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Desportes, Williams & CoW, Proprietors] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Indust,y and LitN . VOL.11.1 'WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNN MAC-3189[O03 THh; FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PtJI.IShi) WEEKLY tY DESPORTES. WILLIAMS & 00. Tarns.-THt 1i:IALi is published Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at 63.00 in vareably in advance. fig All transient advortisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. The G.rl With the Calico Dross. A fig for your upper-ten girls, Wilih their velvets, and satins, and laces, Their diamonds and rubies, and pearls, And their milliner figures and faces They may shino at a party or ball, Emblazoned with half they possess: But. give me, in place of them all, My girl with the calico dress. She is plump as a partridge, and fair As the rose in its earliest bloom; Her teeth will with ivory compate, And her breath with the clover perfume; her step is as free and as light As the fawn's whom the hunters hard press, And her eye is as soft and as bright, My girl with the valico dress. She is cheerful, warn hearted and true, and is kind to her father and mother: Shen studies how muctteh she can do For her sweet little sister and brother. If you want. a comnpnnion for life, To comfort, enliven anid bless, She is just the right sort of a wife, \Iy girl with the calion lrest. [Frt tt the h o ttuttt a t'hiunt x.j Under Whioh King, Bensoniain ?"---Law and Order, or Outrage and Murder ? NIit. EmITRn: Your paper of Friday .orning contains an clahertate commtnt nicatton, devoted to fault finding with carpet-bnggets and Gov Scott, and par. ticiu laly in refe,ence to his recent order to the Adjntant-Gener.al to catry into efTet a riecentt Act. of the General As -.tliv, prvt 'itiig for an armed fo!ce for the" , e-ervaliots ''' the Iteace. In telt' t-nst1' 41 his hiconmunmttcatton. Ithe writer "Thi N"'lsitdinL citiz..n'ts of South (' are lmi.. rrer Fin.-"" er01 tec?ptanlce of tS e ' w:ai onst, q 0 1jf1'b hei-)" i',"e"ln fI.t'1"'l upiI1n th.-1n1. hIt VI". tm the m m tin- t: 1 t,, tllh , eaboar,t , tvinte"d at '%esirl", itti 1'x hib,ited' b,Y thi1-i ("t11Ilue , a dlispotsiti')n for g iet and I -,1)tu leice to the lw, :e.ld, oetht-r fotr Sta ' oleiiers, for Con. res i, or t.! I'rtiet:He v of t he T.Tlitetd tats(! . there stiV li t ve hltt slight. dis turletcs, but ittt.o oeIt( mstance taking the 'roport itont of'. vet a sanI mob. And here tht' quest ion may be well pu. to the aslhorit".', (the les-r authori ies. Sit'riff, Connaib's anl Mningers of Elect jot ) by whom were tlhesc lhis turbances wrought, up, and by whom . 'part icipated in ?"' I propose to aiv"r t,he questions of youir correspondent, by adding the tes itmony of one who was thoroughly in. formt'd on these inatters, all of which he saw, and part of which he was, and whose aut horit y on lie subject tust be deemed as indisptatble. Depostion of William K. Tolbert, taken before Hon. William Hutson Wigg. Judge of the Probate Court, Feb. ruary 12, 18G0i, in a contested election ease, het.ween S. L. loge and J. P. Reid--J. D. Pope', Esq., counsel for the lat.tt'r. WVm. K. To!bert,. bein-,of !atwful age, being duly sworn, says: Queston-Whsat is your niam-e, where do you reside, anid what is youir occsspsr tioni. Ansswor-I live at Greenwvood, Abbe' ville Cjounty. Farming. Q.-HIow long have you- lived in. Abbeville Jotmtv ?' A.-All my lile. Q.-Were you.in A bbevilles Couinty during the msotnths of July, Ausgust, Sepsember, October anid November, 1868 ?, A.-Iwas. Q.-Did yosu belong to esther o6 t politcal parties, dutrig the last cam pa ign ? A.Idid. Q.-Tos wlhich one?' A.-Demnoerat. Q. - Hlow was the Dt'mocratio party organsize.d in AI)bbevsle Cosittv ?' A.-.nto Cinsbs. Democratio- Clubs. Q.-Did you belotng to onse- of those Cisubs'? A.-Yes, to Greeniwootd Cluib. Q-W here did your Club hold its A.-At the depot. Met onice as week. S Q --Wsere your mneetinsgsptublic ? 's A.-Pubhlic to Democrats, bitt not to ruadicas. No radioal-allowed to come Q.Ddyost takse an oat,h as a mem ber of theRe Chubs ? A.--Not wttisn I joiued. tiots connected with these Clubs?g A.