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Desportes, Williams & Co., Proprietors.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---43.00 per Annum, In Advance. VOL.11.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MOR~NING, APRIL 21,1869. [NO. 42 TIE FAIRFIELD HERALD 18 1'UI.ISil':D w\ICKl.Y 1Y 1)ESPOITES. WILLIAMS & UO. '/'-'r11t--Tnt: 1IF:!niD is pub)iibert Week ly in the Town of Winnsboro, at. 63.00 mn vareah>y in advance. Aj- All transient advertisements to be paid in advance. Obituary Notices and Tributes $1.00 per square. ANNIE'S VIOLETS. I walked to.day, in the ancient wood That the brook meanders through, And I thought that again sweet, Annie stood On the bank where the violets grew. That ngain I gazed ini her clear blite eye, And helid her hnnl in mine; While the little streamlet, murmuring by, Made melody divine. I thought that, she culled from the bank at her feet, A bunch of the fairest. there And once she kissed the violets sweet, As she bound them with her hair. But alas ! I dream ; (lie olid oaks sigh O'er the violets fresh and fair ; And the streanlet sings as it passes by, But A unie is not (lucre, And lie only thing that remains, to tell That my dreamings once were truth, That once we stood in the leafy dell, In the golden Sring of youth. Is a bunch of dry and withered flowers, And a look of sunny hair; But thcse sing to nme of happy hours, Like voices on the air. And forevet that spot in the ancient wood A sacred place shall be : llecause 't was there sweet A nnie stood, And plucked the flowers for ine. A Ni4it in the Life of a 1achelor The eveiitn al...h I am about to record, occurred in the year 1855 at my farm house, y-olopt ischelor's Don, situated in vicinity of the city of --. I will premise here, that at the period above indicated, I was a lawyer of the highest respectability in * the aforesaid city of , and paidou ue, if I avail myself of this opportu nity to add, for the benefit of those who desire to give me their future patronage, that I continue at the old stand, No. 44, where I can be consult ed. daily from ten..o'olook, A. i1.,. to three 'P. M. To pioceed-I had been at the Don about a fortnight straight ening my affairs there, which were all at sixes and sevens, when I received an invitation to a party at a friend's house in the city. Accordingly one bright moonlight, but cold .ight in 1).3member, I afmttw4 nyself in my Cah, and set off with the intention of mak @ ing one of the party. It was not my intention, however, to proceed direct ly thitherward, for, by a previous arrangement I was to deviate from the direct course a little way, for the pur pose of conducting my Cousin Fanny (who writes her name Fannie) to the aforesaid party. .I said it was a cold night, I should have said rather,'that it was a very cold night, for I rem ber now, that Tom, the coachman, was at considorable pains to envelop him self in his great coat, and I also re collect, that I heard frecquently en route, a noise.liko that of cracking ice in the ruts-otherwise, with my pulse up to a hundred, I would have been perfectly unconscious of temperature ofthe weather ; nay-as I reclined upnmy seat, and gazed out upon testarry firmament, I thought the ai,as it fanned my hot cheeks, as of,and balmy, as the south breeze ofaJuly evening. The truth is-I wsin love. Nov I would not have yuto suppose for a moment, that it. wsonly some light, ephemeral ifancy, auhas' a man inight eeneeive a dozen times a year, for as many women, * this had thus sot me all aglow upon. thsDecember night. yA pollo-no I This love of mine hand germinated in my. heart before I was out of mny round jacket, since when,'iL had grown with my growth, and strengthened.with my. strength, until-wel4 it. had' out grown me, and now held m'e in comnplete subjection, soul and body. Had you knowni, ol-, so much as ever beheld eousin Fanny (there now the aecret is;out) not a word more on.this point.need, be said -tbe ease woul(d be fully' made out;1 )as it is, I otuiyrgtet tlVat I have knot the pen of a Byron, or the genoil of a ~ taphaeli to enable me to presenb you with at least, an outlige of her por trait ; -on second tibughtL-I would not do so if Itcould, fqr feai' my ile readers, hWi~nk been "treated to e vie# of 1?antifs charms, wou1ds be, forever dissatidlied - with - those of heir,.own; milstrgsqos awhilq my female, raes snight-butno-thef would, feel' nd enivybdo rrseethedjuoeser do, 'M4r barn aMiNIbelieve'ther i a'tide iti' the affairs of alN' lovpfag that;leadd o1k e to confessiotig I least, thtga it was gitlh myself, pud 4otild 'ioui beiieM ft I I' was aeojbted. rTh6ttIh# tI l wky't appear enigmyatical to me.