franklin's. party. -Natonal F9'recmason. SNOW S'roRss.-The greatest snow storm recorded .in :Rnssia, ocenrred on th e-steppes of Kirghecez in Siberia,in. 1607, destroying 285,000 horses, 30,--1 400 cattle, 1,000,000 shopp, and 10, 000 camels. The greatest recorded in England ais that -of 1814, -in which,, for forty-eight hor's, the. snow feli so furiously that drifts of sixteen, twen ty, and oven twenty-fonu' feot v cre re corded in various places. In the , Sonth of Scotland, in 1820, there were thirtoon. drifty -days, which killed iinetenthns of all the sheep. On hsk dale Moor, out of 20,000 only 45 wero'left talivo, and the shecphio'de everywhere built up huge semicitou lar walls of the dead creatures, to rif ford shelter to the liv ing till the gale abould end, An inch an hour is thought to be the average rate of do posit, though four incs are said to havo~fallen during the severe storm in thiw~tato.January.3, 1859. NAnnew Epcal'r.-Trhe down pas songer krain from Columbia last Fri day had-a very narrowv and fortunate. escanpo by the timnely discovery of a't ,broken tall, from what might have boon a seriQus acoldent, attended with Jlossof life. The disootory was madaoby' Mr. eGeerge Bryant, while' walking' froWnOra obuyg to R~owoist Ptin'p V a of t~ ot~ve rail, Mir. Byra ~ ~~ti otT Un l tht aali tll "'idle roin Oo umbht, tine sto 0pa1'4i imn' to pie venti any 'acol wti 4 t% spa - egere doning this actio( of ofNdw Y3t,2/91148 lyanduna Rtlhnf moneywh4h %v# presented to }ir. 1lryantnM a fuoro subt stantlal testimonial of their apprela. tion of his 'noble act.'- Cour'ir. The South Carolina Con ference, The Souih Carolina Conferonce, ofr the Methodist EI4piscopal CIIurch, souti, comimienced its SeSSiOn Oil the I lI it inst., at. Morgianton N. C. We extract the Tollowing ilteiis of interest from the cor respondence of the Charleston News whici embraco threo days' proceed I ngs : "Conferece was o1ned at 9 o'clock this morning. by Bishop Doggett in the chair. After the usaiml relfigio;is ser-vices, he delivered an addrs4 to the -EemIbers prer8enIt. T was the first time he had ever imet with the South Caroli nt 'Jonference III sessioni. Io regarded an.1 annual Confer('ec a most e important occasion. It wa, poIliar to \lfitbl sim-an annuul r. oion (T inreaclers n the sympathy of;, 1 w,\v alld inter st. 'What a charm still -ids the nemory of early :!coilectionis of such therings' i. is an aiiinonl iview of ho lahors of the past. year and 1s be-al lse ; if retnrn'd to the saine field of abor, it is by a re affi rmaLtioln of I he ippointitment. All yearsi are not alike ; Ahe past has 1 -een one of peculiar trial. ie early heroes of Me'tlhodi m gave no h'iglt ter. exaipiles of stl. I-sacrificing do. iotain to Ihie interev. of Christianity b m our prachers for the past fev -Til. io!l being ca:lhd, ! oly eighty ht-!u - ne in, howvver, 'lirin. tle liy . -, : he la v deegt 1 lcted dutr ng tihe year, foil! vet wpy i ere reported ros(nt 1te r1x6ea. The .:nidance is tl0 P1malk0et known for miay years. Rev. . A. Mood was lIn- sit cr. -v : evs. F. M. K .nne y, 0. A. D)arby) andl. Lander, Assist. lit. "A communiention wnas read from tv. A. I r. BIdforl, eint of the i-Ub shing house at Nashville, setting forth hat although upon the resumpn n of perations aftier the last Getier Con. "rence, little moro was expeced- I hn a meet current expense.3, a plrot o, enmly *1*6.000 had berii realized to ate. The AdvocaCe hI contributed to iis item largely. The Qeray Behool ' ~ilor, one of I he be-st npapers of its lass in A mrk-, has reamhed a. circula i-n of only 22,MO. I' any of your hadi3<h-siro a good paper for their A. ]I. Bedford, Nashville, and I rill iiure them not to) lie disappoint-ed. 'lie publi' hmg linse is in debt-and lint Southern institution is not. ?