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IDesportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. LTrms---$3 00 er Annum In Advan. VOL. 11.1 WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUA R Y4, 1809 . [NO. 34 THE FAIRFIELD HERALD i8 _I'Un1.1ll:1 wP:K1.Y JIY DESPORTES. WILLIAMS' & CO, Tersns.-T-'ux IIn 11 fItL is published Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 83.00 in vareably iu advance. J3ti All Iransient advertisemtonts to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 pei square. BETTER THAN GOLD. Ietter tian goll is the sweet repose Of the sotts of toil when their labors close Better than gold is the poor tnan'A sleep, And the balm that, drops on his slutnbert deep. Bring sleeping draughts to the downy bed Where luxury pillows his aching head his simple opiate labor deems A shorter road to the land of dreans. lietter than gold is a thinking nind, That in the realm. of books.an Ond A treasure s:urpassing Autgraliai ore, And live with the great and good of yoro. The esge's loreAd the poet's lay, The glories of empire pass away. '1he wor'd's gieat drama will thus unfold And yield a pleasure better than gold.: Better than gold is a peaceful home, Whero all the tireside ohprities come ; The shrine of love, the hctl4en of life, IIhllowed by mother or sister or wife Ilowever hptuble the home may be, Or tried with sorrow by heaven's dooree, The blessings that never were bought. o sold, And centre there are better than gold. Grant'sll'olioy. The reply of General Grant is of peculiar importance, as it foreshadow: the policy he expeets to pursue. Reticent heretofore, his words are few, but they are pregnant with mean. ing. They are suggestive, and in this lies their force. After replying formally to the'con. plimients conveyed, and saying that he should try faithfully and honestly tc diseharge the duties of his new.. posi. tion, he proceeded : "T41here is one subjeot to which he de. sired to allude at this time. c should endeavor to select for his assis tants in the administration of 'th Government bapabloi: hooest and patriotic men, and In this he'.hoped tc have the cozcurrenoo of the Senate. "Thnt if ho diA' not nuooood in gob ting couipotent mon oti the first trial he should remove thorn qnd elecl others. "That he should have no more hosi. tanoy in changing his own appointee than those of his predecessor' in office "IH? had, from the first, deemed if improper to give any indication as tc who would receive cabinent appoint. meats until after he had receivod olfi ' ial notice of his own election. "He had not yet advised anybody -whom he had selected for-theso plan. -es; lie had not even conversed witl \any of the persons himself. "From various communications he "bad received, and from what' he had \beard, he was convinced that some of the 'persons he should choose would bt opposed by combinations of the influ . ential party which had supported him J!not because they were unfit -or per 3sonally objeotionable, but because tht ,parties desired the app.ointment o their own friends. "Ie must- mainly be . governed b3 his own ideas of the fitness of the mcr for the work they would have to 'per ~form, "and he 'had finally concluded~ ot to' giv'e any idiention of hisa pur poses till he sent his "nominations t< .he Sen ate,.or, if ho did give the per. sons"'ableoted previous notice, it wouli ~be only rt'day or two before the tinme Avould be sent it." 'It was to be expected that t :some 'me General- Grant -would 'And'icat< * ~is views. -Thiis- the eduntry had' 'ight'to e*pec't. There culd be .n< "'d1re appifopriate period than in re, ~ ponse-to the& bilicial information, by * Committee of the Senatd and House of the result of the actual count, ani ~hat he was by virtue of the suffrages fthe American people, Presideni l1eot of the United' States. And til ~as made within three weeks of his e4~tual inauguration. He ha.' announeed economy, re renobiment and reform,. as his ibt - ons. 'Theid are the great needs 'o *.Ve country. 'Abd in std far, his; p -o Siso is well. " o has nadt distinctly to thi eraethat'h'ntnsto be Presiden n fact.' This" he does inthoe vr 1ew, of' the 0ivil Tenure-of-Offic Ill, when' he avers -that he "shatl ye no more hesitandy of changinj Is own appointees than those of -hi; 4redecessor in office." SHis- Oabinht 'officers will" be of hi n selection, lie does nut" ~Intent have any ,r"' Stahtofi' affa1rt+-~ or arg thpao.t be tli 6t 'on hin party maec orower.' ''e the d oUtivd,h'elaiik filwnphwo? 