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THE FAIRFIED HERALD f WINNSI3ORO, S. C. t Wednesday Morning, Feb. 10, 1800, Dosportes, Williams & Co., Props Immigration Atin, and "That Commit tee. We believe that the Immigration Committee, who suggested, through this paper, a plan of operation, but nover called a meeting to report, and i over oven roconimonded the election , i officers, the Committee of which -bawnoe Creek" and "True Recon struotionist" were members, are re sponsible for bakoaening the chances of immigration in this District. With faint hearts, because they were, like ll Southerners, unaccustomed to bu sinosss combinations on principles of simplo common sense, and because simple common sense, both in doing and forbearing to do has not been the rulo in the South or in this District, they allowed the movement to ool lapse. One member of that commit tee, it is true, desired to canvass the planters, and engage, as an individual enterprise, to delivor, at Wissnsboro Depot, immigrants to them, at. the cost of importation, for cash promptly paid down. But he has not dono so. The price of cotton is the real secret. Indeed, we fear that the high price of cotton has caused many a ruinous con tract with the blacks, and has blinded the oyes of landlords to their true in terost in giving immigration a gradu al, steady and earnest support. For we are no wild theorist, who believes in a very rapid introduction of the la, bor and improvements that our social condition calls for, bub simply "a dis. cornor of the signs of the times," whose duty it is to foster every enter prise that contains within it the gernu of present or of future good to our people. We repeat. therefore, that that Im migration Committee carry a heavy load of responsibility, in not bringing their labors to the point. of a roer and an organization. It is their duty now even, to do so. Lot the organsza tion be formed and be ready to take im mediate advantage of the shifting tide: of opinion, gaining some little ground when over fooling sets in strongly it favor of ihhpnrt.a skilled labor '' God deliver us from the repetition o such a calamity, but suppose that 1869 should happen to resemble 1867 in it: unfortunate history. But the argu luont is too plain and too painful-w< hope better things, and need not g< hoyond the present moment for irre, sistible reasoning. Now, then, at thi very present moment, are there not planters who have offered the equiva lent of over $10 per month, and failed to obtain the labor they need 1 W< met one but yesterday, who den ouned~ bitterly the duplicity and faithless ness of the blacks he had tried to bar. gain with on termis plainly disadvan. Iageous in every event, and full of risk to himself. This gentleman, wve believe, has cotton, has sonmc money, has laund, has mules, has everything, but ho needs lalbor, steady labor. Ji "that Comtte had not become faint hearted too soon, if' they had organ iz ed, if they had collected even ten dol lars for the cause, hero was a planter that might now, haive settled one fami. hy of immigrants at least. Perhaps (for we cannot be certain) there may bo others like him, Bunt what will be the probable result in this ease, and in others (if there bc any) like It 1 Why, ho will loso valuable time, and finally, in desperation, consent to a r;till more ruinons contract than the one he has ofred, and be treated, for the rest of the year, by Samibo, as if ho, Sambo, had conferred an extraor dinary favor. Deliver us, ther3fore, from that man's crop. Lot, however, our planters once have the constant choic, between white ten ants or laborers and black tenants or laborers, and. they will, probably, choose Wle black, but why ? Whuy? becau~se they have .the constant choice, and everybody wilt'itherefy ' be reas onablo, reasonable in meakinag, and reasonable In fulfiling contracts. W honover a planter ean't got black Ilabor to pulL, just facilitate, by combi nation on principles ofcomm,on senlse, his getting white labor, and we may then let this whole matter alone to right