-.. facti I~ was s' W6th l~eIy <betylldekod 't tha time, thzt a(er pasitug thb Aleepl1ess -nihf 'I tsdiidto go bek fa Fanny, to6ndhiee tnyself thai I. web' not la'bot'ist Uhderw a luOinatiith It''AW all odr6'd4 'h"ldtrisiied you can, but no-;-s would not.b'po uldb'le T6itlrh braka-of-:' merA iA to obmfeh.aNhe raptiouoooolm feelings, for the Space. 01 iwezy j .Alas!i why d1iz1 S hn1aspeare ever a..' sent that "The course of true love ne'er runs smooth I" It is my belief that Fate has construed his words into; a prophecy, and cruelly delights in fulfilling them. Be this as it may, a tremendous braker appeared upon the current of my love, in the shape of a handsome young follow, by namo Augustus Beauclerk. A disgusting, conceited popinj"y, whom I hated from the very first moment I behold I him in compauy with FaJ.nny. Now, I am not ungenerous by na ture, and I really believe that I could have forgiven the fellow if he had only loved her-and indeed, what was more natural than that he should, as well as the whole male population of I the country and city, to boot ? But; that he should have preiumed to rival me in Fanny's affections-I who had loved her before she was out of her long clothes. Zounds I It was more than human nature could brook, in fact, when, as was frequently the case, he would thrust himself between us, and with his molo-dramatic airs, his ringlets, his band-boxy clothes and perfumery, he would contrive to lay me completely in the shade. It re quired the greatest amount of self control to keep my fingers off his throat. What made the matter worse still, Fanny herself, instead of sharing my sentiments with regard to the cox comb, would pronounce him a "love of a creature-a perfect Apollo Bel videre," &c. I sometimes ventured to remonstrate with her on the impro priety of receiving the attentions of one man, while engaged to become the wife of another, whereupon the pro voking little witch would stop me, either by thrusting a sugar-plum into my mouth, or by laughing at me for being envious of the superiority of my rival. There had not, as yet, been any time specified for the consummation of our marriage. Indeed, whenever I was so fortunate as to find Fanny without guests, or otherwise engaged, uncle John was sure to want a partner at ehess, or else got up an interminable discussion on politics, besides which, it was the especial delight of two juvenile imps in the family (confound, the,,,) to prevent, by all possible 4e= vioes, anything like a tete a'tete be tween their sister and myself. Thus matters continued.up to the late at which my story opens, wherein I [ described my setting forth to escort my cousin Fanny to the ball. I be lieved I demonstrated that m y bloo d was at fever heat-any wonder if it were true ? Was I not the accepted wnmitor of darling cousin Fanny ? Was I not about to have her society all alone to mayself-no rivals to par take of my happiness-not hated Beauclerk to rob me of her smiles'; and more, was I not about to learn from Fanny's own lips, the day-the supreme day-that was to crown me the happlest among mortals. My horses, as if they shared my impatience, flew like the wind over the road, and soon the gleaming lights from Uncle John's windows were visi ble; a moinent more,and 1 had bound ed to the floor of the portico. Uncle John spectacles on his nose,. and open newspaper in hand, pre sented himself in the doorway. "Come in George," lhe said, giving. me a hearty squeeze of the hand, "I want to read you whfat those audacious scoundrels have been doing in (Ion gross.' "I beg you will excuse me to night," responded I, following him to the .parlor, "I have oome "to carry cousin Fanny to the ball," and I glanced around the room at the fore. mentioned youngsters,. -whose faces wore now distorted by a diabolical grin. "What I' cried undol John, with an air of astonishment, y'the devil take me but you are too late, thon." "Too late ! You d on't mean td say that Faniny has gone 1" I gasped out, almost choking with apprehensione. "Yes, she 1ef about ten minutes ago with Augustus Beaucler%.". Great Jehovah ! 