0 olntment', %~dil "to his ol (~ ha 9 lm '96~lo anaunced bhi Sbinet appointnents 'iiher to others to the parties selected 1s olear. Foi ~o distinltly~ states-. Th he hit cadydatoimilned. upodi his~ 'Oabinp oonvt it "WI of the per nt I shall ehobae '4il Be 6j%dd ib lb Ich have en$po a~ me." It is well known that the Rtidioui yM ngonf the Republican part ha4 already threatened war upon General Grant if he should not succumb to their measures and men. It is doubtless to this combination that General Grant refers. le can refer to no other. But in the face of this, ho aflirmns, ". will be governed by my own ideas of the fitness of the men for the work they will have to perform." " General Grant certainly has spoken right to the point. He has announo od in plain language, both to Con gresP, and tho country, not only to the fact that he is President, but the manner in which he intends to dis charge its-duties. The Richmond Dispatch, says: "If General Grant means what be says, and he has not been in the habit of saying what ho does not mean, his speech indicates a great deal. It has all the iron of Jackson. There is certainly soon to be a man in the Presidential chair. His verbal mos sage of Saturday to Congress will fall like a bomb in that body. They will understand that he moans, if he can, to meet that necessity of revolution that the hero of it shall bring order out of the chaos which revolution pro duces." The best evidence of its effect is that at the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Pruyn, the Democratic member of the Committee, advanced and said, that although ho and his party had opposed General Grant for the Presi dency, h , could count upon their sup port, in carrying out the policy which had just been onnounced.-Charles ton Courier. CONSTITUTlONaT. AannMr.NT.-Tt was in a discussion on the proposed constitutional amendment, on the floor of the Senate, that Mr. Drake - made his remarkable avowal. We present a brief extract af the debate : "Mr. Doolittle said it was essential to the continued existence of our Gov ernment that the rights of States should be recognized as well as the rights of the Federal Government. In the course of his remarks he expressed tbe opinion that if the Supreme Court had. decided, in the MeArdlo case, that the military by which he (Mo Ardlo) was tried was unconstitution al, the Chief Justice would have been nominated at New York for Presi dent, and would have been elected. "Mr. Drake asked him whether, if the Court had declared the Acts of Congress unconstitutional, that dcci would have boon of any force. "Mr. Doolittle thought it would, and would have been acquiesced in by all departments of the Govern nient.. Mr. Drake denied that the Supreme Court had a constitutional right,under any circumstances, to pronounce any act of Congress unconstitutional. Mr. Whyte, of Maryland, asked him whether, if the Supreme Court could decide that the legal-tender act was unconstitutional, the decision ought to be respected. "Mr. Drake replied, not at all; and he would be found standing to his po sition, and both Houses of Congress would have to come to that position at last, or else sweep from the bench of the Supreme Court the men who dare attempt to cripple, by their judi cial decisions, the ,la.w-making po wer of the country." Mr. Drake's position is clearly un tenble. His language is not that of Istateeman. It is the utterrance of a partisan spirit. It is the bold,un unstable appeal to revolution and anarchy. CurOAGo, .Feb. 12.-The Library Hall Woman's Suffrage Convention was very numerously attended to-day. Miss Anna Dickinson, Dr. Mary Peek ,enpaugh, of St. Louis, and William Wells Brown, the negro orator of Bos ton, wore in attendance, besides Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony and others. *The resolutions reported by the Committee on Resolutious declare that as woman Is equally interested with man in having good laws excunted she .ought to possess the' right of suffrago and they should riako a united effort to -hate the'niew constitution of Illi nois so framod thatno distinction shall be made amorfg the citizens in the cx o,erise o f suffrage. The 'resolutions o fte bing disoithson tVere adopted. A comimittooof,.seVen was appoint ed t draft a constitution and by-laws for a woman's snfrage association of illinois. The report of the commit tee was adopted in the afternoon and ,Dre. M. A. Livermore of this city, was elooted president of the new as *oiation.. SWells Jirown, a neg'ro orator, eon ~(.