- but ,es cloarly out by the end of another "A colmuniention from Rev. 1". If. lyers, . 1)., set Irth thecondition and ro5)pects of the Soulthern C/wistian 'Id. 0 ote. it is oi rising ground, and a outinuance of the pres;ent patronage dl relieve it of all difficulty within the ext year. "11evs. A. McCorquiodalc, S. B. 01n11s, A. L-. Smith, W. 11. Lawton, 4 Z C. Oliver and F M. Morgan were dded to the npern umerary list, at their iwn request. "Revs. IR. B. Alston, Whitefoord 1m) D., 1". A. Johnson and WV. 1. altom were placed on the supornu nerary list. "Dr. Ford, a lay member of the North *.arolina Confereiice, was introduced to be Conference, and presented tle plan dlopted by the Trustees of Olin flight kchool. for the uevation of iat institit ion and 'he bienefit. of SOntthern young nan, by conve'rting it in to on agriculta a] and mechlanical college." Trni ConsEaVATTve BArLAxC.-in 856 Mr. IBuchanan was made Prosi lent by a popular -vote of' 1,828,229. Plis was a minority of all the votes cast, Leremont havmng received 1,842,1 64, mnd Fillmore 847.625. In 1800 there vas again a minority Presidenit, Mr. lincoln receiving 1,8nG,4I52, Douglna i ,375,157, Brockinbridige 8417,953. and 3,ll 5:0,0.'',I, .' vole w'hich, comb'ined, vould hiave deifeated Mfr. incoe~ln by iearly a million majority. A t the Iast >r'osidenitial contest. will part of tho ,be States out, a cha~nge of fivo pr' :ent. on t.ho~ whole (If then votes east wvould have given M'-ch-1llan a majorWy. WVhere parties are so nearly eveniy h~al meced as tlhose f'igmiars indicate. it. t-each 35 to both the iniportance of moiderati on md keeping in viow the commio' good, nstead of' refusmng to riso above partisan onqiderations. VThe pitiriotie and .con morvative e'lemenlts of{ the country may iot be' able to form a third party thiat man cope with either of the exisimg po. it ical organ iza lions, but they are able, rs they hsve shown Tately', to throw. weight enough into the scale of ay party which approaches miost nearly to hi ir con servativye and r'at,ionial views to give it success. Dicinss.--Theo Man-chtester (Enag.) Guar'dian says that Mr. Dlickens carries to AKmorica his own platlormn anid desk lighting fixtures. It adds theo more cu rlous than itmyottant. fiact that in 1842, when Mr. Dickens sailed for A4merica, in one of the Canard boats, he was "booked" by Mr. Blurgs, who 4Lill* cts in thb same capacity' ttnd sit~e at 'tilo eiue desk inr tko Company's office As ens reeegmzvod him at once, .And 9fn dry oeiving his' lioket cordilly~shook Alande aMl'nbinded ifr, Dlarges of the direnpu. This river ?oe for' the new suspeson idge at N~iagara Pall. weighs one 1850 tons, and is transported In ojfteen ogre The Rich Mon of 0.ngtess. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Comimerciat thus skot hesa few of the mtonied ment of Congress: "'hire are from half a dozen to a iozeni men of1 great, weatlthI in the present Coiigresst. Soinetimiues riches represent great and st er ling quahties in the possessors-oftener tkey fre the result of acqrtired or inherited good luck. Ait outlining for your readers a few of the millionaires of Congress it is not with i a view of exalting any man because of' his wealth, but to g-adfty a reasonable and almost univorsal e-iosity t(, know the persolniality or conspicuous oi Successful Men. 1lon1 Oakes A mes. of Massachusetts, came into Congress in 1862, being tihen, as now, the head of one of' the hleaviest ntiad wenlibi est manufacturing firms of New England. Everybo.13' who knows anything about Iho lardwyale, trade, (and who doC3 not ?) is familiar. with the fact. that. "Aties' sjctdes andl shovels" are a leading staple of' the busitness, without. it stock of which k no up country slore or cross roads grocery