The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, December 25, 1867, Image 4
Solected Poetry.
IOK RII WIIEq HE'S DOWN.
Wheu the isuu of prosperit,y's shi-aig,
And a man's growing riohor every day
When in easo and fin comfort reolinuing,
And golden sioress orowns his way
How ftrionds will tho flook about him,
But it' fortune sliould happen to frown,
Hlow quiokly ho'll got the "cold shoulder,''
And be "kicked becauseo io is down."
-How kindly the world will Smile on him
When, life with suocese'et abound;
Hlow cordilly, bltamidly. 'twill gAret hia
As in pleasure he's riding nrotid ;
But then let reverse o'ertake himn,
And his friends both itl countlry aigd town,
Hlaive not. a kind sentence to -oliuer hini,
But will 'kick hilin ass ooU tin lie's iowna."
Let a nan get position or wealth.
Mutrers not-if by intrigue or fraud
The world nods approvingly at hin,
And his acts will loudly applaud.
What though he-aay be a great villain 1
Witli the simple, the wise and tho olowa',
While he's tip hu'; a "tip-top fellow,"
Aut they'.ll "kic: him If ever he's down."
When a man ine plenty of' "greenlaoks,".
And le's healihy and "festive and gay,"
l'm cotint ed it "bu!ly good chtim," then,
Anid the crowl >lproves all lie iy say.
3u1t just let him losie All his trensures,
Perchance, too, his henllih hiny be gono,
11e'll set to be. nuoboly quickly,
And sure to be "kicked wien he's down."
Whal.'s the tu~;e of being moral and honest,
Or striving to be upright foad true
or unles a linn iihas lots of mn01ey;"
The woili i bunt to ,it, hinm right
Itrough.
They'll "go for him" certain and surely,
Froi lie juckiey to lwiest in his gown,
All will tand ready to "'tub" him,
And-"kiok him because le is down."
Oh I when will mankindi be 'ess selfish ?
I wonder if 'twill ever lie ths
That we'll love to do to each other
As ve woul have them to do to us?
And if in adversity's ocean,
We aro sinking and ready to dewrn,
Thrice blessed be the friend w hose devotion
Will help a man up when le's down.
Too Mut Government.
The Hon ('o>rge U. Pendleton,
says the Charlton 1.5:w, in a bril
iant Speech, dolivered in M\ ilwaukoe
a few d iays ago, fearle.sily laid bare
the root of the evils of this over-gov
ernted country ; and, wh ile appealing
to sound tins' and sober foeling, prov
ed-to hits hearers by the-legio of facts
that the souren of our trotubles is "ox
cossivo administration." and that, our
present distracted and oppresried con
ctitiont has grown out of the "lfraud
corruption and mal-admini.'stration" of
the Party now in power.
If the taxation of the United
States for.tae year 1866 were distri
buted eiqually it would amoutat to
$1 1.46 in gold on every Man, woman
and child in the county ; or.16 ;.,uld
amount to no less than $3.90 upon
every $100 of roalhnd personal pro
:perty in the United Statesa. Tito li.
quidated debt alone is equivalent to
$74 por head, agiast $37 in Franne
nd $12 in free and progressive Pris.
sia. And the immoinso dubt which
this represents has been beaperd up .by,
robbery, by cheating, by frauds upon
.the governtment.
PonPdloton argues that the ten
forty )oTjs alono are payablo. interest
and principal in gold, and erides
fhat Or'y of Creiinli ationti" whiuh comes
with .oxcellent graeo rlrom thoso who
have comnpelled the work;,.ng uman to
take payment in "legal cnde " and
who have lathlorized every ma "ho
'had agreed to pay a hut dred dlollars
in goldi to dischargo the debt of pay..
iang a hundreil:d dollars -in paper. lIe
4 ill vo of paying off' the whole
those bonds expr'ess;ly declared to be
payale in gold, bitt w.ouldU only do so
as for is Iniih t be' dlone withtout inflat
ing the car.renacy bey'ond~ a safe and
utdt pota--t p'ropositicon beingv that
w hole debt c:an ho paid in groen.
backsin t~welve or fourteen years with..
out the atdiitiohl of otic dollar to the
daat son or circulating mnediunn. Then
l.-t. the expenses of the government
e'xclusivje oc' interest, b'e r'educoed to)
$15o0000,000 ; and, with the present,
micomoe, t~he pincipal and inter'eat of
the pubhlic'debt can be paid off -in. fiye
years.
Mr.' Pondlet on is eloquent as well as
practical, and the two following ex
t-racts will give an ideoa of his views
upon the situation of' affairs in .the
South, andl thc means of saving the
whole country ;
Militar'y govornment and the Freed
mao's Bureau h ave been ettblishod all
over Itho South, They coat the people
of' the country, by appropriations and
other ways; $200l,000,000. And what
have they done ? They have sub verted
civil govertimontaain ten States of 'the
Union. :They hbold the. 'tifo, aind
librt, ndproperl y of those States
'n the mailed hand of 'mllitary power.