~deedbat. women ought to be educa r ted before'they are enfraugehised. Miss Dickinson spoke vigorously on several oesIOnsd Mrs. Stanton and , MiAtithorty also took a lively part ,in'the 4xeroIses, Thie conveuition ad Qul-ned this afterijdon. b They have now at the North- stores i b~'violt one delIe .w ll.buy any, arti p1 o .oeod for age ;a . recently atored,such ,a qbora nP .tmo:uth, N.rI.;, s ws told to tak lIs choice. le paid his dollax and ohose the stovo -afterwards compromisid the matter by taking, four dollars. The Suffrage Amendment. Ti: nAJtIOAL NI'ESS OF I.LINOIS IN Ol'POS1TION. [Froin the Chicago Tribune.] The Senate remained in sessior through the whole of Monday night and until niearly noon on Tuesday, en deavoring to finish the debate on th< sullrage amendment to the Constitution The extraordinary development Wa:." made durinIg the dtscu:sion that Seua tors Suinier aid E(lniumda were opposed to the measure on the ground that the fourteenth amendment, which was rati, fied last years, establishes universal suf frag.. This will be a surprise to th< people of 1Ilinois, who have thus far de nied to the handful of colored people in their midst the right of voting. Per haps Mr. Sumner and Mr. Edmuuds mean to express the opinion that the Fourteenth anmendmer.t authorizes and enables Congress to establish universa suffrage by law. We think that it doei not. There never has been a tim< when Mr. Sumnier could bring a inajori ty of the Senate to his way of thinking on this question. Mr. Drake, of Missouri, another im. practicable genius, wanted.to amend the ainendmnent so as to enable negroes t< hald office as well as vote. * * * The time will come wJen Illinois wil accept bo'h, but it has not yet come To adopt Mr. Drake's amendment would be literally killing two birds with one stone-that, is, it would kill itself and destroy the sufTrage cause by the sam< blow. [From the Chicagto Republican * * This is the most sweeping proposition to amend the national con stitution which has ever passed eithei HoIuse of Congress. It is so radical it its provl;ions, particularly that regard in,; nativity, that. we doubt if it can se cure a ratification of three-fourths of the States, if submi.ted to them in the prsent. stage of popular opinion. Ten, nessee, Missouri and Maryland may be set down agaiist it to a moral certain. ty, with, perhaps, several of the recon st meted States ; for it would admit tc the ballot box at once not only the ne. groes, but the whole body of the ex rebels of lawful age. Then several o the States provide in their constitutions that the Governor shall he a native born citizen. It may be assumed it each such case the proposeu amendment would meet. with violent opposition, an would1 be unlikely to carry. Besides there are some States in which the ques tion of colot ed suffrage has been submit ted to the people and defeated. The Logi:latures of such States might refus< to endorse a proposition that had been expressly rejected by their constituents so recently. It would requ&re, it inus be recollected, a nlegative vote on the part of only ten States to prevent raiifi. cation. In this light, the "nativity' tlipuilation might have been left oul with advantago. The amendment, is no intended for buncombe, but, for earnes work. Even with the providements o race, color and creed it, would have al the weights it could carry. The right of naturalized citizens to vote is not., we believe, invaded or attempted to be in, vaded in any section of the Union. The same may be said of the right o religious belief. No one has yet offere< to make creed a test of the qualificatior to hold office or to exercise the elective franchise. In t:hesc matters of teforn too mucelh should not be .idertaken a once. It caninot, be pushed ahead of the current demands of enlightened pubbi [From tihe Chicago Evening Post.] It is morally certain that this aimend nment If conleurred by tihe IHousei wvill not be rat.ified. Trexas, Mississipp anld Virginia