--Ys, sir. Committees were'ap pointed which met in secret, and they appointed men to patrol in each different el ~ neighsborhsood. Q.--Wor what purpose were these .mesn detailed to patrol? A.-To find out where the negroes were holding Unsions Leaguses. Q.-Whast other instruttions had they, ifly?i A.--To break thetm npi. kill the leadi ers, Are into them, and kill thei leaders if they could. e Q---. Were those thd inbtruction~e liv. en 10all the club.? A .-Can't nwy throughont tcotta try, but believe they were.. Q.-Were those instructions giveii and en&frced at any time, and put mo execution against any of the Union Leagues in Abbeville? A. -They patrolled for them, but could not find where any were held. Q.--Were there any othet instruc tions given to these committees by the Democratic clubs in relation to the election to be held on the 3d of Noven ber? A.---Yes, sir, the day' bofero the ele, tion the tickets were taken away from the Republican party, from those wh. had charge of them, by these commit tees. The c.,mmittees w%eri riding for them the night before the election, tak. ing them wherever they could find them. I was one of the gangs myself. Ten or eleven were with me. I was a mnem her of the committee myself. Destroy. ed the tickets. All of us were arm ed. Q.-W hat were your instruct ionQ, if the persons having the tickets in charge refused to give them up? A.-Shoot them, and take them by force. Q.-Have you the menns of knowing and do you know, what was the polhti cal sent imtents of the ne.?ro popultI, ion in A bbeville County, and how they would have voted if they had been al lowed to vote ? A.-There were at reast. four colored votes to one white vote in the (ount v. They wonld have voted for the Repih. lican candidate-far you (Judge Hoge) -at least ninety-ine out. of each hutin dred. Q.-Where were you on t he day of election, November 3, 1868? A.--In the fort part, of 'the day at. a voting precinct, Greenwood, in Ahhe. ville County. A conrier canr, mo from \V hit e 1i11 plrcie, Ar bbchci, e h. o - savimg tly were lighting tht-r.., (- ! was a'oiit I I 4'e"l .<-k. al l:. l .- l - publit-lans w re- :iI,;lilt vbr,:up-i . A stluina of ntv. armned, aboni 3.0 in OW, ,. besides invsel1, wan snt. there V hen we got thiere, the Republic..ns were all golie, etc(cep. 1:-, w h> wa: lying Il-r hlead. lea l hat. other" were wonh-". Th'Ir.r,. harl h~"en1 somIe whoi ettu f).. . kInow if Ih R .p blliui.;r hot w hii m: wil i s .hot Only1 t cr , r .ut metn we",re allowedt"c to v"otte beforr" slow. i.. conon.-n(j t. oii to five hun.u1-.1 ,olored mn,n uisii.,oliy vOjtd at I - i pn.r" rine"t, who, if all:lwed to vot " wonu,d lime votted the Rehuhl,h e,l iiekrt. Q.----Did the Dtueocrats c'me to th \Vhte Iil p~Illig precinet ariu"ud or the hday (if I he elemtion ? A.-Everv one, so far as f i;new. It w- is a general unlerstanding tirinigh out the Count.y, th al. il were to g. trmied. Q.-State what. occurred at Green wood precinct up to the time you. left to go to White Hall? A.-Well, the negroes, to the num ber of about four hundred voters, asseu bied about one hundred and fifty P ards [rom the polls; the white men,v Dem.,. -rats. were all! around the door; Capt.. J. G. Boozer was sittiag right by the loor, to examine the tickets. Two Republican colored men ca me np to vote ; theycame from the main body. He said, "[jet me see your papers." They pulled out the gepuhlican ticket with Hoge's name for Congress. fie told them they colki not vote them sort. there ; they would have to go soe where else to vote those papers. Biooz er was armed. The negroes turned back to the main body, who saw there was 1no chance to vote, so they disband e.d and went home. There were about, four hundred of them, alil voters in Ab bevilhe County [The oflicial return madet the Democratic majority 1,920.] There was a e:ear understanding that the Dtemocrats would force the Ri-publi eans from the polls if they utndertook to vote--fore~ them by arms. We were all armed,. and intended, if they rushed in, we would rush- them back, shooting into them. It was not safe for Republican speakers to can.vase the County. The general understanding was that they were to be shot, killed, stopped. Hie knew