TLhcy. hav'e ,subverted the social sys
temnl; they have subvterted the oldbor
systetn ; they have dIestroyeod ,the sup
ply of labor ; they have turned the
eight'hundlred thoumsrn1 :blacks from
.tepursuit of agriculture pnd'indus
ry to the pursuit of spolities'; they
ha vo turne d gardens -11to 'deserts ;
thyhave, by unjust and trbitrary
that colmntryu.until every incontive to
houaest industry ,iasaes ..away ; they
aave utterly destroyted the'. ability of
This p~plo to pay' their 'Iegitinia~te
almr 6fthetaxation of the coo'untry,
'! ed thte fyra stop Iftbe right
Aircton iato )ay.at oery .fraudy
ea olpso etid oneet all corruptios,.
o ut al' eyunnecOessfty .e*tyndi.
tr to dismiss overyspnorf
ebelder, to aka#1ori. 'eo Wen
tiary goyrnete, to return, to. of*o
teaohingsof our..oQuatitution, -and the
peoa1ll$asre. iss; to e os t
the:herta of-thapeople 4n 6Vhdt
oarihrewaird flyr its indit ly.
.The rest of. tbo jomriO to h-a ..
aid pence, will be comparatively easy.
Tho first atop will cost you labor. t
,an only be accomplished by putt.ing
yut of power the Republican party,
md putting in its place the Democratic
party.
The Great Robbery In Now York
A dispatcl published some days ago
;tated that a clearing-houso clerk of a
bank in Philadolphia was seized, b~c
'ween 10 and 11 o'clock on Friday,
it the corner of Wall and William
itroots, and thrown-into a sleigh with
is satchel and robbed of a large
minount of chocks. The robbery oc
murred in Now York and the Post gives
Kb following additional particulars :
The sleigh was driven on rapidly,
md tho men tried to throw the olork
>ut, but ho held on the satchel, which
3outained about three million dollars
in obecks and about five hundred dol
lars in money. The clerk was sovero
ly beaten before he would relaso his
bald of the satchel. He was thrown
)ut into .tho snow, bloeding from the
wounds inflicted upon bim by the
thieves.
The stolen checks cannot be used
by the robbers, and they have gained
but little by their attempt. Any
attempt to convert tile obocks into
money would insure the arrest of the
persons presenting them. Lewis J.
Kingsley, the mossonger of the bank,
had just left the clearing-lhonse when
a man on the sidewalk, who had been
watching for him, seized hold of the
bag which lie ,wa con vOying, anmd
!prang into a sa igh which was in wait
lug.
:There were two other men in the
sleigh, ad they drove off at once'with
great speed. Young Kingsley was not
disposed to yield up the matter quiet
ly, but. retained his hold of the handle
of the satchel with obst-inate tenacity.
The mon beat him upon the head, neck
and hands with ruilanly violence,
still he held on for several rods, till
they finally auoceeded in wrenching
off his hold. They then drove away
with their booty. Kingsley was bad
ly bruised.
The oflicers of the bar.k, are of opin
ion that the thieves did not gain mitch
from this robbery. Kingsley had j*ut
-taken into tile clearing-house the
checks, &a., upon other bauks which
had been taken up yesterday by the
Bank of New York., and had received
in exchange chocks, drafts and oortifi
cates which had been deposited by
tIein. He probably had not exceed
ing-'$25 in molloy which t'he thieves
canl make available. Tile bank at
onco caused notices to be served ol
its depositors, that they may be able
4 .ive such information as will ona
blo'thc a gsting of the books without
d ifliculty.
The Bank of the State of New
York cautions all persons against re
ceiving or negotiating checks or drafts
on their institution without first
communicating with the bank oli
00rs.
EXTRAOn1oNARY REVENGE.---The
Providence l/erald of the 21st tells the
following ridiculous story of a hen
peeked husband who took a nmoit sin.
giular revenge :
A singular case of matrimonial in.
felicity is reported'on Village stret,
two or three evenimgs ago. A couple,
both slightly under the influence of
bg'erages, lhad a "cheerful d iseussion,'
which culminated in a regular quar
rel, after.,t.hey had retired to their
couch for vh. niught. At last, rendher
ed frantic by C'e stinging words of
his wife, and in ord.er to revenge him
self upon her', tihe m:0~ sprung from
his bed and seated huimnsdf upo the
hot cooking stove, uaccoutriett .as *ho
was" in a very limited line of worr
ing apparel. The stove being very
bot, the man's ficah burned on and his
night garment somehow entohing upon01
the roar of the stove lhe was unable to
release hiself. His soreams for help1
were treated with cool indifference by
his wife, and -it wan eonly when his
cries had( called in two men from an..
other room), that he was extricated
from his uncomfortable position by
beoing-pulled off the stove by mainm
strength. Of course his burns were
torrible, and the physioians who at
tended him predict that they will re
sult-in permanent lameness.
Twenty-seven years ago Edward
Oxford, a silly port-boy, fired a pistol
at Queen Victoria, was tried, acquitted
on the ground of insanity, and conflued
mn a crmmnal lunauae asylum. The~ pe-n.
alty of high treason wvas at thlat timho
,hangm g, draw iing and quartering, the
bill provided corporal punishniment for
any who assaumlteid the eoveregn having
net been , paased. In the asyhim Ox
ford was'quiet, anl well behaved.; but.
evidently ntot mad. His own statement
was that the pistol comainied no ball,
and that ho onlyj sought notorietv. -Tile
foolish fellow, after passing the best
years of his life -in confinement:, isinow
released and sent out or Englatnd, but.
how lie will mnako his living, odoIes he
is .penskned, is unknownm.
