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Au Extraordinary Invontir-.3toam Man. Tiw 1*tdoJwing story of it remairkahh, l'-dejldj~i i-Imnttiin 'iN told y .-the "Mr. Z idwk Dibblick. a N'etark [nil Ch iniuA, ias init vented a tn ; ote :.11t, meoved hv steaw. wdl per form t,1Une of' the most impor tit Iictio i of lLnIlnsnity ; that wi!l, siandog upright, wahlc or run, ni be is bid, in any dire.c tion and'at alm-oat iny, rate of speed, irawing'aftor hhiin a l;d n bse weight, woUd ia x i lie Pt rengti -f t-ree stviit irauight I reses. Tie history of ti Is enriotte hivlo~nito ii as folows: SIX Y i a go, Mr Deddrick, t he invienotor, % ho s is pr-tetnt but t weity-two years of age,.Coleived the Inovel h-1'a of cn. oroc;ung a ian that should receive its viitwkv from a perpetintd motion ma chine. The idea was based on the well-kniwn meoliamncal principle that it a heavy weiglit be placed at the top of an upright, shigh'!y inclined for a verti e!hl, gravitation VIl tend to produce a horizotatl as wll as .e' rtical motiotin. The pr vct was not succesful. rE-w. ever, by observiiig carefilly the causo ,.f tho failure, preserving and perfecting the nian form, and by substituting steam in place of the perpetual motion machin", the presoet suouess waa uttain - The m in stands sevon foot and nir.u .clhes high, tie other dimnentioi of the oody being corroci ly proportioned, makmIg hi a seond Daiel Lambert by which anie he is facetiou1l .:, !-f-ti -f among the worknon, I I weight 500 poIda. Steam is geliera'ted in- tine body or trutk, which is nothing but a three-horse power engine, like those used in our steam fite enginea. The legs which support it are complicated and wonderfil. The steps are taken veiry na'Sttuly and q!i ' t easily. As the body is thrown for ward upon the advanced foot, the other is lifted from the ground by A spring and thrown for ward by the steam. Each step or pnct advances the body two feet. and ever* revolution (if the engine produces foin pacea As the engine is ca pablu of making more th an 1,000 revol tions in a minute it would get over the ground,on this c J enulation, at the rate of a litho morn thar a mile a ninuta. As i his would b) wOking the lega faster 1han would hi safe on uneven ground or on Broad 'tre-et cobhle-stonep., it is proposed tc run the engine at the rate, of 500 revc, lttions per minute, which would walk the man at the modest speed of half m mile a miniute, iThe felow is attach l to a common rockanvrky cirr:ag.', the tIaifts of -whiei serve to support him in a vertis-l po tion, These shaf s are two b iar of iron tasene'd in the uun!tai nitir tro ti 'front of 'he carriage, anid-re 'enredis, as to bojointd to n cire., ar iuit ini b'nr, which ptiases aroumnd th , wa;i.t 1ik, a girth, til in wVhih the liali ilmiY'4 8.1 as to fare in a, v direct Iont. Bside, rthese me' iio. mactimnerv hats been or raoge.d by whxch the figuro can be thrown backward and forward from : voreal nrly fortly-f v degrees. Tlhi to done in older to enable it to astcomi. or descend nl grades. To the sol-s ( the feet spikes or corks are fixed, whicI f--Ct aly prevent sipping. The wholi 1f1air is 0 firmly uStietidt- h tie shafN o1d so exc-l-lint a foot-hold, that t wo men tre unable to push it over, or in any way throw it down. inl order tc -e*nable it to rstop qu'icklyc, it is pro rd e~ nh t t wo-. nlpphaniie*,. .On (uf wligd will, a.s before statled, throwi it haecknardl frm, thoen aian I, wh ile th other be'i n a direed'on opnposthe to 'he .-ir ttal p-hulion, "A n righit Pvi96 which i-i arraniiIed i.t front of the Jush hioaird, anad wit'hin easy, ronc~h nf the front sea ts, sutaiins ~'wo iit t'ilrt' pilot wVii e by h i . ttunng of which ltes vairioui titotjins und e vlhi nto ate direct od. It ia "x p -eted thbat a sfuitin y large anounit if oi enni bet stowed away under t hait 'hack seat of thm n crriaige to work the Angi te for a dIay, aind enough wa ter ini the tan k utnir Iho front seatt to) last hail "In order to pr-i eent the gi ilt fromt i frightenling hotres by. its~ wondertful iap. penrance, Mr. Doeddrick intends t~o clothie it, nnd give it, as nedady as possibbe, a hk, ness to tdhe rest of hntumanit v. TJhte boilor and -intch pats as ate noessarily lheated, will he (lOca Thd in feb.n or woohr'n .tunder..garuments. Paii'aloons, coat and veat, of tha lat.st styles aire .prov'dod. Whenever th, fire-s 'neell conhng, which is ove'rv IW wo0r hreeo hours, the driver *naeat, uinbottons 'Daiel's' ve op~ettu I door, etnovos in the foe-,l, tons tip -the -vest, anid drives eon. UO the ba,k beta-evtn thu