are not yet in the Union Oregon anid California, at best doubtfu Rep'lblican States, hlave yet to elec their Legislatures. It requires no gil of prophecy to predict that they will bi overwhelmingly opposed to ratificatio Connecticut anid Ohio, both doubtful halve also to eet thleIr Legislatures. Tihe recent fate of tIhe negro suffragt amendments In them does not givi mutch etncouragemnent that, a propositioi considered more obnoxious will mee with a bett er fate. It is not certain that even Rhode Island can be carried ove thu heads of her two Senators. Beside these, thlere' are othler weak pointe,whiel -we need not no0w ment.ion. La t8sArU as --Corbin, porsuant ti noti1ce, in)trodued a Bill to prevent ant pumshal bribery and corrulptionl. The first, section of the Bill is as fol lows: Whoever corruptly gives, offers, o promises, to anly e'xe(entiVe, legislativ or judicial officer, after his5 election o appointmient, either before or after he i qualified, or has taken his seat, any gil or gratuity what.ever, with intenlt to in fluence his act, 'ote, opinion, decisioi nr juilgment, on any .matter, questiori cause or proceec' g which may be thei pending, or may by law come or b brought before him in his offBoial capaci ty, shall be punished by imprisonmen in the State Penitentiary not exceedinj five years. or by floe not.exce.edinj three thousand dollars, and .imprison mont in theo jail. not exceeding- on< year. .R. H. Cain. said he thought be wouh hsge to oppose the Bill lor' fear if it wa papeI, Ii)e 1lepublican party iin Souti Carolmna would go.down. wihwn Corbin wanted to ko he rn Cain. The white wing. which I spoke of the other day as monopolizing all the oficees. Corbin said in his youthful days, when he wnt hunting, and sliot into a flock of d:icks, he could toll which bird was hit by the fluttering. He hopcad if any one was lit here he would have too much modesty to flutter. He did not see anything to fear for the past; the aption of the Bill was not retrospective in its effects. (intlemen might is well compose their souls to peace and pre serve their olium cum dig. A CRETAN A3lnA6SADOR TO THE UNITEQ STATES.--The Cretan Provis ional Government has dispatched an an.bassador to this country, who is no less a person than the PresiUent of the Government. His name is Constantine Volondaki ; he was at Paris on the 23d of January, and on that day published the following letter in The Siecle : Many persons who sympathize with the sufferings o f my country, Crete, have asked me whether we could not, on obtaining reforms and concessions, submit ourselves again to the Sultan. In the name of my country, whose in. domitable will I express, I answer thus -No I never, even though Greece, con strained by diplomacy, abandon us, nev er will we again fall under his yoke. The massacre of our children, of our wives. and of our aged men in cold blood by the Turkish army under the orders of Mustapha Pasha and Omar Pasha, can wo ever forget? We might pardon these crimes, but on all the roads of Crete the bones of our fathers, scattered by the Turks, dragged from the tomb alter two centuries of repose, do not permit us to forget or forgive. We shall know how to fulfill our duty, as we have hitherto fulfilled it-that is, to perish to the last man, or obtain our union with Greece, our Country, from which no human force will be able to separate us. It is with this unanimous resolution of all my countrymen that the nwision I am now chat-ged with to the United States of America is connect ed. CONSTANTINE VOLONDAKI, Presid.'t of the Provisional Governor of Crete, and Envoy Extraordinary to Ameiica. Paris, Grand Hotel, Jrrni.ary 23. It will be seen from this that the Cre. tans do not give up the contest in which they have been engaged so long. TiE NEW TEXTILE, IAMIE.