inl tall lie States and territories or America is considered cotpletec. Having early got. a repatiton for making a good article, the firm have made the most of* it, and the stamp of "Atues" onl a spade is n giuirantes ofexcellenco so universally trustvd, lint from Cape Sable to Rio Jaieiro you. will !tind them in universal use. The headquars ters of this manufacture are at Easton, a little oliscure town in Eastern Massachu. setts, and the profits of the enormous manufacue are so large that. Onhes Ames returnel an income of '141,000 in I8;, and nbont a4 .much more in 1867. At tlie mino lime, itreo other mombers oflie Aties fainly netted anl intcome of $22.5,00o, Or a (titarter of a m;1lli betiwne-em thetm. %%'&tht all this good fortune, Onkcs Ames is not oe Olyour. puled up or purse-proud aristocrats, but, a homely, ier.iy man of business, whose wife and family dress a plainly as possible. The Congressmain hin self is a Iltidietl of the ikdicals, believes tot only inl negroes' rights, but wolnan's 'ights, atil I hough Ie nove" made a speech, (not leing given to flint partiotilar ''vitini :y,'') is alw'ays found voting with the van. liuar:l of the lIepublicakns, lIe is sixty. hreo, years old, and a bluff, heavy-built, ;ood-liumored, offhand niman, wh 3 his just aken the biggest contract at rnilroad hitill, 1g, to ease off his superfluous capifil, I hat vn's ever undertaken itn the world. it . the construction of the Rocky Mountain Iection of the Pacifl Itailroad, ntd involves >ver thirty millions of dollars. It would, doubtless, surprise some ,very i ncwing persons in the political world to >o told that Fernando Wood is a millionaire. (et tle worldly possessions of the ci-dcvant 6dayor of New York and present member of i ,ongrees from that. imperial city, were reek- I med at $3.000,000 in 1863. Here is an omWance 01 that, rap1 itit growLh or &-tine orat vhici Ne-w York has witnessed so many. n 1880 Fernando Wood was a poor sogar nanuf'acturer, (or manufacturer of poor1 ejars, which ever the reader pleases,) in i mne of the lower wards of New York city k few years lat er ha pushied himself li 0 he proprietorship of ono of thlie itost. Iluera ;ve coriet'groceries in Washiingtont steet. hent fronting on tite North River, as West. tr.eet does now. Io sold ship stores,clinn llery, and, last, not least, liquor. The lat er commodity being then, as now, li prima lemand a mong boat main and stevedores, and Ir. Wood itving made advantageous ar -angements for selling to these thirsty cus oniers ot otedit, and taking it out of their reek's wages every Saturday night., to lisponsed more liquor than any other shop. iud profits were, of course, "upward of onsiderable." From this boginuing, Wood -ranched out into the business of a general ncrohant. and ship owiter, and, being gifted vith remarkable shrewdness, ho soon got ,omnmand of every considerable means. In [841 ie ran for Congress, and was elected. lie was twice chosen mayor of New York, from 1854 to-1856,) and it is nmt commonly elieved In that. itniaculate city that, his tolitical career coutributed to impoverish tim in the least. In marrying the accomplished and well >ducated datughtter of Drake Mills, one of he molhant. princes of New York, Fern an lo Wood achieved antthier step in his suc. sessful career as a man of .wealth at of the world. It was Drake Mills' brothter who gave his name to the celebr'ated Mlills Hlouse Lit Charlesten, andl Drake Mills himself, wvhen in the grocery house of imnit-ih, Mills fz Co., used -to be the Now York consigniee of' hiugo crops of rice front the Carolina mtarsht as-a hightly profitable trade. Ferntando Wood) is 4porsonilly -precio1, he t'everse of tlha style ot' man popularly risssooiat ed wit h his name. Tall, aonder, Lithe, pale-faced, almost. silvet'-hairedw, 'with a fashiontably ecut grintled must ache,anmoot hi shaven face, highty polished manners andl eltepless energy antd will, F'ernando Wood 'op esents, at sixt.y'five years, a life-long struggle to conqluer fortutne, position and a nante, In the midst of obistaclcs, aitd in the Lteetht of a reputtatlon whkich would have cpaitikly ruined ant ordinatry man. He is nww, i-,r 1hoi third ftime it. Congress, antd seems to have a permae'ncnt nhinlt.y for po litical life. E~x-Gov. Bttows.