slhonilera, the steamii-cocks and giages are plaiced. A s ihese would c~~lann tie- coat to tot a w kwardly, a ka nn. sack has beetn provided t hat coimpletoiv covrs themi. A bilank~t nearl rovl d up and placed on top of the 'k'unpsack, perfets '.he dehmion. Trho face i mouldded mnto a cheerful coun tenanon otf 'white -enamel, which conitrasts well with the -dark hair ad mousatache. A sheet tron -hvt with am -aue toI esa smfoke0-sitiac. ".itucosttol (hIo 'first tutan' is *2,000, houghi the mtakers Melsrs. Dodd riok & Gr ass, expiect to mniuftttre suceedci ni onies wiarranted to rnn a .vtar wtithbout -rcpteiui, for $300). The sameo partie'o "xpect to construct, on thie same princi phls I horses, which will do lie douty oIf tent or tw~dve or'dmarv ainimails of the -samei sptecies. Thteses, it islC(t c enti 'believe-d, can hio ineed alhike before car. 'riagee, uireet car andt ,plotghs. Thme mnan nowcounstruet,-d cnn tmake- his way tiunut -ddalienhly, over tany irrnegunhir sturface whose- rt; mand aoses m-o not toro thant tino inltets below or above 'tho levtel of the road," iBy ftf6y thousand majority of the peco yl of Ohli it w'asq decidod at (lho lato on~tit 'that -no neg ro shall hiavo -the righbt'.of~tiageginhiat S tite. Stspn 9 4 . It ic. :the leginaaure :to 9"tFy AQtI deterinfation~ of fhbe peO ple.s. MrPenntister of'.i'ko ,oounty, has introduced a lill tmkintg tt a ,mul ffoaence fur aniy ,iudge of the ceee tion to rcalve a vote from aniy person who has a "a visiblo admiiixture of Afrienn loo. [Fri' tlw C'harkojn bDlly Ve, in., ;28.,l A lo al Row in th*.Oonyontion The conventiou yost rday had scarcely arjoiutned bofut-e the hall was a scone.of wild excitement, resulting from an assault by E W N: Macky upon Roswell T Logan, E., ii issistant editor of tiie (harleaton Mer. e u r,/. As 0:t eventn tranpired in the presence of the writor of ti-e pragraplis wo speak of ivhat -we know und nit from inforiation of any other person. Mdr eLogan was inl coversation witi the reporter of the News, relating the action of the couvention on tho -report of the Finanoe Committee, and in the act of rolling up his pipers, when Mackey approachel and in. quired: "Are you .the writor of the atticlo in the ('harlestOn Aercury concerning my fathor ?" Mr. Logan repliod.: "I am." Then, said Mackey, drawing back with a ciree, '"take that," iand -delivered a blow. Mr. Logan threw up his arm as a fenoe and struck back, and at the samo moment was sieoed by one or two persons neareat to him. Mackey, being more powerful, although the atkmpt was also mado to hold him 'y MI. Whittemore aud others, was not so easily esrained, and he eucceeded in striking and kieing onceo or twice, Lut cily one I blw t uook otreot, and that was upon the forleend , i hle 0 ssaulted ,parly. By thin Ilin -in lesr. han a % nintt e delegates, white and bleijk, weic pitching fiantically forwa'd tOw.rdls the report, I' table, and scene of affray, and in he pres sure of the crowd which followod Mr. Logan, held In the Iru. of F J Moses, Jr. (white) of Stimtor, was focud down 11h"i hall, nearly to the idle, and aignalit olev of the wIndows. The excitomont, iow b-, crm ltense Cries were heard , kill him" --"cut. the villain's throat"---"throw him out of' Iho window." ''No! let bhim alon.' -"t ho digiiy of the convtntien is at ! ake' --don't let hin be h'"-"keep back" &o. Mr. Mo 1 nieaniwhile still claped Mr. Logan, and declared1 that if "any man struck tho reporter they woul i have to utriko him,'' doing all that lay in his power ti queil tho now thily uroaised passion of the orowd. At this juncture, the presilent of the convention pushed his way through the crowd--(it is -;aid with a horsewhip in Ihi', hand, which was taken away froem him by sonw of the cilered delegates, but the wri:or raw nct.hing of this)-and while Logan was thus ourrounded by forty or fity per86on1 itandinzig on til s, ehirs, and fill. ing every spate that coutld bo occnpied by a huinnt body, Dr. Mackey 3pencd ''battery" on himi, and a:i an old lady woutl sav, give a "'1oe of his mmind." H40 said 1h1t ' 0 ,lid not hol I hima responlsiblo for his Ithiu e oti much i the Ioiprons Who oenployed hii ; that h! Wal Ongaged ill a mean,oontemuptible and dii ty lusiness, 'nd that if any retrilbtt tol was Ao be meted out, it belonged to those who paid hii his salary to -coue the. e and defame the characters of rnetm bers of the consention, &,3.. &., &c. We do not, of coitrse, pret 'OT to give die exact language, blt the ahovo. A t-rngly in fusod awith adjectives and expletive."4 ex prosses the opinion of the ebullition of