'But I must leave y~ou to lmamging my sensationsat this intelligence, as it would be impossible fot'mo to describe them.i With 4 eysa4oooe.it ,J uhed fron3 heh us,ad throwing myself into the cWtliage, elamined the do6r *ftee me with such violenesthat the iorues took fright 'at the noise, and Aartig forward before old Tom could tighten the reins, ran against the gate, shiver.. mng It to pieces'audiwell igly ovettrn ing the carriage. Then, amidst the ye elferations of the assembled houeelkld, the barking of curs, .and the. .cacdling WOk,uty weonQO. - ,or took tho, toadI.to the elt . In thirt -eh minntes an fiff on fexo6d7i oxl i !laded 'at Ue'ddo ablaze with.> gablgk4 : and resonan6 with the muio of a $e bygdt y enter. Iddeed, I am somewha6! at.a loss-to'know wha6 dook 'nther'e . M"Toduwh 6f afy id43frd&~ ugd disposed to turn up thefrnosestbel svidenoe of my weakness, I will aan repeat that mine was an exceptional oase, and therefore beyond the pale of their judgment-the magnitude of my love over that of other men being in exact ratio to Fanny's superiority over the rest of her sex-present oonpany, of course excepted, madam. Assuming as bland an expression as possible, I advanced to the door of the saloon, near which stood the hos pitable host antl hoster-s, and after ex. ahanging the usual courtesie.. prssed on, and joined a group of gentlemen who were alternately regarding and criticising the dancers, comprising about thirty couples who were danc ing the muzourka. Whilst returning the greetings of a brother chip, I heard some one near me exclaim : "By heavens! what an angel of grace and beauty 1" "To which particular celestial do you allude, in this galaxy of heavenly bodies ?" responded another. "To the one in rose-colored silk and lilac trimming, and who moves like a syIph," said the first voice. "Oh ! that is Miss Fanny I):, one of our rural divinities, but I must warn you not to fall in love with her, for as you are a stranger, you may be igno rant of the fact that she Is already on gaged." "Thank you I I shall restrain my admiration within proper limits, tak ing no further interest in her, than hope that the fortunate individual, whoever he be, deserves to wear so bright a jewel," replied the first speak. ar. "I am sorry to have you disappoint them," replied the other, "for I am informed that her intended is some stupid cousin, as ugly as Lucifer, and with barely wit enough to conduct a umn pro. Swallowing the above compliment as well as I could, I then gave all my attention to the whirling figures, in the hope of catching a glimp:se of my cousin. I am extremely near sighted, besides wLich, owing to some idiosyncracy, I never could for my Life distinguish one color from ano her, so that it was in vain I sought for the rose colored silk among the var ious shades of pink, magenta, cher ry, &e. .At length, however..I heard a laugh near me-a laugh which thrilled me is no music ever did-and there, sure .nough, was Fanny, reclining in the rmns of Augustus Beauclerk, whirl ug round and round, her blonde curls lashed right across his mouth, ming ing with his cursed moustache. Well I [ was fransied at the spectacle, and I annot tell you what ensued for the ,pace of several minutes, for I was oupletely oblivious of everything. When I returned to consciousness igain, a friend was holding me by the irn, and pacing me up and down the baloony, the while expostulating gainst the impropriety of getting up oenes, and of making a public de rnonstration of one's private misfor unes, the conclusion of which edify. ing discourse I did not stay to hear. Rushing off in search of Tom, ordered ltim, to his great discomfiture (ho was in the act of receiving a glass with muspicious looking contents, from the aands of a pretty servant girl) to har ness the horses quickly to- the cab, md bring it to the door, as I intend ad to, retmurn immediately to the Den. On reaching there I was met in the loor by my old housekeeper, who with me hand, held a candle high above oer head, while with the.other she rhaded her eyes, whicho seemed -to squint at me curiously. "Lank, now whlat.on earth could [ave happened, to make master George eave -the, ball so- soon 2" "Stand oside, thou ugly specimen of a treach 3rous sex," I said, with a savage ~rowl, whereupon the old woman nutterin g indignantly, retreated has, ~ily, treading as she did so, upon the ~ail of poor Ponta, who thereupon set :a lamentable howl, in the midst of which 'I retreated' to my: chamber, where I began paeing the .floor with rapid strides, a prey to the torment ing demons of jealousy atod rage. IEre long, old Tom having disposed si the horaos, thrust his head in at my leer, and wanted to know "if mass 1or6e wanted- anything."