itself. Oh, then, for some society or enterprising individual, who will in vest but ten bales of' cotton in iau-, gurating In Fairfield the most iu,por tant social movement of this genera tion. It toill never, It can never mn. gurate Itself. AStill Bettor Way. Men seldom do what fa best for thertsolves 'voluntarilyi. They are 'uanally borne on to do it by some Ir Sti4e of eiroumstanoes. Itc TH est)ee for our planters to ThK-n ,dopt our suggestion, and hire labor >r tho express purpose of attending o the raising of live-stock and'tho naking of manuro upon their own )lantationa. But we know very well hat they are not going to do it. ['hey are more likely to spend a thous md dollars upon commercial manures, han two hundred in the more profita lo manner we suggest. But there is a change going on that they cannot provent going on, and which will produce what we recom mend by force and of nocessity. Our fences are rotten and rotting, our tim ber is becoming more soarce, and to pay four hundred dollars por railo for now fencing (for it costs about that) is what they will not consent to do if a different fonco-law, compelling the owner to fenco in his stock, and not the planter to fence it out, can, as it will, do away with this tremendous oxpense. Agitate, thon, the question, of "no fences"-a question pretty dortain to agitate itself, so suroly as timber is subject to rot, and the ques lion of more attention to live-stsock, to penning and feeding it, and making it pay its expenses by the item o oompost manure alone, not to mentiot butcher's meat of all kinds and the products of the dairy, will settle itscl very satisfatctorilyt. Abolish fences except for keepini in, and not for keeping out livestock and thus econoniso inuch-noodod In bor, and improve and render mor scientitic our agricultural systen: lortunately this n:attor is not lol free to our choice, for then it mnigl not be done-our fences are abolisi ing themselves. The Yankees, unde God have abolished slavery, an freedmen are abolishing fences. In certain sense, which can be collecte from what we have written above, w sympathiso with this new devcloi mont of abolition principles. TI: abolition of slavery ! well, what next Tho aholitioh of fences. . To wiso government, therefore, to wholesome law on the subject of "n fences except to keep in live-stoch we look, far more than to any amoum of sound and conclusive reasoning, f< that which will compel a change the character of our agriculture ar add millions, and that immediately, t our revenue. Just i ncl e umupsoycu in earnest tillago an enrichment of the soil ! We wi out-radical the most radical of soalt wag and carpet-bag abolitionists o this subject. We wish to see the co of fire applied to the terrapin pla1 tors. 'We advocate the ab,olition, slavery? yes, of slvery to bad habits the abolition of fences. Machinery Our Refuge. Virgil tells us v.ery beautifull that "the Great Father of All wille that, the way of improvement shoul aot be easy, in order that experionc might beat out the various arts c life." Necessity is, indeed, the motli or of invention. We were last wee struck with this truth upon seein Mr. Elliott's cotton-planter, the mnos ingenious and complete machine tha has fallen undeor our observation fo years. P'atented, it will be worth t< hman independent fortune. Hev comes it however, that it is only nov~ that Mr. Elliott has applied his well, known mechanical turn to this ani other practichl purposes'? For yeare ho has carriedl a fortune, yes, mudl moro, several fortunes in his head, and has been content with simply makin~ a very superior cotton gin for out planters, mostly with hiis own bands, whereas, b'y directing and employing workcmen who have not his capacity, lhe would have accumulated wealth. WVhat is it, then, that has brought him, dragged him out new upon the field of invention ? We answer, ne cessity, and the high resolve of the white race of the South unonscious, it may be, in many oases, but univer sal, to rise superior to adverse for tune and to achieve its glorious