of' fouhr that were shot. One got over it; three wore killed. Seve ral othero wureahot and wounided, but he does not k,now the persons. They were killed- because of' the influence they had in the Republican party. The killed were James Martin, -a ndembier of the Legislature from Abbe viloe, B. F. Randolph, and another man at White Hall on the day ,of election. Randolph was killed at Hodge's Depot, on the 16th of ~Ooto bor, about 2; o'clock in the afternoon. Hie (Tolbert) was prosent, was known and recognized by the olthzens living at Hedge's Depot, and talked with a half dozen of themn-Fletoh. lodges, Langdon Connor, Jim Cochran.. q.-State bow.you happened to be at Hege's Depot the day Randolph' was killed? - A.-! heard lio was going to make a speech-there, and I went up to hear it. When [ got there, they told me he wqe not going to speak there ; that he:had gone 'up to Abbevlhle, 0. HI., and was going' to Anderson that'night --onu ther afternoon trine. 'Joshua Logan and J. -W. Tolbert oames to the depot. wylh me.'. Moh were del knoiyo at Hfo$ge'q D~epot. .When. we arrived thede, we foun~ a-orowd of men, sorde lig1s '6 t'eh, besitNs our number. We commenced talkig about Randolph; that he had threat toned to Colonel Aiken to burn up th Scate ; that he could do it in thre .vords, and that we must kill him. Langdon, Conner and Fletch. Hodge -aid to us, after we came up-we al were armed, I mean Fodge's Depot L'hoy pnt up a target, and we all oho .if our pistols at. We did it to re load our pistols, so as to be sure the would fire, being freshly loaded. 1'hey put it on Logan, Tolbert ant myself, to do the shooting, saying tha is.we did not live there, the negroe: would not know us. If any nlor< shooting was to be done, they woulc do it. That if Randolph's guart fired on us, they would fire on them When the train came in, Langdot Connor went to the conductor, and asked him if Randolph was on board and he came back and said he was of the train. The train ran up to the sidu of the platform. Randolph wau sitting by the door of the car. The rest all went to the upper end of the platform, and got on the platform. I went to the lower end. Just at thie time, the Greenville train ran up. Randolph immediately changed ears, and walked back to the last passenger oar, and took his seat. James Coch ran stepped tip to me at that time, and says: "Hill, you follows ought to have been disguised." I said "Jim, what do you think of it, any. how ?" lie says : "Ho ought to be killed, and now is the time to do it., right now." Fletoh. Hodges came up with a roll of money in his hand, and says : "A'l soon as you do it, we give you this, and we will back you ; if there is any more shoot. ing, we will do it." By this time, Randolph had got off his seat, and walked out on the platform of the ear. Joh 1 :..ks camale up with hi.l pistol it hia Ii .d. .,u11 lhe : ,-: "Now is : O I , t .- - e - " b . I ihe p at I.ela t f.. ti t b,," i t :t a "..IIi t i : bi iI.. :, Ile I, i - e s,l iI his la1o , !- ,:et lu-1.w , Iindl t..le 'Il. : ", t.- " mI, - t 0 (4m p 1e t ('e- otu We i - - ' rcitel tA:e q E lii', t li'b1 ' t n 11" . Al -i. ie' 'ff i Iet wVas t Jl t ii ih,t W I V.ell: ie'ied tdee tl?' t)itut l t:ip :-.- | ti W.,. itut :.ihus i;, lu ii ti. e l' -it welt, 'no Lithre ill .t I) :.Sutn n. ting. They cmee b: iuk t Ai L- iLg , ' h htim -Ciel, 'atlc I " . i lee 1.1 I . t l tp teeI d Il Th"-ti t.hOi no, tha t 1 lt t1: l.Ia. n:aiet wa;s brou111ht upl InI th D<c1) mn It-I mClet. I :I:I Itu -hat they sh.llubi do w'Iith I 1! hi . Sono id,, 'C.It hiin up1 andll re , tl hIimn tto the dog " ".heIIrt i,l,. "the( y wolu; il,box him up1, anld explrels himl trl (1, . S"o as a1; ptlri" teut." Ellis knews that hie was killed, und.killed by us, and that smllie of the inetuber-s of the Dcmoert i.' Club saw it done; saw Rl,andoplh killed. [Wit. ness was here warned by the respon dent's counsel, Joseph D. Pope, Esq., to speak only from his own knowl edge, to which Tolbert replied : "I speak from my own knowledge."] The members of the Democratic Club that I remember as being present were: James Cochran, Landon Con nor, and Fletcher Ihodges.. They ad vised me to shoot Randolph ; to kill him, and they would baek me in it. Q.