There is snmo trotublo brewing again
.9n the Rtio Grando frontier. It appears
l~hat two Amorican citisons were recent
ly forced'into the Mexican arney at
Matamoras, -nndor the ]uato decree of
Juiarez proclaiming thiaj every citizen
owed the. Republia 'any sor4 o service
hemight see fit to designato. 'General
Mc~enimo,, commranding at Browvnsville,
ha-dbrought the subject, to the notice- of
Qolone . Palacios,. commanding the
Stexican forces iAt Matamoras, and ias
Mooeed the re'ply that theolatter would
alro I tts i&#dt (Iiuko a rival
h yotetehr G Yaleymit Vtatedy
>n the Toulom~o Ttfer. Te:fal1 in
tred foot in holght, anda are Very illo
An Ovation to Gen. Leo.
AN "UNPLIEASANT JPI'S0DI."
Tho visit of Genernl 'Robert 1. Loo
to this city, on Thursday, to attend the
Iuptials of his Son-, was rendered a per.
feet ovation by tho greetings of the
ettizens. Upon tho -arjival of the train
at Pocahontas bridge, Childress' excel.
lent band, which volunteered. for the oc
-casion, sounded the firat noto of wel
como with the beautiful "Marseiliso
Hymn." The band then gnt on the
train, and, or. its arrival at Jarrett's
Hotel, strw.k up again, but the musie I
was almost drowned by the humza of
the immenso crowd as-8mbled there.
The General no sooner enterel Ih Car.
ringo in w a it ing, than i ''t Itee tIn i.s
three' wei given, hts aind handker
chiefs were waved :loft., ani1d everv ex.
pression of prile anil dehgit at. the 1p
pearance inl our mhl'St of one who ha
so signally endeared hi mseif to the
Southern people. was maIifes(tedl Iy tIe
throng, The halconies and wid ivs of
the hotel were filled[ with idie, anrd
the whole area in front was alive with
people. II reiponls to their limiiet a
tions, the General arope in hi .carrge,
lifted his hat, from lihs hcad and bowed
to the vast. aiembla.o. H1e was ae
coipanied by Majortu-G-neral William
11. \fahone, wV hose guest he was. In
ih,- meantituei the banld contitimiled to
porform popular inal soul s7tirring irtn
a1d as the carr:iage tnoved awav. the
shuits of the people mingld wil iih the
:Uiis of music, and followed him until
it ,as out of sight.
Ono little unilleasan lt episodeoccr
red during tne dienoutrat ion ai t the
depot. A prson, whose iao is un
known, expres h,,i4 I0sentimnuits by nt
terin g a groanii m. ' . e a; uo. Mr.
Benajmuin Butt. wh-]to was standing near,
knocked him down. 1-o wIs uotit to
punish him further, when thr umknownm
person draw a kinifie, staubbd 'Mr. Eitts
in the hand. anthlen scrOw e linm over
1pon ali-fours, (ed lr w1i inli : m m:d-t of
tihe crwd and dis-!tpptvired 'ndm.e1'i
We suppose that it: "groaner" cosid.
ers it-politica: *a . for a d isarmI
people to express I heir ,gralita ion
111)011 muectinug a Cofederat o Gen,-d.
MappiTy, anh anl in' ole. t. spirit <lots
not an mate the truie nwn of the North1,
amd when. we remembier how Geeral
Lee was htr.'aad by Ow l'edral solhors
in RichmoI afI-r (e s'1urnfil r,
how mlanyI of theml sou.'d dhe priv-ih--re
of testifying thi ir atoprecit.on (ft his
Virtues by gaspig his 1:111.1. t he spite
fuil groan 'of ti uniikniwI inlividual as
assumes the lowetsi place among 1hm1
contm pt ible. - Je!rsh arg ( Pa.) e
pre v.
FAnt A Co*nI:su.:s --lit the fnNi'y
the law of pl.;: nt re ough'it to ex' end
from the .ldighoe:t tn tOhe lowest. You
ae himil to ph-aw 'o ir chiiliron, and
your (*hi dren are biuunil to please each
other ; and you are bound to f'ease vonr
servants, ifyoi expect ithem to pierse
you-. Some Imlenl amre plensanlt ill the
household-and now here else. , Iave
seen such mIen. They are good -fathers
atd kind .hesand. If you ha een
them in their own houise Vou n
have thougi t. * hey WOe- atl wtl
ahnmost ; but. if you had seen tem oil the
.t:-ect, or in the storm , or anywhero ele
out of tie house, yoi would have
thoughit, them i -2 demioniac, But,
th opposite it apt to be tm ease.
When we are amaong our n<-ighibors, or
among strangerls, we ho~ld ouirselves with
self-respecs, and el ativor* to net with
propriety ; bumt wvhen we get. hme we
sayv to onaselve' :"'' have played~ part
long enotugh, and! n m now going to he
natural." S3o we sii. (lown, and we are
ugly. and unatppish, anid blu'n t and d isa
Cour)terica that makese u he rouighuss floor
smooth1, that miike the lha ruest thing
like velvet; and t hat. make lilo pleasant.
WVe expem] all our politeness where
it g"ill be proftable- where it, wili bring
silver a..ld gobil.
