The Fairfield herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, January 15, 1868, Image 1
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VOI 11.] WINNSBORO, S C,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15 186
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THE DYING GIRL.
Smoohe my hair gently, sweet Inotherl,
And shade my faint eyes from lie light.
Pillow my head on your bosom so trite,
For I feel that I am dying to-nig'it.
Yes, I feel that the spirit they call the soul,
Will soon leave its prison of clay;
A'ud I feel that mine eyes will ne'er open
again,
On the pnssion and sin of life's daty.
Soon the doubts, hopes, wishes and fears,
To shrinking, the tietce, strange unrest'
All tlie metmory of things that, have been
Will liave ceased their wild strito in my
breast.
Raise ite ip lin your arns just. a little,
My breath Iiomeos s( sluggishly slow
I've a ftisi, dreamy memory how onice
31y bloodt coursed with a passionaaite flow.
What were thle years, did you sayY
Y ., I'm t weiny years old to night
Since consumittlion first painterl Imy cheeks,
1' ve not counted tle months in their
flight.
My birtliday ! My bridal niight this was to
be!
Dress me in white-I'm Lee's bride -
Yes, ltse were 1i words, "'il love you
lro' ill,
Tho' sutiering and lire's ills betide."
Yes. I know he went to the wars.
For mny life and iiy soul his smile miss
ed :
See, tiis was lie curl (hat a e prized,
And t his wits lie hand that lie kissed.
I am'vonng to die. dil you say ?
0. think or eartihi's widening sttire I
And call it not denti, for mny spirit will
drink
Front te fontiain of ceaseless lire.
What if Lee, too, were dying to night
Hlow jnyfui if GOut's i will. 't would lie
'1l hat. lie sumtons tihat beckons imy soul to
his gusil.
Would also set his spiylt fr'ee.
I am willing to go, for I feel
Tlore Is Ii lit antdh glory and rert,
I- soire biglter clliime, but I vaguely sigh
't. Ecamp.t die ou Lee's.hreAst.
plow striainge is the qiet ort his dark room,
Anl tile clime of th mIi lsic; how sweet,
It inging out in thie hall-room over the way,
it timlie to the dancers' feet.
I %m thinking nowor that. last gay hAll,
And how in, My ce'irls Le wouild twine
Starry jossamii.et. s, iad. said, in the
diuade,
No fori was s0 irt as lino.
Ilow changed now and ilien, for lily heart,
lestpel hiigh,
And ity celiek ma: clied the roses red;
Now riniet, I list to tie dsiancers' reet,
Fitintiig, weak, on a dying bed.
In thlait revelling throng do you think,
Th, any one tiinics of me,
And turn and start at at iamerry liaghi,
And the sound ora footstev free I
3it it anal ters not, close I lie window now,
Let tle sound of' tle music be dim ;
And raise liy head, mother, I'm leaving
yotu no0W
Sing that dear, old frashioned hymnt.
'Tis very dark, mnot her, buit I am niot afraid,
For I see over yondaer ai statr,
And the glimmierinig glow or its radinant light
Casts glor'ious br'ightnecss af'ar.
W lien I die, place@ Lee's it'owers on my
htenst,.
Moss, rosebu-ls, and jesssamino'whito;
And, mnother, ne'er* geleve, but. hiopofully
That yottr child passed to hecavent to-tnight.
[A t range and sad interest attaohes to
thoe above poem, beicauso it naow rends like a
record or thle dying mo'ment's -or its young
glftod authoress, who paissed -,from this~
world or echeckered shiadowsjust Lbne mont h
- go to-day. lIt publication hs, the last sol
emni tribnte we may pay t~ o hegeius~ of
Miss Aimanda L. l'atten, sghoso finished.
worso.4nd sparklhng prose haA oft'on enltven
od these columns it dpys gone by. It was
penned in 1803-full foui' yeehs Sgo-whien
the fir youmg writer,wjust verging into
~ndtilfpod, rosy wthethand radiaint
the admired ofall, little dreaimed that, in
portr'ayhng the death-scene of a yotZg eon
stum plo, sheo wits bitt prying strangely bos
04~j veil that. hi~d lher own future'.
etinearly every sentimeont that. these verses
place in theo mouth of an Imaginary charaos
ter was repeated by tha.potes;(and sone,.
-tlmqiln thio self same words,) it the earn
5sinoss of her dying hourM.1-juIsvile
Courner,
:Oi. MAN OnArT Sovxn~s ir lla or
.'tass~."-The Oeneral's father cutne to
;town tho other day, and stopped with
itys, s lie calls his boy, whiom hto
foitrsd seated at his fireside, smoking, of
.courac, and surrounded by mnembe'rit of lis
privato an4 ilitary famIly. About the
A rst thing tylo old gentleman dId after shed
ding li.s Ave' isoat, s.to comne at lhla in
pfitnible bffspring with~ "'Ulys, are you
nfvoofuigger muftragel" j No responso,.
oiily wigoroun' puffi.) "I say, Allyss, are
~u in fayb'of 'nlgger- suffrage 1" "Wht,~
do6 y'u ihink; of it ?" inquired the General,
with Yankee- shtrewdntess. The old one
bt ates hspositon-he's fran lntehligence
qt ulent ion, and go .on. "We~ll, now,
UlIp've answoed fotWiu 4tteition, I want
you to aneirer mine a Are you in (avoi6
* ihgger. -ufrae If .you are, yot'll geti
atl all 'ow~o wig all you'p u~ilaf-iy,
- for Ohio ,;:ot .. ag17 an bt-fnt'ro
if site was to voto *pttion . g thest1oO
she'd go a -thundlred 'ttOo~it-hf
way." "' haven'te talked a.o
the last five or six years," wats the replf~
* Ulysses, "the Silent." At, last .acQquUfi
Sthe o'id gentleman was Is doubt- to i-b9
m.onition of "Ulysa'' anj negro uffTrage.