iDr. Ma1ch;e ,r. During this adli-rss, which o I I pied pier. llps two ininut es, thA excitt'ent within the bar among the~ iieimbols of t he on-en Iiiont and wIthoit, taioni .the c ulored :pc Lors, iany' of whlom oiiobe-' o)ver IW lik ', reac~hed ; dangerous piltch. ('rie.: ore heard ',t '1throw himi ont (it tha windio w . ''cut his heiart cut"'__ -" himi, it aservec hmrg,"and the ini-a htt er anid -;eng fil threatsa, ind-icvatedi a dipos i! ion t3 cozn. mit mnurdr n' it he upoit. T1he behavior of Mir. L.u. thus sur rounded, was mnost cunoendcable. Calm, cool, and porfectly uiiquoned, he hieldl his tm'ni,iu nri awaited far tho aeitemoent to euhaide. Duri ng this p~eriod, it is but ju:: to saiy, the iondiora of the coenmtion ot be:hI rac'es did a I in t heiri p)ower to proaorv" order' and pre vent whai was most fenare'd bloodshed. Amionig tiesio may be men tion ed C C JDowe~n, whIo. like Dr'. Mackey, was the su bjet t of decription in tie Mrciury of yeasterday ;13 F Whbittmore, Dr. Newell, II C DeLarge, J d1 Wright, W K Jlohnson, W eris. Tlhe counsel of thiese piart ii-' ant -fhoir asiociatest ftinally preva'aild. It gradually st ole over t he miniti of mtermbers t hat .lie "'d'gnity of the convientioni" was at stake, and Mr. Logan was perm' itted to iretiros again to the vicinity of thev report er& tabhdi. IIeroe a piilicemtan maile his i;:pearetnoe. Mr. Logs n'requaetd 'his company 'to thle oilico of thie .lerury andi protections from the At this peint Mr. Madkey again ono uip, and, hearing the reqsuest of the reprosenta.. Live ofthe Ml'eury, said that li himself wocubl accompany Mi' r.ogate firom thehaillI, and nifird him-protectiotn. II F Whit temiore, ium'ley, J d Wriighit, 1Rand -dph, and othera, lik iwise ofl"red their escort, whereupon (lie parties loft the hall. 'tSCENli wiTuIotl'. '1h''' ii no donht that had not (he tcm porizing imeasures of. foew of the .oalmeir atid more setnsible meni in the convention prevailed, the affray would han~ resulted ill a serious manner. .Only' the presen~tce and counnsels 'of detlegaitos possessing thce onti denre of the outside throng prevettdu blood thiie. Thle thlrats made lunre hail atid aan. gil'nary, antd a spark only -woiill have Ignlt.. cid a spirit r'ipe tor eny evl.iL Dr. Mackey, however, took coccasion to say -to a eirowd outsttde that-he did not holtd Mir. Logan at, all responsible for thet pubhlication, and in -vituperative langtuago charge .it uipen Mr. R bott, the editor Cf the Mercury. Mr.:Loganhas.but a single britise, and -that Is on~ his forehead. The only wonder is that,. under-the ciroumstances, first of be. lng nonnulted by a smuch larger man than himnself, end secondiy-of' belng tAhroaten~ed -with still more severe punishment by an.ex. olted crowd, lie escaped so well. The abrove fact., are writ tea In -te same f.iir arid eitilid spiha that lic. prni...d all the reporle cotierning tho co vonveatloin in this.paper. They are the ,obse IntI6ne .of iin eye witnoss, and hore -truh. .Genoral.Sott's piroular Loitr. * We invite the attintion to (le Circular i lett or of Brevet Major-Oeneral R. K. &cott, A smittanut Commissioner of uso Freedmen's Bureau for this State. The letter contain: informiation of importance and will be read by our pnanters with interect : 11 KaU'mas AsHISTAtIT 'CobIllstoInN1:R, BuuLAu I rootges apat.wegm AND AnANntrNan LAN-18, UhSTMuC r or Sor-rn CAtanoi., CuIAtArro S, . . : , J.liuary N , (Circudar Letter.'l The governineit 1-i iog nguti (lnrgl the Assistant Comiirsioner witi ii' y of distributing-.food tn,.itg -Ii o poeple of thie state. for the idul.le purpose of pre- t: vonting.dostituttion, Uit% <.v:nimon in many u loiaities, owl ). enteAC pI .. zi.ple tO pro vida against a Ike -reentionoo of 4he like C deititution i. fitre. it. b :u ie nl ocessa:-y, e in order to nIecomli.sh hie mta designed, I to Rdopt suck a systein of li~trititon for the supplies itus loaned, &s will filectually both acconplitda Ohe oljects alove ttine.d, an, inisur to I re g ,vernment the repay mienit of it in-ups i. This eod cai dluly bu. e.ltained by i. wel i-guhltedi ysti of Iabor-for from suic a syit'..m Alene can it be expetlIel I*,tat. i'ny Jssgroe l, pros perity Will follon. IL will bc found im posstible to d im.ribe f I- i ho npbdy thousands an individJals bu.'