~ 'Yes," srled I, uaning .and glating at him. Vengeance I want, and vabgeance i: Will have." "Tom eydd me 'for a' moment, r >pen-mouthed amar.ement, whenbhis reattes relaxed thto a Inowing gring and ho stzgested) that a.str6pgcog o soff'ee womWd be b,etter," I snatohed gpj bd6t'jo6k, atid Toin NanIsbe4. 'At' length, exhausted .and in'4:'pro' !use perspiration, for I had walked fully five iiles,Tl ani'eertain, I p ye par'ed'1bl, 1bedd'M* The old tIMe-piece shat stood Irr the' balli ifad: Jut't,41$ ahe 'hdir of two. Softly I 6.iose 'from af bed and p*obed( dgi~I elf thIslghof the AlIeodn u, that streamed through the' ok #ti wd thpn'ca6t d ~ h 4 rayer rbseiot ' d''ti Pit' *s6 ,ltide theilhionid PostbAro, to uncle John a dwelll dlbesike oak, which had been uprooted by some whirl-wind, I took my position, with the murderous weapon upon my be som, to await the approach of my ri val. I consult( my watch ; it want ed a few minutes of three ; and now the sound of human .Voices comes to my ears on the breese; now the rum bling noise of wheels 1. audible; then a dark object appears against the sky at the top of the bill; on. It comesa was it the carriage contaiLing them I Y os, I hoar them ; ? recognise his tones. They were prdly, gposite, before I sprang out of .the tood'he fore the head of the hoWies,and pointing my pistol at the drive'ordered him to stop. I heard Fabny scream, and saw his head thrown.through the win. dow. Sp ri ging upon the wheel, I grasped him by the collar, and drag. god him from the coach. "Drive on !" I shouted to $ie oo;ohman, and he obeyed me, leaving.me alone with my struggling viotim, I gathered him up in my arms as if he had been a child, and bore him into the woods, still keeping a tight grasp upon him, I stood him upon his feet and confront. ed him. '-Do you recognize me 2" I asked sternly. "No," he replied, "I have no ac quaintance among thbives and assas sins, who c.rylay unarmed people upon the roadside." He affected a bravo tone, but I felt him trembling bonea<th my grasp. "Well spoken Augastus 33eauolerk; most praiseworthy sentiments; did not your actions belie them 1" He commenced an angry ,rejoinder, thou hesitated, and with forced dignity said, "If.is this intended for some prac tical joke, Mr. Danners, I think it has proceeded far enough ; release me sir." "A joke I ho i ho ! D,) you call this a joke ?" and I showed him the revolver; upon which he blanched whiter than the linen on his bosom. "Now mark ne, Beauolerk, when I said just now that your actions gave the lie to the fine sentiments you ut tered, it was no idle jebt. I call hea ven to witness, that you, yourself, are a robber and an assassin." "Liar I" almost screamed Augustus Beauolerk, at the same time. reeowing his strug gles to.disengage. biris if from my olatoh but the 606eiha te oroature's strength was no match for mine. [To be coitinned.] THE LATE' STORM IN ENGLAND Loss of ' .-The English north country papers of the 29th and 30th ults., are filled with annonnte of the extraordinary weather which has pre vailed during the last few days. The greatest depth of snow appears to have fallen in the midland counties. In the north there has been a great deal of thunder and lightning. On the Newton Moors a shed was fired by lightning and some sheep wore burn ed. For some hours the lightning continued, lighting up the snow-clad landscape in a dazzling mnbner. On the Northumberland coast the light ning flashes are said to have been "awfully grand." At a place called Shawend, near Lealbom Bridge, on the North Yorkshire line of .railway, a cottage was struck by lightning and completely demolished, the frag, ments strewed in all directions. The occupauts of the cottage--a'man. nam. ed Watson, his wife and a child seven years of age--were in bed it the time. The house is somnewhat iholated, and nothing was known of the terrible event-until next morDing, when the person living in the nearest dwelling made the -d isoovery. eThe Watsons, husband and wife,- were found quite dead, locked In each others arms, the bedding burnt to ashes and their bo dies mnuch blackneed; the child, who d'as in the same bed with his parents, had managed to escape, and was dis covered almost dead with cold In an outbuilding. . TUN!NELLINo UNotai-rTa S.a.