]Prom the Xtional American.]
Indhetrial Rooonstruotion of the South.
Louisiana held its first. grand' State Fair,
under conduct of the Mechanics' and Agri.
cultural Pair Association, on the 20th of
November, 1800. We have (te report of
Its proceeding&, lieludinig premium essays
nod addresses, and have read it, with un
minigled pleasure, not unfrequently hight.
eneil by surprise.- One of the orators goPs
it large into wlhat lie styles "The causes
which led to Southern subjugation, and
tbe means by which the South- mny be re
stored to prospevlty and poweir." On a
rapid examinat ion of statenents mid. amgu
inents. we find nothing sai.l and not'hing
omitted that a picked representative of
Norihern opinions could improve. Ilie tra
ces the conquest of the 8-t h to the superi
ar economnic po!icy of the North-to the
difference of the IndustrIes of lihe two see.
tions, from. which resulted all. the difference,
of liower to innke'audi maintain tPhe w-r. -
The hope of rostoration ho necesarity put
upon the trAmk acceptance of her situation
by the South, and such change of industrial
and commercial policy as shall make her
self-supplying and self-supporting. in a
word sie must diversif'y her prodlctions,
agrioultural. and manufacturing, after tlie
model' of the-Northern Statos: and she must,
educate her whole people, whiro and black,
rich and poor, up to the point of ,pialifying
them for their respective functions in so
ciety. Moreover, she must, activel, encou
rage the immigration of foreign mechanics'
nid'inarhiers, with the double purposo of
making hie own mianufctinl, .ad secu
ig tlie dotination of the while rnce in lie
social and polItical systems. Of wiich last
named motive we need say nothing, for wo
care 1101 hng about. a side issne- of this sort.
Only let them do file right things, and then
these t hings will takeoare of themselves,and
oftheir political and social issues Alto,
get her it i wit h" uncommon phasire that
we find these people growing wise as well
as earliest. in reconstructing lhemselves.
Among tie essays read at the fair is a
,very brief one oil Itaising Swine in Louisi.
ana," by Jidge tobertson. whose remarka
ble report upol the resources of Loiisilea
made to the Legislature oil Jaminavy Iat.may
have comne under the notico of some of our
readers.
The poilitS mado by (lie Jidge are sub.
slantiallty these: Owing to the difl'erenc of
climate, hogs are at least, douity more pro
lific in Lousiina than in Ohio or Illinois--.
ni1o producing two litters in the year,
igail. one in I lie collier Norh, ind bring.
ing them to inaitrily with gete o'rlainty.
Owing to tihe sante cause they Ieel tin holls.
-ing in the winter, and can findi roois mid
graisses, glven And fresh, for fiaSt all
iho year. The average yiltd of lie sv eet
polato i.s t wo-ulindred biiuhels to the aere,
atid tivice as many cal be rai-ed. This
root is fond to nmake pork ettotally as fast.
as the like weight. of corn, giving an aver.
nge of' t Wo . itiidired to the pO 1110. Agaillst
ani average o-f.thilrty bu-hels ot'cern, is t he
yield ol'A" n' thie eiture of the former
being fti'd~r~ mucih lev-. e uv
than of the latter. Ilirley there nverages
fifty hushelis to lie acre, whilo at lie North
and West it is but, little over twent y. It is
far siperior to corn in giving body and
frame to lie hog. aind it comes so early in,
tile seasoni that, it may be used in raising
fithe yonig pigs, and prelairing lie stock for
fittenming. Loisiana prodruces, besides
potatoes and barley for hog feed, a sotii
tropicil abidince of peas, inimkins,
squashes, pe:iches (!) and .lerusalem arti,
chokes. Tio Juilge conclutdes by snying
that lie believes hog raising to lie ftr more
profitable f1or that region than eidher cotton
or sugar planti-ng; 1hat. tIn-y hnve every
advantage over the Noritiwest, in the coin
Ietition; that they inve sal. better and
choper flint their hams nd bacon are
ugual to any ini the Union ; that they abound
in the woods used for packing, and, heing
Uitnmted at (le month of ile Mississippi,
Lhey have file immonse advanlage of a short
iud cheap itiland tranlsport ition ; and,
ually, that they con and will supply lie
ivora's markets with this great article of
repoy't.
It is really pleasint !o (lie hlend of a
sotmnd political conomist to see the South
thus turing her back upon lie tauses of
all her troubles, and settinig nhe exiimphe to
the Nor'thwest of a sound ad healthy sys
temu of indnistrial centerprise entering upion
se entirse of diversified piroshlictlon, which of
itself will compel' the Noithwvest to adopt. a
like progressive and secure economic poli
cy. Cortbon having lost its pirovinces, corn
will be obliged to live at home. For both
the system of hiazardons dependenco upon
distaist regions is. broken up forever. Let
all parties take notice and prepare.
Tiis TeN Tuoe'RA~Nurt IInfn.isi OU'
naas.--A neogro in Ihenry County, a few
days since went. to the house of a respect a
ble famIly by the name of.3lcl~ssick, seir.
ed a yourtg lady and carrlid her info thle
woods, ohokinglier lute a state of unconi
seIousnoar, and indvicting upon her a suffer
ing worse than death i; and then to coim.
plete (lie horrible-fragedy took a pine kinot
undit broko her~ skulhl, anddheft, her for dead.