. Culy as cm-Ii , Thet nad orp~i'.ic ' Oihe i~ng year should have given ia K.. ! ;. i 10 tIll. Hirndreds (if peopj;e were :NeU rt-cipioute of lth elirrity (if bhe 1Governumcet, -who K.i uimed to be plant.ing l . . . buti who, upo a.:t . . . .iit ..... od I-) be either ;tihng m y t iii i 0trio er engaged in erult iriNg a mall prlh. t. whoito produe's efy ji h1 cow l.! in., "?: i,, 0 - them for mior. . t a itw 1 1. vr twe-- otlot e received aid v - W .. I .:. . an. worn out :iN &, .. n ' .oduce si clas8s, without. . .:. . -y m!, - -. ad into arrany - . r . one-all'of onmaidrd of Q . l ime to theI landowner, nel dAdng Q- m -M.& timptted to 0 u4 o - .I. eltves witi'uuvi W.-'-: or S'od tIo live upon F To continue K -1-- r obtabtn n. hiveh;noa ) *. -;,o a. ploto prost-ration 'o t* . ' i in t m it . the nauutry, and : ) fste'r xuen foily by%. tuntiti derinl g goverii , . ' , .--h people would be C ritioi I .,I 1 h" .'i . it t chlarged w,11b I o. iabt talnt Co m'.)- a-5 3i , a fv.. L ire to the exten x wI.u y he giveran ment, to t h wO. I . .., w: 0 lie is t1atig. fied are so eltalil. . i h y will bo aile to repay to the goveaneliit ' a:oilunt la-.. kd, as well 09.kto plan . : thexresponbibility of wari. eig1. fe!.. lowing year. To ne- '.L I hip .oi et, responsible personsv hei bte appini(.ti agents of dit.eil'ut ion -in -f.ck 'tcal ity Wher1-e dest.it it I: a. it. w1ho will be belil sirielly aceoun:! ., :. . jld iy , g , indunerry of thle cust 1olmerL They w%.il e ustructd elto t.e r ia thle rectilients a bond, giving i. Htn upo 'h crops to be gr'own, and othIer prod .t' aof intdo' (y atnd Th'le *assilt 't tl'mmi s.ainr mut be Sat istledliu~ i th ' en api'iin'. has planitedt or is abiouit to-at I.a ~ II tlli':'i u nmber of atcres ini I.eriell tinawre his protvisionis Im the iiext year' vith..2 puit:lonz. T'o p ties eng'aged whaly e'r in in undtuo extent int the cultivatioun' ot'.coion, .tno assist ance will be rendore'~. Dty itppo.in td oflicers, anid agents of i! th ein ii:.tti' be *iniurunOt. edi to frt.quenmt i l ad carieful ly .i nipect .thle plazintiions of a bosta whou :.re the r'''' tlil r of asisistancte, tiu-i it it t4hah at ainy I tme he fotund that they arec Uh.,' tto fail to ftul- 0 g'rtithibiatioetl.eenuyma w be t~liahLe li p t tite t t t. i t t he~t 0 t hat he isi aut hoied ato renierti is limnited., and it. is iiheref ioru iecessary'i tl i t all -pr 1 aouis who hav'e -Pi-.alit.e t'oiurce's zi 'o i :.. iandti~ should avaii I hei.mselve of sne.*t si. it pi'es~ tUeng on!. i jtonlded byi~ the gown.i men'it to relieve tbe maod e.utron cates ta Ldetit ton. to Oatlnet'o'li ti.ci:0 hI ird i.s dit 'ant LnTur.-Corrns :Iemin'vi... ijzl.Un lanfa t lurer pofe tm o ela t )'niet.v No otity a :hre brdeton of 'e.loituein't rueg)atsi toth in' :enton' oupply, aton toft ht.nt couft i,,t , a hrtutnsin rqrtho' tai, i; t2. Salmrtho to P hose of' th lam ew years.jo ''I Nt ~.ity deI 'h Untedi States tin'thlir op iji. give ' iot. erapomio ful otn accounh't of!ii 'he prisp' Iive em.,ova3~lbof.theCoix, bI~iut Ilin'tlbgencu h lroor uatr i tote..ng'hto.- a L'ytia, al ians lirodn.Ii a lrge pr m-i 2,rk vge 0 from.tndi Wttndi.sup wtrlc beaitg Aust;aliE buet supeior -s Liah.totxliohe an Brazpoil bas of tu eabt. felds o whilerihu d'r. arromti ., t ste n ao enon Mm 'y hax~v hthro one.te Ingvt an Ototracey ithe coito ropr tetrepr sup s l" ley to e diut inheandh .1aorlo oonts come Au In -i Wahehifgeoiance a bjlmpid 1)l toro h cotnfldst fr h u of Amria.:Eer tiong to thiw nd aysroi noeaureed -~ Thoso irste in-te ttni otan. tit Letter from Mr. tvia, The New Oaleans Picayune quotes on t.h Clinton (La.) P'atriot an inzer. A.ifg crrespondenco between Mr. Da is.and a number of -citizens of t)e par. :h ef est J?eliciana, in that State. 'he citeons after having mentitned the ict -thit bad weather had hindered Iaq ofthem from calling iin person pon Mr. Davie, sav : As the -chief exe'cutive of the'late 'but, ow .fallen -Confederacy, you enjoyed )e reijpect of ill here whose fortunes m(re 'IEked with that organiEation ; but i the represetative mai who hats 0ne With for'itule aud d'crgi'y' tLe in ta an4 labuses of R Irimplttit faction, Mt hAve -won and eik.>y .heir admia ru aei ndi Ipiit le(e'1 as we alre, i.n; till, ill our power to extenad to you ,e (legit- .'h~ospitaIlit's It'inat it wolild .herwisi hv our jeasire to bestow ut should either iclina:.ion or the dis harge of diiv lead you to visit. our lo. :0iy, you will fin h"IItomlift and a eartv wel('lco!me in e e and all of our To winch t-he following answer was Pa ELICIANA. L A'. Jauiry 8 1868. lfcssrs Freyhav. .km; Fishiburn, Jnels, I \'s and oelrs. - EN-rM N : i HIn deeply 1rate'firl r your -vory *imil .et te'r (if this -dat, !,d adstlre You that -it Y'oU'11 give me :reMaht pieasil to accept your in vitation. 