-A scbeme has been proposede for unitiug Irelan(land -Scotland, so- as to do away with the! necessity of ulaking!a sea passage altogetherc The ! entrance to the railway tunnel,,by which-it is to be accdmphishod, on the Irjsh side ,is to- be frodi a poiht about-(midway be tweei'Odshenden and Cushe4haIpon the coast of Antram,,and on the Bcotch aide.a6 . Genstr90e, from/sAo09qe it1 would run throug|h .the ,heml.,f,the hull of,0Oantyre. .T be -4taMepgt. of the tunnel under wa rowpuld ik thir. teen 'iuiles three 4i. ogye, Rpd- itug naid.that the group .rtg ,wldeh I would htave to bs p aeget suited fp,r Anes)ljg, qerstangan the safsistoop ferM4i ha. In aiiy quantity on the ,J.i Is proposed to qonjttgot ~Otunnet #for show. -Tbse.A& hot one' person e.4~1el fi fetpowr4 ecing, false and. anner*oIal ai rs South Osrolina, LETTER FROM tzNATQ , ROB*iT50N. The following letter was recently torwarded by Senator Robartson, of South Carolina, to a lady residing in Whiteside county, Illinois, who address, ed him, asking his advice in regard to the desirability of emigrating hitber. The reply of the Senator appended will be found full of interesting facts relative to the soil, climate and natcral produc tions ef.South Carolina: U. S. SENATE CHAMBRR, ." WASUINGTON, March 20, 1869. MADAM : In reply to your letter, in. quiriig as to the indtcements to emigra. tion to South Carolina, I beg leave to eav : 'As to geographical division, the State may be considered in a thee fold as. peet 1st. The mountain or Piedmont re gion, embracing the counties of Ander son, Oconee. Greenvillo, Spartanburg, and Pickens. Tl:i pirt of the State, being in altitude a thio'sand feet and up. ward above the sea, is more northern than soiuthern in its climate and produc tions. It has a fine bracing climate without the long winters and deep snows of the Northern States. This region is adapted to the grapes, grains, corn, &c., but is not so favorablo fur cotton as other portions of the State. The lands are cheap in this section. The water power is very great. 2d. The middle country, being the region lying'between the low flat land of the sea coast and thu above described counties bordering on the mountains,. embracing, among others, the counties of Fairfield, Kershaw, Sumter, Darling ton, Orangeburg elgefield, A bbevil.e, I Newberry, a d portions of adjoining counties. This is the part of the State with which I am best acquainted, and therefure of which I will principally speak. 3d. The seacoast and. low country. The choicest part of the sea coast con sists of the islands that produce the 8ea Island cotton. This beautiful produc. tion of fine grade now commands one dallar and fifty cents a pound. The cli mate on these islands is made delightful and healthful by the sea breezes, no that in summer residences near the beach are perfectly salabrious. The land here'are fne and caad of eon. stant improvement from the quantity of marsh mud lying within convenient reach of the farmers. The roads are excellent. Every luxury of the land and the sea is to be fonnd there-the choicest wild ducks, quantities of the fineit game, birds and deer, with an endless supply of fish, crabs and oye tere. These islands are the garden spots of the United States, and physical exist. once is absolutely delightful there. They c realize in perfection the ideas of .li mate we have of Tahiti and other islands of the Sandwich group in the Pacific. These+islands in time : will become what the ialands along the Mediteranean coast, were to the ltxurious Ror.ans. Lands with -ine old family mansions can. be bought cheap on these Islands, and the enormous price the cotton pro duced here brings, insures the accimula. tion of great fortunes to the cultivators. To make money, to enjoy life, these is. iands . present. advantages that exist hardly anywhere else. ji return now to the middle country embraced in the second division ab~ove1 mentioned, This part of the State has ala altitude of about live hundred feet,1 This gives it a delightful climate. It is bracing in winter and pleasantan ] healhhful in summer. .It abounds int rimning water and cold springs. The land in its, natural conditin is. cov9red with magnificenti forests of pine, oakc, hickory and dogwood. In the spring the woods are gay with brilliant wild flowere. IThis is amsup'rior 'cotton region, and the cotton crop is ajmost a certainty ; it i.i free frqm the ivedr and uncertain ties whidiatlabk'Il' the southwest. By jr6. ultjatlo., a farmer mayj count glmost cet "'on rneking five biles deordbh to th . n or labiorpr; Tis, at Jhe presien e.Is five han drel dollars to the'fi nd in rhe, flgIe kithi oflot top 1#45td, thi Isa tMo regipYr corn, wei 'osti, &c2 Y futa khoewi, on| trial" 'tA as )ibc ,a t*o'anod al I balek of t toli,.dVr bak bmhdred btt shels Uf dotn,'kud over Aifty bushels of wheat, raise~d to thie ye. nhe seed , is rgi nt al Ye for' fruk. Reaohes, pey 9)P ;pir ' ne*ctarmns. irrepesy ~ ge r . ries and bila k oprries.nokkemer locality. Eob:smbos, and goat s b~ ro h th.e abo,s4I milo af sa The early spring, the surnmer, the late fall, furnish so great a supply of green food, that it is a small matter to carry the stock through the short winter. In the winter the evergreen canes keep the stock in a thriving conditiou. A farmer, unless he tries it, has not the fs:6test idei how much less work it takes to live in a mild Climate like South Carolina than in the colder North. If the small farmers North ful ly realised this differet,ce they would fly from their austere homes South ward. Labor here is abundant and cheap. The farmers are making money. and will soon be richer than they ever were hef .re. Any sagacious farmer who will settle at the South and learn how to raise cot ton, can, on a capital of a few thousand dollars, soon make a handsome for tune. To illustaate, a farmer, with a capital of Rve thousand dollars, settles in the south. On this capital he can rent lands and work twent y hands. Each of these hands ought, at the present price of cotton, to bring him in five hundred dollars, half of which should be clear money, and with an income of five thousand dollars a year clear, he can ioon have a fine estate around him. It must be noted that a good ihrmer ought, in addition to his cotton crop, to make provisions suflicient to supeort his farm %nothor year, thereby diminishing the expenses of the next year's farm. ing. Never, in my opinion, was there such an opportunity for farmers of small capi tal to make fortunes as is at the South IIoW. Lands are very cheap, ranging from two dollars t- fifteen dollars an acre, with farm houses and farm buildings. 'hey have been selling for a much less r.Ce. They are now, however, rising n value, and will continue to rise from year to year. To instance the immense protits of cotton planting at the present timp, I will state that, in some of the :ouuties of the middle country, the far mers have more money now than they aver had before. Churches abound, and good schools ire in almost all villages ard towns, and in many neighborhoods. As to the peo ple of .outh Carolyn , I tiulkvo'bytaetia hp are' 1bho ker Iore honest, hospitable, and better ,enerally than the mass of our citizens. [n some part of the country there has oeen considerable demoralixattion almost is a natural result of thte war. But the 3eneral bondition of society, and espe 3iully of late, is rapidly improving, and [ believe that I speak for all classes of mr people in saving that we are anxious .0 see harmony, peace and prosperity -estoted, and are not only willing but lesirous, as a means to secure this result, o have strrnger: coma and settlie among is, bringing their capital to build up the naterial prosperity of our State; and hough not representing myself an unili rided pilitical sentiment in the State, I ,hink I can safely assure those who .de ire like yourself to come among us a avorable if not cordial welcome from ill classes of our citizens.. I would be rlad to see thousan's of our Northern riends sttling in South Carolina. There s plenty of land and plenty of resources eh, for ten times the present popula ion. t would be a sumcidal poyo on mrt part to refuse a welcome to all who wish to share them with us,. developing >y their presence the wealth and in due ties of the State. We invite you and insband and all others of similar diapo ltion. The beautiful South invites the >eople of the North to her pleasant eats. Wh,y should you exclude your. elves from her delicious climate, her ertile soil, her beautiful skies?' I am, madam, vIity respectfully, WMA AarS or TiuN fEBEL STATERS kne TO Dir HJtao VALro?-mIn ansgwet o this question, the Supreme Court! of he United States, in the Texas case oat &ecided, laid : "It is not necessary to attempt any I)cet, definitions withi' which: the act >f such a Sttate government must be .rested.sp velid or invalidi It ni*y be aid, perhaps wi'h sufficient acouray, hat act,snece a~ry to peace and good rlergmongJptsens-such, for. exam.. >Ie, as acts sapisio~qizg and prptectig narriage and sthe domestio relations, :overnn tiie oeures of descents, rigu Itig th, #bhevay*toe a,idi Itait of property ri.al adid pereonki,' and proid rigto ls'for lutJties to' person and s6t*e'u 4tAr similaw Aot, whieh mould be valid If emnann fl'om amlaw' sigov#mn-wes regarded , in pralese valI4wbem pgoceeding from te;aetplth,opgh sptawIl governmern mnd that aots In furthereeor sipport t'pbellIog ejhe,s n?ite*ts It 919 pt thej t r%gb(a of ~s6 rag reg,ayed ap HoN. A. H. STEPEeS--l131 HEatr AND Vlews oN PuLtc ArnAIas.