-State if there existed in Abbe. ville, or ini an.y other of the Counties in the Third Congressional District, an organization known as the Ku Klux Klan ? A.--Thecre was. I do not knew of my own knowledge that it existed in any other Counties ; but from pass. words arnd signs, believe that it did ; given by umembers that I know by sign belonged to the Klan in other Counties. It was a secret organiza. tion of persons belonging to the De' mooratie party, known as the Ku Klux Klan, existing in the Counties of the Third. Congressional bistriet. I know that it existed in .Edgefield, Abbeville and Laurens. Members took an oath on joiniing. .Nearly all the members of the D'enroeratie party belonged to the Klan. Amiolg them were : Ci'pt. J. EG. ILor'er, D.. Cross well, Flectch. IHodges, 1angdon- Con. nor, Bob Stansler.. Don't know that D- Wyatt Aiken did. The object of the Khan, was to regulate the RAepub. liean panrty ;. break it up if thtey could, and strengthen the Democratie party. To do this, they were to kill -out the loaders of the Republican- party, and drive them out of.athe State. The oath taken by the members was this: To do whatever their leaders ordered them to do. We had a leader in every organization, who was known as captasin of the company, and we were sworn to 'obey his orders. He told us to find out where the Union Loagues met; to fire into them, and kill the Presidenter if we could. It was un derstuod that Randolph was the man that organtized* the Union Leagues ini South Carc'Ina,acnd that was one of the reasons why he wats killed. We bad a meeting the night before the election, and- had orders from out C'aptajin to some 'eal-y t;o the' pieeiniet tiexti morning abasd,- and thoh Alow a ttegroIReptblican to out a ydte.. Te ~tfy sto persado themi to Vote the Dethooratiotokt.ad if -they insisted upon rotig, t,o ftWes th6tn babk-;flghi tbenm ; kill thea;> shbot theua. Joihi G. Boozer was the captain. About tw=nt mamenir that. T 1mnw.vp bul ? there were mor-, than that. 4 W. X. TOL LERT. - I will not further intrude upoi s your space, Mr. Editor, by attemptinl I any comments upon the testimony o coinmunicatIon, but may be permi tei to express tho hope that your corres - pondent is answe'red as to who wrough up these disturbances, and who parti cipated in them, and that he and ove 1 ry law-abiding citi2en of south Caro Sli na will see the propriety of adoptinl suoh measures as will prevent a te petition of them. ANOTHER OF TIE PEOPLE. Tolbert's Testimony. The Abbeville Press publishes tht following, with reference to the state month made by W. K. Tolbert : This man, it aeens, has hoe. iidue, ed to surrender himself-has beeu hired by promisen of pardon and re ward to do the dirty work of Solo. mon L. Hoge. If not equal to the "wickedest man in Now York," he is certainly the wiokedest man that was ever in Abbeville. Hie now adds per jury to his many other crimes, and yet he is to be rewarded for his vil lainies. The carpet-baggers profess great horror of violence, yet they claim that they have a much greater desire to promoto their schemes to secure oflice and plunder, than to punish law breakers. They have the preatest offender now in their possCRsion--one who by his own confession is a mur derer-yet they forgive all, and take their stand on his testimony, because he commits perjury for them. They do not wish to punish Tolbert half as much as they desire to disparage the D.Inocrat"ic party, by porjury and subornatiOn of perjury. We wonder whether the whole testimony of Tol bert has been published, or only gar bled extracts of the same? Was he "kel whether he did not surrender hu-- ? Whether ' he is not now a in j:il ned guarded day and igh! b r-alical ptiupga and procurers of false testimony ? Whether he was i1>. prmitisedt a pardon for sweariing taiseI,, and how much of the reward w:as i.rt'mised him ? Until the production of this testi miony we were not attiro that Hoge --; hard pret-se:d .: i i i oflort to claim a seat" to which he is not enti th-d. V thought ho relied upon his party in Washington to admit him perfJas et nefas. We did not think tae would de.