4y engaiiz'iments3 require i me to, Ieave .for 4i$ssmppi So soonl thnit it will not be i in iv power to viait you, and again -look 0Ipo a place aslsociated with many hatp y memories. Your sifferinga antd loss s have been to me ever present, 11ltll all the trials to which youl so -Imgly refer. The desolItion whiel veTywhere present's itself ill that, once I '- contilry fillis 1'very heart, wil rrOW, bult I hope and ctust a bet ter int wi'll soon en to tit?. I'lte waienti artitude, the cheerfid( enirgy and inaily ri.e which our p(ople display inl the tht'10i of tiir miiiortili, cannot fail Lo 11 e 1.1n- I*m- re vard. A1% evellt fior yourself ai.d those to whom i l pro m, th expressionI of my bll mg dLevotiln. aid liy, earnie't, ) ral- (I-r, hich has [o long"- bt'eII daily ofn reod, a, i ! Fath1er xill r'siore our siricke'n 1l in !.he vwiy - wiih to His wisdom 1;2, most cordi:lly, your friinld, J i:t'-n:lisoN D)Av is. As explanitory of the nillision of NIr. viA to remem lbrain oe.< (f the .plst., it ay he proper to siate th.t .he was at ne periol if his life a studtinlit here, and hat, oi oh-r brother :nd *iser of his 'e(re memb11 liers oI ourl. coi m mtIiuii.y. .icli sox, LA., Jun. 10th, :1S68. iti: PtRITAN AND Ni:ono POL:CY IN )NOt-ss-A VIOLATIoN oF r int. A W.6r 0F Gu1) ANn NAi':tv.-Aside itlml ati the smuall fittest-ions of -persons ed ,hdm, ,he :policy of the majority -inl 01mlgx2 !is but onei poi.nt and purposie. 1if 3 omte dispute :s to who all 1m0 Ster-nntry of War t .wha ohnsoit oil dli n.%d Ilat cattndidnto hal the best -hanoe for t Pll 1residne.ic. tle grand oh). ot. of a.11 aio aind a'l po'htacal e. vity i to ptL ite nigglr above tha hi '.e man over one--itird thu area of his Utncn'. Suchl a pldicy wats suretly evo r bef'ore entt errin b IIC )y anytt governt Ig piower of thte eiv'bedI po~wer of' the ivilize-d woi. Judglingz faom~ al lihe niow\ledge of the rehi Iions and ?de ve'l Ii. 1liey is a direc~,t nlation1 of the' laws oIf amp . ) aml gamate 5ochllly rices thtat ut, only 'the crimes of men ha ve brough t lg'hier, butt it, is an attempt to so bind icietL iv u itt laiwst as tol seentre the Sit. tomnacy of' the baser and mtote brmt at (rowivn an otiter ('1limatIe, Ii'he nativ'.e f anto'.herl c~onttim-n'tt, the iwgto *ca nw .to l'.' con try minl tyL .tgh the .crii lact iity of Puritma U .v'e t.raders ;s td no0w the sonls of 1tho4e Purit 's '{tfid 'condonte .tito .first ci te b~ a seC. Idl antd greateor one1, andl give all thir rouight i, thiutm iostX exetiton stjipl I-put. the mgLglra in ai posaItion to Il le diiso rmed wthite m'ant 0f -Lebon iader tir'feefi! atnd to domraind sociaI ready do, thni theirt brut:d Iawtted 'Inst int be.fed wIi~ith whiin wvives. Suchi is e' actutal po's:tioni of thll rad ica ,part v. right ened ,no-w* a'..the disgustiing enor ty oif this 'pitrpose, whose nItimat e heet l'hat partly dimlyi begins to see, it. man d~ an td disowtn it.if '. wor.' as -I. ;i bt t litnmal g') before 1: heCtil cutry I.c 'h tform ,It, .has st tip for .itsolf; tmtust submit,:i t.s.case t~o the eotnitry d ablido the consequenfh(ce ,jll yptptia SoMEr.-rNro Fon -rus~ TLumious.- A ar~t-ling imadent grow out-of .adohate ~sterday :inl tVheGoagia convettion,. A MVr. :Crunley, colored., in a ram.. inig incoherent jumuble of .nlonsenISo id splutter -.and ,raht, .inviokod 'upon IC country the saving morey of God. artnest.y, and apparet'ly sver'y -bon i1j, the speaker was goinig on to nay: Ma y G(od harive iiuorey on"~-when lie ias )luisilly rapjped .down by athe jire din~g .o1meer, Mr'. Bl. -Cotily, .of ugusta, and 'oalled to order, saying, Pho gent'imani athat the speake~er Lalis < ti ti ini the botsn." What of this, ye 'holievers .in God id h is aw ful majesty.. 'The "goti. - an," and -these .words .appied to im who shtall .come in terror -andi tijesty., and the OhunlderB of 'infiilte 1 >wor, to juldge 4hiis wleked -world, Alasti .with itho iibety thas 'gone wn the robgtion -and 4ecency,of the - meorioan:peopilO. g- A. NL8ToN. I (Thtelligeneer:. ~In Paris the moas diaringuished fs.