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Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, :Inquiry, Industry and Literaturel[em--3O erAnm nAvne VOL 11.] ____WINNSBORO, S. C., WE~DNISDAY MORNING,MRH3,16.[O3 1'HIE FAIRFIELD HERALD IS PUiiISIIM WEEKKLY BY LESPORTES. WILLIAMS & CO. Ternts.---Tur 1lenAr.n is pub)ished Week ly in the Town of Wiunshorj, at 83.09 in vatreably in advance. jai All transient advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. IN BL080M-TIME. It's 0 my heart, my heart I To be out in the tun and sing; To sing and shout in the fields a bout, In the balm and the blossoming. Sing loud, 0 bird in the tree I O bird, sing loud in the sky And honey-bees blaoken the clover.beds There are noie of you as glad as 1. The leaves laugh low in tie wind, Laugh low with the wind at play ; And the odorous call of the flowers all Entices nmy soul away. For 0 but the world is fair, is fair, And 0 but the world is sweet.I I will out in the gold of the blossoming mold And sit at the Master's feet. And the love my heart woull speak I will fold in the lilly's rim, That the lips of the blossom, more pure and mock, May offer it. up to Him. Then sing In the hedgerow green, 0 thrush, 0 skylark, sing in the blue ; Sing loud, sing clear, that, the King may hear, And my soul shall sing with you. [Fron the Charleston News.] American Help for the Cuban Revolution ists. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL IINNINGSEN'S COMMAN). published an acount of the arrival of Captain Bonneau, of this city, in Cuba, and stated that General Jor dan, of the Confederate army, had also landed on the island, the whole scheme being formed and carried out with the knowledge and tacit appro val of President Grant. We expect ed that in a short time there would be new developments, and we have received information which enables us to confirm all that we have already said as to the extent,of the American movement in aid of the Cuban revolu tionists, and the way in which the government is winking at the ship ment and departure of large bands of gallant men, whose aim is to help the Cubans to free themselves from the worn-out despotism which is now en deavoring to crush them back to obe. I 4 dience. But, to the point. A letter was received yesterday in this city from a point which shall be nameless in which it is stated that General lien- S ningsen, of Nicaragua fame, has a tually landed in Cuba with a force of eleven hundred men, all well provid ed with arms and munitions of war. The letter, omitting names, is as fol lows: "---, March 20, 1869. "Dear - : I received your let ter on Saturday, and the next morn ing went to see Henningsen to deliver your message. To my great surprise I found that he had gone out of town, and that his return was uncertain. Knowing how important it was that you should be able to comntmunieato *with him, I tried to asecrta'm what had become of him, but without effect, until this morning, when 1 met Mr. M-- , who told me the truth about it. Henningsen is now in Cubs, and f yo wan to eachhimby letter 8 yu us adrss o im creof -, Nasau,N. ., nd ourletters will be forwarded by the first opportunity. I oenfess that this news surprised and ehooked me, but ho is not tdone, and may, we hope, be so brilliantly suc. essful as to gild with fortune the days of his declining life. About cloven hundred men are in the party, all of them old soldiers and more than one hundred of them ax-officers in the Federal and Confederate armies. Among the Confederates are Major General R , who, as you know, was one of the colest tmnd bravest officers in the cavalry service; Briga *dier-General S-----, whose bril liant career you are familiar with, and1 Colonel J.---. and Colonel B--, woaewell known to you by reputa " tion. Thea'are several ox-Federal ~ofeers, and .the whole corps is under 3te command of Hlenniingsen himself. Hswife, I hear is anxious about him, but she has conafdence in his tried bravery and skill, and believes that he will come out all right. This is 4bout all I can gather. You had bet Jer write immedialy to the address I j Iave indicated above~ No:ttmo is to ,Je lost. -Yours faithfully, GeneralO0. l!. HTeiningsen, who is In command of this important expedi lion, and will doubtless attain high *ank in the Ouban4myi, was born of Swedish parentaro in Eglad In 1815. ~~n 1884 wh of:$ iIpeteen yea pf jge, ho jeinee th. Qrlist: ,army i ~kpain, and by his: headlong daring oo roge to the rank of~ lieutenant ~olonel. -When the peace ,:Weht d ~as concluded, he returd g'E '1and, but when the war again bro e' out in Spain he etnedn to that coun try, re-entered the revolutionary army, and received a comnmissiou ai colonel. Ile was taken prisoner by the Royalist troops, and after hi release held a high command in th< Russian