-cend so low as to bribe a ,irolling assassin-to induce by offers of elency and reward, so base a fellow to beonme an informer, and to lad to hi-4 other crimes the "deep damnaitinn" of perjury. Verily he is pressed to the wall, when he has to iako such desperate shifts. Ioge wants to go to Congress, and truly the prize must be very alluring which could prompt means so despicable to secure it. So far as the Democratic party is concerned, Tolbert's testimy is a tis sue of falsehoods. We trust to pro cure for our next issue the testimony of every one whom he names, flatly contradicting his statements in every particular. In another column we give the testimony of managers at Cokesbury and Greenwood, which was taken before Judge Hill, during the past week, and before Tolbert's testi mony reached us, and which establish es the fact of the fairness of the elec tion at those points.' We also give the certificate of Major Leland, which furnishes a full vindication of the Democracy of Greenwood. CERTIFICATE OF J. A. LELAND3 EsQ., My intention having been called to that part of the published deposition of Win. K. Tolbert, relating to the "Democratic Club at Greenwood," I cannot hesitate,'in justico to that club, to make the fol.lowing statement: I served as rosi-dnnt of that club, from its organiAation until about the middle of September last, when. I vis ited. the Nortit to- eeek aid for an educational enterprise, and was gone until after the Presdential election. The cl'ub l' eonsid-eros- a legitimate party organization, most of its consti. tution and by-laws having been copied from a printed pamphlet emanating from similar clubs in New York. A full record of 'its proceedings was kept by the Secretary at al-times open, and now open to the inspection of the public. I deny most emphatically any connection directly or indirectly betwen what is known as the Ku Klux Klan anid the Democratic Club of Greenwood. If there was suoh an organization in -the neighborhood of Greenwood or any where else in the (County,L knew nothing of it while serv ing as Presidenti,- nor have I been convinced of its existence since my return. As to the appointment of a seoret committee to break up Union Leagues by killing their leaders, a sim ple publication of the list of mem bers of that club would be th. most effeettijal answer. J. A. LELAND. DEP~OstTJoN OP )(LTON4 O8sOR3E MA,NA' GErt AT .ORSENWOOfr. Aeswo, to' .et intertogatory; I'amia a ottien lof the eniouy 01 Abbeville. ' v dtod ae theale9tIot fot MI6bet'of "Obng'res' hld on thil 8d d fofyNodniBet~ l&trat4oe wood proinot. Ane'ver to the 24 Interrogatory I w :9 one of the ro,anagera at said ] prerlei t. Thomas H. McCurry and John J. :hsrp were the other mana gers. r Answer to 83 interrogatory: The said managers were all regular -ly worn, and the said elccti rn was -n t all other respects condueted according r to law. Answer to 4th interrogatory : The said managers did not receive the vote of any persons who was not regularly registered. No "ncn-rai dent" offered to vote. Answer to Gth interrogatory : The saia managers did not refuse r to receive any legal vote of any citi zenl who was; regularly registered. On d the contrary, efforts were made to in- i duce several persons to vote, who wcr huown to tho aaid managrs to . ti be registered voters. Such refused 0, to vote, giving no reasons that I heard 1 for their refusal. Answer to 0th interrogatory : The said election was conducted peaceably and quietly throughout, a.'l 1i was in all respects as orderly as any election I ever attended. There was no disturbance at the polls. There s was no show of force whatsoever that ( I saw or heard of to deter or prevent il any person from voting. I was at tho polls all day. c. Answer to 7th interrogatory: ar No person at said precinct was tb refused the exercise of the privilege B or right of voting. Answer to 8th interrogatory: The said managers did notrefuse to p receive the vote of any one, either p white or colored. Answer to 9th interrogatory : at I cannot say positively how many colored men voted on that dlay at said do precinct. I think about forty. All of these voted the Democratic ticket. tm There was not a radical vote taken on ta that day at raid precinct. MILTON OSBORNNE. I DEPOSITIONS OF L. D. CO.NOlt, MANA- .oi