*'i.1 n writer 8s said to be an old womait. ho.livesimanattle, smulkesa, ebort.plpe, ears a yellow bandana around ihey 'ad and nin horsoir 'rs...t-. n Bad Speoulatin a Bt]wk Gats, The statem -nit that -tit -enterprising Yankee .has uought an island .in the y Olio .river and has stovked 'the same o with black cats, irtending to go into the fur trade, has called forth the following LI account of a similar experiment which -it was made many y.ears ago by a gentle- ,J man who -resided in Maryland. The idea struck him that as .the .fur -trade ) was lucrative .it would do much .better e to raise animals nearer home than the .J regions of the North, and accordingly he purclhad an island .in Chesapeake :p Bay, stocking it vith the blackest of black cats. He paid extravagant prices it fur tIho felines, and all iho boys in the 8 ar:ividnit coitrv went extenivoi.V -into .ill siness of enbrappiiig unsuspeeling ommies kiand Tabbies, wiich were im- C mediately -disposed of aid sent to the ri aforesaid island. The gentleman'fotind the cuili were e, prolific, and was .sooi .compilled to em. ti .ploy two men to'live on the island and .fiih with a seiie, in order to supply t.hem o with food. At finrt tihe -fishermen had ', qite an easy time, and redily supplied fish in abundance for their charges; but. die numnhers ditv iicreased, until whole It-giois of black lis trooped over thoir e island home, devotiringt everything in .the shaipe of' food, and the mew found it q .ilpossiblO to fiaimdh the -recasite auount of nourishnent. A t last it wts a determined that oie of' e -lien should take a boat, and, retriting to the main ia land. report t.he a'lari-ming stato of afflirs. During the abseice of the messenger, a the cats became exceedingly bold, and the remaining party fearing for his ife, e locked himself tp in :this cabin and pre pared for a siege. The Intetney, eiboldened b y this dis- 7 play of fear, and urged on by hungor. uirroinlded the houlSe, elibileid up the o sides, staring in at the affrighted -mani j through the windows and apertures, keepiig up the most bidoouts caterwaul- a ing. Ho carefully stopped up every crevice, save the cininey, but seeing g and huaring oimi-ious falling of soot, which disclosed a determination on the ( pa.t of the bsieging forcc to aflect it surprise, lie diosed ihat opentig also. and Micawber-like waited for tIling to turu up." 'For two days i n .d miglhtsi lie was kept ill this singihai p: (Iin, with t thle drUadfIl howls of faui , cats ever resounding in his c ari, nid with savage eves.glaring at lin coutin ualir. - Ai igth a pary arrive~d with gunls. I and succec'ding iin succnrrinir -the mai from his Irtly awf'ul position, bit so nti- a inerons were the cats, so fierce their as- h pect., and tireatening ini thir demeanor, that bothi the rescuers and the rescued ere oily too grlad to'leave this -paide. I monitim of jet black cats, gannt and fe- i rociois Ps they were from starvation. C The aninals all perished, and i thus ended one of' the most, extensive cat renring venturos Over recorded. WHATr CA mil. Dom:,?-The follow. ing nqttstion has been brought. before the Rutland Yong Men's Christian As-o .ciat.ion :for discnssion:: " \'hat cIai be done e.oP carry.th is county 0 f'or -Chri k. C The above grat.'sl harshly on tho.eir, 0 and sounds too much like t he liiterance N of a poliical canicns; and the samte ir in--n will soon le discussing whit c:n he t, lone to cartry t his comliry foir Chaise or d] Grat,. Buu the, why~ shonld we won.~ der? ThPlere arue inmprovemtenits and .pa. tenits for almiost everv': hug es atid p since poiitiles ninh religioni htave btcomiie r so tho roiigbtly mixd cin most oft thet or-~ ' thimlo x elirches, wh iy not hitve, parIelte b( h noprov ~emen'ts mt r(digion? Un'bit in an.. it swe'r t , the quvestioni-'w hct ('ti l he i.1 done to ca rry this conn' y for Christ ?" dI -wonihi ingnIire wvhiat bci J'inns are there to thle usual mode ? Got upJ aln g e xcitemet, htire a' "'pray ing hand"il' and 5 a cring1' han d--tlli the churehes with ' exciited con verts, antd th re mont ihs afer, till the streets wath backsliders. TlIris'hia - heetn 'nhe coitnmon mode prac '*'ed fotr some tme', and "'this .coiinty1' is piri'etsly wher'ie it wa-t wentity years ag~o. Wo.hIave no object i-is, hlPfveer, that li this aissocia tion shun1] .giv' tIlie einestilon mn a fhiorouigh "diiotssicon, .and .if hiey can t flevelop ityv i nptrovlad mcode 'o carry V thia~couty," ~t thiey wi1l be eiilletd 1o lhe dihaukstof dit ntire L 0'communt liit y. as j here are hyipcrites who -teed] ther,.'i i m'ition of .w hitt. const itulte; lpltre rel igi-m. e 'Gou:nron Jt:Nrctxe.--ThIis-great an~d in rood mani, the hontored Go vertnor (if Doorgia, and one of' the purest and alecst pa tt~~tirit ofth day i. a-irrivud at lhome N hroin Mi Ii lildguville Suit]a y mnorniing.-- fe Driven from his :poist (f (luty (wher~ hie di was pla'ced by' the unanimone ,v'oice of pc ~he 'people of (Georgia-) by the unibridled sal Ilowert'of a Military satrap, and 'literaldly it the -poinit 'if the Layvon ot, lie is greater in] grander to-daty ini his quiet home hantas the Chief Magist.rate of Giorgiat, ~ inider-'t:hie dlomthiion of ('on. Meade.