---t anothter 'column will be found a letter of Ex-Gov. lBro-wn to Mr Parrott, on this suhieot or relief, and the ditties of thse convenition nt it tlfing in A tlanta, on that euhject. Thme Governor, as usual, rides his old hobby, oeseensibly for tie .benefit of-theapeoor man, but undoubted ly wish-an eye single-to a future candidacy of some sort,, either for.-Governor under fthe contittutien about to be framed, or for Uni ted States Senator. We regret, to -see the. Governor' use the expresslon "loanded aris tocraeya" in speaking of thec large planters ot the south But tihtis only ini keeping with tho line of policy hto is tnow pursuing, We reniember that in one of his letters last. summor, 'ho used fth word "rebellton" sxhen-speaking of the late war. Such ox. prosslotns grato -harshly upon f-he ear of Georgians, and tmore especially when iteed by a man who formerly was honored iry his oountrymn wit the highestoffoin their gift1 and who was one o-the cbiet pro, nmfoe of t-he niso,oalled"' rebllon.-+Usa traal Georgians. iN Suat Bss*-GNBEAbnAlti.'~ 'We lekentfoM the 'Washington -Biar that oil *Eatesday last, sthat,-is ealiehNaoa State'Ocunelil of fhle Soldileta'aend.~,lors Union 'L g eid secret sesalona, et Wad ~ '76l~-hanR rote *ere-te o 4. iMeghtrow (fal-esgn,.soeh of w lob 'Were table$~ 4fter-mitbb dlscuuion flhereon. It has tr'anaplired that General Grant Is the obhle of the Idagpe for the Presidency. - .- . The Earthquake in the West Tndiest. The New York Compaiy's wreckiog steamner Rtelief, Caitrdnu Willinis, from St Thonas via Nassau, pu, t into this port yes terday morning for coal. Through hI io a. tontion of her oflicers wo have obtainieI some further particulars of tho terribe earthquake on the 18th of last, month, by which nearly every vessel in the harbor of St.. Thomas, nunlleeting hetween eighty ind ninety, were totally -dent-ryod, and lio whole frontier or business portion of St. Thomas, rendered a mass of ruins. The principal destruction was caused by what tie oflicers of the Relief term a fromendous bolter or bar of sea, which imnmediately fol. lowed the enrthonake, the water rising to the height of twenty-fivo or thirty feet above tle level of the sea, sweeping and rolling over every vesol, and siinkiiig them. with but. one or t-wo cseoptiols of oliled States iiman-of-war ships. -Th1 iusines., poitn o f the town was shmliorged, anit the bitildirs which had been already terribly snnk en by the earlhiquake, woro nearly all levelled to a nuss by tihe torruflii force of Iater, which dashed against and rotell over them. A g'eer-t portion of the population Iled to the hills and tinintain , and were, diring tlie stay of tle steametr, living inl tcnts in a state of extreme des-itition and almost ob. solute starvation, -having been suddenly de prived of all their effects - and provisiois. The loss of life is also said to havO been terrible. lletween ono nd two hundred (lead bodies in a line hudbeen-pickod up. No estimate of the valte of property des. troyod could to mado. This earthquike and great un-heaving of the sea ex tended along tie whole coast. At. Santa Cruz. nbout ftirty miles 4'rom 8- Thomas, lie Uii led States teamer, Mlonongahola was oar ried over a sea-wall, a-hout six feet above lihe level of t-he -4on, and now -lies up in one of the streets of' tie (town near Ihe market. The United States stcamer h)e Sot, sinwe arrived at. Fortre.n Monroe, wnas r.!