destiny. This invention alone will enable each planter to punt in and work the very same crop with the labor of two hands less than heretofore. Think of it ! What an immense stride ! The saving of about the labor and coat of two workmen on every plantation in the South I Who but a simpleton will have any fear of the black race ruling the future of the South ? When did the A frican brain, left to. teolf, ever take other than the longdst mad mest stupid way of accomplishing in object?, From whom do our plan.. era get their slowness to adopt lam provements ? We answer,' from slov mnly negroes. Will you allow me a little corner of your laper to give vent to my feelings on some f the absurdities of the J'resent day, called 'Ladlen dres. au..,s. ob? aeb waiting and hoping that an abler pen than mine would have been used in condemnation - of. these great evila, but, as very little bat- d yet been said on the subject, I will put forth Z my feeblo effort. At the close of the war, p in which our people had boon scourged by 8 afilict ions of every sort, I thought it would be many yeats before our women would , have their heads turned by the frivolous t subject of fashion ; 6ut alas I I am sorry to t say, such is not the case. t In the good old days of grandmothers, and even at a later period than that, we. won used to dress to suit the occasion, but that .eems to be laid on the shelf now, and ofteu you see in tho' holy sanetunry, Indies rigged out in all the colors of the rain-bow, and they look more like they were dresatid to personate a character in a fancy ball, thait auytlhiug else. In my humble opinion, woman is falling I'r short of the tisrion she was intended to fulfill in this world, when she devotes so ntuel of her tinte and thought to decorating herself with super fluities. And then, ngnin, on the olher hand, it is my firtim belief that it is a duty every woman owes to her family and friends to dress as well andl-neatly as her means will-allow. But. there is a vast d'fference between dressing well, and adopting all the hideous deformities that nre brought out in the Fashion Magazine', of the present day. A woman of refined tate will only follow a fashion so far as it is itn good taste, and be coming to her person; others, I am eorry to say, will wear anything. no matter how absurd, just beentse -'it is the fashion." Of all the abominable absurdities that have ever been invented in the way of ladios dress, this one called Pannier is a little ahead of anything else: there is nothing pretty o" graceful nbout it, amid it is a real - deformity to any figure. This new iuven. c tion also, called the Grecian Bend, is a and perversion of the fomale form, and should be frowned upon by every true woman. Suppose, Mr. Editor, that a fetnalo child should be born with a great hump on its back, or a curve in the spine like the gre r clan bend, what an amount of p,ty would d be showered down on the mother of that a child, and the exclamntion on all sides would be "how mysterious ara the doings of Providence ;" and yet. who could dare Ic say that, it was not a just punishmgnt. What a sad ! sad condition our poor country 0 is in ; political distraction all over tLie land, ? and our women trying to make camels o: themselves. Perhaps, Mr. Elitor, some o| a your "fair readers" may think that a mas. culino pen traced these lines, but tell their it is a real, and I hopoa true woman, whose name is CA RO'. t, or Tta Auous'A AND Co,uArnta RAr. ROAD n There was a meeting of the President and d Directors of the Augusta and ('olumtbin 0 Rail Road held in this city on last Satur. d'ay. At this meeting it was announced, -inammd6ulQic4 h 'ildad!' w r the South Carolina batik of the Savannal II river, and trains run over the entire rout . from Augusta to Columbia. '?his will be > welcome ittelligence, we are convinced, t< the people of this oity, who have so long and impatiently awaited the completion of this enterprise. It is a well established and indisputable fact that railways alwayd - enhance greatly the property of theh