army in Circassin. lie nexi joined with Kossuth in the IIungariat revolution, but his plan of campaign though adopted, was never carric out. When the inmurrcetion was a an end Colonel Iient,ingsen came t the United States, and afterward joined the Nicaragua expedition, it which ho held the rank of major-gene ral commanding, being the life an soul of the forces. At the beginning of the late war, ho entered the Con federate army, and is said to hav been the means of extticating Genera Lee from the toils of Rosecrans, it the mountains of Virginia. Bul Genneral Ilenningsen was no favorite with the Confederate government. [It advised that 600,000 rifles, 800,00( blankets, 400 pieces of field artillery and 5,000,000 rounds of small arra ammunition should be bought at- onc< and paid for by the hypothecation of cotton. These ide is were communi. eated to General 'Toonbs, and by him to 'resident Davis, who said thal Ilenningsen was a fool. When thi. tale was told to llenningsen, he retort ed that D.vis was an ass, which coming to the ears of the President cut off all hope of promotion, and ended his career in the Confedratt army. General Ilennigsen is a man o considerable literary ability and hait written several standard works or different subjects. Of him, General Joseph E. J ohnson said: "No man, whatever his profession, can talk witl Ilenningsen half an hour withoul learning something." The specialty of General Henningsen is artillery tactics, but lie is at home in every arm of the service, and in his element whenever there is a sword to be drawn, or.a people to be freed. Since the close the war, General Ienningsen has been intimate with General Grant and General Sherman, and hat it is said, been admitted to their full confidence. This accounts for the fact that tha veteran geieral is at the head of the expeditionary corps, and that it should have been organized, shipped and landed, without a hint t< the outside world. This tino Gene. ral Ilenningsen counts upon success as a means of cancelling his ancient grudge against Spain, resulting fron the Carlist war. General Ilenningsen married, we believe a daughter of the late Senato Berrien of Georgia. MIrs. Henning, sen is an acconplished lady, and mad< hosts of friends by her noble conduci during the war. It is very evident that these Cubat movements cannot much longer b< kept secret, and when all the truth if known, there will be an awful shakinf among the dry bones of the Spanisla dominion. PROSPECTs FOR SUGAR.-The Bator Rouge (La.) Advocate says : "Steady and quietly is the advance of small farmers into the cultivation of cane. In a few years the country between the Amite and Mississippi rivers will produce an aggregate of thousands of hogsheads, all the result os the enter priso and industry of the small farm era on small tracts of land. Scatter. ad around at intervals, at the presont time are places with twenty, thirt and fort.y acres 'of cane planted. These will yield an average of fron twenty to sixty hiogshoads of sugai next fall, and bring great profit to the cultivators. The true policy of every farmer, on the high lands or low lands is to "get in" some portion of hii land in sugar cane. If not grown tc be manufactured into sugar and mo. lasses, the product always bears higl prices, and the cane is fine food foi stookc. In another year there should not be one open cultivatable place in 1East Louisiana upon which a more or less quantity of cane is not grow ing." THE~ GrEnrAN ICr.E31ENT IN Till. UNITED STATEs.-~From a recet arti. ole in the New Yorkc era/d we learri that the entire German population ini this country, counting in those 0f German descent in the first generatiori and their offspring, still retaining the language and habits of their parents, is from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000, with a voting power of perhaps over.l,000, 000. T'here is Neow York city with more German inhiabitants than any cit.y in in Germany except -Vienna and Berlin. There are probably not four cities in the fatherland that have a larger (German population than Pbil adelphia, and we have more cities irn this-country containing ovet 80,00C German residents than perhaps the ihole North :German- Confederatiori excepting the old capitals and the oen tres of trans-oceanio commerge, Thort are about as many ptitical jen'rnabi peblished in the Geirnian language daily and weekl.a, in this tiountky'ss It all Germany, and twice as many o0 these papers here- have.. a. glrentatjip of 10,000' and over ,asjn(eo(cn We:heat of an Igidinjgsodoeton'.hl lIve4;elxty days withoutfood. Weil wager a two-cent nickel coin lie was once an editor. Palm Sunday and ioly Week, With to-day opens the Holy Week being the week preceding the festiva of Easter. It is solemnly cebrated epecially by the