-ivr ashoro and lost, a portion of her k4el. The Susgitehanna was also driveni nihore, somie of her t imbers stairted, aind causing haer it) leak badly. 'The Relief winh h:1s -a crew of rhorf fifty, offlicera and mon, Ieinoiding experiec-' ed diver's, nado several unsiieessful ut. lempts to raise a number of thbe sunken ves ols. Sie experienced very heavy went her huring her passage fron St. Ihomas to this .orlt. Many of tile moechants, at fite time( of ho departure of tihe steamer, were repa ir. ng damages, na much as possible, Vnd had esulied business. Tihe Custom louse, vhich escaped (esti'uction, hal also been -- 'poned for businems.-Charleston Courier ANG TEsT IN h NT.--QtitC an itteresting incident took rlace at tie (ait ho' ioOrphans' Fair'Roomi, on Manin-stret, l'hiursday night last. Mr. Jefferson I)avis,' VJ. "'"A %1,11M VISMI tII ir oil that night, aid, 17hifist he was enjoy' ng the delicacies at the suppre table, lhe adies and gelitlelel lire-seit ngreed to 'aille ofl' a most beautiful segar stamil wilh I nmisical box attached, which hld b1een1 tent, with many other handsome atictiles, 'ron lirussels, liolgium. the winner to pre ent it to him. The raille occurrel, antl ho. prize was won by a gentlemn:ull furom llaltimore, Mr. Al---, W-ho relpiested that. Mliss 11. C. I1-, the interesting young lady who was instrumental in getting up ho iraifle. should present It. in the name of those who had contiributed. Miss 11- , lippronching the ex.President said : "'Mir. Davis-in the natue and at flue request of the gentlman who won the prize, and of those ladies and geitleinen who contributed. I present. you this token of our respect for you. tI le President oft lie Coofederato States. We only wish we had somnething iore worthy of your accept fine, but, after looking neo(md Ihe t ible, finmid notlhing more suitiblo, atd, tiotigh Sma11ll the gift., we l.ope youl will nceopt it. We wish from our hoarts every blessing for yourself and family." In reply, Mr. Divis said "I itank you andt the litdies nnd geid in inen for your Iiindness, and will place this with the gold.headed canO, pTreseIted to ile by the Catholic ladies of Norfolk, who heltl a fnir' for a chnriable purtpose lnst Ppinug. Your' inldness wilt not be for'got ten. IThe Catholios ihave always been my fr'iends, aind I cannot f'or'gt the cir'cumtstane that thoe IHoly LFather, the head of your' Chur'ch, wa-s thle first sovereignl who sent, no hi bless ing in any milsfor'tunes. Maly God bless you all." After which Mir. Davis doptnrted, amidst the adiens and blessigs or thoese prosent. iJichmond igi, O0th uit, A n., Ttrnrtrimi.-TIhe ethinological dec trines racently advanced b~y 'Ar'iel"hlavo attracted conlsiderale attention, uand vai ens eflorts hiava been made to recfute them; but a clincher was deivor'ed yesterday by a dat-key that exhiauisted the arrgument. In auccorndanice with an~ invitation tendered'C~ them, the Japanese visited thle Christ mas Tree yctordhay mloring, and attraetedl universal ntientioni by their str'ango dr'ess, and pleculiar manniers. On leaving the hall they were closely scanned by a nmber' otf negroes, who viewed the Celestiats wit h a eiie's eye, and sne of the party thus uin. burdened himself: "If Ariel cal(1 de nigger a beast. I wonder what, he call doe. They heap more like a boast, thuan a nigger'," aad 110 ttalkos off fully satissfed that hec was a man and a brother'. Tho'Japs have excited sotoe curiosIty among the negroes, and whenever they have apeared In the streets have bean followed by large crowds who hail them as the Injuns, ad pass amutsing commients onl theIr goneral appemarance. (V/harleston Netes. -Mfay a man open his wife's private lof. ters? Tihe normal husbandt will pr'omplly answer, yes. The ilght-milnded inmhetr of' a fatnily will perhaps more decidedly an. swer, yes.