termini, but especially do we believe this will be the case with this road, destined, as it is, to become the iost important link in r, the railroad chair, which will form the {j shortest and, Condequienfly, speediest 3 throuagh rotate bet weena the cities of New York and New Orleans. In the meantime, whaile the roadi is being rapidly consi.rueted from Graniteville to the Savannaht, prepara. - tionis are being made tobuild a handsome C anal suabstantial bridge over that stream to Scnneet, it with Augusta. An experienced b corps of engineersa have been hecre for some time, engaged in selecting the best locality for the structure, which will be erected at the foot of either McIntosh, Jackson or Camnpbell.'treet, amnd the maills are sawing ttotusands of feet of lumnber to be used in building the samie. The prospe'ct is cer tainly encouraging, and we earnestly hope the antIcipations of the President and Di. reeltore may be realized.--Augusrta Chronmicle 4& Sentinel. Yaexanunu A Nt CanA nr.r.srox.--Just think of it, (says the Vicksburg, Miss., Times, of the 28th ultimo,) the one nmighty oily situ &ted away East, washed by the salt waters of the great Atlant-lo, anid (he oilior-his torie, bravo little Vioksburg--..resting on the banks of, as Mr. Calhioun onlled It, "that great Inland sea," connected with Otto anothaer, linked together by one long line of railroad, over whtiea the iron horse speeds his way on an unbroken read, and ini almost as aniy hours as it .formerly wouild have taken weeks, Yesterday we had the pleasure of meeting in the maost completely arranged, 'elegant aand sumptuous ear that we ever saw, II. T. Peake, Eatq., General Superiutendent of the South Carolina Rail Road, the Eastern terminus of thte Palmetto line, Captain "Jim'" Meredilh,(and a merry "Jim" he is,) train dispatoher at Augusta, Thosn. Rigby Vice-President, Colonel E. P. Rlawort h General Superintendent' and Captain Geo. D. Lawtrenoe, Master of Transportation, Vieksburg and Meridian Rlail Road, who met, together with our friends of thisIIerald, to break a bottle over the success of this important and lengthy line. The completion of this line of rail roads is well deserviing of rejoiceing. It puts te within less titan seven days freIght.eonneo. tion with Now York, and places us at hand I shaking distance svtha all the large markets of the East, It gives tie transportation for our cotton direct with all eastern and for eign markets. Viecsburg aspires to a rivalship with the Cresent City, and to her railroad commnuni. eations she must leek for the means to build her up and we view the completion of the, great P'altnstto line as a-l4ng str'ide in the' work. e~ A coinrspondent of tie 21e York 29m. says the Banks-StatnMaflwk oqntro,er bH atl probabl be *et soon by.tb ral Banks is said, to b6 pvpra O. dern, and thej willr pkbl ~eard4s the comth bab , . - ' Tita MaVttIAL Paooass o' Tnu Soutt -CUid nxttp Srons.-Perhaps the best 'v. ene of the sure and rapid a4terial prb. ress of the South (says the Now York terald) may b6 found in the fot that the rice,bf the bonds of the different Southern * tates is steitdily rising in Wall-slreet. The irectors of our New York saving banks, rho are proverbially conservative, cautious nd sagacious, have lately bought largely ese5a'e bonds. - The Southern poeple homselves are also adding oonsiderably to heir investments in these bonds. Other hoering. signs of the energy with which he recuperative powers of the South are wakening may be found In the great cotton rop, estimated at two huudry,t million lollarsa ' in the plentiful rice and sugar ti rops ; in the abundant produotion-of every. hing consumed by the Southern people at ione; in the report that in many parts of he South labor has become even cheaper hati It ueed to be in the days of slavery : in(, 1islly. in' nany'indications that the political pacification which must in'allibly follow the inauguralion of President Grant willjopen at the South an era of good feel. ing and of unprecedented prosperity. .... -0 .... - e .... .. The tunnel nuoder