-Fully one-third of the entire commerce of the world is based on textiles and their fabrics, and any improvements in their production or handling affect the interests of mankind to an extent only surpassed by those which affect food. We have, therefore, viewed with great interest a specimen of the cleaned fibre of the ramie, which has been sent to us from Louisiana, where it has been introduced and is now of fered as a substitute for cotton in the labors of the planter. The plant is a native of Java, and was first brought to Europe in 1844, where, by the beauty and strength of its fibre, it re ceived much attention in manufactur ing ciroles. It is now stated that a considerable quantity is annually re ceived there and manufactured into fabrics of the finest quality, excelling linen in strength, beauty and finish, and rivalling silk in lustre. -But what most concerns us now is the question of its cost of production. Is it cheap 1 Can it be produced cheap er than cotton ? The great disadvantages of cotton culture in our Southern States now are, first, that the labors of a cotton plantation are continuous from the beginning of January to the ending of December, involving the payment of wevemonths' wages to the a rioulta ral laborer ; and, second, that this unexampled cost of labor does not by any meanst secure a crop, as the eotton plant is very sensitive to an excess both of rain and dry weather and is the frequent prey of the army worm. With these disadvantages the cotton iplanter rarely makes a profitable crop oftener than one season in three. it, therefore, he can find a substitute for the cotton plant, which shall give hiinr * equal marketable returns, with less cost of production and less liability to injury from natural causes during Igrowth, he will be veryv likely to let cotton slide and turn h1s attentton to the new article of production.-. Y Herald. MYSTraioUS DISAPPICARANOIC --Mr. William Bowers, a resident of' Pleasant Hill, in this county, m ;steriously disap peared on the night of the 2d inst. Ho wa natedneo Court as a jury man ad adheendrinking toexcess the two days previous. H-e was seen here at 10 o'clock Tuesday night, and told several persons he intended to go home that ni ght, and endeavored to hire a horse, but ailed. The creeksi wInch circle our towna were impassible, and some believe that he lost his lie In at ,tempting to oross them; while others entertamn fearq that he has been foully 'eaMt witha and his body sooretly dispos~. ed Af. strict search has been mde' for one or two miles around iw, a ,nd a. .portion of the creeks fished, but as yet.' s not the least traces have been discotel' #4. 4r. Bower., wras a young man about 24 yeans oHar..ed hair'and whis k ers, blue eyes. He leaves 4 We 'n one child..-Lazneaefe Ludinr MURRAY McCoNN.L...---A brief telegraphie dispatch published yester. day informed us that, Mr. Murrtv McConnell, a State Senator in ll linoi. had been brutally assassinated in his oflice in Jacksonville. Mr. Meon nell was one of the pioneers in Wes tern Illinois, when that, part of the country was comparatively a wilder ness, and was identified with those early improvements which laid the foundations of the present pro.perity and growth of the Prairie State of th'e West. IIe was also for sonic yeacr, the chief of an important bureau in the Treasury Department at Wa ington, and so suddenly cut cif by the ruthless band of tho assassin was re. ceiving fresh honors at the hand of the people of his State. But few en in this country have done more to secure the wonderful progress of the West than the deceased. IIis euergy of character, indomitable perrever ance-and utter fearlessness of dan.r rondorod hint an invaluable nu.iiarv in developing the resources of Tllinoir, in bringing in a hardly class of imnmi grants, in planning her railways and canals, erecting her public instit ut ions of learning and charity and in ecn ceiving other great wotl:s, without which no State can ever become rieh, powerful or respected. ifow inexpli cable are the decrees of fate ! h nv uncertain the lives and fort.una of men ! Murray McConnell pa5,'ed through the dangers and vicissitude of frontier life, traversed amid dcarh: ness storm the untrodden wildiene:r and broad and bleak prairir" - lived to see his beloved Statc: lionoreud by repeated representation in the liglat. seat in the nation, her lands traversl by great railroads, her distinot see. tions connected by telegraph lines, her chief cities about to become the principal marts and centres on the grand highway between .E urope and the East Indies ; and then, surrounded by everything that civilization can produce to administer to the comfort and consolation of man, dies miserably by the hands of a murderer. COTTON-L o 0 T Ifla.i Ks-,nie SuonTER TItAN IT SEL.