lioman Catholi, Church, and of the l'rotestants it ie only the lEpiscopalians who commemo rate with any specifio devotional ser vices the entrance of Christ into Joru salem, the sorrows and sufferings o the Saviour. Ilis judgement an' ciucifixion during the week befor h:aster Sunday, which day is, however by all Christian denominations conse crated to the memory of Christ's re surrrection. To-day, Palm Sunday, is rpeeiall, dedicated to the entrance of Christ into the capital city of Judea, ridinl upon an ass. "And a very great mul titude spread their garments in th< way, others cut down branches fron the trees and strewed them in th< way. And the multitude that weni before, and that followed, cried, say ing, Ilo.sanna to the Son of )avid Blessed is he that cometh in the way of the Lord ; hosanna in the highest. -St. Matthew, chapter xxi., verses F and 9. A:,d it is in comnemnoratior of this triumphant entry of the Savioui into the city of the temple, glorified by the people as "He that cometh in the name of the Lord," that ther will be- great. festive ceremonies it all the Catholie and Episcopaliar churches. Particularly in the formei the ceremony of distributing branchei of the palm or other tree has beer adhered to, and hence the name of the d ay. During week begining with the Thurs, day called in religious phraseolog3 "Maunday Thursday," from the Latir words of the coinmand,Mandatum eat the Tenebre will be performed, whet all the faithful are required to attend communion after having confessed their sins, done penance for their evil deeds, repented of them and received absolution. Friday is dedicated. tc the memory of the crucifixion of Christ and his burial. In most of the Catolic churches, formerly in all at least in Europe, a sepulchre was built in imitation of the one described by St. Mathew-"And when Josept had taken the body, he wrapped it it a clean linen cloth and laid it in hii own new tomb, which he had hewt out in the rock, and he rolled a grea stone to the door of the sepulchre ani departed." To this tomb or sepul chre the Catholics did go and witI prayer and in pious devation honored the anniversary of the crucifixion and death of Christ. This is the most solemn and mournful day in the ycai with the Catholic Chnrch, as no mast is read nor are,any bells rung. Thii ceretoony is followed by that in mem. ory of the resurrection, generally at tended by a festive procession around the church, at which the holy host is carried for the adoration of the faith, ful. In Europe, where in Catholic coun, tries heretofore Church and Stat< were intimately connected, Ii o 13 Week or Passion Week was celebrat ed with great pomp, even outside of the church. In many places hills of mountaiis- have been selected ani named Mount Cavalry, on which werc built chapels; the three, crosses whereon Christ and the two thievei on either side otf Him were crucified were erected, and the "twelve sta, tions," designating the twelve sorrowi of the Saviour before crucifixion his. -torically imitated. In Austria th< Emperor, and in Rome the Pope stil: preserve the ancient practice, or Maunday Thursday, of washing th< feet of twelve old men, in imitatior of Christ washing the feet of . .twelv< Apostles after the conclusioni of the H -oly Supper. In Protestant coun tries, and so also hero, these outwarc or public demonstrations have beet abandoned, and the ceremonials per. taining to Passion Week, commencin with to-day, are confiaed to the inte. rior of the churches.-New~ York Hecr ald. Ex-PREP"IDEN'r JOHIN5ON.-Oni Sa, turday ox-President Johnson arrived at Greenville, Tenn.,hmis old residence where a large number of citizens had assemIbledl to do honor to the ex-Qhiel IMagistrate. 'Tho reception address was delivered by Colonel Nelson. Mr. Johnson, in reply, said that "bli administration-had been tempestuoui because he had been battling for the Constitution ; but that he ws onlj bent, not broken, by the storm. Hei lhad luuid aside his offioial robe., and would remain a private citizen." Mr Johnson will visit'- Knoxville and Nashville lin a few days. HIohImIl.E P UN isiMENNT 6F Ai! DERER.