the English Channel. at Dover, it is'asserted, will have to be borcd' through a -chalk formation, and though the actual perforation will be easy, yet the pressure of the sea upon the yielding rook will be immense. In building the Thames tunnel, the water burst through the roof several times, and Brunei, the engineer, nearly lost his life during one of those irruptions of tho river. In the event of a violent storm the danger of a break would be imminent, and the workmen, hay. ing to run several miles to obtain a refuge, would hano but poor opportunity to escape. The difficulty of ventilating such a tunnel must prove to be very great. But, notwith standing these serious objections, three eminent English engineers have pronounced the plan to bo feasible, and the estimated cost, forty.five million dollars, to be reasona ble. Littleton Fogg, a Virginia Union soldier ate for breakfast yesterday molasses, and went immediately on the Rapahannock river oystering, and it is supposed he must have eaten oysters, as he complained, to the colored boy who was with him, of siok. noss ; and they pulled up and hurrigdl o the shore, and in a few moments after reaching the shore ho died, lie was shown every respect, and promp assistance was rendered by quondam rc bel soldiers. It is generally understpod by oystermen that molasses and sugar are death to the one who imtnediately after eating them eats raw oysters.-Richmond Dispatch. INOINDIAnY 6ATTIsPT.-Attempts were made on the night of the 24th of January, to set fire to an out-house of the premises at the corner of Elizabeth and Ann-streets. The combustibles used-kerosene oil and tallow candles-were found on the sube, quent morning only partially burned. The attempt, therefore, failed. On the night of the 31st a similar attempt was made on the same premises, but fortunately with a like result. Mr. Walker, the occupant of the pretises. has given the requisite informa. lion to the proper authorities, and it is to George Alfred Townsood says 'that as late as 1861 Forney was on the point of turning him from his newspaper for pub. lshing, as a reporter, an encouraging ao. count of the free negro population of Phila delphia. Kilpatrick, !ho 'liar and poltroon," who is nominal'y minister to Chili, has had his leave of '.bsenoe extended till March next. A N6:!nern paper suggests that it. be ex. tended to the term of his natural life. A Boston paper states that a man in that locality is riding a hog through the streets, as a preparatory practice to mnanagibg a velocipede. The case of the wife' whose husband whipped her for eating both butter and mo ?asees on her bread is now the leading suit beforo a West Virginia Court. An outbreak occurred at. Mtasatlan; Mex. leo, January 11th, which was quickly sub dued by the military. Serious trouble is apprehended any moment., A Maine farmer fattened a cow chiefly on turnips, and the result surpassed --pecta tion--thE beef was of fine quality, and the tallow unusually abundant, Swinton, the Pollard of the North, as said to be responsible for the statement that Banks was twice ordered to relive Grant, in 1808. Banks has not yet spoken on the suabject. Almost the unive'rsal individutal sentiment of Congress is opposed to the ratification of tihe protocol of the Alabama treaty in the form in which it now exist,, and there can ho no doubt that this feeling will find legis latIveoexpression when.the time comnes, and that there will be a non-concurroee in the treaty stipulations. SIIERIFPS SALES. Y virtue of sundry Ex4cutiorns to roe di. Breeted. I will offr for sale at Fairfield Court House on the.Aret Monday and thej day following, in March next, within the legal hours of sale ,to the highest bid der, for Cash, rhe' ollowing Real l'ro pty- Purchasers to pay for Titles. To i One tract,of 107 sores, more ow less, of i land in Fair-fold County, adjoining lands of 0 -- Wooten. -- Boney and others levied upon as the property of Henry Isbell, at the p suit of William R. Bikes, Ex'or, and others, d to be re-sold at the risk of the former ~ur. a