- c__ h'heC time is not .far' distant ,we hope, be 'hieni -or' peopl-the res'poeidhhe peo. pt ile of-'Georgia -will a zninticall htimn rom da senh uuin anid hlace him in the Gnoh 'rnatoi'al .Cha~it..--A uyus'ta Chr'oiide Ad~ d S'entinee VTe man .iihlo .laugh~s heart ily is a hoetor wit hout a dipllomai. Hi: s iace love mit;r''-goodu in a -sick ;rooma dhtan a muthalt of powders or a .galloni d' bitter h-anigtt. :'eopl' tire always glad to 5s:. a tim. Thteir;iandls nintetciveljy go .half- ca vary -ho meat his 'grasp, while 'tiw tarn nvoluntarily 'frotm.u~he.elammriv coneh flbe hedysupeptic who .speaiksii ('ho .groar,. ng key. 'He'langhs yon .out .of your' anilts, 'hila~you never,dream .of ibeing Iil >ffended withishm;'arid yott neuor ktow Pi vhat, a pleno'antworld yont erelliing 'in al imtilho pointeaut do sunlyssiretda .n to pat~hway, -' G i lme J.ones, atfagmer's wife *in 'Con iecticut, es ;'i buiove !Ive .got She' of enderest-hosrted boysin'6he world. 1 en asn't tal.one df'om toyetdh a pail 'bf 'g irtwhat; he'll burst ouit dry. u'." Thu Dead .of '07. Among tle -distingishod dead of the ear just past are the following worthy f note-: Cal. Arthwir P Hayne, of Charleston, iu friend and aid-d-cainp of Jackson, i days long gone, .died on the .7th of anuary, Nathaniel Parker Willis, of New ork, editor of tho omea.Journal, poet, isayist, and littratcar in goneral-20th anuary. Henry Lee, a candidate for the vice residoicy .in 1832, who received the ectoria'l vote of South Carolina, died i Boston on the 6th of February, aiged 5.. Hon. Isaac E ITolmes, M C from hiirleston from :1839-1851, in harleston, aged 71, on the 25th Feb uary.. James Dunwoody Browson Del3ow, litor of DeBow'e Review, aged 47, on ie 27'i Febriary. Obarles V Browne (Artemus Ward,) 6f1stlnllption, nged 32 years, 6th Lati oh. George W Randolph, Confedorate ecretary of War, on the 3d of April. Thomas Franois Mengher, the Irish xile ad Yankee-General, 1st July. Charles Anthon, author or .editor of many ochoul-botiks, 29th July. John McQ-tei, M (., from S. C., ged .03, .on the 30th August. Stcr!ling Price, Confederate General, t, St,. Louis, 27 mh SeItlmnber. Il.ias Howe, Jr., inventor of the sew ig machine, lged 48, 3d Octiber. Peter Lorillard, of' snuff Menmory, at aratioga, 6th October, aged 72 years. Fitz Uroene Hafleck, poet, -at Guil ird, (ntbecticut, 19th November, aged 7 years. Alexander Smith, Scotli poet, author f Life D)rama near Edinburg, 5th amiary, aged 3G. Victor Couitn, French philosopher, uthor, and sa-vanm, at Paris, aged 75. Archibald Allison, English historian, .d May ', aged 75. Maximilian, lMexicanl filibustero, at tieretaro, iged 35, on the 19th June. Vupe11ipm, FPreneh surgeon, 25th Al. 'ust, aged 75. Faraaay, 1P3nglish chemist, aged 76, ithe 25th Atugtit. Solonq, emperor of Hayti, aged 78, i September. Rosie, of telcsco'po fiame,3 I st October, god 67. Alidge, a negro actor, da-d ill ola1d, 7th August. Silontides, the famous Greek forger of teient nianuiscrirt 5I Novemuber, of -prosy.-Y Ior/ic Enquirer. A CoIru-MINTET re wE.LL D RVsEanv rI. 'he L4on(doln QwUs rterly RCv1iCw, reply ig to an essay by Goldwin Smniti, who tos Liucoln.. Grant, Shermau and tanton (!) a examples o.f American reat m1en, says : "We adt-it that Mr. Stanitoi and iscolleagues bavo done great things u a great scale, but. they lack the b--aml) of individual greatnesi. it imt is to be fonid anywhere in ..nme.rie ca, it is Under the mnodet r folr F General Lee, tile ciamApionl' of a lost I lise, whom prosperity never iltoxi ited, nor adversity depressud, and ho exceeded his oppoticat cis inch in m1 nobility and greatness of chaire. ir lith did in military skill and a ring." Ftn tis MNNIanUiN.-We lear fu Lviengerd by~ the Norlt h~esa-rn~ ail iid, IbhO .'n Mona ni-t, abouPt fu ceok, a fi re eo--eurred at N!.. m~ C it. un,i'i des.~troin g t wvo iors .eo a wl g. We/~ did not. lear i'i n.- os. of wlin 'iiig was oeenp1ied by' Mr. I3an-it. 'mring thle progreds of lhe tire, i he nio oes phmudered the -neig'hborig l-se.. o) doubt the fir,' was the work oIf mi 'ndia ries.-Mercucry, 291/c TIhe V'irfia papers halve a story oif a lhas, whoi". .hain tg voted the .Jacobmii ket., tied a t. went.y' Sive-p~ound 5(one to a neck ami drownied hiiielf- his me.0 rable dutst words belog:: '"1 gu~b de ronig vitte --. .guib de .w.imng )Vlun Pinikertoji a )hical.go ilet ective' vs that TimotyWbs~r. aieo inee<.n N.J., who .was susoganet Iy '(ented p*e a rpy in Ltichtnond, Vat., ic the-preserver of Presidlent inmcohi's S.when he .wao on his wilv to Wash-. glon. after .hic.