- A ClinesBe laborer uidt lOne ago murdered a wh6le familhy.in Poe to ho judilil aauthdkIties he is~e oued fhom-hia on avA by the itt bil tanlt of tihd toin-of GiidAINp~ .''hgj took hiuhto the publiosagdar of-thbll M9n covered his body with keroseni No~,l adthe~ burned' ifr ally L 4 gland for a Maine luor law." .v I t no stronger than te liquor nov [From the I3altimoro Oazette1 Notoe rrom Washington. The fight waies w#rm, and the ques. Lion is. "Whose fault it is?" That it is to be "war to the liiilfe, aiid the knife to the hilt" is now iiniversally conceded but who is to blanitfor the family feud ? Many predicted just such a state of things, but no one stipposed the rupture would take place soon. It was argued that quiet would be tmaintained until the spoils of victory.had been parcelled out; for even the belligerent spirit of Radi calism is capable of nursing i's wrath and keeping it warm as long as there is a chance for spoils and phnder. But so full of spleen and hiite are some of the Radical leaders that they have pro. cipitated the contest of factions, and we are already in the midst of war. The Civil-office-tenuro bill is made the pretext for strife atiohg professing friends, and the resolitioi reported by Senator Triumbull, provjding for a sits penaion of the act until the meeting of the next Congress, led to a most signifli cant debate in the Senate to day, in which Mr. Morton declared that the proposition meant distrust, and the pur pose was to put President Grant on pro. hntion or on triil, and so declare t. the country. Senator Morton" preferred that the law should stand as it was than to have passed a resolution reflecting so offensively upon the Chief Magistrate of the nation. The treaty of peace concluded on the 10th instant between Cotgress and the President. seems to'hlive been a double cheat. Evidently the'liigh contracting parties in both cases signed the articles with mental reservations, The under standing of the President was that the iron-clad tenure act sbould be repealed in toto, or at least its opeiition suspend. ed for and during the entire period of his occupancy of the Presidential chair, The mngnates of the Senate (at least a majority of the Judiciary Committee,) aftar the fraudulent .apppiitment of of Bout.weli was consummated, chose to construe the agreement. on. their part as fully complied with, by. a "suspen sion" of the obnoxious, act for and dur. ing the good bt.htvior.of his Excellency. Each party now boldly .aid loudly ac cises the other of duplicity and want of confidence, and divers' other unmention able bad qualities. Senators do not scruple to charge the President especial. ly with trickery (I have heard used the the word "treachery") in declining, subsequently to the ratification of the "understanding," to listen to their do mands for removal of Federal office holders in their respective States and in the successors to whom they feel also a personal inteiest. In order to force in unconditional surrender of the whole power of removals and appointments into his individual hands, Presiden' Grant is.now said to have very recently declared his purpose to. be, just so long as ho is in the leabt, shackled present or prospectively with the abominable stat ute, to refuse to remove a single incu-n bent of office except in special cases where the desire of appointment of a special friend. The upshot of the .present offce-mak ing imbroglio may be summed tip in a I word : By the "suspension" of the Tenure-of-ofgce act only "until the next meeting of Congress" the President will have the power, in the intermediate time, of removing officials ad libitum, and without cause. He will be also divested of all excuses for reftusing to do so at the bidding of interested members of Congress. On the other hand, the Senate will not, only have the power of rejecting one or all of his nominees if they should not prove "loil"enough, but will hold the rod of the obnoxious law ,over his head, 'without regard to race or color,'.' andl, more important -still, without regard to the President's veto power. Who blames them,? What, have the Democrats a'id Ootnse-vatives to do with tho transparent trickery of either of these high powers of this great country ? It is now the settled conviction of all parties hero that the new aidministration will be t,he most proscriptive,ever known and that not, an oppointee of' the late President, will be :left in .'ffle. Post-. ;narster-General Oreawell boasts that the onl,y deputy hewill spare-will be "Nas ~by 'at the X Roads. It is understood the ariministration has determined .to surrender the war rants of pardort Issued b' Mfr. Johnson, and recalled by President' Grant, only ins case where the pardon is tipcondition, al. Tn cases where t!te pardoni was granted upon .performance of, certain stipulatioes.or cougditionis the, rEoalled pardons aire toibe retained, n'ud.tbe pris oners for whom they were.ijetued are 'to be held iipeustody Iathiongti ino rp?rddnt had beeg~ .i.sur4 rpn PlesmiIed, Johbb son. .,The thgory is that., w.htgeMh irdon]s -pnocditional it it,,byovd thte cat 9Ah.byotie alter sit has passe from hishpde in Aswih cease, tho Smere petition of thne party .seeking Ez :echttive:clerhenap~ being. qontjuodai *6 * acceptande 'of,thd aterms of thdea'oondir' Stionambal Abe. parbt of the.-priedhor," demed,neceasurtorgive' I'o tt the *' Qaw. EARLY.