shaser.P One tract of 272 aeres,.more or lesi, of and in Fairfield County, adjoining lands of C Rat of David Milling, Jno. Lemon, Win, Mo. ft Dowell and others, levied upon as the o ert y of Robert Sloan, kt the suit of r i r. iamilton, Assignee, and others, 01 One tract of 12j acres more or less of p1 and in Fairfield County, adjoining lands of of Vm. R. Robertson, D. W. Tidwell and oth re, levied upon as the prerty of Eul Iar. ieon, at, the suit of WR.ortsn o nd other. .oeto8R' L. W. DItVAL, Sherif' Office, 6th- Vebruary, 1 69. feb t-uIt2 C * t 1 ~ 1 - ,a ll if, Kw6(W&R $ CWARTNERSHIP, 'OlMED this day under firm name of LADID BROS. & Co., for' the'-.purpose carrying on the Dr$ OoQds'business. A. W. LADD, W. M. DWYIGIT, C. Ii. LADD. Jan. 1, 1869. GREAT 'RDOCTION, As is out usual custom we ofler our'cn. re stock of WOOLEN 000DS, 1 cdst p,rices for one month. GREAT BARGAINS IN Clothing. Flannels. Lindseyn, Jeans. Salinets, Shawls. Ualmorale. &c., &c. LADD ROS. & CO DIRJYG- STO..rJE. We will continue thol above business un lor the old style. - LADD BROS. jan 9 Assignee's Sale. BY virture of Orders, maro by the lion. Geo. 8. Bryan, Judge of the District Court of the United States. for the Western District of South Carolina. I will sell at pub. lio outcry to the highest bidder for cast, before the Court House door, in Winnsboro, at 12 o'clock on Wednesday, 17th February, nest, the following propurty, to wit : 1 Mule, lot Hogs, 2 Cows and Calves, 4 head Dry Cattle, 1 old t'arriage, I small Wagon, Remnant of Wagon, 1 Rifle and Pistol, Sundry Notes and Accounts. And other property belonging to Estate of George F. Miller, Bankrupt.. S. B. CLOWNEY, feb o-xlt2 Assignee. Notice to Tax Paye's. T IIE Assessors for Fairfield County will close their Books in a few days. Returns will be made by the Assessors for all those who do not make returns for themselves. This notice is given that all may avail them. selves of it. If they do not, and find their taxes more than they expected they wil have no c4use to complain. J. S. STEWART. fob 9-12s1 REMEMBER THE DEAD. 1IIAVE just received a complete assort ment of the finest qualities of Amerioat and Italian Marble, of all ditnsions, viz Monuments, head-Stones, Monumenta (ead-Stones, Tonbs, Tomh Slabs, Bureat Tops, &o., which I will sell as loW as an3 Marble Dealer in the Stnte. Call and be convinced. LELAND M. SPEEtS. feb 6-am Opposite 'ost-Office. Watches, Jewelry and Clocks, AND many other tings Come and se. fb Next door to Col. Rion's Ollice. TOLEN on the night, of the 8(1 Iinst., fromu the plantation of Wmn. McNaull, a small Mare COLT. about 4 years old 6 feet. high, a white spot, on.right ind foot, whbite hair on top of back, with sear in center of same. The above reward will be paid for the delivery of the Mare to me, and $26 for the safe lodgment of thte hief in any Jail, where I can get him, Al.EX. MtUREA, Col. CAROLINA NATIONiiT BANK or COLUMBiA, s.c Authorized Capital---$500,000, BOARD OF DIRECTORS. -.D. Curnu, Preste, Journ PnsrIPoM, Ja. n. J. WV. PAnEKIn, EnWAnn) hlops' LionAar, O'NKA aa.I- J. 0. Glans, 03o, W. SwaoN, of N. C. r 1E Ctarolina National Bank of Columbia makes loans on Colluaterals, 'eals ,in Ight and time Exohango, Oold and Silver sin, and in Securities generally. Deposits received in coin or octrrency and midi in,kind. Deposits in coin may bQ rawn on in currency and charged in coin the eurrent price of coin on the day of resntation or cheek. The Direstor. propose to increase the ipital Stook of the Dan k, from, one hundred one hundred and .f{fty thousand dollar... ersons wishing a safe and sure invest.nent a apply to the President. Cashier, or one the Director.. Shares, $100. Dividend Id January let, 6 per ct. en the business the preeeding six month. Wv. B. GULICK, Cashier. Columbia, 8. 0;, Jan'. 