Enigland ls.' 1e''n looking withI woni
der, mingled wie h amnusemnent, at. thme
ptrogr'ess of a jtiarrs. het WO(en parties
near Snuderhond, invok .'ng the owner.
ahip of a ship. A man or 2.'red a ves
ael of a builder, and had paid inst,..bnents
of the price amounting in all to nea~f
?1000. A dispnto arose about theo
remaining payments. The ship was
nearly ftnished. Mr. Nichiolsq, thie build.
er, hired a party of shupwrights to do
wvhat remainad to he donie in the ,night,
and to launch the ship. The next
morning Mr. iRogerson, the purchasor,
got his workmen -together, with se
volunteers, rowved out-to the ship, anid
riter a hard fighit suiceeded in t~hrowing
Mr. Nichols' erew into t~he river. The
ship . was towed t~o the quay *of Mr.
'Rogerson's yard, andI t here scnttled and
iank for great or security. A few (lays
a fter~ward Mr. N'ichols invadod rthe ieyard
with-a small army of' worknmn, drove
oil the Rogeruonianns; oruised, .pnnmpad
out, tand repn ired the ohip, and 'Lank -it
down 'thme Worar t~o Bunderhin d. TPhe
polico enjoyed the spectacle of . Vlhese
ba ttles, but dhbd not intor fore. 'Tho ques
tion goes to the c'murts,
The AniiSlavo'ry handar'd, in n 'let.
ter front Washiington, hasa -. Curious
.-revelation af the feluhngs plan anid
putrposes of'the -ladioa' party.-. t says
they havo been holding conferences to
-ofl'oct an organiz~at mar of itheir own, apart
from that of the .Republican Patrtv, and
that they intenid to renew thme project of
.impqachment as a quetion of privilege,
on which thiop have a righit to be hoard,
,Xt is refreshing to' hle them coth dain
inlg of' "the Lyrann of iO..nAjerty.In
shmuttmg~ oi fdeiato. -
R' h ~ fo in 1 The Sotj a.b
lina' Railroad. Con ayto ,enjohn theo
Auut.Rira the Qourt of ApE
peals haa, we blete' ,d~o e 1~
has a his6 8
n r han
MiIhtary Tyranny.
-Tho Vicksburg Daily Times, of tho
7th ilst., Comis to us clad in mourning,
,ontaining the following from the pCu of
ts editor -
TO THIt PUBLIC.
Tho Daily 'Eme,, of this morning, is
la d in mourning for the death of perso.
al rights and the Liberly of the PressT
Both wore strangled yesterday by a
"Special Field Order" from 3revet
Major General Ord, commanding my
irrest, for the purpose of "preserving
le publie peace !" I execu1ecd a bril
Itu, "Ik nk movement, . *avoided the
rg-anit and threo muln, who were spnt
to IIIV oflice to arrest me, took a carriage
and procoedeod directly to the leadiquar
xres of Geina Gilieni, and reported Iv.
, hi s Ii-- ste rvice. I was there inf...rimied
Latt ; wonhl be reqii red to keep tihe
eace in regard to everybody for ,welve
m1(o11s, amil not to write allyhin "li.
bltm1ln" ngrainllst anV one for the mame
[P1riod of time --that aI bond inl the penal
omm of one thon3aid dollar~1 with a
oitficient surety, wonkH be accepted,
"LId in defiult of which, JI wold '
iunprisoned ! have publicly, private
ly, persisten:Ly :md uniformly, proclaim
d imy purposO not to commit ia breach
f tie peace, anl I have not done so I
I have never designed, nor havo I
threatoned, to 'distcurb lie peace" in
any portion of the 4th Miilitary Distriet,
and yet I am reqmr.,d Lu give a boid
that I will not do so anlywhere, during
Lihe next twelve monithis So also inl
rtlg.ird to writing libellous articles. I
ai'n no libeller. I have never libelled
Cieneral Ord, or his creatures ; I main.
tain diat I havo penned no libel and
if I had done so in the past, or shoidI
do o im tle future, I conteld t hiat the
Military Commander of this Disrlet,
has no right to arrest or punish mue for
it I sublit that it Ut, now, and nev
er was, the provinco of any 11ilitary
Cei, y whethier any pibli.
'anion is ibeilhens, assume to arrest, and
tieii try, and punihi by a unlitary tri.
hunial. Su l I an assumpition of p1ower,
strikes down, at a single low, every
b uhwar[ of freedom, an'd destroys forever
thaiott "1palladium of civil liberty'"--the
Public Press I
Ieu:g pov.orlesei to remst t-h )ayo
netu of (4en. Ord, I gave the required
hond, iii preference to ag:in becomimig
thie -er ced recipient. of tihe boudlless
hospit alitie s of l hii elegant and spacious
ld//, aid Mr. Charles Peine was ofiOr.
ed and141 accepted as my ourety.
As aything not. complimentary or
nreeableto military commander, loya
hsgims, radical legislators and oflicials
may, and probably will, be pronounned
"libelionls," and my bond declared for.
feited, L shall be compelled, by the pow
er of the ba'yonet, to "Jpak witsh bated
breath," and whlen noticing public func
tionaries, I shall be compelled to aing
niithing bu '-hymns of loftiest praiso ''
Whet her thbose hymns be chante(d inl
"Ilorid prose," or sung in-"homited lies of
rhyr'e," will I suppose be a mattor o'f
sall moment. I 1a sufficielit amount.
of landation. ad uiatio and fulsome.proe
is littered, I presume the hapipy recipi
tenis will care very liu lte for ether .t1une
.or metre.
I do not reo.ard ("on. Ord as tho Nm
peror of this country, and, as I believe
that President Johnson and len. U. S.