--This o yet. tmdatj4a e#(. rcome front all who valse tru4.manhood. [Lnchburg Noes, 201h. Itooonstruotion. In the House of Representatives on Monday, Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, a Rd of ical ,Inenber of the Recon. truct ion pl Committee, said that the reconstruction of of Mississippi, Texas and Virginia, and Is some legislation for Georgia, wero un cc doubtedly necessary and it would he u1 impossible to perfect that legislation if f( Congress were to adjourn next Fri. fu day. Beast Butler also argued against ad- tLi journing on Friday. He said : p1 Things had happened whie!h parhapt at might have led him to think IL.-werre at better if Congress were not here at all ; c but he did not know that uny thing had at happened which should lead his cel- oc league to think so. Being here, how. si ever, lie mutt insist that Congress re. at main in session. There were thr..o ev States in an unreconstructed condi. C tion. in Mr. Lawrence : Four. fo Mr. Butler: Four; and all of them of Stutes where a mau's life is not safe ; W where the clergyman is shot down as he ta performs the marriage sacrament, and th where men are taken out of j:al and ve hanged and shot. cc Mr. Dawes inquired whether the tp offices in the unreconstructed States ti were no. to be filled by the commanding th Generals, and whether it was not juit ."; as well to hold those States under mili- w; tary rule as to bring them into represen- im tation in the manner and under the d& unfortunate circunstancLs that Georgia we had been brought in. I-ad not his col. th league learned that the mistake then vi was in making too much haste? And dc did his coll.engm feel that the country ea could not exist unless Congress continu- ut ed in perpetual session ? or Mr. Butler agreed with l.ts colleague wi that in the matter of Georgia Cougress sa should make haste slowly. But the ht difficulty was that Georgia was now in, and was no longer under military rule, ho except measurably. It was not the on question of oflice. It was the question pr of life and death to the Rept.blicans, qt to tha Union men of the South. There do was not a Union man in the South who as would not say that the ndjournment of al Congress now. would be a desertion of or them, and a turning of them over to al their enemies. Besidep, if Congress dc were to adjourn i now, the Senato of would remain in session, as it did last n spring; and the effect was that no soon. be or had the House turned its back than la Alaska was thrust upon the country.-- br le thought, therefore, that under the n circumstances it was the duty of the gi House to remain in session - br Mr. Dawes: And take care of the bc Senate ? hi Mr. Butler: Take care of everybody to that the peoples interests require to be th taken care of. No man frightens by m saying "Take care of the Senate." I to desire to keep within parliamentary lain- A guage, and therefore I say we should bl take care of everybody that wants talk. oc ing care of. [Laughter.] th TrF Ancit AolTAToR:--Among tho or many who went out of office with An.- at drew Johnson, and retired to private life, there is one whose disappearance eil from the public stage' will not excite a ia regret in the breast of any human being di but himself. He has reigned long and a , wickedly from the beginning to thie th gloso. He shone like Lucifer through. y out bi. career enidowed with the amn til grea t genius for mischief; wit h arch-- ' di subtloty, and mind without a soul, liko- at Liucifer, lie has fallen never to rise ngain. th Far back in the past we find him stirr- at ing shrewvdly the embers o' rectio'ial at strife. 'Twas his to invent the 'diabol-- m icial doctrine of the irrepressihle conflict," A and,his was the master hand thaut gid- es ed in all its stagoR, and downt through gc a sea of blood to its fin-il anid fixed in- ' be auguration as a principle of the Govern. w) ment. He gloated over the dreadful ai strifo with soulless satisfaction, and atg no period of the carnage among his fu countrymen did he discover the first ol evidence of feeling or regret. .1fo Pile up the dead in betacombs to the'I m skiee~ lwas.his ever r.edy ans wer to 1 l appeals for peace. Down with the at, Constitution,. and open be the prisoni pr doors to all who refuse to worship at the in name bloody shrine, to Such, in brief, is Williami H. Seward, thl the craftiest, meanest, most soulless and *fas treacherous of his race, Hie lias cirsedI his country through a whole generation ; and it will curse and execrma te him till ' s "the last syllable of recorded time." de lnog~ Mrroo--DsURunnANOJJ ATr. GANNArAJARtA --Iate intelligence from Mexido lhas been recei'nd. Laosadla re- in higned his comnmand and apponted D)o- I minga Hera him succesor-slating, inib his manife4to, that powerful reasons Ii) qbhiged him to taire this step. The garn- w risen ht'Onaddajara martifest an insub- gh ordinate