CER AT COKEsnURY. Answer to 1st interrogatory : Si I am a citizen of the County of Ab- o beville, and voted at the election for ra inetuber of Congress, at the election hi held on the 3d of Novomher laut, at .it the Cokesbury precinct. ei Answer to 2d interrogatory : th I was a manager, and the other G managers were M. G. Ziegler and P. In W. Conner. al. Answer to 3d interrogatory so The managers were all regularly hi sworn and the election was conducted an strictly according to law. co Answer to 4th interrogatory :. t; The managers received the vote of tr no persons, who were not regularly re registered. No non-residents were ra allowed to vote and none offered to A vote. ti< Answer to 5th interrogatory: w< The managers reinsed to receive the be votes of none who were regularly regis- tt tered. All were admitted. I know of sh nothing further onl this point. p. Answer to 6th nterrogatory: in There was a detachment o(, United th States troops, under the charge of a in peace officer, stationed near the polls to th preserve order, bit- there was no occa- in siun for their services,as the eleeton was di conducted quietly a'nld peace.ably and ar here was no disordervor distuI)bnco in whlatever. ef Answer to '7th int errogatory : eI There was no intimidation wvhatever, ol and.*no co was refused the right, of to voting.jF Answer to 8th interrogatory : to T1hie managers refnsed the votes of v< inone. No colored men wvere refused. er the right of voting. Pt -Answer to 9t.h mnterrogatory ? . a T[hiere wvero 150 or 200 colored voters, tc of whom a majority were Demoern, tie. i L. D. CON NOR. th Sworn to and subscribed before me, ht this 19th Fei'bruary, 1869. Ic WM.HlILL, k J. I'ro., A. C., S. C. w GENEnRAL WIGFALL.--A. writer in a K Western paper, on "the exiles of the et war," says: w tewis T. Wlgfall made his way B abroad at the close of the war some- gt how or other. He is a ma of despe. TV 'rate energy,-and he has been practis- sp ing law, I believe, in some irregular at way, now in the courts of England, ci gets along somehow or other. Hie ti cannot have much money, arnd I fancy at would be glad to get back in Texas at le the law once more. He is in many ti respects an ext.raordinary man, a born of revolutionist, nover disheartened, what C ever the storm or the tempest ;. best. ei pleased5 perhapi., when the waves run' high, devoted-to his own pet schemes or ideas; has a passion for -some peo- i ple, and can hats others like the glowj of an anthracite furnace; is always4 driving sway at something, yet never ' depressed by 'failure, ind will never givenphope as lonif as ho can find a h listenevs Give him half a doxten li. tenera andhe is perfectly happy. As r~ wie are to have peaoq, I thikhk WIgfall anti :the Vnited States could'hartoon.i 1se fnatifr by allowing him to- bar. anngue a Tessejt:rye What barfn would 'it do? I r*'hW ogr1t~ heet weomar heoid of I, was a darkey in a dar l '16vIth ab b extinguished candle, looking for a h black eat that wsn't there. jfi aeoture by Mr. John Bigelow-Interest ing Reminisoencee. Mr. John Bigelow, the predeessor I f General Dix as American Minister t Paris, and before that the Ameri an Consul General in France, deliver- t d a lecture, giving his own personal eninisceees of the great French arrister, M. Berrycr. The lecture I oom of the Historical Society, corner n :leventh street and Second avenue, ras well filled by one of the most < utelligent audiences cver assembled listen to the lecture of any literary inn, and the applause Mr. Bigelow I eceived must compensate him for C any disappoiutnients and many n raw backs he must have experienced t i his diplomatic career. q Mr. Hlamiltou Fish, as president of t ie society, oailed the assemblage to if -der and introduced, with a few well t at remarks, the lecturer of the even- i g, Mr. Bigelow, who had been the f rmier secretary of the society. Ap- E ause greeted the introduction, and c a discourse. He said that Berryer a us a remarkable man and probably c o most remarkable forein:;ie orator C nec Mirabeau, and, perhapa, ainee 0 icero. From his youth up he was e ibued with the spirit of feudalism; e t such was his character that he a uld comprehend the spirit of