To avgid syuspicion, ffo then returned to his
work In tlke - ned, a though lgno~rant of
Iwh&, had occurred. Contrary to his expec
tptions, the poor! gIrl recovered and draewledi
back t~ (lhe house. Tfhe flegro was soon
iftreated ahd aokndwiedged the crime.- Ile
is9, we learn, now lo jai1 awauiting his tri-al.
But how lollgsfill his fellidw leaguei-a per..
Iit hin' to rematii thoro?. A log but, on the
gfodlnd,:a little stronger, thein a common
gin Is use1 widh poi'mitted'tho general j'ai,1
dellioridselast boar, will snot hold such a
fiond very hoig..--Clayton ,1imes, 19th.
1 .: .-- --.+, - -*~
POUTAanI ' TAtIre A?.J BrAaII"IF Ext'.
LOPBs.--P..o~tmasteW'Oonerel itaorahl hag
Issued (the following order: j'or the better
accommodation of (lie publie, postmalsters5
arc authIoried to designate agents i'r the
sale of postatgo stnape~aud :h1,ped. Ej 1-'
'ppes within the dielvery o,'thpir respedlivo
pilieeahad tb su pply esuoi'agdhfe with gald
dternpajr~c., of the several denominaatltis,
Iinyql tee otexceeding $50O, allowing them
a discoinf, ist t wo ~er de't. c2i the' amount
An anti-ruiiforg n, uid4er the feawful
title of The )Nvoluhio , t~o bevdtle~d by thme
Amazonian quills pf ise E. Cady Stanton
and Busan B. Anthony, .nw usndor the
I Tain-ing of George P;,will' Aitmclio hssued
{ hd Niet YetkJ Thb lda41sg a~tlle-t'agu
~A Htnch olhemuieijg~ rety,b.emp est
o mai w'oM/oiabi 166?"Id' orts
chlogiste- ibs.t, be hid. staget; for
Ihis. It is tree thIs will oaly protect the
~;face, but It will prevent the flames 'from
An Awkward Old Doonmont.
ow a P'resent Radiel, once on a tine, Justi.
fied Rebellion, aind .dd the Union could not
bC Maintained by fo'r, .
On tle 41t day of D.ceinier, 1865, Ben.
'jamin F. Wlade, a liepulicania Sonator front,
Ohio, made a speechi iiao United States
Senate, nn order to prinu additional copies
of the President's Message Ieing under
conisideration. In that, sipeech le moIale
tie following delIrationis, v1wm ich will
be found in tie Congressional /le.: third
session, thirtysfourtlh Congress. page 25 :
''it file Southern gentlenton stand here.
and in alnost, all their speeclcs speak of a
di5solution of the Unaion as an element of
every argument, as though it were a pecen.
liar comiecensioi on (lir part hat they
permitted' the Union to stand at. all. It'
they do- not feel interested in upholding this
Union-if it really trenches nit their rights
-if it eaindangei s (hat institution to such
ani-extent thnt they cannot. feel seculre un
der it-if their interests are violently as
sailed by means of (hiin Union, I an not
one of those who expeet. that they will long
continue tnder it. I nut not one or thoso
who rould ask them to continue in such a
Union. It would be doing violence to thN
platform oft le party to which I beong,
"We have adoptcel the old Declarvtion of
Ludependence as the basis of our political
mnovements, whiclh declares that ntiny 1100
ple. when their government. censes to pro
ice their rightsa, when it is so subverted
frot ltho true purposes of government as to
oppress them, have (lhe right to rectr to
fndamentnl principles, anil, if nel ho, do
stroy I1.e government tiider which they
live, anal to ereet on it ruins aiother more
conducive to their ielfar. I hull that
they Itavo tii1 light. I will not blaime
any people for exercising if. whenever they
tLink the etmergency has ome. I cetinin
ly shall be the ndvuocte ot that. saim doe
trine wlenovcr I finld that thle printciplcs-of
tlhis lovtonment, have becoiam so nppressive
to lhe sectian to which I belong that a free
people ought not to csure it. You will
not. tlien find te backward in being the
aivocrao of disunion. lint dhut contiugon.
C., ne'ver aliving come. I have never yet
opened iy itouth in opposition to the U ni.
ons,
"Toa0 en nnot forcibly ho4l imen in this
U n it.r iho atCntmp. to do so, it seems
to ile, woull sutbvert t-he-th-st principles of
tihe (overilinein under which we live."
CItMas Co'aMTrIAn ox Naw YEA-n's D.%Y.
k drunken pol olman, let loose in tle 8ev
enteetlh P'recianel, rain tip ani down the
stireet like a wild man, chitbing every citi
zen lie met, aid Aooting rm inorticnsivo
German, who iq likely to cie frot his
wouiil. This M.\etroplitan aiac was
finally caunght II.I caged. A ,nan WaO
stablied by a highway robbor in Rtivington
s r-cet. Therc- was, an I her stabbing nfray
in ilie Eighteenli Ward. A woman, aban-,
donled by ha' litsblland who is in New Or.
lean.4, comit tled suicido by .-aking opini,
in the Wetmore lainsa; and an New Year's
night, t wo Irotlher . ridhtg in Fouirth
strt, returiing olim alt hate hoilr, Were
.tssailled by rallians with brass kimtokles
and sltung shots, heir skulls fiact ired, and
last night both of the men i wer dyinag. In
this case there were no arrest, thouagh the
daly befaore it w-rs pidicly antinoune t hat
tho enutire police foree would be oi duty,
with the reserves in readinesis for any sud,
den ail. !. is a shocking showing of crime
for a1 :i day, and that dray ia genleral.
genil. holiday, when even cri.no might. he
expected to slink awaty out of sight inl the
slatns of the live I''at's neighborhlood.