spirit. L A The ijjil authoritfes attemDted to ar- i J?ost hbI e'd 'unken ofiledr's who were be. haifr diVrderly, 'ehin thelIMtet drew aJ 'oni tB4lettientart of the Hbic' Anld. o 4teliga tidit *tidt 'sdi a:fflefutndaion tv~o aid we th The Indians are comniitting ontrages on le the frontier of 3anoan. A Cargo of Chinese Women. The telegraph briefly imformed us the disturbance that lately tool ace in San Francisco on the arrival a steamer from China bearing i rge consignment of Chinese women, rrespondent of the New York '/imes, der date of February 23, gives the !lowing amusing details of the af ir : It has been well understood, among e Chinese ircoles, for a week or two ist, that the China steamer whiol rived yesterday would bring . large ipment of Chinese women, and ir neequenoo groat excitement existed nong th4t interesting portion of out tumunity. Every Chinaman con. lured himself entitled to a wife, d determined to obtain her at what. or oost. Word was brought to 'ief Crowley that parties wore arm g themselves and threatening to en roe their rights by the arbitramont oleavers, iron bars and revolvers. ith his usual energy he at once do iled a large foree, and sent them to e dock of the Mail Company to pro. it a riot. When the steamer was wing up to the harbor the news road like wildfire through the Chi. so quarter, and at once crowds of cir people started for the landing, very possible means of conveyanoe s in demand. 'The high-toned cruhants and head men, who were termined to prevent their country. >nou from falling into the hands of eir 'brethren of a 'ower casto, pro led themselves with passes to the uk, and went in hacks and on street ra; while hundreds of Wonion, with ubrellas spread over their heads, owded into express and baggage igons, and the regulat "pirates," or uspans, as they are called in ehina, irried to the ptaco on foot. At least iitoeu hundred Chinamen d assembled before the steamer me in bight. Beyond their infernal omiscuous jabber the crowd were iot, until the steamer came to her ok. As none but the merchants d head men who had passes were owed inside the gates, the rest owded up to the gates or dispersed ong the wharves, lining thom away wa to Main-street. As soon as the sors commenoed landing the wo. en from the steerage the excitomont came intense, and it required a rgo force to prevent them from oaking down the gates. One Chi man made an assault up on an officer, ving him a blow in the face that ought him to the ground. All the ats in the vicinity wore engaged at gh prices by the parties to be rowed the side of the -steamer, hoping by at means to get access to the wo en, and it required strong measures prevent their boarding the vessel, fter the boats were engaged, a terri e fight commenced as to who should cupy them, and many who had paid cir passage were thurat back into e crowd, and their place taken by e who did not scruple to take a sail another's expense. While this confusion on the out lo was going on, the women were nded, to the number of three bun 'ed and ninety, and placed in half losen rows. The examination by e customhouse officers (most of them ung men) was exceedingly interest. 'ig. Large quantities of opium were soored on their p e r a o n a, a wed away in different plaes. When e search was completed, they were awed away in large expresj wagons, d conveyed to such places as the ercbants and head men directed. n officer was placed in front, two on eh side and one behind of oech wa-* n, each armed with e heavy club, to at. off any love-smitten Oriental to might 'ry to board it. It was an using sight to see these .wsgons ing up the hill from the dock at 11 speed, the officers swinging their abs at the hund reds of men who llowed, jabbering their disappoint. ant at the top of their lungs. By 'e o'clock, the women~ were safoly awed away, and under the strong otection of the merolhanfi and head en, who will probably reship thom China by the next steamer, or send com over as servants in American milies. WrwrT SORT OF A-REvoj.UroN 'rHA' CusA zs.-Our Havana correspon nt speaks in the most contemptuous ly of the "battles'' that have been ught in Cuba, and of the herole cdii that are bombastically described the Spanish journals of Havana, s says that actually not a single ttle has been fought~ in Cuba, or Is cely to be fought; that the battles hoar of are at most skirmishes; and at any nilitary - man would classify em as reonnoissanees, and some ne's as salutes exohanged~ between cotsu !Ihe tru.t,h Is that this: has I along .been quit.o pMan to. those reful readers of the daily news .wbo ~vo.hadga 8iYAStelligentadrand.i g of the rsal state of sffairm6., There ,au ptesive rising- in ;9ba, .an salitory. 