liberty in d of republicanism. The lecturer w cu referred to the contemporaries of di erryer, the greatest of whom was ti uizot, who for some time after 1830 w is the Prime Minister of France. cc irther reference was made to the it irliamnentary triumphs of Berryer in e Chambers, from 1818 to 1851, d to the great effort the deceased ide to have the then Prince Prei. nt ousted from his ofliue. Theii :vement was unsuccessful, but the lent of the leader in the movement s acknowledged by all. At a oriti- in I stage of the American war-in 63-the lecturer, being the Ameri ni roprosenativo at Paris, made the rsonal acquaintance of the great S -ech lawyer. Messrs. Mason and idell had made great exertions to li ,tain the recognition of the Confede to States, and there were many o gh and influential people in both Lltand and Franoo to oooond their fort. N. Berryer was a member of e French Chambers in 1835-6, when Ic anoral Jackson made his stern de- di rind on the French Government, and v old grudge still lodged in his be mn. But when the speaker visited t m, on the 15th of September, 1863, t d gave him a full history of the th nspiracy of the South, M. Berryer of >ted that the proclamation of nou ility by France and England was cived by the people in utter igno- a nec of the true state of affairs in nerica; that the Mexican expedi mn would bring to France neither ialth nor glory, and that any distur- M nee of the friendly relations be- Fi en France and the United States lii ould be deeply mourned and do- re ared. Mr. Bigelow then entered N to a description of the character of at o hero of his lecture ; how his senti- in mnts were religious and dynastic; pi at he opposed the Emperor as load- ti g the people no one ki}ows whither ; oi nounced the Anglo.Frenoh alliance, in d always expresseii his feelings as pc favor of the United States in their ei orts to put down rebellion. Refer- p cc was mnade to the legal. opinion tc tained from M. Berryer in regard or the building of wait steamers in s anoe for the C on federate States and tr the sentinients of t.hin eminent ad- 13 ecate when, in 1865, peace was again tr me to America. .The lecturer, after sI ssing a high eulogiumn on the char- I ter of the deceased French barris-.d r, gave some anecdotes showing the a tense adherence of M. Berryer to tI a Bourbon family, who, althiough ho 01 d defended Ney and Louis Nape- ti en before the House of Peers, still apt up a constant correspondence th the Count de Chambord, whom Irh always addressed as Henry V., d ing and Majesty. A very telling I" ary of Count Bismarok was inter- p oven, the point of which was that o ismarok considered Berryor the oa eatest and Best Frenehman living. 01 bis great 1?renehman never wrote his a eches. They came fromi his lips complete as if they had been studi- 1 I; and a comparison with Demos- fi ones, Burke, Palmerston and Web- o: or was the most happy,r though the cs oturer diMlnot forget to mentiong at 1M. Berryer, to the last moments g his lifit, was faithful to the Roman si itholic Church. Dying, Mr. Berry- sa ' left no rival to take his p lace. hi jUN. Y.Uerald. TIhe Livingston Journal says that to cause of the scarcity of labor in InAt section is from the mania of the g >grees for planting "on their owth ~ ok" this year, hoping on account of te present high price of cotton to got ob In one season. One of these I ould-be-plantres was seen in a store y few .days ago trying.to get a pair of Ii has for a bater of otton yet to be o A Minnesota steer reoentlyhbad theh isfortune to -hate iliay eitaok oave ovisfhi His"' ownte' diadoveed Itf t*o eoeeksaftW#ad.j fat and sarty, having eaten his way thirty da hnh h kn 8OUND OCOTRNE.