Instead of' this rlilfialnisiman mit riut, and tle
reord pr nvll"tis a striling oatist wit i the
compa ative absence of crime in the city on
Chrii was Day.-New York Iorld.
0nrt'anv.--Fvrel to the memory of
trevet .\lajor G-nerall John Pope, U. S. A..
who dep:tril oat the tanir of' yesterday
mon'wiig. itely a resident of the t'erritory
of (ieorgia. Alabama and- 1'loridat, and
several stall utladr,,es. The remains ('or we
insist that le is duad - decidedly alth dudest
mt141at oat 11Ihis continenaa) wuer'e borne to tile
cars by a cortego consisting of a rery few
very ilair 'a holy looking t'riends - so.cnll
el,"' nud to lne mlilit ary band which- liaR
f'aor siome miothIs a loarned hais court. rThe
'.nutsicaul featuret of thla saoman occaslin
made a prtodigi.itc.elort to be "'inspir'iting,"'
baat ther'ie wea'e n.' rager, expeccant multi,
I tae, no wailad to i 'g o:' hats, shiaki ng of
haandkea'chaief', tanad naia 'slaamoar for' stand.
intg r'ooml to erat cha a last, linger'ing ghace of
t he beneficenit coaunteanetna ot' the dlopar't
lug hecro. Tihe ausuan numiber' of passen~gers
on tho oconsion of a depatnlg train, tihe
oifacers of the post, hot elI porter's, &c., lad
tall t ie show to : hemdelves. No one was
cr'owdedl off' the side-walkc, or from the car,
tshed. lIe was teiluderly armeda to a seat. in
lae hindmtost passeniger concila, thla wvlhisatle
toted, anda Ihte douneaameories of haim of' "'the
saddle'' atlona remanin to its no~w I
"' Abiil, eralail, niupil--J ohln1,p.
A tlanta, Infelligencer, 8ad.
AN Asooc,A Rnoi'ntp.~.The dleath of Mi'.
Van Biaren, Pr'eident of theo A;bany Youncg
Men's Christian Associtinnli, by t.he acci
dent on the Ltake Shore Railroad last, Wedl.
trosday Is eonfirmed. li trunak has been
.found at. Iltffalo, andi the corr'espontding
oneck tamong the ehhurreda remaains galthel'ed
up f'roam heo idebaris of' thea burnced cat'. The1
r'eins witiero so fear'fully burned as to be
tttrecognlizable. Last, Sabbatha week lhe
spo-ke, as usual, at, one of the mission sta.'
tions of atho Associition. Tat the courso of
his0 remar'ks ho expressued the f'ear that lie
would ntor be agauin perm-itted. to address
thoso Who haeard, hum. as ho ihuf' a proemon-1.
tiow thatt l'ii contemiplecle Journ'aey would
be his last. hlow tr'uthfaully was bla endl
foreshadowecd. AlthIough. In very-maodorate
olroaumtstances, he land a hafo policy ofi
$5,000, anal, we ar'e toldl, an accident poli
cy of' thte same anmiunt-~-*heo latter- renewed
altOlelatal et- the d'ay of ble deathb.
The resent raillway tacolet at Angoliuv
luas aittr'acted puibllo atftentlin to the~ study
of mnas of proesvetion. In Enuglandl the
cara'e attiohod..to - euoir other' by braces
whaloll"'oe so Airmly soro*'ed upg that, the
tx'aih lsaltnost once contitnuous ear. It
gIves-a Vdtf deiabl et eadd~ess of motion,
and' 1w thdougbo to promoteo security.
'.he Rev.l Rorf, J. tl'eeklaridgo, of' Kent
tttoky,'(iLlMnon~eod,; #s-adiressed a let
ter to Presidbht JeuuIson, askinlg a- per og0
'for General John Q. Breoklnt'ldge; ivtt is
now in ParIs, 1ti very reduced ciroutsttan'
ocs. He t 4g that Generatlh'relIinfigg
k~~ An Jble pgltical ,.vlews, bat
o1,llat'ae~r t as a jnans entilles
PFannoNAr.--.lxI Pi-esl'd'ont lNavls'and adyr
Generals Duithanasn, Ii ado - H1am pton, For
rest and Chtalmers, were at the St. Uialeg
hotel1. New Orlenas. on New ear'. ay.
Creditable Sentiment from den. Han
cook,
Nsw OnJs.\Ns, yanuary 5.-The follow
ing order has Just, been promulgated
1SAIQUAInTHns,
I-Ti "MILITAnY Disritaloy,
Naiw ORLEANs, JUnuary 1, 1868.
[General Orders No. 1.]
Applications hiqve been made at. these
headquarters implying the existence of an
arbitrary authority .n t Mo Cominandiog
(Generai touching purely civil controversies.