--A traveling correspondent of the August. ChroNicle and Sentinel called upon Mr. Stephens, at Lib.rty Hall, on th 2d inst., and says: I found Mr. S, still unable to stand or walk, and .only able to move from the fire-place to the bed, from ehair to chair, without any assistnce, etcept some one to arrange them. For several months previous to the accident which prostrat ed him, he was so weak as scarcely to be able to raise himself when down. He now thinks there i,riot suffiint fr. tAliy in the organ affected to recuperate, and has little hope of ever being able to walk again. The burden of has anz. iety is the completion of the second vol. utme of his history of the war between the States. The material for the work is all ready, and nothing lacking but physical strength to put it together. I learn that fifty-seven thousand copies of this work have already been sold, through the agents of the publishers. Mr. Stephens deplores the demorali zation which prevails, and thinks all good people should unite in suppressng the mobocracy and insubordination which threatens the usurpation of civil government and the ruin of the coun try. io has confidence in the virtue, in telligence and patriotism of the people, and hopes they will not be blinded to their groat interest, in a wise, just and strict maintenance of law and order. On takin my leave the next morning of Mr. Stephens, he cordially invited me to come and spend two or three days with him, and always to stop with hiia when on business angagements in town. He said his house had two names, "Liberty Hall" and "Wayside Rome," and in every respect at answered to the appellations. I am loath to believe thar. he "great star of the South" should ease to shine in his civil heavens, and .he people be deprived of the counsels of mne of their wisest and purest statesmen; )ut hope that the more genial seasons nay revive and restore, and we shall oon meet little Allick again, upon the arena of active lite. .be' Oitarleston"Cowr'er of[,h a ith .;l nat. contains the following : "Ii ao :ordance with a resolution passed by he City Council of Augusta, Ga,, at ts meeting on Saturday night, the com mnittee on railroad, consisting of Messrs. Bibley (chairman). J. T. Gardiner, J. V. H. Allen and W. M. Jackson, left that city and arrived here last evening. The object of their mission ig to try and effoet a compromise between the two eorporations, the South Carolina and The Columbia -and Augusta ra.iroads, and will proceed to work at one. Gen. A. R. Wright, Attorney for the City of ALugnsta, accomp'nies the committee on t mission." Some mischievous boys in Natchez, Sliss., a few nights since introduced a aew feature into the lestivities of a col. red fair being held in that city. These ,dion wretches placed cayenne pepper ipon the hot stove and set all the dusky lamsels to sneezing to that extent that ill thq hooks and eyes were bursted off .heir dresses. They then, for the bene. kt of the duky lords, introduced in the sgg-nog crot<m ol as a lubricator, and possibly to equaahiso or neutralize the affects of the fusel oil already in the ad. mixture. The lair did not prove a very sminent success. SWINGING AnoUND TH1E SoUTHEKPIr h:nor,c.-A correspondent of the Louis. nille Courtcr-.JournaI states that ex President Johnson is aid to have dia 'losed his intention of visiting every 3outhern State to talk to the people and iay to them arnd show to them that he 1sa beena the friend ol the South. It is wvident that adage about the burnt child as no weighit with MT. Johnson. SsvLmsN?x.or TJIK,PAoWIrc RAu.. loan) Diwriu.,iT.-The difcilety be. ween the Un'ioji Pacific and ih6 Uen. ral Pacifto railroade, Whk hae oeupled 'o mutch time in.the ben~Ita, hae been ettled. .It is I%ow expected -that the 'ntire road. will bq in running order 4ure ng the month of }Xay. The roads are o meet "at dr hear" Ogden. It Is understood that the~ President asstired Eatler that if Congress should mas a bill embodyin~g the reonehdai ionW contathed in the meag. he wonld ndevor .to se his infwunce in favor of ~ha anccess o?fthe Ipublican party .at he4 electr'ons to 60eh rith areon tilthat Butler wanted..& .B3?ee A. letter from Macon, Ft~,sy hat she, fnnSri of4 Iamsft!p~~ e veid ofEl'ou and nowas Ieliwdrd Otdr his grete; as tt ~ poe bad tildgv A. few fHde u6t litera. ,stood round the kre Ut*i and ~tdtheir last dIe 4 tW 'ete au blest'ibute thian a e4~g e.nt. erad IQ~ qm. na oee.' s V. 4 at he