-A corris pondent writing under tho abo' ai"( ing to the Macon (On.) Journal and .M esscnger says : It is a lttle remarkable that "'cotton men" have made no alhnsion through the press to the nudieniable fact. that, the bales o. cotton of the crop of 1.890-9 are, on an average consid.rably l igli er than were those of 1807-8. This is verified by the observatint and ilm' r.' ports that come from the large and small markets of this cottntrv. It is estimatel that the difl'erene will average thirty pounds per balh. which on an estimt'ed crop of 2.5(00,(t00 bales, malce a lifernce of 7,500,000 pounds, or 150,000 hales of 500 1 iitel enh--thereby redneitn the crop to 9, 350,000 bales--an ttet we'll vort.iv of note by manufacturers and dea lers i' I ihe staple generally. The main reason with the planters for packing light bales this season is quite obvious. At the high ruling p,-ict of cotton, the bagging and rope, or Ii's, pay about two dollars prr bale profit that being tho estimated average differ ence between tho cost and the pnlric" ob. tained for these articles, when si on or as part of the cottoti by the ptn ter. SILOCIlNG M UnDR.--Wu leatrn I h.j a foul miurde'r was commaitted int Keri shiaw counity, on Tunesday, (thl inist, upon Mr. S. F. Sowvell, a r'sn.'ctabih. citizen of Lancaster. Thle pa'riitnir that. have reached nis, aro as follows: Mr. Sowell was a e'turninig home fro a visit to his;father's-Captu. .Jno. Soweira --and when ridmng wiithm t wo mu,h-s o,f the county line', r'iing horseback ont die pulic. roadl, about dar'k, lie wvas shot, and sup1posedi, instantldy killed by cone person conceithad. Eighteen btchishot entered his breast.. Tlhoe der-d was not discovered until the following moring. A jury of intquest wvas emnpa nnteh-~d on Wednesday eveniing, anid after consulta.. tion rendered a verdict "'lbat the de ceaseuI came to his dleath by a ginishot wonnd from thet hands of s"ame nerson or persons tunknown." The dleceased( leaves a wife and two children. LAni:L.- We are mnformed that. Low. is l'hillips and his son, WVesley Pluillips, living ini the neighibor'hood of w here Mr'. Sowell was muodered. have boeni:i mrest eel on susBpicion and1( lodlgod in lhe jail oft KCershawv. Other arrest. -w'e tud,r stand, will be made .--LIancaster Led ger. The Rev. Johnt A. Scoutt, of Wes t. Virginia, has tmvented a catnwura for tak. ing photographs of the earth's siirfasce from any desired height It, is sent ity by a balloon, with cloc't work to open and shut it at. the right elevation, atnd when it is pulled down the photograupic impression Is done. It is thought it, will be of great use in war. In nearly evory distriot of the up. ootuntry meetings -have been held to urge a comnpromise of All old debts. The lawyoe have tfPseleshly advocat. ed te' nio1colent, and itows atrong er every day. We holieve that It Is the wisest polfoy to purs.e, and hope $hd tbIi' uew and Honorable way to pay old debts will soon be followed in evere diatrio. in th Sae 'hat, rhould be the policy othe I lUnited States with rg 'ard to t'uhia .nd the Cbaiu rev(lution t There i: no que:lt i.n about the lent iment of the Amuer"ie- np eupie. They arte ii fa- 11 +or of ('ubanl i::dependonce nd of the ind ependeco of the woe of North Amierica frou monacl ical and Euaopeai ru10. Apart, however, froa 1 mere :elntient, it the policy of rhis country to v id a !r as it can every ive ment tending, to di:connect I th: (ootiu t :and the :,'irr..uiunding i. !:md fom iftCurope an c. rol. lin thi 'y hill out conimtntrce and A tri:tu idolsbe exten dod. ('aba indepcd, cut of Spain, for exalnplc, would provej far more valuable t: .; in a conmer t 3-1point of view thant it i-, llot. . - 1 :i,des, it ii the iut'vitable destiny of that island, i: v,ell a the re:it of North America, to ultitately fall into t political ;ystm Cc ni to be uuited witi us. It i4 tht tiet dut y of ttou' at:t-.,tmen, then, to watchi the stpne t f a the times and seize every fair oppor- H lunity of carrying out the deltiny (.1f our country. We [;%we nothing to Sp:un or tih otler nat i'ins of E'n upe t 11r our political cxintenure. They in. miiur1y endeavored to diinincube:r t the republic a:;i to 1lant on imipat i:tl 3 Ittn::chiy onl tor burdcr w'hent wti"i were: tIhinl iII a terrihlt :ivil +;''r, and C -'in wt S1;. O; of Th. te in . . P has: been our p -l .t rvj"'. mp1 1+!i::., t;ith hal '' ll ' n r this 1 i ( 1h: 1111N A imeterrilt, ace. ..1 .tlti one-near a1t 1114e ::1er1tainl io I thII ( L:m t.I1a l themselves wh:pr: pe! tl.. ) haVe of a rI14'ra ts, and1, ti :n if ju-t ili diie ini de - 1 in;t so, d1hoult re1'cogn TIi i t b.