One petition solicits his action, another
that ; and each refers to some special consi.
derationt of grace or favor whichl he sup.
loses to exist,and whi h should influence this
department. The number of such applica.
iions, and the loss ofr time they inwvolve,
ma1ke it necessary to declare that the ado
ministration of civil Justice appertains t
1ho regular courts.. e rits of litigat
dto not depend on the vieiwz'of the General
They re to be ajudieted, and settldi, no
cording to tte laws. Arbitrary power imoh
as lie has been urged. to assume ins no ex.
istence here. A is not: found in the laws of
Louisiana or Toxas; itcaninot. Ledi-rived from
any or acts not of Congress j it is restrained
bmy i constitution. and prohibited fromt ao.
tion in man y particulars. Tho'Major.Gen,
oral commanding takes occasion to repeat
that. while disclaiming judicial functions lin
civil cases, h aono sutfer no forcible resis
tanceo totlie-oxocutiou of the process of the
courts,
By command of Major-General H1ancock,
UEORGE L. 11ARTSUFV, A. A. 0.
On.\mi ti AccoUNT OF Till: XFW VOLOANCO,
rx Nic.anaou..--A letter has been rociyod'
by the Scretary from lIon. A..B. Dicker.
son, United States Minister ,to Nicaragua,
datod- Lcon, December 4, 1807, in which he
gives the following graphic plicturo of the
new volcano that broke out in Nicaragua,.
about eight leigues to-the east'of the city of
Leon, on a crowded line of vocanoes run.
ning through the States, parallel with the
Pacific coast. lie says :
"On the morning. of November 22.1 1
vent' to the newt volcano for the purposo of
observing it mor closely, though I had seen
and heard it. very plainly every day and
uight from Leon. Tibc best view which I
obtained of it on that occasion %was before
daylight, fromi a inountain summit, about
one mile northweot oft he fissuc, and at right
angles with it. The main oratier at the
right. was actively at. work ..t.howing out,
hitnes and liiif omelted cinders. tahrough a.
circular orifice, about six feet tn, diauntefi;.
which was constantly filled to its utmost
capacity with the asconing niasses.
"A regular cone, built up outirely by the
falling cinders to the height of about, twoo
hundred feet., had already formed aroundi
the crater. The rim of the cone was white
with laoat, and the outside wits red-hot. fot
half way down, while the r.smainder of its
blick ground-work wasgitt ing with in
nunierablo glowing sparks. It was puffing
quite regularly about. once a second,
with a strong, constant blast., which kept up
a columin of flame filled with flying cinders to
the height of five hundred feet above the
inoath of the orifice. Irregular explosions
occurred at intervalt varying from ten to
tihiray minuteS, inereasing the forco and
volume of the discharges, and sending them
far u1p into the rolling clouts- above..
"'T1ho cinders went up it-44-'ed blat:.
ing-masses from one to three feet in diamo.
ter, and cain down upon the o-no hardon
ei. striking with a clinking, metallic sound.
After daylight the red appearance of the
cone changed to a bluish black. The left
hand crator was shootinggout obliqato d1ie
ciarges of flame and. cinders of a similar
charnde'cr at. an angle of forty-five degrees
rroni tha other, aind evidently communicat
cd with it about a thousand feet below the
surface, the two oraters being that distance
apart, and both discharging sintiltaneously.
this half horizontal crater was about Iwen
iv feet in diamlleter.. Thu- volcano- was an
nettve anid- interestbing sight for siteen-dwyt
and niow,. in its repose, affords an ainpfe ad'
instructive fiild- for the geologist."
flow 'ro Sm -rioTu WNn.- T'lo a polished
metal sumrfamce of ttwo feet or more, ith
straight edg-a large hand-saw will answer
the purpose. Take a windy day, whether
hot or emld, clear or cloudy, only let It not
ri'tfl or ihe nilr be enm-ky ;: ini othel words,
let the air be dry and' cloer, baut. thai's ik not
essentiah Ilol' your ametatiel' surf'ace at
r'ight angfesto t1e direction of thiu wiud
c. //. ,lf thea wiand is nort h hld your surface
east mand west, hat instead of holding tile
surface vertical, incliine it about forty-five
dlegr'ees to the hioiinn', thiV thie-wvind, strik
ing glanes and flows.over the edge. (keep
ing it' ienaighit) as tho wat er flbMt Over a
aim. Now sight oarefully over tle str-aigh~t
edge at somee mInute anid sitply-defined ob.
ject, and you will seo'tlio air flibw over as
wilter flows ever a dhvn. Make yomr" ogser.
vatlong~ carefully, jand yen1 will hiardig .oieir
fail'to to msee thle a1e, no aftter how d'ad;
tihe result Is cee better when the sues hs
obscutred.
Timi' WYAY '1'O Svkfmoiindrns, Wof ,XNW
Mmso.---Oilhi'en shtould'hbe taught in saich
a rmanner as to be pr-ompted uno,easingly to
the miost vigorous exertions of their own
talents. Thae huntan mind is ntt a more
vessel, into whalo' knowledhge is to be' jbaW
eil. It is better compared to i(boo, fed
duarinig the first. period of Its exlste~nce by~
tile labors of othe is;: but. Intended,, e
long, to lift its'wing~s In the, active .employ
mient of collecting swegts froie9 every field
wig lhin its reach. To suco excursions, and
to t he aoomaplishmon. ~of sudh piarposew,
t'he ii should be early ad sedulously
allarodi .Withui the attveoetoige .of Its
powers, niTher otld nor iln quir
uix cubis hgh,wNou( dhato'b pn only a
gigantic boyi wlthoutmnoueial oqofts, New-s
toin wotgld. have bcyms. merely an infasng of
purchaso.threatens to cosa us li .gddhloat
tolieE,' ti;aps bt ieut, fony
eompaies hovb'bot $eel's.a WDig
Ollonwihin' he lsfew daya'sltlt g that
thetypdgni e'toakp ossi4on ofthbe
Seoabtg Are fi arthouht. Wett~~ dIttor
iiat. ttrb wa*6' . AIbI 14 th'e pile
ijd( is'that thley wil ba fl**4'tdth1thi
mahlmed for lire beforedi#poerandh
a ooutintA ~'oa', thetsub.
jet. t'4 hi' .hr nw ,te
strous ad Ie. en. i4d 6oo .
mnanded the eatpedition, leaft *igo
Territory somee time agu
An Enooh Arden Case--A Woman Olar.