Grant nre his o'licial superiors, I shalo
aply to therm for relief andt redress,
If they cannot, or' will not, strike fromi
my limbs the fetters which hav e been
placed uipon lthem by tahe Comniander
of, this M~lilitary District-ifi they canniot,
ori will not, remiovc the shackles whiich
lie has imiposed~ on thle Timhes, then the
lib~erty of the prs, the most chterichied
tigh o (f n :free .people, mu st be ch ssed
the using."
Very resp~etfully,
WV. H[. McCAnrI.S.
:lbecemnber 'i, 18C,7.
A letter written on board the United
States steamer Wachiuseti, at Pootoo,ani
island at the muouth of the Yaingtse
iver, says tho islainil is considered hlvk
ground by the Chiinese, who visit it,
annuanlly during the mionthis of Janunary
andl February. to tho number of ten or
fifteen thousand. Tlhiey worshiip 13minl..
dha and thie western Hleavene, andl a
amount, of motney has been hdd
out og Qiildintgs for the idols and the
numerous *'-*iiti. The grouinds are
teauiti flly' etv'e antd all tho aven
nios of approach to tti2 t (mph'-is are lini
ed with shade trees. Th,.; chief idlol mn
the main templo is thirty foot ,';.iigh, and
at least, ten in breadth , it is in a c,!ting
posture, wvith li mbs crossed something
after Ihe manndr of the Turks. TheIi
idols airo comlposed of plaster or some
thinig of that nature, anti aro all heavi
ly gilded. -One oftltheJBrahmjn priests
who died recently had held his right arm
up for thirty -years, and had let .lis 'fin
gier nails grow until they~had penetrat..
ed the fflosh. Usually thoro -aro about
300 piiiosts on the island, but at~ the time
of the annual worship they number.as
high as 5000.
'WITriHOtDNG COTTOU ON IWicw
AJANOFs - HAVE DEEN MAD.--Wo
have noticed in some of our Southern
3xoblangos artiolos reoferxing -to the
very disoreditablo, or to spohik mnore
to the point, abeiohtoy ~dishonest
yourse i which has .heen pursuod by
someeplantorse in obtaining ad'anoos
mntheiir elops front factors and than
lsposing of their ootitomn to other pa'
,ies, Without rehlnbalrsig the docetor
ewhom they:Jm~ -oblhgated them
dIves-t oconsign 16 in any shape w~hata
er, At thA preoent' tutto there ia
v6ri-grot:to sgy, a ease of thi. kind
>nndIng Ipour own, eosllt, : i!i4 laws
>f thipitate are ordOedingyLIrII onS
hqa of both ftor)dtnd an t d 14
one oro& , th law 'Agl ~an
oroed in 1td futlioet eatenit. -R 0;
o'rfee Cront
Monster Petition.
The Now Orleans Crescent publish.
es a potition to the Congross of the
United States, for tho ropeal of the
Roconstruction Acts of Congress, to
be sigued by the wholo people of the
South. 'Iho Crescen advises that it
should bo signed genorally by the
people of 011 the orth aind South.
As i mattor of public interest, ot the
prosent time, we subjoin the petition :
To IMs '-celknc, the J'r'sident an(
tli enators u R"'1 epresentatives o
the Unitd St"s conyrcs:
The undersigned, citizens of the
State of Louisiana, respectfully repre.
sent that the political dovelopmente
of the past. few months have demon
strated tle fact that the Reconstrue.
tion Aet'3 of Congress wi!i, if persist.
ed *n, produce it confliot of rac'H
wh ici wYill result inl the1 desolation of
the country., and the seric-us, if not ir
reparablo in.jury of both races inl the
loiithern States.
That the neg roes of this State are
oIrganI.ized into secret bands, termed
"Loyal Leagues,'' .worn a.d coibini.
ed against their former owners and
citizens of the S- :te. inl order to os.
tain control of th G overnimen 4
That thits credulous race l.areo boon
deluded by -the designing men into
the ' clief that the property of the
w .e citizens of the Stato will bo di.
Viued aiong them.
That, under these demoralizing in.
fluences, they are daily refusing to
fulfill their contracts, or labor for the
Support of themselves o: their faui
lies.
ihat, in consequence( of thisdemor
aliz.ation, planting ill this State has
resulted in tje ruinous fail'ire of a
large majority of our planters, and, of
course, in tLe necessity of its .abandon
inecut.
That before the close of the pres
ent year, the nc-groes, with bti few
exceptions, -will have consumod oi
wadted their wages, or share of the
(crop, -. . be destitute of the means of
Yi. . the white raec will be com
pelit. to limit their planting to thie
labor of their own fam inS, while tle
negroe w ill not 'havo the ieiais, if
they luld the capacity, to plant on
their own account.
Under tle..e circumiistancea, faniine.
with all its attendiant. -hrror, must
SoonI colie upoli this im) -vitent
racc,
In view of dhese impending, ci lanii.
ties, the undersigned would unre t ly
appeal to tle lPresident and Congres
togive protupt attontion to this vit-al1le
importan matter, and provide immn
diately such remedy ms ill their w.i
dom can be devised, to avert the ruiu
which, uless arrested, nust speed ily
colne Illpl us.