--wih possibly a slight re-servn Lion Iin Iavnu of v'ry, very privato lotters, Tito Court of Appeals at. Loiavillo says nou; atnd in doing so, It dwells with such feorI upon "the chafto and friondlly lotters~" Whioh a married woman may ~write and 944419, Widt -may not like to show, and in general (itpda the possibilitIes of sisterly, matronly, or even Platoni a oorrespondonce , ip~ pnot call f'or coiijugal *uppr'vision tca*@onnoet )but thinue that the nha # adthe loyal rnuternIlai weitt4 411 .b'4f(net ontift~Md > the reason. ing. "AM tlame*tne, we woud not ad. Jie o produre-too anh, es 'rtle enudtt, otn this decisio1.' 0? .Ita re'*pet toe pao wit ~ ao~hem. Alhappy 1(glIstauan, who has bseen per snItte t rsdVecia'a new book, say. It ie rvaylte nie. The Sleeping Oar Palaco, Q11ito a im1iiber of :'dies and gentle mOn yesterday visited the "MF.lorida," the sleeping car of Messrs. Pullman, Kimball & Raimisey, which was on "x'. h bition on the track of the South Care. imu Railroad, above Ann street. Sie is certainly more ebmpleto and conveniont in her arrangements, elegant i lnish, and gorgeous in decorations, than anything of tie kind over before seen couth of the Ohio River, and noth ing less than the Palace Steamers, Grcag 14>public or Robert J. Lee, bears any comparison to this car. Our descriptiom .'n give but little idea of the beauty and elegance, but w%% wil.1 give briefly her di?-Iisions trimnig, INGt, etc. The "Fllorida" is fifty-four feet long, 'eu and a hnlf wide, and thirteen feer six inches high. At either end of the car is an elegant toilet, with marble slabs, silver trimmiig, splendid mirrors and all iecessary fixtures for ladies and C.tien. These saloons are divided from tho main portion of the car by an elaborately finishod partition of emboss ed plate glass and black walnut. The centre of the car is divided into ton see tions or two double berths each, one state room, and one elegawtlv fitted fan. ily room, which lis one single and two .douhle borths, two easy chairs, table, mirrors, etc. The inside wood work is of black wal nut, surmouited with lhandsome carv ings, tastefully embellished with gilding. Tlho -oeiling and upper berths are le. gantly froscoed, which gives a very chcerful appearance. Each berth is fur. misled with a handsome mirror, and at the end of the car is along mirror givin fill leigth views. In the centre of the car are two linen closets, between which hanga a splendid curtain with tihe name of the car worked across tihe top in gold ,eters. The sofas aro trimmed with moqeiott and the carpets and curtains are the Rn eat ever brought to this country. Eack berth or bud is (urnished with a good hair mattress, linen sheets, ,argo pillows, and the most beautiful blankets we over vnw. In brief, the entiro intornal ar rangemont and appearanco of the spa eious coach resembles the saloon of am mlegant first class steamer-so'little has It in common with the cramped look of ffNV6 P W hlr 'Cken 4p'Wk 0 my improvement. The "Florida was built at the works >f Gilbert Bush & Co. Troy, New York, it, a cost of t wenty thousand dollars, and s to be run on the A tlantic and Gulf R ailroad from Savannah to Jacksonville. nch enomgy and enterprise as in mani Isted by the managets of the Pullman, Kiimball & Ramsey Company, is certain ly commendable ind worthy or success. Ve hope tie people of the South will a'ipecte and patronize these elegant mars, i order that we may have thema :)t every road south of the Ohio Riv mr. -Cl2wrleston Mfercury. "IIONonIant.."