27, 1809, feb 4-lt2x Onton b3uttons,' NIONS.. Irish Pot atoes. Corn, &e., fer febbea JOHN MoIN'IYRE &C00 Notice to T pss. feotnaeuebe of the ireading dio'tn of I Wheat asld destroying of fencs on' rn Cm, south of Wloneboro .I hereby irau' asaty: oe :kout d up6A the' ~ i Iew A' erti m s Notti to payg +' . Stow- I rt, Sr., Audito TrespasserN, Warned. Qpjot Egeng-.Jh MQIntyro? &. Co. Goodrich Gonuino Se d 1otatoo Withers & Law. SheriffSales-L. W. Duvall. Assignee's 8ale-S. B. Clowney, Copartnership-Notice of A. W. Ladd, W. M. Dwight and C.II. Ladd. Selling off at Cost-Ladd Bros., & Co. Mr. C. Muller, advertises a fine as. sortmient of Watches, Jewelry and clooke. Read his notice and give him a call, next door to Col. Rior.'s ' office. Valentines-Kotohin, McMarter & Brice. See Reward of $50.00. '&C. & Augusta Railroad Stock for sale. Carolina National Bank Stock for sale. Duty to the Dead. Friends desiring to place memorial tablets or monuments over the graves of their dead, would do well to read the advertisement of Mr. Leland M. Speoos. Do Mei Wear Corsets ? The question, "Do Men Wear Cor. sets V" is answered by a New York corsetmaker, who says they do, and "he knows it because-be makes them." lie adds: "'The finest gentlemen in town em ploy this means Lof giving --ymmetry to their figures. They are not used so mneh by young men as by those somewhat advanced in life. Wealthy gentlemen of middle age like to be thought handsome, and to have pre served the symmetry of grace of youth. I should.sany that there are at least three thousand gentleman' in New York who wear corsets hauitually, and laec them pretty.tightly two." Theft. Several subscribers complain - of parties who drop in and borrow their morning NFws before they have read it and forget to return it. Why do they not subscribe for themsolves I Q" If you wish to learn who are the most energetic business men of n columns of the local papers. "The Live Giraffe." The publication of this paper haa been revived in Raleigli. Tt is-de voted to humorous reading. Messrs. Whitaker & Co., p'ublishers. ;rA cgrrespondent of the Journal of Agriculture has found that eight bushels of salt and one of plaster will cause an acre of clay-loam to produce more than an equally expensive appli cation of barn-yard manure. O1-A Roeky Mountamn paper pub lishes and obituary-of "Sitn," cbidf of the Washoe Indians. It says that he was a "good, though. very dirty red .man. He possessed .a .Woll-balaneed head of hair, and stomach enough for all he could get to eat.' His regard for the truth was notable--he never meddled with it. HIe left no will, and his estato consisted of a pair of O You know, mad am, that,you can not' make a purse .out of a sow's ear." "Oh, sir, please fanmne ! I have intimations of a swoon. When you use that odious sp~ecimenm of- yul. garity again cloth it in refined phraseo elogy. Just say it is imp'osible to fabricate a poe9niary receptable from the 'auricular organ of the soft sex of genus Swine," The Little~Corporal.^^ Thlus oxcellint Monthly hails from Chicago, edited by Alfred Sewell and Emily - H'untington, DZiler, -and is a:nong the hest. boy's a-nd girl's raga sine in the . countryJ ThcF-erbrttarf numiber Is before us and contalins an intereting table of contents. Pr(go, one doll ar. SIDgl coPies . twelve cents. AmericanAt&, A beautiful journal' of Art ehanism, Engineering, dhbemistry. an ventions and Patents, that should -be in the juand of every one,' who desired to see the South "rise frotm'bor dlsh" and establ.ish her foiwior Isup>remacy ma the miarketo.of the world by tho-ai4 - >f Machiner.y applied -to .her- Agrioul-. Eure. Price 2.00. 'Addj.6'si,JBron Dombs &Co. 89,itroaa,-N y4 .OwThe.GeQrketo#n.'1ima ell Spig in Leosburg that baa one h4d md one tfeok borie,toprc~y ormed bo'dies, two tails. and eo)ght eo and foot. Quito.a.wtilgia >rodigy. I 'lurlshing,........ W e lern tlat1. ~ iqn9:eLtiyte has alea splendcl ~, last twenty Ye now.P ls -or a o'm and~ fa ion of this year, in addition to the pu >ils with which last session closed. Our chools for young ladies are also very lourishing, and W\'i,insboro' has become, it deserves to be, a central point for -ducational purposes. Dang r of 4hnetn, The. Sientiic American hb' the fol lowing warning paragraph : "Front the facility with which it .rom%ves grease spots fron), tabrioe,: N1i1 sub stanco has cone to bp regrded almost as a housetold indispensable. But few persons, however, realize the ex. pldsive ch'nrpcter of bonxino,'or the dangers attending the careless hand ling of the liquid. 