Tiis Ovs-ri: Tuit.: -The Baliimo
(azette speaks of lie oyster.trnd' of thai
ciy as constitiuting one or ts larges
induit rial int eresis. The business of can
iing oysters there was begun only abot
tenyears ago. The miagljnitide to which ii
hn mount e. up Imany he ticlrsi lood from 11h
following st atement of the Gazrte:
There aire at prcqent about I birty pick
lng houses -iin ilie city. employing sonu
forty-five hundred shitc'-urs or openers o
oystors, of whom tihe larger number are col
ored men and women. Over toil thousani
peolple ne interesed in the n ter shuck
'*sna~r ':nors. 'iox- makers, wafgrn
ers, anid the emlployees in the different pack
ing hious~e. (Ot the il,800,000 buebe'ls o
oysters annuntialy arouight to this city
1,.875,000 hushels are packed raw, I .300,
0001 hulshelm are pirseired by Stenminug anld
pvcked, andl l025.000 biuishels are used i;
thle shneli 1('or iho ciity anad sulrroinlg coun f
i.)'ry oli'nsu ption. -1 is 5 es imatedCI thai
diuriing I he hitiest SeeIson thle various pnek
ing houises in the ity openi an- ngroguate (.
-t5,000' bushlmca daily. I) f ithi' large aniolon
by far thin greator Ci part is distrlibul~ltefamong
t hei Pit ies of Sil holni-, Chicago. Cincinnati
and Louisville, anad the remalinder' goes
the s maller West ern ci tdes and town~is. many1)
boxecs gointe as far West na Denver anm
Sanota Fe. The trade ia an immense onie
nnid br'ings a v'ery' large amount at ioflmon
into Baltimoro, besides .givringenimploymeni
to so many per'sons andl vessels.
Monie Nvew Ezor.Axn PIry.--omoe tim<
since, a reverend divine, from Middleton
Connecticuot, calling himself Dennison
miado is appearance in this city, and edi.
ied ithe "'Loyal Leaguers" with muchi
preaClching. After ai shlort soournl, the sait4
reverend gent lemnan propatted to depart, ala
miade 111$ appearance at tihe .depot. with
largo box, which lie directed to Middleton.
Connecticumt, anid marked ''Iron Pumrp.'
1t0 w.as shippod as anl Iron pump, lut, Oin
r'eachuing No)r ohk, thle way bill being blur.
sod, and iho mnarking hin'g become indis
tinct, a deapute arose between two railroad
ngents ther'e cc to whether it was a piane
box or* i puinp) box. A wager was the result
and1( to dlecidet it, the box waes opened, when
to the anmzemient of theofciicials, the',
.'-und therein a didnte'~rred corpse pa'ked in
saw.Just. Tfhe freight upon an iron pumyp
to Mid~ton being about forty dollars less
thhit.ipon a corpse to the samflO place, thec
rovercnd gent-lemnan had concluded to avail
himself of this opportunty for a litle sly
chenting, which would Jia-:e proved success
buit for can accident. We get tho above
facts fromn (lie agent, of (lie -Ralojghu and
Gaston Railrtoad, now In this.itgy, vand a
goentlemlan of veraci ty.---Charlotte .New'.
Apropos of the walking manIa . now so
prevalent throughout the country, Mr. John
Qnuil.miakej the following offers "I -will
walk -with any good looking girl' who has .a
fortune in hor owni right, npQn any gteen
moonlight night, both partien to go as 'slow
as.t-hiey please, and1( neither to hurry back to
the starting polant I will thau, on the
word, walk into her alffetions,- and-walk off
with her foritune.
"I will walk around the -earth with any
man who will bring at pile of it, and -lay 1
downi in donvenient spot. Or, I will walk
Aoroits the plingd f segarpenber oan be found
to put, ta lot of thecm in.A row. I will also
taJ oit ro eo alk iIth aInyper'son who will
Al sh epilital andh gI me share in time
business, I Verftutio to -bn ethat r osi tg
as tpod lim9onA idnke wal ,ts auly ofd~r
mAan. 'ieetofs;. M;alklrauhaw and yop.
ry ttor oom tm'es, andthe O"Wailks
r4olerde 'I di utos Ioe bosled by
her at *ao no ep opx
ty~ qn a 4g1 t ao
A $95-pearl was-found In au oyster at.
Aloandria, VA,,thQ olkhns dy.
AN IMPSNDIG NujsANc,.--I is
coming I The "skatorial" nuisanco is
upou its! Tho note of preparation has
been soinded, and the Toadv Jenkins
tribe have sharpened their pe'ncils for a
dlivo into tho slough of abject flunkyisn,
which, for the iast Iev years, has
characterized and debased the Americn
presp.
The base ball nuisance has retired to
wmnter inarters, no moro to be daily
poked under our noses unil the advemt
of spring. The season was far from
satislactory. Only five base ballers kill.
-od outriait., and a shamliefully aSIr"al
inmber of the cusses maimed for hfi.
Not one of them has had his traus
knocked out. Neither itive we heard
of any brains being knocked out of a
base ball.
Skating, like base ball, is an offshoot
of New Yol k snobdomo. It is a shoddy
epidinic that rnges fearfully among
weak minded menti. and strovg minded
women. It i an nppropriato aimuse
menit for boys, and if women and old
men feel disposetd to i tnmilgo i) sliding
onl the ice, to on1e hs a rht to b ject
to their ipeculiar exh i-iionq, Uncder
the Consti1ition and all 11he :nn emt1tilIltS
)eo)lo have a right to make fools of
theimelves if they want to. But have
editors -of twelve dollar newpa pers any
ight to itfhet upon their readers a dal.
ly dose of maudlin Jenki nism, portn:
ing tioe extraordinary feats of sfoit .
beaitifil "skatress" or ". katesC or
cskatorial champion," as tho case may
be. Cleatly not. l'a young lady in
Now York desires to show -ier ait.y
on the Ceantral Park, why lot. her slide.