- " as u b(+I- S ligerotts. \1 : 1idi not t." thii i l 1 ' w;y of retaliation, ht'l in ..ytpa'nthy I with a pe.>ple atrIggliing fIr freedoni vr ad upon1 that. h11,".1 11 iit:ile of I A:itrricIl lilic\y to whirh we have ad 'er ted. It the ('ul'an have a chinei :i a of acquirin;, I l" indecenduenre wo ti ought to favor tio 11 )vemcnt .- -.. . . a lierald. I r.NI '.CRa1. If I, 1 It .'' "!(, -I;\y .t 11 tAN 'l litSlN..( --" tn'ral 'alh:I Cu -li. fi iag retu rued to tlia city ou Satulrdlay ei 3l issio. li e 1tcf' \W aihington , on the a' 1st. of IeCenher, arrived at Bogota r i the I6thi of Ja:lnuacy, anid expoetd ol oil Monday to:replort lie result of his li peCial tmtiSion to Mhr. iSeward. IHo is 7 Understood to have nl-egotiated at trea11- e ty with it.h0 I'nited States of.olombia, I conceding to the nir1ted htates of a North America the right to construct I ait inter-au-eanic canal aero t dh Tsclh- o ni11) of I).,rie11 at anty point, which may R he sclee d ai1ofteor it "a elltineer:t havt Il made snch survey ns they lnay deel I proper. The Ilitcd Statos Government It iily undertak this work, or Congress It may d .oritie how it roay de-legato the power to n private colinpaniy. 'he constrnitinI) of tho canal in regarded 1\ onl the iithmustt as practicable. If the tI 'cnat ratitie:+ the treaty and (lontgress l' will enaot tlt) neceisary legir,lation Iho work eenu ho coimmnoencl diuring 0 the present, year.--'.'/mtrl'st,l 'u,ri- r ,r.1 Tiir. LOUtSIANA ('ON i,s-rr.) I'r.t:r- 1 no(N .-Th nijority of tht S 'onmitte:e of I'leetioins will report on Emdai(ty thait ne( iter of th pt Iart ios u contestinug the tont of' the tembler i'imf joiiaina arc entitled to a sent ini thte ITonse, biceaiuse no val id! elec'-i tiont was held in L oiuisitan a ont the 3d I Noyombebr. This is the tntmo pics- f. ti which airose on fthe counti ng oft f t he electoral v'ot.o on Wed nesday last, andi( the llIousoe will htave i.o meet it taga in. lTe itmiwhers const itut ing tho maiajoirit.y of the comm Iittee, it in he- I lieved, all voted to throw ont the elec- n total v'otet of Louisiana upon the .same) 1 groutnd that they no0w propose to) r hrow ont the conttesting parties, I namutely, that 110 valid etlection wast held in LIorusinaL on the 3d of No.. r veimbler in consequenice of the intimii- s dattion practised by one of the politi cal parties. IurLmn's Jhi'aA.vr.-The defeat ofr Buttler on Friday was inglorious. It< was worse thant Fort Fisher or any I other of his abortions. He is without r tiny consolation, which is terrible I when wve consider the instolent and de- t fiant manner with which he entered 'I the figh t. HIe may be considor'ed toi ho "biottled up" once morq. f He is not so shrewd a man after aill.i A man with half an eye could sec i that nothing could he made by a 'war r upon the Senate upon an issue al- a ready settled. Yet he, with two eyes that are said to look every way at once, could not see it. Hie ta no a doubt sharp, but he is passionate and a malignant, and his two eyes 'were I; blinded by his rage. He has passed. r his zenith, and it sg graduall ydeelin. c Ing towards Nadir. Prince Leopold, of Belgium, 'whor died last week, begged his father, onc New Year's day, for a present of six thousand franes. On being aked af ter his request had been granted, what a he wanted wuith the mobly; he replied a that it was for two angels who had been nursing himt doring his long ill- r ness; ttnd thereupon he ga,e it00 the I two~ Sister0 of Oharit.7 who hive boon: A hia cntant attnant. Timl CorT:Mran E.EC'CION EOR CoN Ittr.?s IN ri Tuainn CONORESsIONAL )trltc-r.--For the last three or four aya thu examination of witnesses on he part of the contestant S. L. Ifogd on been going on in this city, against te validity of the election of J. P. teed as :a imem,ber of Congress from ,is Di"trioot. The investigation is efore W. If. Wigg, Judge of Pro ate. ,Tudge Hoge is conducting the xamination in person in his own be aIf, au-l Joseph Daniel Pope, Esq., ai beent retained ae counsel for Mr. loed. Thu examuination of Talbud cupied the greater part Friday and aturday, and, we are informed, that t was in ninny respects the most ex roordinary evidence that, over was iven. lie confessed, in his exami atiou, to tho murder of Randolph, nd gave i:, full the nhockiug details. 