13eing,no of, the inost volatilo and' inflafitIhablo pro. ducts resulting fromt the distillation of petroleum, it vaporizes with great ra pidity, so tigat the contents of 'a four ounce vini, if overturned, would ren der the air highly explosive. The greatest enre "bhould" he etdraised in handling this substanice in proximity W to fire, and it is important to remem. ber that the vapor escaping -from an uncorked bottle will cause a flume to leap over a space of several feet." How the Devil Lost, We clip the following from an ex change, and solicit attention to it of certain persons who feel.'disposed tb spread in the newspaper line. It is certainly too good to.bo lost ; 'A young man who actually desir ed wealth, was visited by his Stanie Majesty, who tempted him to propose his soul for eternity if liecould be supplied on this earth with all the money he could use. The bargain was concluded ; the devil was to sup.. ply the money, and was at last to save the soul, unless the young man could spend more money than the devil could furnish. -Years passed away, the mran niarried, was extravagant in living, built pulaces, speculated wide ly, lost and gave away fortunes, and yet his coffers were- always full. He turned politician and -bribed his way to power and fame, without reducing his pile of gold. - He became a filibuster and fitted out ships and armies, but his banker honored all his drafts. le went to St. Paul to liv'd, and paid , the usual rates of interest for all the money he could borrow ; but though the devil made faces when he came to pay the hills, yet they were all paid. One expcdiont after 'another failed, the*' devil counted the time, on)y two years that he must wait for the soul ; ing man. One more trial was resolv ed upon ;-the man starte&t a newspa per ! The devil growld at the bills at the end of the first quarter, was sav age in six months, melancholy in nine, and broke, dead broke, at the end of the year. So the newspaper went down, but the soul was'laved. The,,Mammoth Qgve. Rxrac( from a Pripal( Leter. * * * ~' We grped abaut for many hours i this' wondedui" yincoe. I never saw anything lik'o it. The freaks of nature displayed here are very'stIraV'gi','and strike the beholdeor with.awe. But the air is one par 8.of [he caye 1a closo' and etlf ing, and whon, we came out I found 1L. self saddled with a terrible fever, which entirely prostrated me. .The physician:had never seen such a caise like It...before, and no remedy he prescribed seomedl to de the least good. My life was despaired of. Mrs. Wil.son, with whoms I was residing, had In t,he house a bottle of PLAs, -TTO B ESs, and she Insisted, I shou:ld try it, for she knew it tsbo a certain cure l6 all' cases of fever, debility,- ague, dyspopsia, &o. 'I hAd but lit tle faith, but Anally consoted'to:try It as a last resott. In less' tian three'hourS after the first dose my feves' left; -mo;Jn two days I was slitting up, and blkio8tt urday nighlpI was as well as 'ever. I toll you all this fh'wtt you yflay know how to act in any ease.-of fever, or 'an-y similar di iu'6. I firmly believe the PLANTA'rIoi BirYgag saved my lifoe "* * *4 *'' next I wfil tellA zabout the Cavd Ia de t-l '' A. J.P. MAoNOLIA iATR.-Supb'rior to the' .beas Imported German Cologne, and d oiath the price. fb4t1 Seed Potattoes. mWO Barrels tdoodrioh's Goeuiae Seed LPotatoo, just reoslved e 91 . .IERS & LKW. A RL oodrleh Potnat95s vpd, wasued ofb 2 ' ~'6MP8Ot OBVt Wrassnodo 8. O., yai . 3O80 "o al pitreons doNi,y busine.guPo,M foA,, M. i4'Speela2 2bX4 - YOyare er herghobnined t i19~~e na biiess'e '. r "pne endl tsel at obod'oaS 1 e' flonnu' nakes,it the'ddt3t f y ly WJiltthe Jlaw,hnard, not.'tedi f the heli' re urns 'flur 'idw 113 nUTY or ASSISTANT Assggaoot a 'aIl ALL PERONs FOUJD V7 -ILI JNOveO no jo of ese Al o ~I ~ ~ w