3Y '1W W4644n.
The Rochester Express has an ac.
count of a singular case that has occur
red in that city, in which one Avoman
was claimed asa laowful wife by two
husbandl, each of whom had been legal.
lv matried to her-the last marriage
taking place when the first. husband
was believed to be dead. The facts are
thi'sp: Two young men were oery
friendly to each other. One of theni
had a wife for whom he cetrished all of
a husband's regards ; the othe*r was an
ardent bsudent and experimenter in sct
entific mattorp, and a bachelor- having
devoted himself to perfecting a seontifle
istrurnent to demonstrato a formula
which he had conceived in his mind.
Oh the outbreak of the wit the yoting
marrriedi nimv went into the army ; and
before doing so, exacted-a- promise: from
his friend that in caselie was slain, and
ne r returned, he (the friend at home)
would marry his wife and give - hera
permanent home and support. With
this assurance that his wife was provid
ed for, the soldier went to the war.
After a while report cu'me that he was
killed in. battie, and his wife mournedl
fr her l'ost husband. E N& nut re
turn, at all events at the endof the war.
and after due space was given to mourn
ing the promite given to the absent and
supposed to be deceased soldier was
lulfilled; the widow became the wit of
tho husband's friend, and their jby was
crowned by the birth of 'ia handsome
child, on which the parents doat
ed,
There is another incident: iti t hin so
far simple ta'e, which gives it greater
interest. Aoon after the soldier march
ed to th ,e South, the student waw tahen
sick in his' fbrlorn dormitory, and be was
believ-edi by his kind physician to be
very near death's door. He must have
careful and constant nursing, or must
iin'vitablv die-with the longing of his
soul unfuifilltd. In this emergeney,. t he
soldier's wife, who was earning her live.
lihood by sewing. was called in.. She
went to the lodgings of the yotmrg man
--Ita block in the centre of the ciy
-and there rursed him throiigh the
fever,. and back to convalescence and
labor. fi this way the lady had' eslab.
lished a claim on her own part to the
fulfilment of the pledge given in friend
ship-for her husba d.
Nvow comes the conclusion - A short
timesince the long absent soldier reap.
peared, oxpl'ained the reason of lils long
absence (the circumstances which do
tained him we have- not learned), and
claimod his wife. The second husband
was loth to surrender his wik-, who was
he 'nother of his child' M''o, and he de
clited to give fi.er up. The question as
to whvitih had the best right to the wo
ninn was submitted to a legal' tribunal,
on the-last day of 1867,,the-eettw dkcided
that the first marriage was binidii and'
the- wife must paso tolhe fbMner liusbntnd
-a discision- which all parties are under.
stood to abide. What bpeone of the
child we ltave not hea bunad;:but ofeoutree
the father will hAve tie best right to her
custody.
Tu NEw Pirospu'rM Brns e wra'
CiI~unI.tsTON-INT H s1489O,4W ]'AOTS.
'ilte discove of the bone earth or nat
nral' phopplates in South Carolina,
seems about to create qite a revolution
inl tle manutketare off ferrnliners, and the
Norilhern compamo~s are already anxi-us
to se.anre consignments of the precious
material. Several shipinents have al
read'y been made, and applientions for
ageincies and letters aelbing infbrngion'
ae recei'ved! daiily. At prent the
earth is shipped-in its crude state, but
she' company design soon to comnmence
operations and preparo a fertiliser that
will be found superi1r to most of those
now in' use. EAirig tie past year ever
*1>04000 worth of tet'itisers wverer sold
in tlhis city between ftaanafay and Mar,.
and: ib is estimated tl,lkt tis amount
will lie more thtan donbibt -during the'
piresent searon. Our farmera~ have he
come convinced of the benedl to be de.
?ived A'om' a free use of manurea, and
have- expended more mnonef in dhe puir.
chaseof these suipplies that at any fur
mew' perioth. They are not' promised.a
fert iha~r ol' home inanufpenue, which
will be superior to the imported! article,
'and which Can lweftasInedaRU far le
pricee. A nmfabt-:e agordere hluie. been
'receiratl'by tfle company'- wvho' hliw' a
large force of hanids emplbyed',' al of
whom are white, many of t~ema being
as ited ced' itn cit reaeew es uw'V
compelled' to suppoitt tfemeples andl
families by a kind of labor to which they
are wholly usagegatomed. A wharf is
ntow beinailr; at the~ Jandhlg on thei
'Ashley Wivt,-and' nasefs wiWT then bo
a'ble to load diret- flrom the ahse
' The corpat,. t#lnh~t but recnti
etaute, M sh6*p' that it 'will hnre n'o
partationeh to supply the phosphne in
'uwlimited gqnaitlites, and1teelkto
the ~wh ttado thborete eupoc oe
[tbe l at
tcent oikfll h hb
daIgbl4474ffof,~
t h'#4ebt ShIse vace1Irnoai ith
Uifo~iltiy eloptedl plan of the F"rqulOV
Gas ength. tod ptete -ha-In sodir
~debt.