--The Providonoe :R. I.) Journal, a conservative Re ublican paper, at the conclusion of a vell-reasoned article in opposition to urther amendments of the Constitiit ion on the subject of negro suffrage, rpresses the following wise opinious: "It is never wise to engraft mere betractions upon the Constituttod, or is it wise to change it at all un ess for some groat benefit to be scour d. The frequency with which chang a have been recently proposed has ,eon misehievous in its effoots. The copln, not without reason, have be omne alarmed at the prevailing readi ess to alter the fundamental law of he land. They see that by these fre.. uent changes which are proposed for amporary ends the Constitution itself gradually wearing away, and that he Government is likely to becumo at ingth a very different Government, 'om what it was at the beginning. |xperiments in legislation are mis iievous enough in their effects upon people, but they are harmless in >mparison with experiments upon the onstitution. The practice of change ice begun is in danger of going to scess, and the facility of change onco itablished diminishes the sanctity of ly obligation which the Constitution iposes, and imperils any guarantee hich it contains. It i:s better to on ire hero and there an imperfection an to incur the risk of having our holo system of government destroy. I by two many attempts to improve CoNonr:;:s.tt.1N i>,'ortA.l.--Onea CAn e, wriles a corrospond+'nt. (Dont Piatt), at. a joko can be gol. into thi, gentle. an only by a surgical olmration. le as calm as a cowpen, and solemn as a ice post. W ithl him life is real, life is .rnest, and he aailh over its sonbire nin in search of those footsteps that Sliipwreck,d brother itas e[t. as a gacy, to take heart againl, or worda to at el' et . Tiis solemn coluntcnance is written over by t.he ha of thonght at lo tk-s as if a bwil,leredt straddle ig, dipped in ink, had rim furiousle 'er it, whlile the lof: yi" forehead appears it it were retiring iro the brnin for rtlier reh-etiun. Ilia l:ig gray eyes e(iin sit voul as 1 :nyin, "I nm m ther's ghost," while tihe few grizzlv cks hang over his head lil: thie 1od ng plumes of at battered hearse. Ii a. ord, Iingham is a conden.,ed tmera!. id when he says, in sleep sepulchral ner, tlut come hush whacking up from e unknown recesses of his stomach, at "about us are the gathered wisdom sthousand and life's solemn main is intooned with honored graves," wo iver, and wish Bingham would go d order a metallic case, and have done th it. THE RECENT POISONING CASE IN ADISON STREET, BROOKLYN.-On -iday night last, as previously pub led in these columns, a sad occur nec took place in the family of Rev. r. Alfred Pinney, No 67 Madison rot, through a most unfortunato and one- instance, fatal mistake or stu dity on- the part of a femalo domes 3 in mixing a pudding with arsenic, ratsbanc, which i'ngredient was ixed up through Indian meal. Ton rsons of the houzehold word attack. shortly afterwards with sover Lins,-suOh- being the number that par- - ok of thme deleterious dessert.. Modi. I attendance was procured, as the mptoms grew alarming, and! the no-cause of their illness was speedi arsived at.- The prompt aduminis. ation of antidotes had the effect of ving the lives of all but ono of thme etimis. At three o'clock on Satur. y afternoon Mr. Sylvester D)en ton, young man who was on a V-'int to e family and had eaten of the pois.. id pudding, died from the effects creof.-N. Y. Herald. A single handful of manure puis to a hill of corn will often make the ifrenc between four or five little 3ubbins,"~ and six or eight gre at ump ears that will shell their- bulk sound-corn. A thousand handfulu mnt up lhvily in the autumn corn ib. How many handfuls of manuro e daily lost in your stock-yard that ight be saved in nice order by a lit e care in, heaping up, and' covering em washitug rain I These handfuls 'manure are more valuable to 'the mltivator than the separate gralnb of >ld tliat the miner, with careful toil ithers and washes from the earth and and bank. Hie hunts, gathersf and aVes'them all, au4 thus accumulates la pile.- PhilodUphicaly suseosful altivators can see the glitter of gold ren in sne manure heap ; tney only alt a little longer than the minor for te pure gold to be washed out by the rowing prooese, instead of in' the ash pan. "A word to the wise is sufficient." The HIuntsvillo Independent of the Slth inst., epntame a detailed accon of e assassinatijon of a Major F. W. Rag. nd at Sum mervills, Ala.. on the night the 9th. While sitting In a .baek room~ rhis house in company witha his wife o was shot 'hropmgh the: window iby. mnre person outsm4e the house1 and. felt The seoretary of thme State of T101' a w'as born in Africa.