1glhIg, but1 tbis ile. the lioli e g atq o g, in order to prevent her inarrying mitrary to his wfshes. [San Franelsoo Cor. Chtago Trlbune.1 Romantio lisatory of one of Tom Benton't Daughters. Let ne tell you something nboit one of the achool teachers of San Francisco, by way of illustrating the manner in which fortune frolics with human nature and makes 8hnttl':coeks of poor humani. .y. Among the teachers is an elderly lady-the mother of five interesting children. She was born in one of the Western States, and was the first born of otze of the most distinguisheu Sena tors who ever sat in the legislative halis of the United States. In her young days she was the belle of Vashington City, carrying awat the palm from the da!:keyed daughters of the South and the rosy-checked damsels of the North. She gave her love to a young gentleman -then ia clerk in one of the offlees in Washington. i1er father knew the youth and recognired his great abilities. and when ho solicited the dughter's iand it was cheerfully given. The wedding was a brilliant one, many of the great mon of tie country being present to wish them joy and cheer them at the commencement of their domestic voy. age. The youig husband was shortly afterward admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court, and was soon recognized as one of the most promising members. PFor many years lie practiend his profession with great success, and was on the high road to fame and wealth. Then Came the dis. covery of gold in Onlifornii, and the conseyier:t rush of emigrants to the new El Dorado. Among tho:e who determined upon going to California was the husband. Ito consulted with his wife, and she, like a true woman, de clared her intention of accompanying himn. Together they came to California, where tlo husband soon took a leading position at the bar, and amassed a for tune. The people he associated with were from the South, and like many others ho began to drink to excess. V hen the rebellion broke out he ca it his sympathies with the South. His brother-in-law went with the North, and became a Major-General. lie had' to givo up the practres of his profession because lie 'could not take the oath ra. quired by our Legislature. Out of bi. siiess, lie drank heavily, and soon be gan to mortgago lis propertv. Six years passed.away, and he died, leaving his wi,dow with one child without a dol. lar. The noble woman imuediately took in sewing to eain her living, but found Pho could hardlv keep soul and body together by that means. Some friends of her father and husband offer oil to aid and assist her, but she would receive nothmig so long as she could help herself. She, however, would be thankful for assistance in procuring her a position as teacher in one of the pub lie schools Application was made, and some of the school directors opposed her appointnont because her dead hn hand was a sccessionist. They knd her husband in his lfetiine, and had felt the lash of his bitter tongne, and there fore desired to harm h:s' widow. Their efforts, however, were unavailing. She was p.omnted, and is now engaged in the public school department of this city, teaching a primary class. A sad change in the fortuinea of one who atart ed in life with such brilliant pros pects. G amtr,r Loi.os'rnitirS.-D)on Pi'at, writes to the Cinicinnati C'ommercal, a Randicial paper, as fellows: Hris memories of tire late war are exceed ingly initerestinug. Ho possessed more brain thran any General on the Confederate side, and it was, with all its cult ivationt, a nilitrary .brain. I be. hlieo that hind ihe. been made commander. in-chrief' of tIhe Confederate forces in. stead of that dunll respectability General Lee ho would nowv be dealing out omfila p troniaga instead of being~ its recipient. I urged him to gt uip a book on thre war, anid lie hanlf promised to do so, say imng, at tire samor time, that Gen. Lee was at work, atnd had been at work ogi one since the eurreader. I gather from what I know, and from what Genoral LJongstree't satid, the twvo books will very materially differ, not so much as to facts as opiniorns. Oxoaor A An ICAD ow Ncw ENKGJ,AND. Said Mr. Spragne the othier day In a speech t.1 tire Serrate: A fewv weeks sime9, in order to imder. stand something of the condition of the Sonth I visited- Georgia. and naturally was invited to inspect a cotton mill. In tire city of Atngutstau, Ga., is a cotton mill thai to day will suirpass, and doe. stir pass, in tire snecess of its openrations the best one rn New EOngland, atnd the so cret of that sisccess lies in the turn of one roll wIhere the cotton is 'delivered on the apinidle, if, turnring at tone hundred avid fifteen t,rins to th~'i,rute, whoe othierd in. New Eniglanud aid even by the side of it, turn ninety or on, hen O#$b 83'me i4T he Nad 45'. te!!pre y 9 Gen~etel1 Gits npw I islg vety:ysl to egefr# ofo and tat be is de.rm1i~ on o ti lne