Vesuivus,
iutl RUPTONS "A RAercrct onsn
nlNYOND AI. 1.owaat OP D.:SCatip.
TIoN.
Vesaivius, tile eriptions of which havo
been hitherto a otrce - of amntise
Ment, has this week awakened consider
able apprehension. Every day alnost
it hos presented a different appearance.
On MAny it was covered with a ninan
tIl of sn6W which was striped at inter
vals w-it1broad stripes of lava, and the
explosive force of the mouitaini began
to increase,. th-rowing ont; smioke and
dark eolormealid-, with sliglt detoiri
tions. "The smoke hlel," said Pro.
fessor Pihlieri, "were covered with sub.
limartes of sitlmarine and motallio chlo.
rares; the smoke istued, too, not, only
from the cone on the summit, bait an.
other lateral hole which, from the great
deposit of material around it, has grown
into the dignity of a cone. On-Tuesday
night the spectacle was grand beyond all
power of description. liarge iaasses of
lava were shot up to a great height, one
of which, even from the city, was seon
to fail. like a- mighty rock, and roll down
the sides of the great cone. Streams of
redt hot lava were flowing over tlhe cra
ter, and bathing the whole of the upper
part of the moutain while fierv lava,
asies and sand were sent up vith ai
immense impetA, irradiating the sky
far and near. At ittervals <aring the
whole night there was a kad- and con.
tinued caitoinade as of artillery which
was heard in the most distant parts of
Naples. Clouds and darkness Bid the
mountaini from us for two days, and
what was goinle on- undkr their nwvste
riotis veilu it was impossible- :o-sav ; but
a north wind swept theni all away, and
then Vestuvius was agaii revealed in all
its aingnificence, aid one may alnost
add in all its terrors "The eruptionm of
Thursday," to quote Palmieri :
"Was at, its greatest intensity. Enor.
mous amasses.of solid lava '-ere lamunchod
to a fearful height, faling and rol.ing
down in every direction, thus rendering
the ascent of the monmutain yct more
dangerous. ' Tht d'etonations were very
freqiet-, and so violent as to cause tle
walls of the Observatory to rock back.
wards and forwards."
It was necessarv to d'etach the scien
tific mnstruments from the walls and
place th'vion-the groand in order to
preservetheim f-otn Lhe strong. undulato
ry shocks. Persons who were present
at the Lime comparttheir sensations with
those which they have f(lt oy bhoard a
vessel when roeked by the waves. On
the same day the inlabitants of Torre
del Greco were again in so much appre.
hetision of another disaster that Palmi
eri went over to exanino -the extint
holes which in 1861 sprend: dlavastation
over the city. Ie so ir satisfied them
by reportoug that. "t-here was no imli
net: dAnger," and thus tranquilizing the
poplut ion, a great proport ion of whom
\Vwere making- arrangements to lbave. As
I write,. then eruption continues with
equnaiviolen(e', and dense masses of dark
amoke boatent down by a biver north
easter are sweeping over the sea.- Oor.
Lowylon, '1nc..
ft is no longer a secret of the ehemist's
Vaboratory that clear, golden syrips can
b)e made from starch and sulpiuric acid ;
that delcious wines and brandies can be
mael from beet. root with ethers for n-.
vor; that, a barrel of peanuts can- be
transforimed into excellenti coff'ee ; that
lard can absorb an eniormonsa quantit.y of
wvater inl certain conaditions ; thait in fact
there seems nao limit to the adulterations
that an inatehlige'nt and dishoniest chemist
en,.pactile upon hisi fellow-men. All
thte imarvelsa of chemical science have
gna'these lat ter d'ays becomo degraded'
mato mere tricks of trade, and their chief
beauty is in their capacity to lighten the
pockets and destroy the stomachs of the
cnaiding un ad onamni ng public. Con
ceraiig the article of champaugne,. a wri
tcr in~ the 1%nled puar telh ns tha t at
is'now made' from a thaousand dliiferet
sfnbstanaces, even re fined yet rolenin. Yes,.
from thie fiory benazolos a' sparkling, bub.'
bliiig, fbamai lnhampig( can' he- pro.
dueed'whith will delight. the-eye. tickle
thae painte, gl'adilen- the: heart mnomen'a
rily--but quicken' oui paces toward the
graveyard. -'his is a now use for petro
letnv.'hichthos'who have been ek.
perimetibmg withI it as an agency for
gnerating steam have little dreamed of.
Whuo enihsa-y thaat our T'ennasylvnaia oil
tervtitory, mnow coneidered mostly avot-th
lesauiay not ame day~be . regenorate'd
it to' the gi-enab . chauaingeproducing"
couttaa ry of theo world'.--Isladlphial
Vderlngf aroanrd anda9out of' the Tm$*
ir ont of: tun most vanrious 6-atuires, jateb
nflwy. of "I*opailican'a peljiios. TIhe
Tmrwas n siuppprter of' the 'Milit.sry
Reconstruction Dils,-the iinl, biev
of whmiolk was td himg the- bhieli mnn
upp*t'mosGebsts the fluer groomaag
wiser with sgc, osys mo,#
upon anly89tMu n aineptidae) rfkf
repiAblican G. ernmiiei the p1i~ 6
gingnjyeda~saffrageNp l.marwifhfon
bck Ifreglrgn sqn~ J,vrv 'illi. jt
Ttathigg~ tgukl Jb trer. 'ljt
wot~ler a, Qttr doteppri "tat.