Sie czlnnot disturib ottr eqianimitsy or
shock our sense of propriey .t that dis
tance. But that is not it. S0he does
not stfvr cold feet and a dripping nor.e
for the pleasure thero is in skating, but
for tle pleasure she feels in being para
ded m the 'newspapers. Aspiring 'ocals
gives us her biography ad naumctm ;
tbe pictorials give us her likenoess and
antecdotes of her spriglttlhess are rife.
In tl s manner the contagion is sprend
and become geteral.-- .Yuba Dom,. h.
E.a-Sia.--Milton's -ind ness was
the residt of overwork and dyspepsia.
One of the most emineit Anerican
divines has for sometime been comi pell
ed to forego the pleauturo of reading,
has spent thoitsands of dollars in vain.
and lost years of tie in coniequence
of getting uip several hours before .Jay,
and studying by artificial light.
Multitudes of mon and woment have
tnade their eyes weal: for life by the
too free use of the eye-sight in read
ing small print and doiig line sewing.
In view of these things it is well to
observe tite following rules in the itse
of the eyes :
Avoid anddenuitanges between light
and darlkness.
Never begin Io read, r write. or
sow, for several initutes after cominto
from darkness to a bright light
INeiver read by twilight, or hmoon.
light, or of a cloudy day.
Never read or sew droelly in front
of tite light, orI winJw, or dor.C
lt is bet-ter to have the liiht rl
flromtt above oblirinuely ovel the lc t
shoulder.
Never sleep so that on first awaking
the eyes shall onen on tho light of a
w htlow.
Do not. use the eye'sighit So scanti
thtat it requires att effort t d discrimi
nato.
1'oonuruch light, creates a glare, and
j'uLns and contuses (tho sight. fThe
nmomtent you areC sentsiblo ol' an elfort
to distinguish, that moment conse and
take a walk or ridlo.
'As thte sky is blue and the earth is
I reent,it would .setm that the coil inc
jihoulhd ho a bl1uish tintge, and theo walls
of seine mnelloiw tint.
The motment you. aro instinctdively
prtomnpted to rub thte -e;:es, that mto
mnent stop) using them.
If the eyelids are gluted togelbher oni
waking utp, do not forcibly open them,
but apply the-sal-iva .w.ith -the finger,
tt ts the espeedjest dilutent in the
world. Then wash the eyes and face
in warm water.
([Flail's Jounrnacl of Healthm.
"NE~7W iousss FoR E Pns -
Thte Washinigton correspondent of the
Anti Slavery1 Blandard, .who ought to
.know, writos:
"Some -curious revelatlins are crop
ping .out -about the means whereby
the Russian purchtase was lobbied
through It was among .the amusing
things in legislative biatoiry to learn
how rapidly senators changed front on
the expedioncy of theo Russian pur..
chase. It is estimated by shrewd lob-,
biests, thatd it took about two millions
out of seven to seeuro the result.
One -senator, who is known to have
changed his ilews quite suddenly,
purohased a -nansion'here for' th irty
thousand dullars imtmedlately after
thme passage of the treaty.- He waus
neveor before credited with Co -mnuch
.rmonoy."~
]ta:i not likely that Russia invested
her moeney in this way ; but seine son
atorsedo livo'in houses of their -own
w~ho dijl noi have, It is sai~d, even
board ing-housos 'before they wero e
ed here. Budh chrrgcs from Radicals
against adicals ouglxte oe vinyesti
gated.
Eelvery snecessivo redttcetjon .of the
tolls on >the Atlantic cable lhas br~tighzt
the Cal(lCompany n naccessiont of but.
Aflmfess so great.as- to int~casd its p rofits,
'lTho rate now: is one-fouirth what, t, was
'when-the-cable was lrit byetied 'to Lhe
publio, yet ,at those greatly redutceti
rates, the. number of. urnesagg liaes d
much increased that thomernoi'at of casti
reeeived:,datly is annontticed -ton be fat
grerter..th~n .ever before...
Tsa-is coming to AIe eA&latiqig porte
now by the way of San Franisco, an4
some shtpers are satda-; to'pre ffr that
route to the old one through the IWasi
Indies anid around the Cape of Good
Topn.
TUoIr IT- WAS P OUnIr O JULX.
Mistaking thanksgivng day for the
Fourth of July is about as big a blunder
as we have known in a long time. Tho
police picked up i. mnin last night who
wais laboring under that aiillucinal.ion,
HO had an old inmuket, and was loading
ard firing, with vociferous vell for "our
(hie) glori's in'erpen'aince." li had
collectied a knot of people ieaIr the Fifti
.strecet Market, to whom he delivered an
oration smithing after tile following
fasiion :
"1'll'r-cit C'n1,-ThIe day w'e have
mol#t to chbaethis evenlin' is okac~l to N.