'he examination in continued from 9 'dock in the morning until 9 o'clock t night. Question and oross-question IL! followed up with rapidity, and we Ippose tho evidenge in print In this tse will 1ill a printed volume as big ) a family Bible. Will it be as -uthfal ? We underratand that Mr. [oge propoul s to examine in the Dis -iet 50f1 witnesses; and, probably, r. Reed an many more. Who' will r"r read it '1 Mr. Hge has selected ,luimbia to conduct the examination mny of bis witnesses, because he oes not consider bin person safe in ewbercy, Abbeville an,d Edgrield Socrut' . CA INA RA.oRAm .)MnAN v.-Ti'imOport of tiv President I i Iirectors , the ontit Carolina aIlI' 1, to,;gether with that of General n!yrintendr nt, Mr. 11. '' Penke, pub. he;I n futll m nhe Cialrle"'ton Newsd, is iglly tratifymtg. Tht doubtful aspect Iich unIiug amund I te road, twelve otinl1.1 La k, indel ai most, rigid mo:ni in th ,r :iiii)initration .f its fire, a1 th:at el"i)e management gives , prk.enI !Vid.lrnce that th) precantion id ft.re!ight. of its officers worn directed -ight. \V ile ti he earni ngm fall short as iinp:'rl wi, the vour 1,867, owing to u " .a in the, rovemrnont, of westward . , nd 1. al page:,i the :tc,clhold. r.4 ate shown that the loss has been am milt pu a) ues, ana were tore. en, aid that the present, condition of )ad t: !.ighly ''avcr-tble. The transpor It-ion earings for the year were, ,ight., *961,701 30, passage, $310, 78,41, mails, .$20,575.00, other sour. L5, 1,29-1.12, Iotal, $.1,294,961.89, hiltt the net earnting were $597,51.49, I which alter providing for interest, ama;nges and stock kille.d, the purchase f propert.y, cost of constructing cars, S, & e., lea ves a balance of $238,561,. 9. We congratnlate Stperintcndent e0:l:e at ite success win di has attended is eforts i:i the ellicient managementof i road. 'iII I ESTiMoNY OF A NORIiERN IAN.--A NCrrhernr man who has been avelinr in V irginia writes to tbo Buifa. (.mmerciarl : I have talked with a great many men, f all classes, and they all assure me tbar northern man will always be welcome,. nleed, if T may judge from my recep. in, my Iest.imnony will add strength to be 'ssertion. I have fcnnd that the riple introdth -ion as a ?'Yankee" or carpret.bgger" has been a recommen. a tion to their hiospit ali ty. S-o Iar from ai northerner beinig in, iny danuger' here. I feel saf'dr t.han 1' did' 1 l3uflhlo, f->r there are nio "canalers" iro to garrote ia tman in the streets be 21( dark ; iad 1I havo I raveled alone, on i,', antd (oi hi'rseba;ck by', night antd by - ny, through the country bore, anid have iet with nothinig but '<indness as yet. f'or have my opinionms ever given of' meeuc. My friends n!l know thait I am u outspoken Riepublican--and T speak e as freely as I did at home--and, hahough we ma)y argue and ispute on 'ulitical etestions, andl par.ticularly on he~ relative mnihtary ability of' northern nd1 southern generals, yet thorq. is no orenessi or ha ri-feeling mnanifested. Tui. Fi tuwr Won,.s~t T)oe-ron iw Roa-. tA.-Thie Medico-Chirtgical 'Academy t St. Poitersbturg, conferred at its anhnnat onference, a week or two ago, te de roe of M. D. uipon Mdmo. Kaschewa. ow, the first female candidate fQr this onor who had presented herself beforo aem. When her name was meontionedI y the Dean it was received with an umomnse:atorm of applause, which btestei or several minutes. The coromnony of investing her with the insignia of h. r ignity being~ over, her felltow-tidetas ndt new colleagues lifted her uponl. a hatr and curried her, with triumephat houts, through the lall. But at this 1oment Mdma. Luacca was espied mong the antditoe, and such .was the ludenta.' ficklenoss th,at the lady dotor ad to yield her elevated seet to the opular singer. The priya donna 'not nly remained in undisputed posweo f t-he temporida throne, but wet. hsr Lod- upon it to her L'arriage, whilst the, ow doctor had to dod whit comfort oh. onid iri he'r diplfoma. G*ov. Holden hsas been'presented with cane made from a portton of the old4 bip United States, in srvice ~n th a fa,r of 1812. . 'V'i. head of the ue is tad. fr@W a forttion'of the~ 61. t?7 S. 1s'4y "Bell fhich was -desfty at ka''I h:venrb t@ le