<dectin n'1-861.. Speaking -of' leap-year, the 'Deso.ret e-m anys it doesnt't -m~ake much dif.. rence out there, as .the Mormon la es havo :always -the ;puLvloges of gping the quesition to ans ~umarr.iLgo 'le caint. 'laif a century ago., the NowY'oik >stoflico establishument was run .in a glo room (if ita pri.vatei dwelling riuer of Garden and William streets, omne manl and~la boy 'bealdea -the stmastor. More ,thani G0,000 pcople hatve.ei aited, durinrg .the lastten years, frolm e. samal granad -dLwehy of Meolkeen Irg, contaifing 500,000'iinhalitants, the Unai~ed Statos. "IJam a -gun.," said~a t'ipsy ;printcir io'haid been -on a apree for at week. "Yest,"said .,e :foreman.-; "yon at ro greal tgun,.aind 'lhuidf cockett, and you i .comailder yourself disehnrgedl."' "Well," said :the ,typo, "then .1 had tAer -go .offt" Papa.: "'Well, :SiiSy, . o.W <00 you ce sour sotiool ?'".aOh, -so~ t, mpa;: T.lhat's .mfight. New o'11 mne I you'have learned to-day." :Sissy : ha'go learned the names .of .all the "Sam?, saiid one lift;le -urdhinito ftf her, -"8amn, does your mechoomuastor' mer give any .roward of' .merltFt "I os~ehe does,'" wp~ the .rsonder,-"heS ve. me1 a iiokrmg regularfy eve r.y e and ..8 I ...at t. 1," "Loil" Voters, The Io'llowivng oxtract, from the letter of a South Carolina correspondent to the Now York lrirorld will give the tcader an idea of the iannor in which 'our in tolligent cdlored :ollow-citizets'-exercise the .rights ofsiffraige:: We have :haed our abare of amuse. ment here, with the negroes, and their votiiog. -Laut Monday .evening, 'whilo giving my .forteman, Tom, -directions about some matters-to be attended to the next day., hie senemed mucli aur.prised and loaking me earnestly in the iface, said : " We'4 ordered to Mavsiv.ie .to-IUor-. row." "Ord.-red to Ninyiville--dur wlbat Y" -"i donno, Mar'.r." "Wh1o ordered you ?" "I nitino.' "How did you got the-order ?" Wefl, doi't you 'Iciow v/ho brougaf.1 .it to you." "I'se not 'qtiainted wi 'm, a''t:" '-Do you think yotr'e oiblige4d to obe'y an order and can't, teli -who gave A er who brought at t. you'?" "I[ would dbey no such Ching, no min could make me do it;" "I dinno .ntLmil .about ia iar:: we'e 'bliged 6o -do it.." The next morning off went the whole force on the pla:-tationu, with but one single exception -R- .a1ph, wh1o, for a wonder, is quite indifferent 'to p1olitice and the rights of tis race. W hen Toni and his party returned, I asked him: "Vell, Ton, what did they want vith you at Maysvillo" "I dtinlo." "W hat (lid you go for?" "Did they mnake you vote?" "Dey gib m a litle piece ob paper, and make me put it in a box." "Did it have any unmanes upon it?" "I diuno." "They did n,l eIdl you wiha't Lte pa per wans ior who- iti es were in it?" Dev (tin'ti tue nitfln ; but levy say dat Ralph mu. "') lg t own1 to--day aiid vote. or d-v'll hamlsh htim an' litts wife 1n', Chirn, or put them back into slave ry."? "Do you think t(hey can do that, Ton ?" -I spec dcy ken, mars'r for dev is migltiy powerfit tip dar at May: ville." W h o nsat sneh a misornbl l'arce as tii, * ! he :long -endured by the A meri i ,pe North or SoulIth? 1868 will : it and its .authrity to Usi-FUcU. IlNrs.-Vood tshtesarni comm1o halt. wet with water will -soak t he .cracks of a stove and prevent .the smokefromescaping. Stir Ponitiid Arch w.0it a commili c:1 !Ie anl it rill' mot stiuk to the iri. an1d it wi! he mtucli nticer. Aliuin or vingne :is good to set eo. ori (4 I'ejd, grp.an Z1- yenow. 8;a1 w dat wil" bleach very whit-e; one spoonful iu eilgh for a kettle of' Clothes. Wal yon r tea t rays w-th coid sais, pol~ish wvithl ait Jtle flour an .ub With a drv '-ot'.. i.rceuen pestatoes miiake more stinot i-.nituire~ wil take out. white spots. A hii tdof U g lo ditsolved .in akim mtil k ani hd aer will irestor'enr ape. lthion -f ainy kind sh'ntdd he washed('t ~tini. ol nip roiL anid noi it' your fla t irons are ronigh.rit~ theim with fine sair. and it will wake .thmt Sm oot.li.. A sabu .mnbonr oft iho Conveation at .\l ontgontnery calls it tuhe "Yrailerbama~ SlIrERS 0f WITDN, &c, WiNNSBO0RO to BALTIURBE, vIa CHARtLESTON, &. C. TRE-8LmDanm1JRW ST~UmiJN*, TrALo0N, , I A. f.1mm, Oommander. ~SR S*ULL,. .1.E DUTT0O timmanae. Of largo carrying capacity, making average trips of 88 tc '0 hours, loato Oharlestoji once .a week $or Sahltimore, .and offer suiperior faciittles for athrough .freighzta to antd from that -port. AnDanss COURTiENA Y & TftNHOL.0, Shepping .asd doitna.seo, t MferchanM MTnion JWee*, Chartedf.*,.&.U MOR DECAI & M, Agente nB~uoan, Mu. sept 20.tu C IITAGS No. ~1 Llroegeol.8tdlt, 'jutsL J. P. MA T TIW.