Ao* reid.4 flst
Re-Ausembling of Oongressi
W ASIKINOTON, Jan. G.-In the lonse.
a variety of bills and' resolitions were
introduced, among them one to author
ize Clerks of Record Courts to adminis-.
ter oaths in bankrnptcy. Upson, of
Michigan, introduced-a rusolution, di
recting the Commiotte- on Reconstruo
tion to inqire into the expediency of
authorizing- the several Constitutional
Conventions elected under the Recon
strtiction Acts, in the Stiites lat'ly in.
rebellion, to appoint all civili officers,.
whether' State or County, in' said States ;:
to act tempor.wilv and uiill State Con.
stitntions shall be adthpted' therein. and
oflicers shall be chosen and qualified to
fill said offices ; and that for this pur-'
pose, said Conventioins niy remove till
civil officers Inow acting in said States.
&c. Boutwell, of Massncliisetts, Iov
ed to amend the resolution, by add
ing-to instruct the Reconstruction Com
mittee to in(iuire into the expediency of
authorizing the G'eneral of the army to
detail officers for service in said' States :
alo to inqiire into . the expediency of
constituting said States each a separate
Military District, under the command
of a General of the army; and also its
to the expedienev of providing addition.
al legislation to senre the el'ctive fran
chise to all; and also to declare by A et
of Uongiress,. that the l?rovisional Gov.
ernients set lip' in said Siates by order
of the acting Ph'sitent, are not 'lepuib
lican forms of Obvernment. Upson
accepted the- aniond'ient. Chandler,
of New York, moved to lay the whole,
subject on the tabl!, which was not
Agreed so-yeas 28 ; nays G6. The
resolntiona were then adop'ed. Eldridge
offered a resolution of thanks to Gen.
Hancock, in accordance with the Presi
dent's mnessago; Tablod-83 t..) 28.
Washburne, of Wisconsin, offered a
resolition, declaring that the Iloso
utterly condemns the condtlct of An
drew Johnson. acting President of the
United States, for his action in- remo'v.
ing the gallant soldier, Gen. Sheridan,
from. the command of the Pifth Military
District; and that the thanks of the
lHonsoare due to Gen. Grant, for his
letter of Auguist last, condemning the
nat of said acting President, for his re
removal of Sooretary Stanton, as well
as for the endorsement of Gen. Sheridan;
in regard tonffitirs in the Siate of Tex.
as: adopted-veas 82, nays 23. A bilF
making eight hours-a day's work, pass.
ed.
In the ?E"unato, a miiemorial' was pre
sentod, favoring a steamship line henco
for Liberia. One by Sumner, from the
freedmen of Elizabeth City.. N. C.,
stating that land-owners are driving
them- from- the land their industry hawl
puroliased', and' asling redress. N ortor,.
of Indiana, introduced'a bill compelling
f.l prosecution for violation of revenue
laws, and forbidding compromises. The'
cottonl tax cai up,. and wa-a postponedi
until Monday.
SEARCHING THE SFA Fon TIn'tSURE.
A company has boe organized in New
York to prosecute' the search for
?960,000, or $41800,000 in' British
gold,. saidl to- haye been sunk at Hell
Gato-, in the' British frigate Hussar,
during the revolution. The vessel
struok on the 26th of Nov. 1789, on,
Port Rock, nearly opposite the upper
extremity of Randall's Island, carry
hag down her 70 Ame~rioan prisoners,
and .?960,000 in gold. Parties have
been omgaged in thu effort to recover
this sum, as often as circumstances
would permit, for the past seventeen
years,- and iiro' yet sanguine of success.
lie docks of the frigate have been
blown off, and naotlliin but tile- ribs
ami4 bottomv of thaewrok now remain.
Oporati'ons llave been carried on only
at interva-ls duving the summher, the'
strong current and the groat depth
eighty - foot-interfering with the'
movements of' the divers. Nogotie--'
tions areo pending with ed~iving ena
pany to' continue the work this wi
ter. A few soveoreigns-of tule reign. of'
George III, and otler' ourfusi'.jes B avo
been recovered from. tile wrook.-.'~
$4,800,000 was lost in the Hlussar t1e'
company have been assured 1byofficiat
information obtaihecd from the' war of-'
flee in England,and they are general.
lyconfident of' tle onrlig reanlition of~
inse '0foknsont. ?Minister to'
Ni~caragua., trahasmits' au -'elaborato'
asoon* of w vetsout vtluanfio action.
3t llt'ed' sixteen days, making itselF
cone- twos hutndred .feet hib witti a
erator in theotop,t(*o'jundrodfont in
daieter.. Te~ sanm lV ~ thIn'
countiy 'from the vol'e t|$ t Pa
clfle,. mity.ileE.. At seitaa nighc,.
the ri of the'eraty was white, and
haWB way- dean was ared'heat.- The
lhiightof' tile fldmo tnd log oindera
knfl lmI d066'i'4 fetoot Diknhda
thinuks the volcano 'aw smnothoraid by
its |lisonergew..
B~y rcent esprg .5f as boon'
ascertaoil d hqa #1l of sain
tlro 'a glaes ata 'very hIgveolo -
ty suia rtetbo ano ass t asbi~ at a'
lowNtlodi~t. ;ewoont4be;tworthore ,
ea~ idinkwhere the b!;1 . makes.'
round heloe o~is ~iaetr as It.
IM'AEie y ps~ pi noIt
pw ho
in the street.,r