- The Journed of Commerx is gua to see that the United 3tates Sanate have taken the irat etep owards blotting out the absurd and mprlinous titl "HIonorable" (ton people's vocabulary. The editor lays : Ti this land of Democracy, the only tensibl, iso of titles is to sasist in deter mining a man's identity. Governri, General. Judge, Reverend, Doctor and the like may properly be employed in~ leoscribing ai person br cano they ma-. Leorially assist in forming ant idea of him. Bmut "Honorable" meants-nothing. It is as common and empt~y as "Faquiro," that rzoro mnarkc which every school boy hitches ont to htimaself, and the force of comnpirisoni can tie fuirther go; The innumerable host who claim to wear the title of "Ho~norable" by virtue of' their memibership of a common connel or a legislahtur", or the occupaney of some public offie giv-en to thrnm becanso other people will not take it, contains so large a proportion of very bad mein that is coining to be consilered a badge of disgrato to-have it, tarkedl to one's name. Liet any mani who prides riim soll ont his respectalo position in private society, look over th,e long liet of "Hon-1 orablea" which adorn the call for some ward meeting, aind see if ho would 1.ko to be catalogued with them. The ao tion of the Senatos shows that they are Comnselott8 of the degradation #iicli the tubl ha undergone, and are desirous of elevating themnselves by getting rit4 of it. Lot seome member of our Iegl. tutro make a similar move. PIrGcOLAtJ, FalisNseitiP.-I0 'iinthAls near Bioston, theore is a pond -where a little girL; now moore than ulxteen yearspid, who., resides noet th9 banik, has 1amod ' Ds fishes to a remmarkable. degree, .she tbega:t b thtowing ci-umbs imd~ the waler. .Gidnal ly fihsc -learned ito Willngish. her foot. of ops, Mad darted to tho edge whenever ie 4mppreojkEd, and now thiey will adiiually te. d: outof her balud, allow Iser to togob theIr #os1y sides. Ayeerable tItilq Is:.AMtpmg her regular -senstdhers. Th~e cose of Van Amburh over his wild beant iS Ih$ Visit bed l~~ bee aepr. aoe tin* u o tteI O, I theni eo.,WI 3v teuIr overipoImptfg - was net p h S.a'o Novwt. U etra.-Th ae h)rlington South erner Pays: Wu elarni that a serions air tool ;pace sone twentfy iiles \Vest of th< etirt honse, Onl Lynche's Creek. Thest nre the piartictilirs Ra we get them : Mr. Dennis McKevlin -lato postnastet at Thomas' Cross Roads, and Mr. Sw. gars--owner of Segars' Mills-had not been on friendly terms for some time, anid on Wednesday afternoon Mr. M. Kovlin met Mr. Sogarg, and had comno high words, in reereice to a charge of cmtinig Segar's rili daim--said to have beel niado by Segars against McKovlin. It ii stated tit Mr. .lluk n innter. el Mr. Segars to mot. :mi and fight it ont ; that ho, tire said Se9garR, did meet Mr. McKevlin-bothi with guns-atind that the latter snapped one or more cnps at Mr. 6ogars, and then Mr. S. fired both barre!la at Mr. AleKevlim, killinig him at once. James Mason, 1sq., has been eleted President of 11he King- Monntain Rail. road, v'ire General C. M. Law, resigned. Trains are now rnn from Yorkvillo to Chester, daily, and connection is mado with the tainns on tihe Charlotte Road on Tesdaya, Thursdays and Batnr. days. 'The gin houise of Mr. W. Salhmzs, near Clng Mill, York Distriet, W:3 nccident alb- burned on Satuniay of last week, with fouriteei nfles of cotton. Oin last trday n ighl, two bales of cott)m were stoleni from Mr. V. P. B. laynsworith, of Snmter, and on Tues d:y ingh t a rii was nle on toh com m y stori .1 (ile saiin pce. TI, Snotcr N'uns vcompliients the gatiin, ow about to leave that. place, for good condnct. Things are in a bud way in Darbing ,on istirict.. uring thio past, wook, one 1an's corin cri) and two other out. hoises, and another man's cotton gin have been hrnid by incenuliaries. The poople considkr themiselves in snch dan ger that they have petitioned Gen ral Canby not, to remove tihe garri won. Togs from Tennessee ar arriving inl A udlerson, and some have buon sold at ) Cents per poniid gross. 