(hie) w'hiole weck of or'na V day3s. 11.0
is er day our. f,,'later St Bnnker liT
Monnrment :he bi0 v en 'rl Jackson
licked tle Bri h wA h N ew 'leans m'las
SeS aiid a Cottont Ia.le ;the day Go - 'Orge
Washington c(t dow- hIs fathir' cher'
ry tree to iild 1V' J uy (btic) honi fir ,
the day Amnericai fl;. hainld dovn
Oen'iial ix and shoo(hic)oot. 'im oin t h
sp1o ; the day wt pay iecone tax ; Ohe
day lHorace Gre'ey haied out, the
Bos'n tea party, th day we celebratIe.
Wha. wou]d I been if hadii been fer
Fo' Jiuly ?"
A voic l3en sob-r. may be-.''
"l'm chamlilion of 'mericani
liberty. I'll wrip iyself in star-span
gled baW'r, 1ount the 'muer't eagle,
oi ini g 'M;i ;p of er G od''ss of Librty,
and (lie) soar--l sa y I'll soar
Man inl the crowd- n bt'il b or
enoiigh11 0 lio-Ilmorrow iiiorn'iniDIgI.
W'I:thh1dol at the inlterruptl on, '.A
chamzion of Ainerican liberiy brought
Is patriotieora tion to an abrupt. close
.1;1 "weit for hin. The police inter
ferel, and 1:: the irate orator away.
Ile insisted that lie was a c-:li'bra'tion.
and declared that ilwy-%' had no businesst
to arrest an eitire antiversary in that
Kix LQuiItn as.-Cousini Kate
was a s'eet wide-awake beauty of
about sevetiteenl, and site took it inte
her head to go down to Long Island to
. 1 soC relations of hers who hail Lia.h,
.niisfortine to 1-ive there. Amiong
those relations there chanced to be a
young swain who had Peon Kate on a
previous occasion, and sein g, . fell
deeply inl love with her. Ile caliled
at the boie on the evening of her ax
rival, and she mot him Oil the piazza
where site w., onjoying tlie ev'ening
aiir in comln:iy wiaOh two .or three of
her fi'ieinds.
The poor fellow was so bashful that.
lie could not find his tongue for sone
time. At lenuth he stainmered out.
'Ifow's you'r mother 7'
'Quito well, thank you.'
Another silence on the pad-'!, of J'oshi,
iduring swhich KLai and her friens
did the best they could to relicve the
monotony. After waiting about f..
teen n'mnites for hiti to coinmeneo to
make :imnel iigf g1enab1 ble, Ie again
brCik : Fpll 'by
'1 im your fat~be.?' which was an
swi'erti -clh after the same fashion as
the fir ' ine, and thenfollowed anoth
er silece like -thle other.
C low'.s yoiur father an(] mother ?*
again pt n t-h" bash ful lover.
'Quit well, both of themin.' Tht is
was follow ed by an exchange of glan
ces atnd a suppressed umile.
This Lasted some ten minutes more,
during which Josli was fidgeting in
hiis seat and str'oking hiis Sund ay.
But at length anomel~.r question
'llow's you'r parents ?'
This pi'oduced an explosioni that'
made the w~'ods ring.1
Wmmo'j~ F'1.Ina.-"I wish that I
hlad same good friends to help mle onl
in life."
"(Good fr'iemnd. 1 'Why, yoim have
ten."' r'eplied his imaster'.
.t.'in iii'e 1 haven't half so Cmany,
andt those I have are too pioor' to help
imc."
"Count yoiurt fingers, my .boy."~
Dennis lookedl at his large strong.
hand.
"Count thunmlbs and all."
"1 have, there are tofl"sa'id the lad:
"Then never say you have not ten
good friends able to 'hop you on in'
life. Try wlihat those true friends can
.do before you 'begin grumbling and
freott-ing -becauee you .do not got anmy
help from others."
"'Whatdo you call this ?" said Mrs.
fast with his folk.
"Call it," snarled the lamndlordm, "what
do you call it ?"
"Well, really," said Smith, "'I don't
know. .Thbere.-is not 'hair enough in it
-for' mortar, but t~here is entirely too
much if it is imteiided for hash I"
Cu ' Onl COLD FEHr.-We ar.ue~assurI.
by one who has give)n the experknent. a____
trial, that eold feet, and Aspeoialhly -thb
super'la.ively.frigSid feet 4.hat .1ro kept chill..
ed b~y perspirat~lon,- may be 'elieved b~y.a
sinple expedient. This is to wear cotton
soaks noext the skin aind woolen stodinge
outside .of thenm. in the Instance *t,..our
informant, the result wuea .svoocessfuil *a
keeping lis feet, .warnm and dry. .The sin.
gular consequen'ceialso ensued, that at night
lie woul d tflad tha coatton nooks (next, his
skin) quito dry, whutio the outside woollen
stockings would be pe-rfectly .dlamp.
A .man allvertised for a wife, aind
requested each canidnlate to enclose her
onarte Alo vicite. A spirited young lady
wrote to the advediser in the following
tej'ms: "Sir I do not enclose my carte,
for. though 4here is some autliority .for
putting a cart bef~ore the horse, I-knows
of nono for put ting onp beiforo.an ads '
The .nagistrates otMassachiusetts in
1632 ordered "hat no tobacco should
botisad ulicly. In1.649- the generai
t 441%60rbhibited lts us
A por 'aiigr en be Wbgo
n 'higelse ho otenyo.
7 Z: 4 t' w1e "wae aski to
take off the~ "'1lak CrcSh(' said he
enul41 50n lin to tak 3.1.1