'aeIlC htorO 01 i'.iJ ait % %i , in iiu re on, was rolI.-d on Monday ia't. A gin honse, in. Anlertion, was ac bident iurned on Friday of last Tlie dwelling of Mr. P. Kay, of An ron, vas uii rd by iniendiaries il Smnila l t, witile tie fimruily were 'T'ir. Seearn or A W61s -O LOYAL. CITIzENs. l'ho following was omitted noin the regular report of the proceedings of the House of fhnpresenitaives, on Moniay lnas: "Mr. Mungen-Jp n.k (-he unnninons con Rent of the lionne to u ter the following pre aildo and resolulion "WhereaR. on the notontl page of tho pamphlet entild 'Report of the Second Anditor of the Treasury, Deembor2,187,' there appears an item of expeindituire of evorail hinudred dollars on arcomnt of 'sup Jlying nrm1s and mu1nitii ions of war o loyal Ciltizen in rvoited $Iates ;' iherefore, "Re itre.hi by the l/mue of aerese'nta. liers o ut' United States, T hat ilho eoreiary of (lie 1'renury bio instrucled to report fot1with to thisi 1(ilouro th14) facts conneoled wi It this expenditin:' ; v ho snch loyal citizens were ; ihe evidleuie of I heir loyaly; whether t hey were wihit e or coloredl ; and t(he namne of (the Xtato or States whichl wore ini revolt, wheni suich exponiditure was miade. Mir. Maynard--''1 object." The information here called for will be interest ing to there country. 'The Is much disposition to know what Htates were "Ina revolt" in l-8(7, arnd to whom enred (heo bonefit of this miysterious exponidituro for arms and muraitionms of'war for "loyal elti aeons." From (the ennornuas of thes Conto aman freom Tlennesseeo to prevent the fintro dnotion Of t ho finple resolti on of infiniry, it may well lbe infeired thiat thin expendi ture was . miae in behalf of Birownlow's nminionst, anid ihat thoro is ''someihinig rot.. ien in Denmark'' wicha theo represueuntztive ofilie so..called Tloninssee loyally would f'ain hiide fromiu thle pulir gnae. It in (o be hioped thiat. .\r. Mtuingeti wiil press the reso lfin at thie earlhest opportnnity. -Xtionl fnlligencer. CoSa" oF COlonE.'ssoMAL f, vm'o~nisTR oo .--Tn'un .ITrranIY S9A'raAviti.---lThe cost of Congressioniil Rleconstruction Is new the suojeet of general coomnt nanong members ef all shades of politice. ntid the most-R adf. oral are wi noi ng uander thetIgumros asu present ed by the Pauymaster.General of -the :army. Baying nothing of the millions already -ap prepriatod and disbutrsed the call -eor $1, 402,251 to pay thie defloiey tn General Bohoelld's departmtent, and $1,262,000 In Oeneral Pope's dopi'rtment, has astonished theg gentlemen whto have mounted the hobby of' retrench ment--and could ft -he done wvithot un exposure of their previous login lationi a groat lhue and ory wou~d' *hb raised b~y (lie Radical cooonmfsts ina Congress. Th'fose deflolenoiesu, however, involve (the propriety .of thie Recothstruotien adfi5 and the admifniration of liht' roodlmon's 14i. reau, and henoo those attms, and all- othier surns whi ch m0y he~flledl fow during the present Congress,.will lbe voted by the Rad total znajeritfos in th0 tWo flouces. Nevada la a f reeless coutntry. The want of fuel Is a great drawbhaok from the -valute of the mineins that Sta'tee$ 4p hills iv biqon eyplored for.surpplion of thie,. ttue~ Oedars and 1)1u~ t1 in tres, y7i~ ic ot pe 'the eniy fuel usged be.dd tile rt'esch bJI Neveda mount asalt. We Mediouet~~* Age that there wave-pept 'bed on the jrV b'oldt,~ tnd 'on" 4Wote of (he ~Ptli i14 way. wuts kapwo4n sink of the hInmboktt T!his a iI'aditg 4 vast store of fuel, and it, given reason~ to hans for, ftiet taa depnaite. Thle nat 1a,